Callie the daughter of John H. and Elizabeth Smith Beals moved to Glasgow, Kentucky when she was one year old. She grew up in a farming family with four siblings. When she graduated from Glasgow Normal School, she taught in the Barren County's common schools in three separate one room schoolhouses. Then for a year she lived in Jackson, Louisiana teaching art at a girl's school and then returning back to Glasgow, Kentucky. She had no formal art training just lessons from a local teacher, Miss Alice Garnett. She was locally known for her flower and beech trees. When her eyesight began to fail after fifty years of painting she had to give it up. She died in Barren County, Kentucky.
Callie the daughter of John H. and Elizabeth Smith Beals moved to Glasgow, Kentucky when she was one year old. She grew up in a farming family with four siblings. When she graduated from Glasgow Normal School, she taught in the Barren County's common schools in three separate one room schoolhouses. Then for a year she lived in Jackson, Louisiana teaching art at a girl's school and then returning back to Glasgow, Kentucky. She had no formal art training just lessons from a local teacher, Miss Alice Garnett. She was locally known for her flower and beech trees. When her eyesight began to fail after fifty years of painting she had to give it up. She died in Barren County, Kentucky.
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