H/O Elsie Shipe. Married June 8, 1928.

Grandson of Austin Beasley, Jr. (of Duplin County, North Carolina and later Dale County, Alabama) and Eleanor Reed Powell. Great-grandson of Pvt. Austin Beasley, Sr. (a Revolutionary War Soldier & large land owner), and Polly Mary Hollingsworth Carroll Beasley.

"In a conversation with Mary Flint Blount, Dallas, October 1981. Mary related a story about Bob Beasley (son of George Russell Beasley) and an experience he had at the Rucker Place - mentioned in the University of Texas on Dona Ana Range, New Mexico:

"Bob Beasley's sons and I did all of the riding and gathered all the cattle up. Bob was the father of Bob, Bert, Harry and Jim. He was Eileen's cousin but older than Eileen. His wife's name was Elsie. She didn't participate. She stayed home and called Washington two or three times a day. Sometimes she got the Secretary of state and other people. It was really amazing to me that she got hold of them". (Presumably about the "Confiscation of land").

When we were working, Bob kept Marilee and Jimmy (Mary's children). He would watch over them. He was always so nice.

"While his sons and I were working, Bob would go up to the Rucker Place, while the boys were unsaddling the horses he would tell me this story:

"I was up here by myself and I heard horses coming. I could hear the leather saddles and metal and I looked out the window and I saw two horses coming. I turned and put the coffee on. They weren't a hundred yards away. I put the coffee on and walked back over to the door and there was nothing. The next time I was up there it happened again. The same thing. But I didn't walk away. I was a little more cautious. I wanted to see. Two horsemen came. They had metal breast-plates on. They had brass stirrups. I could see the horses walking, hear them snorting. They just vanished. I saw them three times. I don't believe in ghosts but I tell you I saw them. I heard them coming and they just vanished. I looked for tracks but there were no tracks. I tell you I saw them three times. Not a hundred yards from me".

Mary continued:

"They have ghosts of Conquistadors." (Conquistadors wore shiny armour and plumed helmets and worked among the Indians, building a chain of mission schools though the land".)

"That place was on the old Spanish Trail where they were looking for the Seven Cities of Cibola. But those old Indian's weren't stupid. They'd say, 'Yes, further north'. They went all the way almost to Alaska. That was the only way north. Bob kept saying, 'I saw them. I saw them three times. Not a hundred yards from me".

(Recorded by: K. Ned Beasley of Rural Hall, North Carolina, 2nd cousin three times removed & Mark Beasley of Edgewood, New Mexico, great-nephew)