Mary Belle Beeker ^{1 2 3 4 5 6 7}

   FamilySearch ID: 9KGY-HMM.

  Noted events in her life were:

1. Census in 1900 in Tyro, Davidson, NC. ⁸ The 1900 census recorded Chas. Beeker, farmer, 33, born Oct 1867, living with wife Mary L., farm laborer, 31, Sept 1869; sons Elmo L., 11, Aug 1889; Willie J., 9, Sept 1891; George G., 7 Mar 1893; and daughters Mary B., 4, Aug 1896; and Emma P., 1, Aug 1899. Everyone and their parents were born in North Carolina except Mary L.'s father in Virginia. Chas and Mary were married for 12 years and she had birthed 5 children by 1900 all alive that year.

2. Census in 1910 in Tyro, Davidson, NC. ⁹ The 1910 census recorded Charles L. Becker [sic, as indexed, but handwriting is Beeker], farmer, 42, living with wife Lula, 43; Elmo L., farm laborer, 20; Willie J., farm laborer, 18; George G., farm laborer, 16; Mary B., 13; Pauline, 11; Ann E., 9; Glenn, 6; Charley L, 4; and Bessie L., 10 months. Charles and Lula were married for 21 years and she had birthed 9 children all alive in 1910.

3. Census in 1920 in Tyro, Davidson, NC. ¹⁰ The 1920 census recorded three Beeker households as neighbors: Charlie L. Beeker, 52, living with wife Marry, 50; daughters Belle, 28; Pauline, 20; Annie, 19; Gilma, 16; son C. Loyd, 18; daughters Lucile, 11; Elizabeth, 8; and son John, 7.
Listed above is "father" George W. Beeker, farmer, widowed, 79.
Above George is his daughter, Amanda Beeker, listed as Monda as follows:
Joe S. Powell [sic, as indexed, but handwriting is Parnell not Powell], farmer, 58, was living with wife Monda, 49; son Hope, 17; son Sidney, 14, daughter Mary, 8.
Everyone and their parents were born in North Carolina.

4. Census in 1940 in Tyro, Davidson, NC. ¹¹ The 1940 census recorded J. C. Stegell, laborer for W.P.A., 50, living with wife Belle, 43; James, laborer in cotton mill, 19; Donald, 17; Mary, 13; son C. W., 12; Lloyd, 10, and Betty, 8. Everyone was born in North Carolina. They lived in the same house in 1935.

Living next door is Belle's father, C. L. Beeker, 73, and Belle's mother, Lulu, 69, and Belle's sister, Elizabeth Snyder, 29, with her husband Sidney Snyder, 30, and their children.

5. Residence: Moore Drive, Lexington, NC on 2 Nov 1948 in Lexington, Davidson, NC. ⁷

6. Residence: on 13 Dec 1962 in Myrtle Beach, Horry, SC. ^{2 5}

7. Residence: 504 Summitt Dr., Lexington, NC on 6 Nov 1979 in Lexington, Davidson, NC. ⁴

8. Obituary: Greensboro Daily News: obituary of Mrs. Belle B. Stegall on 8 Nov 1979 in Greensboro, Guilford, NC. ⁶ ---
MRS. BELLE B. STEGALL
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LEXINGTON -- Mrs. Belle Beeker Stegall, 83, of 504 Summit Drive died Tuesday at Lexington Memorial Hospital. Funeral will be 2 p.m. Friday at Sheets Memorial Baptist Church, where she was a member, with the Rev. M.L. Walters and the Rev. D.W. Digh officiating. Burial will be in Sandy Creek Cemetery.
Surviving are sons, Jimmy Stegall of Winston-Salem, Loyd and Donald Stegall of Lexington; daughters, Mrs. Grady Lawrence of Dallas, Texas, Mrs. Hal Barton of Myrtle Beach, S.C.; brothers Glen Beeker of Tyro, Johnny Beeker of Burlington; sisters, Mrs. Sidney Snyder of Tyro, Mrs. Walter Everhart of Welcome; 14 grandchildren; 15 great-grandchildren. The family will be at Piedmont Funeral Home 7-9 p.m. today.

Mary married James Clayton Stegall on 4 Sep 1920 in , Davidson, NC.¹ (James Clayton Stegall was born on 23 May 1885 in Monroe, Union, NC,^{12 13} died on 2 Nov 1948 in Miami, Miami-Dade, FL ^{7 13} and was buried on 5 Nov 1948 in Tyro: Sandy Creek Cemetery, Davidson, NC ¹³.)