Texas Legislators: Past & Present

Leander Taylor Beaty

Full Name: Leander Taylor "Lea" Beaty
Birth date: April 24, 1847
Death date: September 24, 1934

Lee T. Beaty, birth date 4/24/1847 in Wayne County, Kentucky; death date 9/24/1934 in Lockhart, Caldwell County, Texas; farmer. FamilySearch Texas Deaths, 1890-1976 .
Lee T. Beaty, birth date 4/24/1847, death date 9/24/1934, burial in Lockhart Municipal Burial Park, Lockhart, Caldwell County. Find a Grave .
Biographical sketch, Leander Taylor Beaty, p. 34. Born 4/24/1847 in Wayne County, Kentucky, died in Luling, Caldwell County, 9/24/1934. "He selected the Beaty plum (from a Chickasaw seedling found near Luling) and introduced it to the horticultural trade in 1877." Member of 27th-30th Legislatures. Horticulture and Horticulturists in Early Texas 1945.
Obituaries, "Maj. Lea Beaty Called by Death," 9/27/1934, pp. 1, 10, and "Maj. Lea Beaty's Life Inspiration to Men," 10/11/1934, p. 7. Lockhart Post-Register .
Confederate States Army, Trans-Mississippi Department, member of Slayton's (Gonzales) company, Ragsdale's cavalry battalion, and later Gould's regiment of infantry, Walker's division. The Twenty-Seventh Legislature and State Administration of Texas 1901.
Biographical sketch, Lea Beaty, pp. 174-175. The Twenty-Seventh Legislature and State Administration of Texas 1901.