Third Generation

12. Peter Beam was born on January 15, 1787 in Lincoln County, North Carolina. He died on July 29, 1879 in Cleveland County, North Carolina. He was buried in New Prospect Baptist Church Cemetery, Cleveland County, NC.⁹ Peter manufactured cotton seed and flax seed oil in connection with
the cotton gin and mill, which was a very profitable business during
the 1840's and 50's.

Peter Beam and Annie Long were married in 1809 in Lincoln County, North Carolina. Annie Long²² (daughter of Captain John Long and Ann Graham) was born in 1788. She died on March 20, 1850 in Cleveland County, North Carolina. She was buried in New Prospect Baptist Church Cemetery, Cleveland County, NC. She was the daughter of Capt. John Long, one of the heroes of the McEntire's Branch in Mecklenburg, in suppressing Cornwallis's foraging party of 450 men. She was the a niece of Col. William Graham. Peter Beam and Annie Long had the following children:

+74	i.	John Teeter Beam.
+75	ii.	Elizabeth Sally Beam.
+76	iii.	David Marcus Beam.
+77	iv.	Susannah Beam.
+78	v.	Rachel Cain Beam.
+79	vi.	Joshua Stanhope Beam.
+80	vii.	Jacob Anthony Beam.
+81	viii.	Peter Van Buren Beam.
+82	ix.	Aaron R. Beam.
+83	x.	Jane Graham Beam.
+84	xi.	Margaret Carson Beam.
+85	xii.	Letitia 'Letty' Ann Beam.

Peter Beam and Elizabeth Houser were married on May 10, 1851 in Cleveland County, North Carolina. Elizabeth Houser was born in 1818 in Lincoln County, North Carolina. She died on June 9, 1853 in Cleveland County, North Carolina. She was buried in New Prospect Baptist Church Cemetery, Cleveland County, NC.⁹ Peter Beam and Elizabeth Houser had the following children:

+86

i.

Isaac Alexander Beam.

Peter Beam and Susan Lattimore were married on February 11, 1854 in Cleveland County, North Carolina.