Colusa County Biographies

William Thomas Beville

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            William Thomas Beville was born at Wytheville, Wythe County, 
Virginia, August 18, 1844.  When the rebellion broke out, he was attending 
school, yet he volunteered in Company K., Eighth Virginia Regiment, and served 
in the Confederate service till the surrender of Lee.  He came to Colusa County 
in November, 1868, and served as Deputy County Clerk.  He was appointed 
Under-sheriff in March, 1870, by J. B. Stanton, and continued in that position 
four years, when he was again appointed Under-sheriff, by J. L. Howard, and 
remained with him till the expiration of his term of office, two years later.  
He was elected County Assessor in 1875, for the term of four years.  After 
filling this responsible position to the satisfaction of all, he was appointed, 
in 1880, Under-sheriff, by J. M. Steele, and afterwards served four years as 
Under-sheriff of Maberry Davis.  In 1886 he was elected Sheriff, and re-elected 
to the same office two years later.
            In 1872 he was married to Miss Lutie Williams, a native of Missouri, 
by whom he is the father of three children, one son and two daughters.  Aside 
from his comfortable Colusa residence, he is the owner of an apricot and peach 
orchard of twenty acres, one mile west from Colusa.
 
�Colusa County� � by Justus H. Rogers � Orland, CA � 1891 � pp 446