Charles Peyton (Pate) Beauchamp 
b. August 19, 1882 to William Lewis & Rosa Leftwich Beauchamp
m. Dec 12, 1912 to Jennie Myrtyle Vaden (See Vaden Family) by Bishop Joseph S. Key at Meadowside Farm Sherman, Texas
d. January 24, 1962 in hospital at Beeville, Texas. 
Buried at Beeville, Texas

Only son to live to adulthood he grew up with seven sisters on the P.G. Beauchamp farm in Collinsville.   A fine upstanding man he was also a prankster and very adventurous.  As a young lad it is said he won the Grayson County Cotton Picking contest.  As strange as it may be, he left the farm when of age to seek adventure.  He decided cotton farming was not what he planned on making an occupation of and headed to Indian Territory.  He lived for a while in Indian territory and actually lived with the Indians for a while. He came home to Collinsville to see his parents on one occasion and came in with his hat on in the house which was taboo.  His sisters scorned him about it and when at the table, his mother told him to get that thing off his head; and low and behold, he had a Mohawk hair cut!
After a while his father bought into and ran the Brass hardware store in Roff and Pate joined him for a while in the bussiness as well as being a Deputy.  About this time he met or began couting his future bride, Myrtle Vaden, who was teaching school there.   He was a prominant member of the Masonic Lodge as were his father William and Grandfather Sabird, both members of the Collinsville lodge.   His life was full of accompishments and memerable events. such as a gunfight in Roff with a fellow officer who died from his woundswas killed, etc...   The Beauchamp's were active members of the Collinsville Methodist Church.