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Benjamin S. Beach is one of the enterprising and intelligent young business men of Benton County, Ark., and has a large general merchandise store at Osage Mills. He is a native of Benton County, and was born February 8, 1855, and was educated in the common schools. Besides his store he is postmaster at Osage Mills, and is the owner of forty acres of land. He is a Democrat, and Tilden received his first presidential vote. He is a Mason, and a member of the Missionary Baptist Church. In 1880 he was married to Miss Sallie Simmons, who died in 1882, having borne one child, John E. She was born in Tennessee in 1858, and came to Arkansas when quite small. Mr. Beach is a son of Elam J. and Rachel J. (Gambill) Beach. The father was born in Georgia, and came to Arkansas when a young man, and was married in 1853 to Miss Gambill, who was born in Tennessee January 3, 1885. She came with her parents to Arkansas when about six years of age and she and Mr. Beach became the parents of the following family: Benjamin S.; Mollie, wife of J. W. Livesay; Ella, wife of T. J. Simmons (Mrs. Simmons is now a widow, her husband having died in 1877); Alice, deceased; Sallie, Nettie, Robert Lee and Rosa. The father was a soldier in the Confederate army during the late war and in 1863 was taken prisoner and kept at Fort Delaware until the cessation of hostilities. He died in 1883.