i have posted quite a bit of information on the Beam Genforum site. if what you want is not there just let me know and i will be glad to get it to you. i have a lot of information on the Beam family. i decend thru Peter Kelly Beam. he was my great-great grandfather. in the book "History of Scott County, Arkansas" there is a chapter telling about Peter being murdered. you can read the book at http://www.archive.org/historyofscottco00mccu/historyofscottco00mccu_djvu.txt
dewayne