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Sadie B. (Hottel) Kingree and Donald E. Beazley

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Title

Sadie B. (Hottel) Kingree and Donald E. Beazley

Subject

Kingree, Sadie Belva Hottel (1900-1971)
Beazley, Donald Elgin "Peanut" (1942- )

Description

Photograph of Sadie B. (Hottel) Kingree, seated, and holding in her arms Donald E. "Peanut" Beazley as a young boy.

Sadie was born in Shenandoah County and was a daughter of the late Daniel and Joanna (Wolverton) Hottel and married, for a time, to Eugene Kingree. She was a member of Saumsville Christian Church and was the owner and operator of Sadie's Taxi in Edinburg.

Donald "Peanut" Beazley was the son of Charles Franklin and Mary Ann McDonald of Edinburg. He lived in Atlanta when he married his first wife, Rebecca Ann Cox, after he graduated from Virginia Polytechnic Institute (now called Virginia Tech). That marriage ended in divorce.

His second wife was Catherine Jean (Boynton) Lavoie. He has lived in Florida for many years.

Creator

Morrison Studio

Source

Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society

Publisher

Shenandoah County Library

Date

The glass plate negative of this image was stored in a box labeled "Jun 1948".

Contributor

Identified in 2012 by C.F. Wagniere, who knew both of the subjects.
Biographical information was compiled from public records.

Rights

IN COPYRIGHT - NON-COMMERCIAL USE PERMITTED

Relation

Sadie B. (Hottel) Kingree appears in Morrison Studio Collection numbers 005108 and 026125.

Identifier

026125

Original Format

Glass Negative

Citationzork

Morrison Studio, “Sadie B. (Hottel) Kingree and Donald E. Beazley,” Shenandoah County Library Archives, accessed December 5, 2025, https://archives.countylib.org/items/show/55796.

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