Updated December 26, 2010.
John Beasley Home
From the Sue Austin collection. This is Uncle John Beasley's house at 134 Brumley Road. It is still there and was one of probably three - Brumley, Beasley and White. Although, in earlier years the road to Pud White's house did not go straight to the water like now.
Uncle John (never married) was the only brother to Ed Brumley's mother. She had no sisters. Ed's mother was Lydia Asbury Beasley married to John Jess Brumley
December 26, 2011. From Jim Waterfield. I lived in this house from ages 3 to 7. I have done research on this property at Currituck. John's father purchased this 13 acre property from my great great uncle Nolly James Waterfield. I don't know how he fitted his 12 kids in it. Beasley bought it in 1883. Nolly obtained it in his father Malachi Waterfield's 1871 Will. Malachi got the property from his father Rheuben's 1843 Will. Rheuben was a miller and store keeper. Rheuben obtained the property at the death of his father John James in 1803. John obtained it from the Will of his father Southward in 1778. This is just a portion of the farm inherited by Malachi Sr. The house is very old built from pegs. It has all hand hued lumber with 8' ceilings and oyster shell plaster. It is said to be the home of John James who drowned in a net. His wife lived to be 102.
John "Sprig" Beasley died in 1943. His nephew Ed Brumley was executor of the estate. At that time, The Brumley Rd landing was included as part of the Beasley Property. Ed told me this himself. He kept the landing as a price for settling the estate. Ed had several sisters who shared in the estate also. Ed sold it to Nathaniel Beamon of Norfolk who wanted to use it for hunting. This did not work out. My father Harold Waterfield bought in in 1946. He put in electricity, plumbing with hot & cold water and a full bath. After we moved to the Mill Cove, my grandfather WHB " Billy" White and his wife Ann Spratt lived there until their deaths. It was sold in 1966 to Ruth Smith for less than it was worth. It is definitely a house from the early to mid 1700s. It should be called the Waterfield Beasley house.