Caryle Smith Beals, 29 June 1899 - 2 July 1979

Abstract

Carlyle Smith Beals was born in Canso, Nova Scotia, on 29 June 1899. Both his father, Francis Harris Parker Beals, and his mother, Annie Florence Nightingale née Smith, were descended from United Empire Loyalists who left New England at the time of the American Revolution. The families of both parents were small landowners who lived in the country and took much interest in religious matters. Beals’s father was born in 1856 on the family farm at Inglisville, Nova Scotia, the tenth and youngest child of James Beals who was descended from Abel Beals (born in 1755), a Loyalist of 1783 probably from Massachusetts. One of his forebears was William Beals who came among the Pilgrims to Plymouth (U.S.A.) in 1621 in the Fortune , the next vessel after the Mayflower . Francis Beals, after his studies at Acadia University and at the Newton Theological Seminary (Newton Centre, Massachusetts), was ordained a minister of the United Baptist Church in 1887. He spent his life ministering to various churches in Nova Scotia and died in Wolfville, N.S., in 1927. At Wolfville is located Acadia University of which Francis Beals was a Governor in the last years of his life. Francis and Annie Beals had four children of whom Carlyle was the youngest. He was close to his sister Helen, one year his senior, who survives him. His oldest brother, Philip Sidney, was killed in action during World War I (1917). His second brother, Paul, died in infancy.