Beulah Westmoreland (1901-1929)
Beulah was born on January 19, 1901 in Stokes County, NC to Florida Virginia Stone and Samuel Lee Westmoreland. After the death of her father in 1908, she and her seven siblings alternated living with their mother in Stokes County and living in the I.O.O.F. Children's Home in Goldsboro. Beulah was at the home between 1909 and 1920, during which time she became an accomplished singer and violinist. She was valedictorian of her graduating class in 1920 and subsequently attended North Carolina College for Women in Greensboro. In 1925 she joined the secretarial staff of the East Carolina Teachers College in Greenville, NC, where she also played the violin in the orchestra and became a part of the musical life of the college.
She died suddenly of influenza on February 22, 1929, at the young age of 28. The East Carolina Teachers College campus newspaper, "The Teco Echo", devoted its front page to her obituary on March 19, 1929:
Miss Westmoreland lived a fuller richer life than many a person who lives out the span [of] three score years and ten. She was richly endowed with beauty, with charming personality, with the gift of making friends, with musical talent, and with capability.
She is buried beside her family in Willow Dale Cemetery, Goldsboro, NC.
Beulah Westmoreland's place in the Westmoreland family tree as it relates to this archive can be seen here.
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