Name, birth data, marriage data, death data from William Irving Brooks, letter of 29 March 1993 to Thomas Moore. She went by Vessie.

James Irving Brooks wrote the following note: “Soon after her [Elizabeth Catharine Boughan Beazley] death [1878] the house was burned in a winter’s night. The family barely escaped in their night clothes. Nothing was saved except one desk with some valuable papers. Due to a technicality no insurance was collected. A dwelling was built the following spring. In the interim the family lived in an “outhouse”. During this time the father was ill and both Vestilla (Vessie) and Boughan had diptheria and were seriously ill.”

1880 U.S. Census, Essex County, Virginia:
Beasley, James, 45, farmer, widowed
Beasley, Catharine, 10, daughter, in school
Beasley, Warner L., 12, son, in school
Beasley, Lilly H., 19, daughter, at home
Beasley, Bessy, 7 daughter, at home
Beasley, Boughan, 4, son, at home

On 1 February 1894 a deed was made between Henry E. Brooks and Lillie his wife, Warner L. Beazley and Fannie his wife, Jennet C. Beazley, Vestilla F. Beazley, and James B. Beazley of the first part, and A. G. Courtney of the second part, all of Essex County. The parties of the first part sell land of James Beazley deceased. James B. Beazley is a minor and therefore cannot formally convey his share until he reaches the age of 21. [Essex County, Virginia, Deed Book 57, pages 313–314.]

James Irving Brooks wrote that after her father’s estate was settled Vestilla lived with a family in Tappahannock. He added, “Jeanette and Vestilla both looked upon their older sister ‘Lillie’, with the respect dua a mother and they tok special interest in her five boys.”