On 20 March 1974, M. Hamilton Beazley died at Tidewater Memorial Hospital, Tappahannock, Essex County, Virginia. He was 81; white; a resident of Millers Tavern, Essex County, Virginia 23115; father was Warner Lewis Beazley; mother was Sarah Frances McTyre; never married; born 14 January 1893 in Essex County; informant A. L. Beazley; immediate cause of death cardiogenic shock with ventricular fibrillation, due to acute myocardial infarction, due to bilateral pneumonia; place of burial Mt. Zion Baptist Church, Essex, Virginia. [Commonweath of Virginia, Certificate of Death, File Number 74-009033.]