Who is Beaumont named after?
As early as 1824, Noah Tevis settled Tevis Bluff, with visions of establishing a town there. David Brown had similar plans with a town called Santa Anna. Neither town would see any development, however. In September 1835, a man named Henry Millard arrived from New Orleans. He purchased 50 acres of land from Tevis, on the Neches River bluff, between Tevis’ house and Brown’s survey. In October, an article appeared in the Telegraph and Texas Register: “We have been informed that a town has lately been laid out on the tidewater of the River Neches, at a place known as Tevis Bluff, 30 miles from Sabine Bay… It has received the name of Beaumont, which from the description of the place, strikes our fancy as very appropriate.” The name had been given in honor of the family of his wife, Mary Beaumont. The Texas Revolution soon intervened, and in October Millard left to join the Consultation Delegation and, later, the Texian Army.
