Born in 1879 in Essex County, Virginia, Beal Elliott earned a BA from Virginia Union University in 1908. He married Margaret (“Maggie”) Reese in Richmond in 1903. He was a member of Zeta Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity. He graduated from Yale Divinity School in 1915, and in 1919, he was called to pastor the Sharon Baptist Church in Baltimore, Maryland. Elliott died in 1944.
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