When Josias Bradley Beall was born on 22 May 1797, in Charles, Maryland, United States, his father, Robert Augustus Beall, was 30 and his mother, Elizabeth Marshall, was 22. He married Sarah Brinkley Butt on 27 January 1818, in Warren, Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. He died on 27 March 1836, in Goliad, Goliad, Texas, United States, at the age of 38, and was buried in Goliad, Goliad, Texas, United States.