She used to rent a room in an old stone house in Martinsburg West Virginia. My great great great uncle built that house in about 1750, and it still stands.

Oh interesting, I happen to be doing some research on the Beeston family, as I may be tangentially related. Couple of fun facts:

The castle is named for Sir Hugh Beeston, son of Sir George Beeston. Hugh was well connected in Cheshire and London. From 1594 to 1603, he was the receiver general for the crown for Cheshire and North Wales. Beeston was elected to Parliament for four different boroughs in the late Elizabethan period.

Hugh was close with Sir Walter Raleigh. "In November 1603, Dudley Carleton reported that Sir Walter Raleigh, while being interrogated for his part in the Main Plot, had asked whether Beeston had been ‘apprehended and tortured, because he was always of his chiefest counsel’. This seems to have induced some kind of a temporary breakdown in Beeston, but there is no evidence that he was suspected of having played a part in the Plot."

Raleigh called upon Beeston to deliver a message on his execution day. (sadly the note would not be read, as the sheriff blocked the request, unable to read it as he had left his reading glasses at home).

His father, Sir George Beeston was the longest serving courtier/gentlemen pensioner of the Tudor reign, holding that title from 1547 to at least 1589. He was an accomplished sea captain in the Royal Navy, hence Hugh's connection to Raleigh.

https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/beeston-sir-george-1520-1601

In 1588, at the age of 69 (!), Beeston was given charge of the Dreadnought in the battle vs the Spanish Armada. The Dreadnought was perhaps the fastest, most modern ship in the fleet, having been a radical new design by Mathew Baker. And Beeston may have been the oldest of the captains in command. He was knighted on the Ark Royal by Lord High Admiral Howard after the battle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_ship_Dreadnought_(1573)

Texture is as important as taste, and they were like tree bark. Not fun.