Lee Beardsley, born in 1908, unknowingly started the first Beardsley’s Barber Shop with a chair made out of a tree stump, on a cotton farm in Bellcity, MO. Once the word got out, the whole community would line up to get their hair cut by the very first Beardsley barber. The art of cutting was then passed down to the next generation with Larry Beardsley picking up where his father left off, leaving him no choice but to teach his two sons the trade. We currently have more than 40 licensed barbers, with more in the process of taking up their clippers and continuing on in the Beardsley tradition.