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Bee county was actually named for Col Barnard Bee, father of the Confederate General, as was the town of Beeville TX. Strangely, it's claimed he never set foot in the place. He established Woodstock plantation (named after the original near Charleston SC) near Goliad TX. Col. Bee returned to SC before the Civil War, I think, where he died in 1853. Gen. Barnard Bee was mortally wounded a few minutes after "naming" Stonewall Jackson. Gen. Hamilton Bee, his brother, was in charge of the defense of Brownsville TX among other things. He lived in exile in Mexico for years after the war, but eventually returned to Texas where he died in 1897. He was my maternal grandmother's grandfather.
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