Himore from the DAR files...Nelda The National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution Volume 33 page 210 Mrs. Johnetta Beall Hardy. DAR ID Number: 32624 Born in Xenia, Ohio. Wife of George Fiske Hardy. Descendant of Col. William Beatty, Capt. Thomas Beall, of Maryland. Daughter of John Alexander Beall and Maria Manor, his wife. Granddaughter of William T. Beall and Isabella Anna Alexander, his wife. Gr.-granddaughter of John Brook Beall and Eleanor Beatty, his wife. Gr.-gr.-granddaughter of Thomas Beall (son of Samuel) and Eleanor Brooke, his wife; William Beatty and Mary Dorothea Grosh, his wife. William Beatty, (1739-1801), served as colonel in the Maryland Flying Camp. He had with him his sons Henry and William and the latter was killed at Hobkirk's Hill. Also Nos. 3122, 29310. Thomas Beall, (1743-1823), was a member of the Convention, 1776, from the Upper District of Frederick county. He was captain of a rifle company under Col. Moses Rawlings. He died in Cumberland, Md., a town he founded. Also No. 16959. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution Volume 33 page 319 Miss Helen Elizabeth Studley. DAR ID Number: 32930 Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Descendant of Benjamin Studley, Eliab Studley and Dr. Peter Hobart, all of Massachusetts. Daughter of Elbridge Gerry Studley, Jr. and Ida May Beatty, his wife. Granddaughter of Elbridge Gerry Studley and Catherine Cole, his wife. Gr.-granddaughter of James Studley and Mary Hobart, his wife. Gr.-gr.-granddaughter of Eliab Studley and Betsey Stetson, his wife; Peter Hobart and Mary Cushing, his wife, m. 1779. Gr.-gr.-gr.-granddaughter of Benjamin Studley and Hannah Litchfield, his wife; Peter Hobart, (1727-98) and Lucretia Gill, his wife. Benjamin Studley served on the Committee of Safety of Hanover, Mass., 1775-81, where in 1730 he was born. Eliab Studley, (1754-1826), served in the Plymouth County Regiment, 1775, and, 1776, under Capt. Lemuel Curtis. Peter Hobart, (1750-93), a graduate of Harvard, served as [p.319] surgeon in the Revolution. He was born in Hingham; died in Hanover, Mass. Also No. 14556. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution Volume 34 page 305 Mrs. Mary J. Leach Beatty. DAR ID Number: 33841 Born in Mt. Sterling, Ohio. Widow of William M. Beatty. Descendant of Sergt. Valentine Leach, of Virginia. Daughter of Robert Leach and Eliza Thomas, his wife. Granddaughter of Valentine Leach and Mary White, his wife. Valentine Leach, (1755-1821), served as sergeant in the Virginia militia. He was born and died in Fauquier County, Va. Also No. 31593. Nelda L. Percival nee Gilpin, IBSSG Beatty descendant line #005 Beaty collateral line #10 Graves descendant line #231 Digin up bones at: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~bonsteinandgilpin/ _________________________________________________________________ Tired of slow downloads? Compare online deals from your local high-speed providers now. https://broadband.msn.com

Nelda and other Beatty cousins, I began this last weekend joking about myself, "The Moon Child," who was born on the 7th of July and having a strange "Full Moon Week." Today, has been the strangest, so far! I have spent the last 24 hours on our California Griffes family, only to receive an e-mail, inquiring about the very family! Then, later today, I received a packet in the mail today from Laurel Baty. Bless you, Laurel, and I do have your address right in the return address corner on the package! What was I thinking? As I told Laurel on an e-mail tonight, I have been crying real tears for hours! After reading through the large stack of pages Laurel sent to me, I learned that my great-great-grandfather, James Lewis Beatty IV tried--from the day he mustered out of the military in 1866 until the day he died in 1888 in the county Poor House in South Bend, St. Joseph, Indiana--to prove that his disabilities were military-related! At one point, he wrote, "I was insensible for eleven days, and my head ached, and my eyes were blind!" I went upstairs to my computer room to look at the Beatty family group sheets, because I was wondering, "What if he came home from the war and he contracted Spinal Meningitis from that youngest twin, who died from it at age 15-16. Well, that was not the case. As I looked at the dog-eared family group sheet for James and Ann Maria (Wilcox) Beatty, I recalled that their oldest daughter Harriet died at age 27 in 1870. Then, his wife Ann died in 1874. Their son James drowned at age 18 in 1874, after he had dived in and saved everyone else! One of the twin boys, Edwin (Edward's twin), born in 1860 and the last-born of their eight children, died of Spinal Meningitis in 1875 or 1876. It was just more than I could bear to read after reading all of those pages about James' efforts to get his military pension! Sure, I have cried over this family before, many times, and this is my great-great-grandparents' family. I never knew them, but I do remember Edward, somehow. Yes, after reading all the correspondence...the affidavits, the doctors' evaluations, the letters from attorneys, and after learning how many years that James L. Beatty/Beaty tried to get his pension, I just could not stop the tears from flowing! Only God only knows what he went through during the three years that he served in the Civil War, but I have notes that tell that he was in the hospital for months while he was in the military. I wasn't angry at the Government or anyone else. I was just plain sad and hurting for that family that lived almost 150 years ago! However, by the end of this night, I realized that for the last two days, I have been finding connections between my mother's family and my father's father. That cheered me up a little bit! Nelda, the second entry, Helen Elizabeth Studley just might be a connection between my mother's family and my father's family. Even the first one, Johnetta Beall Hardy, might be connected to both sides of my family. My Beal or Beals family were from Hingham, though. What a strange, wonderful, sad, happy day for me! Tomorrow, I will get up in the morning and go to the hospital to be by the side of my favorite second cousin, a Beatty cousin, and I have a really good feeling about her surgery tomorrow. I think she is a real survivor, and she is going to come through this lung surgery on a cancerous growth just fine! I do not even apologize for being emotional on this List, tonight. I feel like I am among "Family," and I want to share the fact that I have made great strides today in my "Labor of love." I have found out a number of new pieces of information about my California Griffes family (My father's side), and I have come closer to possibly finding our James Lewis Beatty III, father of James IV, who spent the last 22 years trying to get his pension! I believe James III was the man who died in 1849 in Stark County, Ohio. I am going to figure out how to order his records. Thank you all again for all your dedicated work, Lois (Griffes) Kortering ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nelda Percival" <nelda_percival@hotmail.com> To: <BP2000-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 5:54 AM Subject: [BP2000] Beatty listed in the DAR files #6 > Himore from the DAR files...Nelda > > The National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution Volume 33 > page 210 > > Mrs. Johnetta Beall Hardy. > DAR ID Number: 32624 > Born in Xenia, Ohio. > Wife of George Fiske Hardy. > Descendant of Col. William Beatty, Capt. Thomas Beall, of Maryland. > Daughter of John Alexander Beall and Maria Manor, his wife. > Granddaughter of William T. Beall and Isabella Anna Alexander, his wife. > Gr.-granddaughter of John Brook Beall and Eleanor Beatty, his wife. > Gr.-gr.-granddaughter of Thomas Beall (son of Samuel) and Eleanor Brooke, > his wife; William Beatty and Mary Dorothea Grosh, his wife. > William Beatty, (1739-1801), served as colonel in the Maryland Flying Camp. > He had with him his sons Henry and William and the latter was killed at > Hobkirk's Hill. > Also Nos. 3122, 29310. > Thomas Beall, (1743-1823), was a member of the Convention, 1776, from the > Upper District of Frederick county. He was captain of a rifle company under > Col. Moses Rawlings. He died in Cumberland, Md., a town he founded. > Also No. 16959. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > The National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution Volume 33 > page 319 > > Miss Helen Elizabeth Studley. > DAR ID Number: 32930 > Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan. > Descendant of Benjamin Studley, Eliab Studley and Dr. Peter Hobart, all of > Massachusetts. > Daughter of Elbridge Gerry Studley, Jr. and Ida May Beatty, his wife. > Granddaughter of Elbridge Gerry Studley and Catherine Cole, his wife. > Gr.-granddaughter of James Studley and Mary Hobart, his wife. > Gr.-gr.-granddaughter of Eliab Studley and Betsey Stetson, his wife; Peter > Hobart and Mary Cushing, his wife, m. 1779. > Gr.-gr.-gr.-granddaughter of Benjamin Studley and Hannah Litchfield, his > wife; Peter Hobart, (1727-98) and Lucretia Gill, his wife. > Benjamin Studley served on the Committee of Safety of Hanover, Mass., > 1775-81, where in 1730 he was born. > Eliab Studley, (1754-1826), served in the Plymouth County Regiment, 1775, > and, 1776, under Capt. Lemuel Curtis. > Peter Hobart, (1750-93), a graduate of Harvard, served as [p.319] surgeon in > the Revolution. He was born in Hingham; died in Hanover, Mass. > Also No. 14556. >