The H. Beatty Obituary I just posted was not found online, but I was glad to find this one, because the faded speckled copy was difficult to read. I was given that copy in 1990 by a local Beatty family we did not know and could not connect with in any way until I became familiar with some of the names in Lineage 134. Obviously, the "H" is for Hiram, and not Henry, and this is the same man. The Heritage Pursuit website administered by Alan L. Potts is a very useful site. The "POTTS" family has followed both sides of my family, I believe! I think they are also related to the POTTERS, because in Pennsylvania there is a Pottsville, a Pottstown, a Potter's Brook, a Potter Brooks, and in our Capital, there is the beautiful Potters Field. Maybe some of you have already seen this biography. I copied it off the website at the same time I was having a phone conversation! It just so happened that right after we connected, Sue Knost was getting ready to go out of town for ten days. I believe she is going to Ohio, so maybe she will learn some more pieces of family history while visiting her family. She might be sorry, though, to come up north and get caught in our Winter Storm Warning weather that is supposed to last for a while! http://www.heritagepursuit.com/index.html Lois Kortering L-39, soon merging with L-134 ________________________________________ COMMEMORATIVE HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD of WOOD COUNTY, OHIO, Its Past and Present, Chicago: J.H. Beers & Co., 1897 1016 - WOOD COUNTY, OHIO HIRAM BEATTY, one of the leading and influential citizens of Henry township, whose honorable life record well entitles him to the regard in which he is held, and makes him worthy of representation in his county's history, was born in Millport, Stark Co., Ohio, August 23, 1836. His father, John Beatty, was a native of Pennsylvania, and was a carpenter by occupation. When a child of ten years he went with his parents to Massillon, which was then an unbroken wilderness. The grandfather, James Beatty, afterward entered more than 200 acres of land from the government four miles north from Massillon, and while living on that farm was killed by a runaway horse in the summer of 1849. He had a brother, John, who served in the war of 1812, and was the father of Gen. Samuel Beatty, of the army of the Cumberland in the Civil war. The father of our subject was reared to manhood in Ohio, and wedded Mary A. Ottinger, a native of Stark county, where they lived until 1854, the father working at his trade. He then removed with his family to Seneca county, Ohio, where he purchased 120 acres of land and carried on farming until his death, March 7, 1877. His wife died on the 9th of June of the same year. In the family were ten children: Hiram; Sylvester, who was killed at the battle of Stone River, September 30, 1862; Henry, who was in the three-months' service as a member of the 21st O. V. I., and is now a farmer of Sandusky county, Ohio; Hannah, wife of Cyrus Solomon, of Henry township; Sarah Rebecca, who died at the age of three years; Mary Melissa, who died at the age of one year; James, of Henry township; Emily, widow of Frank Frazier, of Cygnet, Ohio; John, a farmer of Henry county, Ohio; and Laura, wife of Lorin Myers, of Hammansburg, Ohio. The educational privileges of our subject were limited to the opportunities afforded by the common schools. He early began life as a farm hand, receiving about $10 per month for his services. In the spring of 1857 he went to Illinois, working on a farm near Mendota through the summer. He was there married, on February 11, 1858, to Delilah Jane Willford, a native of Wayne county, Ohio, born April 15, 1834, and in September, 1858, returned with his wife to this State, locating in Jackson township, Seneca county, where he purchased forty acres of land of ex-Governor Foster, residing upon that place until the fall of 1866. In 1862 Mr. Beatty enlisted in Company K, 101st O. V. I., under Capt. Noble, and went to the front, where he remained until the close of the war. On March 10, 1864, he received a twenty-five-days' furlough to return home for private business; the furlough stated that for efficient service rendered at the battle of Stone River he was promoted to the rank of second sergeant, acquiring same after eighteen months of service. He was slightly wounded in the right knee at Stone River, and was mustered out at Nashville, June 21, 1865. Immediately after he returned home, and in the fall of 1866 removed to Wood county, locating on seventy-six acres of partially improved land in Center township, where he lived for five years. He then sold and purchased fifty acres in Freedom township, whereon he also remained five years. Again he disposed of his property, removing to Henry township, and there purchasing eighty acres of land for $3,800. When five and a half years had passed, he bought h! is present farm of eighty acres, a valuable property, on which he has developed five oil wells, and his wife also has three oil wells on a ten-acre tract which she owns. He has purchased seventy-two acres in Section 30, Henry township, and his wife seventy-six and a half acres in Section 36, Jackson township. To Mr. and Mrs. Beatty have been born the following children: Elnora, born December 2, 1860, is the wife of Joshua Jimison, of Hammans- WOOD COUNTY, OHIO - 1017 burg, and has six children-Perry, born September 11, 1879; Elma, December 29, 1880; Ora, July 29, 1884; Carl, September 7, 1886; Lloyd, April 9, 1890; and Ollie, June 19, 1892. Ardella, born February 22, 1862, is the wife of Charles Auverter, of Henry township. Clara, born December 31, 1864, is the wife of Andrew Jimison, and has two children-Corna Viola, born in April, 1885, and Hiram Emery, born in 1891. Tibbie, born March 18, 1867, married Melvin Dirk, and died in North Baltimore, November 19, 1890, leaving one child-Glena Lenore, born October 25, 1889, who lives with our subject. Estella, born October 24, 1870, is the wife of Charles M. Tirk, of Henry township, and has one child-Jessie Mabel, born December 7, 1891. Mary A., born September 1, 1873, is the wife of Fowler House, of Hammansburg. Emma J., born February 19, 1877, died in 1880 at the age of two years and ten months. In politics Mr. Beatty is a stanch Republican, and an active worker in his party. He was elected township trustee in 1880 for one year, again in 1889 for a three-years' term, in 1892 for a three-years' term, and in 1894 for a similiar period, The prompt and efficient manner in which he discharges his duties has won him high commendation, and the community accounts him one of its valued citizens.