Beatty, William (alias William Butler); Company "C" 164th NY Infantry; mother Eliza Beatty Personal description from the Adjutant General's Office: Age 20 years, 6 feet 1 inch high, fair complexion, grey eyes, light hair, occupation moulder, born in Vermont. In 1879 Eliza Beatty, aged 63 and a resident of Buffalo, New York states that she is the mother of William Beatty, who enlisted at Buffalo, New York in August of 1862 in Company "C" 164th Regiment of New York volunteers in the war of 1861 and who was "imprisoned in Libby Prison, Va., and died sometime late in the fall of 1864 or spring of 1865." Eliza is the widow of James Beatty who died July 2, 1869 at age 49. At the time of William's death he had two siblings under the age of 16: John Beatty born May 14, 1851 and Mary Jane Beatty born Sept. 26, 1854. William Glass and Thomas McCartney are witnesses to her signature. In 1882 Eliza states that her residence and PO address in 1865 were with Wm. Glass, 133 Kentucky St. Buffalo NY where she remained until July 1866 "then moved to her own shanty between Louisiana and Kentucky Streets (which had no #) but was burned out in October, the same year, and then lived a Mrs. Reagan close by until fall of 1868, her husband died during this year after which she lived with Michael McCarthey, Kentucky St., during 1869 after which she went to work out, with families as a domestic, and for the past 10 years she lived with a Mrs. Mary Holleran, working for her board and ?? per week, if she was needed, and at other times she goes out working and doing what work she was able to find; that during this time her address was 16 Hamburgh St., Buffalo, NY. That in 1865 her family consisted of herself, 49 years of age, her husband, 47 years, her son John 14 years and Mary Jane aged 11 years." In 1883 Eliza states "her said husband fell from a building in 1865 and was badly injured, he doctored himself, and was unable to work for about one year." Mary Hollaran, aged 54, and Mary Mulligan, aged 51, state that "James Beatty was a carpenter by occupation and while on a roof shingling a house in the summer of 1865, he fell from the roof, injured himself so much that he was unable to work for nearly a year. They also state "her son William, when only 9 years old, commenced selling papers and blacking boots and earned from 50 cents to $1.25 per day which he gave to the mother, and was used in support of the family. The son enlisted when not quite 17 years old." "That on the 2nd of July 1868 he (James) fell again from a building and was almost instantly killed supposed to have received a sun-stroke while shingling the roof of a building." 1880 Buffalo, Erie County, New York, p359B Peter Holleran 64 IRE Keeping Saloon Mary Holleran 52 IRE Bessie Beaty 64 IRE, IRE, IRE Servant Laurel Baty, L252