This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: HUMPHREY, BEATTY, SLATER Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/lh.2ADE/1394.1431.1.1 Message Board Post: Dear Julia Actually I am not researching the BEATTY family. This may help, if it happens to be the right Beatty family story: Source: "Family Histories, Churches & Schools, Bartholomew Co, IN, 1821- 1920", published 1999 by the Bartholomew County Genealogical Society. For further information, please contact: Bartholomew County Genealogical Society, P.O.Box 2455, Columbus, IN 47202 Descendant: Marcella B Jones (no address given) submitted family history about Alexander and Sarah Elizabeth (Humphrey) Beatty, who emigrated from Ireland. James Beatty b. December 25, 1792, d. September 25, 1870 came to Indiana by 1820 bringing his wife Mary Margaret (Slater) Beatty b. April 18, 1801, d. October 3, 1873. They settled in Pike Co, Indiana. Born to them were: Joann, Ida Jane, John Martin, Mary, Thomas Hardy, Margaret, Elizabeth Jane, Barbra and Alexander. Index of the above source book includes many other BEATTY names. connected with other families: Abijah, Adrian, Amanda, Bernard Benjamin, Brian, Cotella, Edgar, Elma Brumfield, Ernest, Fannie, Fannbie Mason, Geneva Bullard, Grace, Harry E., Ida Jane, James Edgar, John Martin, Joseph Homer, Lenore, Meredith, Michael Eugene, Nancy, Patricia Kuylman, Sara A. Ruth