This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Beetham, Dyer Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/lEC.2ACE/1099 Message Board Post: From "History of Grant County, Wisconsin", 1881, p. 885. LANCASTER THOMAS BEETHAM, farmer, Sec. 9; P. O. Lancaster; owns 400 acres land, valued at $20 per acre; born in Yorkshire, England, in 1843; came to America in 1849, and located in Janesville; came to this county in 1857; settled on present farm in 1872. Married Annie Dyer, a native of this county; have four children - John, Jessie, Nellie and Frank. [I am not related to this family, just posting as a service and hope it helps!]