Marshall County KS Archives Biographies.....Beaty, Samuel J. 1859 - 1917 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ks/ksfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com May 31, 2007, 12:09 am Author: Emma E. Forter (1917) SAMUEL J. BEATY. Samuel J. Beaty, lately deceased, was a substantial stockman, farmer and landowner of Marshall county, who lived at Vermillion. He was a native son of this county and had lived here all his life. He was born on a pioneer farm two and one-half miles north and one-half miles west of the present village of Vermillion on October 6, 1859, son of Major Steele and Elizabeth (Watson) Beaty, natives, respectively, of Ohio and of Indiana, who settled in this county in 1857 and here spent the remainder of their lives, influential and useful pioneers. Major Steele Beaty was a son of Virginia parentage, born in Ohio in February, 1826, who in his youth moved to Indiana, where he married Elizabeth Watson, who was born in that state in February, 1836. In the spring of 1856 he and his wife went to Iowa with a view to settling in that state, but not satisfied with conditions found there, came to Kansas and in June, 1857, settled in Marshall county, one of the first families to locate in this county. Upon coming here Major Beaty bought a pre-emption claim in what later was organized as Noble township, built a log cabin on the same, established his home there and proceeded to develop the claim, soon becoming quite well fixed. During the Indian trouble of that year he was one of the company organized to put down the rebellious redskins and in other ways did well his part in the work of creating a proper social order hereabout. Major Beaty prospered in his farming operations and gradually added to his land holdings until he became., the owner of eight hundred and forty acres and was accounted one of the most substantial residents of that part of the county. He was a Republican and ever took an active part in local political affairs and in 1888-90 served as a member of the board of county commissioners. In his religious faith he was a Presbyterian and he and his wife were active in good works in the early days of the settlement of the county. Major Beaty helped build the local house of worship of the Church of God, later taken over by the Presbyterians, also helped to build the Presbyterian church at Vermillion, of which he was a ruling elder. In 1894 Major Beaty retired from' the farm and moved to Vliets, where he and his wife made their home until 1901, when they moved to Vermillion, where they spent their last days, dying within two days of each other, Mrs. Beaty dying on January 22/1912, and the Major dying two days later, January 24, 1912. They were the parents of three children, Samuel J., the subject of this sketch; Mrs. Lorena Cannon, of Baldwin, this state, and William W. Beaty, now living at Linn, in the neighboring county of Washington. Samuel J. Beaty was reared on the home farm in Noble township and supplemented the schooling he received in the early schools of this county by a course of two years at Monroe Institute at Atchison. Until 1890 he remained connected with, his father's extensive farming interests and then began farming on his own account, buying an eighty-acre farm one-half mile west of Vermillion, to which he presently added an adjoining quarter section, and now has there a well-improved and profitably cultivated farm of two hundred and forty acres. There Mr. Beaty made his home until 1914, when he retired from the farm and moved to Vermillion, where he had been living up to the time of his death on May 28, 1917. Meantime, Mr. Beaty continued to add to his land holdings and was the owner of six hundred and forty acres of excellent land, all located in Noble and Lincoln townships. Mr. Beaty was a Republican and ha dever [sic] given a good citizen's attention to local political affairs, but had not been included in the office-seeking class. In December, 1884, Samuel J. Beaty was united in marriage to Claudia Randall, who was born in Buchanan county, Missouri, December 26, 1884, daughter of William and Elizabeth (Yates) Randall, natives, respectively, of the state of New York and of Missouri, the latter of whom was a daughter of Kentuckians who had settled in Missouri at an early day in the settlement of that state. In 1880 the Randalls came to Kansas, locating on a farm three miles southwest of Axtel, where they lived until 1894, when Mr. Randall joined a son in the development of a homestead in Oklahoma, where he died in 1899. His widow survived him about four years, her death occurring in 1903. To Mr. and Mrs. Beaty were two sons, Fred Steele Beaty, born on January 11, 1889, who is now living at Kansas City and Claude S. Beaty, January 25, 1891, who is now living at Chicago, Illinois, who married Beth Eaton, of Topeka, and has one child, a daughter, Betty Ann, born on December 4, 1916. Mr. Beaty was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, as is Mrs. Beaty, and they ever lent their aid and influence to all movements having to do with the advancement of the general welfare of the community. Samuel J. Beaty died at his home in Vermillion on May 28, 1917, aged fifty-seven years, seven months and twenty-two days. His death was the cause of deep regret to his family and a large circle of friends. Additional Comments: Extracted from: History of Marshall County, Kansas: its people, industries, and institutions by Emma E. Forter Indianapolis, Ind.: B.F. Bowen & Co. (1917) File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ks/marshall/bios/beaty501gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ksfiles/ File size: 5.9 Kb