BEAMER, Menoah Lafayette Co, MO Biography ***** USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free genealogical information on the Internet, data may be freely used for personal research and by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for profit or any form of presentation, must obtain the written consent of the files submitter, or their legal representative, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. ***** file submitted by: Marilyn Ainsworth Source: History of Lafayette County, MO Publication Info: St Louis, Missouri Historical Company, 1881 page 668, 689 City of Lexington BEAMER, MENOAH p668 was born in Grayson county, Va., June 7th, 1818, where he spent his early life until he was twenty-one years old; he then moved to Missouri in 1839, and first settled in Caldwell county, returning to Virginia in 1840 he remained one year, when he returned to Lafayette county; in 1849 he went to California and remained two years. At the breaking out of the p689 war he enlisted in August, '61, in Capt. Taylor's company and served about one year; he then got transferred in 1862 to King's battery, and served about one year in that. He now owns about eleven hundred acres of land, making a specialty of breeding fine trotting stock. During the fall of '81 he took about $,1800 in premiums on horses alone at the county fairs, showing nine horses; he also breeds fine-blooded stock, having a fine herd of short-horns. He was married March 28th, 1843, to Miss Mary Owens, a daughter of Robert Owens, of Saline county; she dying Nov. 24th, 1873, leaving seven children, he was again married December 18th, 1874, to Miss S. L. Heutcherson, a native of Va.; by this marriage they have three children: Paschal, Samuel C. and Hattie I.