Clark County NV Archives Obituaries.....BEAL, Marius Samuel January 31 1910 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/nv/nvfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Gerry Perry missgerry@cox.net May 19, 2004, 9:54 pm Las Vegas AGE LAS VEGAS AGE 2/5/1910 JUDGE BEAL PASSES AWAY DEATH OF NOTABLE CHARACTER A GRIEVOUS LOSS TO THE CITY HE LOVED SO WELL. DIED In this city, Janauary 31, 1910 MARIUS SAMUEL BEAL Aged 62 years. The remains will be interred at Topeka, Kansas, where re- pose the remains of his wife and his mother (note-above notice enclosed in bolded box) Marius Samuel BEAL, than whom no man had greater love for this little city of his adoption or more unwavering faith in the fruit (illegible) whose life for the past five years has been devoted to unselfish labor for the community in which he chose to close the work of a busy life--is now but a memory. As the darkness of night enclosed the earth Monday evening, Judge BEAL began that last grim fight against the Angel of Death whom none may defeat. And, as the silent stars marked the approach of the last hour of the first month of the new year, tired{?} nature gave the signal and the good fighter gave up the fight. Surrounded by a few of the close friends of his later years, the tired spirit cast off its earthly bondage and Judge Beal passed over the Great Divide at 10:15 p.m. January 31, 1910. Judge Marius Samuel BEAL was born near Indianapolis, Indiana, sixty two years ago. At an early age he removed with his parents to Kansas where the years of his young manhood were spent. During his life there he was engaged in the banking business and fitted himself for the practice of law. For several years he was a resident of Indian Territory among the Indians of the Cherokee Nation. Later he removed to Colorado where he became a part of the life of the great camps of Cregle and Cripple Creek in the days of their world-wide fame. Later he engaged in the practice of his profession in Denver. From Denver he removed to San Francisco where he remained for several years, during which he made a trip to the Orient, visiting China, Japan and the Philippine Islands. During his life in San Francisco he made many strong friendshipsamong the men most prominently identified with the western metropolis. In the fall of 1904 he visited the Vegas Valley, arriving here about six months before the completion of the railroad. Here with prophetic eye he saw the site of a new city which would be the commercial center of a rich and populous valley, and here decided to spend the last years of a busy and eventful life. During his life in Vegas, he has always been among the foremost to work for the development of the natural resources of the valley and tireless in his efforts to promote the best interests of his home city. Among those things which stand as typical of his life here were his persistent efforts to have this valley tested for artesian water, resulting in the formation of the Vegas Artesian Water Syndicate. This company purchased a drilling rig, acquired lands and sunk what is known as well No. 1, with the result that the presence of artesian water was removed from the realm of possibility to that of certainty. This first well was the beginning of the present (illegible) Vegas valley hands and water. The question of county division was also one in which he was long an enthusiastic worker and to his painstaking detail work, carried on faithfully for many months, is largely due the success of the movement. Judge BEAL had no relatives with him when he died, and, aside from the bare outline of his life prior to his residence in Vegas, but little is known here of his history. His wife died and was buried in Topeka, Kansas, about 19 years ago when the younger of his two daughters was born. His mother survived until about three years ago, when she, too, died in Topeka. His surviving relatives, so far as known, are a son, Carroll X. BEAL, residing in Danville, Ill.; a son, Joseph BEAL, in Boise, Idaho; a daughter residing in San Francisco; a daughter in Oklahoma; a brother, L. G. BEAL, in Topeka, Kansas, and a brother, Carroll M. BEAL, in San Francisco. Judge BEAL was a member of Free and Accepted Masons, Lodge No. 7, of Denver, and the funeral services in this city were conducted by the local lodge. The brethren convened in a lodge of sorrow Tuesday at 4:30 at Masonic Hall, and proceeded in due form to the undertaking parlors of Lloyd SMITH on Second street. Here the Masonic services were conducted by Worshipful Master W. R. THOMAS and Chaplain Harry G. GRAY and the last grand honors were rendered to the deceased brother. The remains were then escorted to the depot for shipment to Topeka, Kansas, for burial, near his wife and mother. It may be of interest to the many acquaintances of the deceased to know that, in the lonely life he led in his little home on Third street, the Holy Bible, in which his name was lovingly inscribed by the hand of his aged mother years ago, was his constant companion and inspiration. And there are few so well versed in the Bible or who gave it such constant and loving study as did our friend Judge Marius S. BEAL. And may he find in that bourne from whence no traveler returns the peace for which he so longed in this life. This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/nvfiles/ File size: 5.5 Kb