Chester-Montgomery-Philadelphia County PA Archives Obituaries.....Beideman, Lewis R. November 16, 1909
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Daily Local News, November 17,1909
Daily Local News, November 17,1909

Lewis R. Beideman

Lewis R. Beideman, the oldest male resident of Royersford, died yesterday at 
the home of his daughter, Mrs. Marian Spayd, of Main Street, from general 
debility and infirmities due to old age. Mr. Beideman was aged 89 years, 11 
months and 2 days.

The deceased was a highly respected citizen of Royersford for many years and 
was favorably know many years ago in Northern Chester County, where he 
conducted a shoe repairing business in the vicinity of Pughtown and made shoes 
to order, there being but few shoe stores in the country at that time. When 
the Civil War broke out, and the call came for volunteers to go to the front, 
Lewis Beideman responded, and during his enlistment in the 175th Pennsylvania 
Volunteers figured in fifty of sixty skirmishes and engagements, the last 
being just after the battle of Gettysburg; his regiment was sent to intercept 
Lee in his retreat southward.

In his younger days, his chief pastime was found in fox hunting and many of 
his former friends, a few of whom survive him in Northern Chester County, 
still recall some of the exciting hunts in which he participated. For a number 
of years past, however, he has not been able to perform any kind of work, and 
has made his home with his children.

He is survived by the following children: William Beideman, of Philadelphia; 
Officer H.H. Beideman, of Royersford; Mrs. Annie Fry, of Royersford; Mrs. 
Sallie Ricker, of Philadelphia; Mrs. Ida Stout, Mrs. Marian Spayd and Mrs. 
Flora Dilks of Royersford, and Albert Beideman. In addition to the immediate 
children there are thirty-six grand children and nineteen great-grand children.

His body will be buried at Brownback’s Church with Military honors from 
Corporal A.J. Grim Post, No. 140, G.A.R.


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