Westmoreland County PA Archives Biographies.....Beistel, Henry F. February 22, 1835

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HENRY F. BEISTEL, one of six brothers who served in the Union armies daring the
late war and an industrious farmer of Mt. Pleasant township, was born in Donegal
township, Westmoreland county, Pa., February 22, 1835, and is a son of John and
Mary (Fultz) Beistel. His paternal grandfather, John Beistel, was a farmer of
Mt. Pleasant township. His maternal grandfather, Fultz, was of German descent
and resided in Unity township. His father, John Beistel, was reared in Unity
township, learned the trade of tailor at Greensburg and removed to Donegal
township, where he owned one hundred and eighty acres of land and followed
farming until his death in 1867 at the age of sixty-two years. He was a
republican and a member of the Lutheran church and married Mary Fultz, by whom
he had eight sons and five daughters. Six of these sons served in the Union
armies during the late war. They were: John, who served five months toward the
close of the war in Co. B, one hundred and first reg. Pa. Vols.; George,
enlisted in Co. B, fourth Pa. Cavalry, in 1861, participated in thirty battles
and served in the Army of the Potomac until close of war, 1865; Jacob, who
enlisted in Co. B., one hundred and first reg. Pa. Vols. and died in the
service; Henry F., in Co. I., one hundred and sixty-eighth reg. and re-enlisted
in one hundred and first reg.; David did guard duty at Washington City; William
and Manoah, who both enlisted in Co. B, twenty-eighth reg. Pa. Vols. and were
under Sherman in Georgia and in his march to the sea. John and Manoah are dead.
George resides at Ligonier and William lives in Donegal township.

   Henry F. Beistel was reared on a farm, attended the rural schools of his
township and engaged in farming which he pursued until 18692 In October of that
year he was drafted and served the required nine months in Co. I, one hundred
and sixty-eighth reg. Pa. Infantry. On March 9, 1865, he enlisted in Co. B, one
hundred and first reg. Pa. Vols. and served till the close of the war. Since
1865 he has been engaged in farming. In 1880 he purchased a farm of forty-nine
acres to which he has added fifty acres more. Mr. Beistel is a republican and
has served as an assessor of his township, He is a member of 8t. Paul’s
Evangelical Lutheran church and member of Post No. 531, Grand Army of the
Republic at Pleasant Unity.

   On September 20, 1860, he married Nancy Evans, a daughter of William Evans,
of Mt. Pleasant township. To Mr. and Mrs. Beistel have been born ten children:
William E. (dead); Lydia, wife of Edward Baker; Ida M. married to James Marks;
Ella, wife of Melvin Zimmerman, of Hempfield township; Franklin, who is
attending Edinborough State Normal school and will graduate in June, 1890; Clara
M., Dorotha, Alice and Nettie.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from
Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania
Compiled and Published by John M. Gresham & Co.
Samuel T. Wiley, Chief Assistant
1890


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