|
|
| Birth: | 7 Dec 1833 in Butler County, Pennsylvania 1 1 1 |
| Death: | 30 Apr 1916 in Shellrock Twp., Freeborn County, Mn 1 1 2 |
| Sex: | M |
| Father: | Peter Samuel Beighley b. 12 Dec 1801 in Westmoreland County, PA |
| Mother: | Elizabeth Hawk b. 26 Oct 1802 in Westmorland Co., PA |
| | |
| Also Known As: Simon Peter Beighley |
| Cause of Death: Endocobitis |
| Fact 1: Acreage: 40.00 3 1 1 |
| Fact 2: Aliquot Part Reference: NWNE 3 1 1 |
| Fact 3: Section: 32 3 1 1 |
| Fact 4: Township: 101 North 3 1 1 |
| Fact 5: Range: 20 West 3 1 1 |
| Fact 6: Meridian/Survey Area: Fifth Principal Meridian 3 1 1 |
| Fact 7: Accession Number: MN2380__.252 3 1 1 |
| Aka (Facts Pg): Simon Peter Beighley 1 1 |
| Property: Date Signed: Aug 1, 1861 3 1 1 |
| Residence: 1856 3 1 4 |
| Residence: 1857 |
| Burial: State Line Cemetery, Worth County, Iowa 2 1 5 |
| Census: 1865 Freeborn County, Minnesota (census of 1860-1910) 1 1 |
| Military Service: Co. C, 5th Minn. Inf. - Civil War 5 |
| Organizations: 1856 The Old Settlers Association 4 |
| Reference: 361 |
| |
 | Spouses & Children |  | |
| | |
 | |  |
|
| |
| Louisa Miller (Wife) b. 12 Oct 1834 in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania
|
| 6 1 |
| Marriage: | 31 OCT 1854 in Mercer County, Pa. |
| Marriage: | 31 OCT 1804 in Mercer, Pa. - 11 A.M. in her father's home. It was performed by the Rev. Jermiah H. Brown, pastor of the Lutheran evangelical Church where they were members. |
| Children: | |
 Samuel Miller Beighley b. 18 Feb 1854 in Brownsville, Pennsylvania
 Mary Eva Beighley b. 1859 in Cemetery records
- Thomas Harvey Beighley b. 3 Apr 1859 in Gordonsville, Freeborn County, Minnesota
- Joseph Henry Elsworth Beighley b. 5 Nov 1861 in Minnesota
- Ellen Elizabeth Beighley b. 4 Mar 1866 in Gordonsville, Freeborn County, Minnesota
- Maggie Louisa Beighley b. 31 Dec 1867 in Minnesota
- James Alexander Beighley b. 16 Feb 1869 in Minnesota
- Agnes Belle Beighley b. 11 Apr 1871 in Gordonsville, Freeborn County, Minnesota
- Rosa Beighley b. 1873 in Minnesota
- Ruth Estella Beighley b. 1874 in Minnesota
- Grace Elsie Beighley b. 3 Jan 1910 in Freeborn County, Gordonsville, Minnesota
|
| |
|
| - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - |
|
| |
|
| |
| Notes | | |
| | |
| | |
|
| |
Individual:
[July 2001 currently using back up in case.FTW]
****May be called Simon Peter.**** Joann Peterson spells it "SIMEON"
Both he and his wife are buried at Stateline Cemetery in Freeborn County, Minnesota (may be called Gordonsville)
He was a justice of the peace. - Beighley Family Tree, 1989 - Ethel Klempet
Joann Petersen, Northwood, IA: Simon served in the Civil War, Siege of Vicksburg, Spanish Fort., Co. C, 5th Minnesota Vol. Inf.; Justice of Peace for 30 years in Gordonsville area. He was a farmer.
BFT, Klempet, p. 46-48
Article written October, 1904, Gordonsville Village column
GOLDEN WEDDING ANNIVERSARY;
Mr. and Mrs. Simon Peter Beighley were married October 31, 1854. Fifty years ago today in the town of Mercer, Pennsylvania, at the home of the bride's father, Peter J. Miller, at eleven o'clock in the morning, occurred the marriage of Miss Louisa Miller to Simon Peter Beighley. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Jeremiah J. Brown, pastor of the Lutheran Evangelical Church of which Mr. and Mrs. Beighley were active members. It was a quiet home wedding. Jacob P. Beighley and Mrs. W.H.H. Beighley, brother and sister of the bridegroom, and the bride's three small brothers, Joseph, Samuel and Johnny, are the only ones with us today who witnessed the ceremony fifty years ago. The bride had taught school some and the years preceding her marriage had taken a thorough course in a millinery and dressmaking establishment, which knowledge she had not much use for, for she tells us her wedding gown, a white Swiss, was her best dress for ten years following her marriage. The bridegroom had for three years worked in a tannery, going
home to attend the wedding of his sister, Catherine on October 21, 1854,, just ten days before his wedding and he says: "had just ten days of freedom" for after his own marriage on the 31st was securely held in the chains of matrimony ruled by the most exacting ting and loving of all rulers -- a woman. After the wedding dinner they started by team for a short wedding trip of fifteen miles to the home of Mr. Beighley's parents. From this time until Mr. Beighley came west they lived at Brownsdale, now called Sandy Lake, situated in Mercer County. On the 23rd of April, 1856, Mr. Beighley, leaving his wife at her father's home, started, in company with his brother, Jacob, to find a suitable Home for themselves and their families in the wilds of the west. Walking thirty three miles to Warren, Ohio, their nearest railway town, they boarded the cars which came as far as Dunleith, Illinois. From there they had stage accommodations to West Union, Iowa, then a seven mile walk to Auburn, where their brother had come the year before. Here they bought oxen, journeying on until the 8th day of May, when they selected two fine adjoining claims of 160 acres each. Mr. and Mrs. Beighley still reside on a part of theirs, Jacob Beighley having lived on his until six years ago, when he moved to Northwood, Iowa, selling the farm to his sin-in-law, William Buchanan. The two brothers were present at the organization of Freeborn County. It was a busy summer and fall preparing a small patch of ground for planting and building the log house, and an unusually comfortable one it was, for those times. Mr. and Mrs. Simon Peter Beighley built for that summer's use, a small log house with a sod roof and no floor, 12 x 13 feet inside measurements, on the knoll east of the creek, about a Mile south of their present location. They had no stove or fireplace until fall, doing the cooking outside in the ordinary camp life style, the baking being done by the aid of a tin reflector. Convenient holes were cut in the building for doors and windows, blankets being hung over these when needed. Mrs. Beighley did her sweeping the first year with hazel brush brooms. In 1861 a larger two story log house was built, later a frame addition was built and some few years ago they moved into the pleasant home they enjoy today.
For the first three years of their residence here, a hundred mile drive must be made for groceries and flour, which were bought at Auburn, Clairmont and Decorah, the trip taking twelve days, sometimes longer, depending on the condition of the roads, as there were no bridges or worked roads, simply a trail across the prairie. In the fall of 1861, when President Lincoln called for volunteers to fight for the Union, Mr. Beighley was among the first to go, enlisting in Company C., Fifth Minnesota Infantry, mustering into the service March 14, 1862 at Fort Snelling. His first service was in the Indian massacre at Fort Ridgely, August 20-22, 1862. His comrades tell us he was a brave, loyal soldier, doing his duty faithfully and well. He took part in the Siege of Vicksburg in 1863; was a member of the Red River Expedition from March to May, 1864; was in the Battle of Tupelo, Mississippi, July, 1864; Nashville, Tennessee, December 15, 16, 1864 and thirty other campaigns of importance. While the husband was serving his country, his good wife was one of the many that had to be left behind to take care of the home and children and she did even more than this, for besides her household duties, she did a man's work in the field and cared for her four small children, Samuel, Eva, Harvey, and Joseph. Mr. Beighley was mustered out of service March 14, 1865 at Fort Gaines, Dauphin Island, Alabama, Gulf of Mexico, reaching home a few weeks later.
Later six more children were born: Ellen, Maggie, Belle, Estella, James and Grace. Of these children, Samuel is in business in our home town, Harvey has a farm in North Dakota, but with his family resides here. Mrs. John Turbett, Mrs. Bottolf G. Odden, Mrs. Halman Booen, Mrs. William Brown are all comfortably settled within a few miles of home. Mrs. Thomas Barker lives at Bowbells, North Dakota and Joseph resides at Thompson Falls, Montana. He being the only one of the family not with us today. There are few families without some vacant chairs. From this one has gone Estella, a pure, sweet girl of fifteen years, who was taken home July 6, 1889 and last May death again came claiming Bell'.s husband, Halman U. Booen. Of the twenty-six living grandchildren nothing brings a smile of pleasure to their faces quicker than the promise of a day's visit with their grandparents. Simon Peter Beighley has held the office of Justice of the Peace for nearly twenty years. The first religious class in the neighborhood was organized by the Methodists in the fall of 1857, Mr. and Mrs. Beighley both joined by letter. Mr. Beighley was class leader at the time he entered the army and held the office of steward for many years after his return. Mrs. Beighley, in her quiet modest way, has lived a conscientious Christian life always. We may never know the distance their influence has traveled or what good it has done for their community, but we know it has gone far, done much and always been for the right. Mr. Beighley is now 71 years of age, and Mrs. Beighley 70 years. This bridegroom of fifty years can truly say: "For years we've helped each other, wife, through rough and stormy wether, but soon the clouds will disappear, for we are growing old together." As the hardships have disappeared and their lives gradually grown more comfortable and pleasant, may they so continue to grow, be their years many or few.
Copied from the Freeborn County Standard dates November 9, 1904
[Brøderbund Family Archive #255, Ed. 1, Land Records AL, AR, FL, LA, MI, MN, OH, WI 1790-1907, Date of Import: Dec 27, 1999, Internal Re. #1.255.1.4303.1]
Patentee Name: Beighley, Peter
Accession Number: MN2380__.252
State: Minnesota
Volume: 2380
Page: 252
Document Number: 5970
Land Office: Chatfield
Aliquot Part Reference: NWNE
Section Number: 32
Township: 101 North
Range: 20 West
Meridian/Survey Area: Fifth Principal Meridian
Act/Treaty Authorizing Sale: Sale-Cash Entries
Date Signed: Aug 1, 1861
Acreage: 40.00
Signed: Yes, the document on file at the BLM contains a signature.
Copy of the BLM records in the files of Sylvia Saunderson Burger.
Surname Given Name and Rank Age Induction Date Discharge Date Unit Number Unit Name Town of Residence County of Residence State of Residence Notes
BEIGHLEY LEONARD R. PVT 24 17/FEB/1862 09/MAR/1865 FIFTH PENN FREEBORN MINN
BEIGHLEY SIMEON P. PVT 28 15/MAR/1862 14/MAR/1865 FIFTH PENN FREEBORN MINN
History of Freeborn County, Minnesota, compiled by Franklyn Curtiss-Wedge, H.C. Cooper, Jr. and Co., Chicago, Illinois:
S. P. Beighley, one of the pioneers of Shell Rock, was born in Butler County, Pennsylvania, on the 12th of July, 1833. At the age of 19 years he began to learn the trade of tanner and currier, which he followed for several years. He was married in 1854 to Miss Louisa Miller. Two years later they came to this place and settled in the southern part of the township where they have since made their home. In 1862, Mr. Beighley enlisted in Company C., of the Fifth Miinnesota Volunteers Infantry, served in the Indian Massacre, then went south and remained in the service three years. After receiving hiss discharge, he returned to his home and has since devoted his time to tilling the soil. He has a family of ten children, all of whom reside in the township.
GORDONSVILLE, SHELL ROCK TOWNSHIP
This hamlet is located on the Minneapolis and St. Louis railroad, in that southwestern part if Shell Rock Township and about one mile east of the Shell Rock River. It was laid out in 1850 by S.P. Beighley and Jacob Beighley, containing four or five acres, divided into four blocks, two of them on the east half of the northeast quarter, belonging to Jacob, and two on the west half of the Northeast quarter of section thirty-two belonging to S.P. Beighley. It was named after the Post Office which was established years before.
GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC
Robson Post No 5, G.A. R. lists Simon Peter Beighley, Company C, Fifth Minnesota, as a member.
Simon peter enlisted in the Fifth Minnesota Volunteers during the Civil War, and was assigned to Company C, along with Nicholas Irwin Lowthian. Simon Peter Beighley also participated in the battle of Fort Ridgely during the Indian Uprising of 1863. Simon Peter Beighley's name is the first name on the monument as one of the defenders at Fort Ridgely. Fort Ridgely is a Minnesota State Park and Historical Site. I believe it is also a National Monument.
|
| - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - |
|
| |
|
| |
| Sources | | |
| | |
| | |
|
| |
- Title: July 2001 currently using back up in case.FTW
Media: Other
Text: Date of Import: May 30, 2002
- Title: Birth and Death records of Shellrock Twp., Freeborn County, Mn.
Media: Book
Page: F#1315843
- Title: Brøderbund Family Archive #255, Ed. 1, Land Records AL, AR, FL, LA, MI, MN, OH, WI 1790-1907
Author: Brøderbund Software, Inc.
Publication: Release date: August 21, 1996
Media: Family Archive CD
Page: Internal Ref. #1.255.1.4303.1
Text: Date of Import: Dec 27, 1999
- Title: History of Freeborn County
Page: 530
- Title: State Line Cemetery records
Page: 5
- Title: Beighley Family Tree, Klempet
Publication: 1989 publication
Media: Book
|
| - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - |
|
| |
|
| |
| SmartMatches | | |
| | |
| | |
|
| |
Individuals from other files that are believed to be the same person:
Click the  icon to see a SmartMatch in side-by-side windows.
| - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - |
|
| |
|
|
|
