DEATH TAKES “AUT” BEALES, PIONEER

special dispatch to the World-Herald. Fort Calhoun, Nebraska, January 20. 

Austin W. Beales, a Washington county pioneer of 1855, died at his residence on the site of old Fort Atkinson, near Fort Calhoun, today. He was born in England, July 11, 1836, and taken by his parents to Chicago.  When he was 8 years old, they moved to Homer, Illinois, where they farmed till coming to Washington county in 1855.  Mr. Beales, then a young man, got work in the old Perkins sawmill when cottonwood lumber was quick sale at $50 per 1000 feet.  When the terrific winter of 1856 and 1857 came on, with his father and brother, Robert, they gathered up a drove of cattle and took it to Missouri for the winter.  When the civil war broke out, Mr. Beales enlisted in Company A, Second Nebraska, and afterwards was for seven years a freighter on the plains and for years had been an industrious farmer and prominent member of the Masonic order. He leaves a wife, one son, Parke, at home, and one son, Howard, in the telegraph office here, one daughter, Miss Catherine, at home and another, Mrs. Fred Frahm, wife of one of the leading merchants here.  He will be buried beside his father mother and sister here.

~~~from obituary courtesy of the Nebraska Washington County Genealogical Society.  Newspaper clippings on file in the Public Library, Blair, Nebraska~~~

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