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David Edi Beat

14 Apr 1852 – 7 Jun 1924

Birth14 Apr 1852
Death7 Jun 1924
CemeteryStockham Cemetery
Stockham , Hamilton County , Nebraska , USA
Added byWillie Dee on 11 Sep 2011
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From "The Hamilton County Register", Aurora, Nebraska dated Friday, June 20, 1924, Page 6: David Beat Was Buried Thursday The funeral of David Beat, brother of James Beat, of this county, old settler of Hamilton county, occurred on Thursday afternoon at the home of James Beat at Stockham, in charge of P. N. Shedd, pastor, with interment in the cemetery at Stockham. Pallbearers were from among the families of early residents of the county, Ed. Cameron, Will Cameron, John Rutherford, Mart Wilson, Walter Rollo, and Will Salmon. The pianist was Mrs. August Grosshans; the singers, Mrs. G. B. Miles, Ellen Vandeusen, Mr. Newman and Jos. Piggott. The story of his life was thus briefly told: "David Beat was born in Springdale, Dane county, Wisconsin, April 14, 1852 and departed this life June 7, 1924 aged 72 years, one month and 23 days. "Mr. Beat came to Nebraska the summer of 1873 and took a homestead in Orville precinct, Hamilton county. "In the year 1875 he returned to Wisconsin and married Miss Sarah McCord, whom he brought back to his new home to share the pleasures as well as the hardships of the pioneering days experiences by the early settlers. After living in this part of one state 24 years Mr. Beat moved to Burwell, Garfield county, in 1899, where he continued farming and where he also suffered the loss of his helpmeet and friend and mother of his children on June 2, 1906. "He was married to Mary L. Hill October 17, 1911, and afterwards moved to Spring Lake, Michigan, where he resided until death claimed him. He is survived by his wife and seven children of the first union; four boys and three girls. John of Dos Palos, California; James of Furnas county, Nebraska; Jessie of Orange, California; Willie of Burwell, Nebraska; Jennie, of Pine Dale, California; Ruth of Bayard, Nebraska, and Ira of Burwell, Nebraska. Mr. Beat was a kind and provident father, indulgent husband, an honest and respected neighbor. "He enjoyed the best of health until stricken a few months ago by the illness which proved fatal. He was a patient sufferer, and when the fatal shadow hovered over him he accepted it willingly. And, bidding the loved ones a last goodbye he gladly departed on the long, long journey from which no traveler ever returns. "His life's work was finished, he had performed it well; And looked not for pitfalls by the way; But was ever light-hearted, all gloom to dispel From the lives of his friends day by day." It was a brave body of people, the settlement of Scotch from Dane county, Wisconsin, that came to Hamilton county in the decade from 1867 to 1877, some of them more than half a century ago. When they came, settlements were pushing up the streams and creeks, and the upland was not considered valuable if indeed habitable. Some of the Beat family came as early as 1873. Their father, John Beat, had sailed from Scotland in the "Adam Carr", the passage occupying six weeks. He lived in Wisconsin until the removal to this country. David Beat was always an observer and had a gift of writing very interestingly. He was a mail carrier and transported it on horseback from York county to Orville when that was the county seat of the county. He told of the Indian scare when nobody was hurt, and of many other pioneer incidents in letters that he has written to this papers and which some of our readers will doubtless remember. He moved to Garfield county about four years ago, after having lived here for the same period. Here his wife died six years later. In 1911 he moved to Michigan shortly after his second marriage. His widow and her brother, Robert, came with the body and from her we learn that his death was caused by cancer, which had disabled him for eighteen months. An operation disclosed that it covered five organs and could not be removed. Despite this he improved for a time and during his illness was as patient and pleasant as in his days of health. There was a large attendance of his old neighbors and friends at his funeral, among them Mr. and Mrs. Charley Thompson who had been present at his first wedding nearly fifty years before. Mrs. Beat will visit a sister at Castlewood, South Dakota, before returning to their home at Spring Lake, Michigan. Deceased was one of the charter members of the Royal Highlanders, an organization that has done much good in nation state, and particularly in this locality.

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