The son of Samuel Theophilus & Susan (Sturgis) Beam, he married Anna Margaret Maurer October 4, 1857, and fathered Margaret (b. 07/25/58, d. 07/15/67), Samuel Saul (b. 11/28/60 - shown as a seven-month-old in the 1860 census although reportedly born in 1860), Joseph Hooker (b. 01/16/61 [? - likely 1862]), Sallie (b. 12/08/63, 12/04/65), Ida Virginia (b. 02/15/67), William A. (b. 06/16/69), Harry Maurer (b. 09/28/71), and Andrew C. (b. 12/25/72). In 1860, he was a painter living with his family in Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and stood 5' 2" tall with brown hair and gray eyes,
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the stated age of twenty-five in Lancaster October 12, 1861, and mustered into federal service at Camp Nevin in Hardin County, Kentucky, December 8 as a private with Co. K, 77th Pennsylvania Infantry. He re-enlisted as a Veteran Volunteer March 22, 1864, in Harrisburg, and honorably discharged with his company December 6, 1865.
By no later than 1870, he was residing in Mifflin County.
The son of Samuel Theophilus & Susan (Sturgis) Beam, he married Anna Margaret Maurer October 4, 1857, and fathered Margaret (b. 07/25/58, d. 07/15/67), Samuel Saul (b. 11/28/60 - shown as a seven-month-old in the 1860 census although reportedly born in 1860), Joseph Hooker (b. 01/16/61 [? - likely 1862]), Sallie (b. 12/08/63, 12/04/65), Ida Virginia (b. 02/15/67), William A. (b. 06/16/69), Harry Maurer (b. 09/28/71), and Andrew C. (b. 12/25/72). In 1860, he was a painter living with his family in Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and stood 5' 2" tall with brown hair and gray eyes,
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the stated age of twenty-five in Lancaster October 12, 1861, and mustered into federal service at Camp Nevin in Hardin County, Kentucky, December 8 as a private with Co. K, 77th Pennsylvania Infantry. He re-enlisted as a Veteran Volunteer March 22, 1864, in Harrisburg, and honorably discharged with his company December 6, 1865.
By no later than 1870, he was residing in Mifflin County.
Inscription
Co.K 77th Reg.
Pa. Inf.
Gravesite Details
age 48y
Family Members
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