The son of Christian & Jane (Heiser) Beasom or Basom, in 1860 he was a laborer living with his family in Greenwood Township, Perry County, Pennsylvania.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the stated age of nineteen in Perry County June 27, 1863, during the Gettysburg crisis, mustered into state service at Harrisburg July 1 as a private with Co. B, 36th Pennsylvania Militia, and honorably discharged with his company August 11, 1863.
He married Mary C. Van Newkirk November 15, 1868, and fathered Lena May (b. 05/28/69 - married Frederick Reed), Charlotte Jane (b. 08/??/72), Wilhelmina G. (b. 05/19/74 - married Lewis M. Blatzer), Susan Stella (b. 09/??/77 - married J. William Bayles), Mary Bertha ("Mame" b. 10/23/80), Pansy or Pamela V. (b. 06/06/83), Charles Stanley (b. 08/23/85 - killed on the railroad leading to a successful lawsuit), and Sarah E. (b. 10/??/88), and his obituary lists a Mrs. Porter Smith. After the war, he worked as a canal boatman and as a track walker for the railroad. Mary died June 11, 1903, and he married widow Hannah Rider, née Freeland ca. 1905. He died at his home from "ossification of valves of heart."
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the stated age of nineteen in Perry County June 27, 1863, during the Gettysburg crisis, mustered into state service at Harrisburg July 1 as a private with Co. B, 36th Pennsylvania Militia, and honorably discharged with his company August 11, 1863.
He married Mary C. Van Newkirk November 15, 1868, and fathered Lena May (b. 05/28/69 - married Frederick Reed), Charlotte Jane (b. 08/??/72), Wilhelmina G. (b. 05/19/74 - married Lewis M. Blatzer), Susan Stella (b. 09/??/77 - married J. William Bayles), Mary Bertha ("Mame" b. 10/23/80), Pansy or Pamela V. (b. 06/06/83), Charles Stanley (b. 08/23/85 - killed on the railroad leading to a successful lawsuit), and Sarah E. (b. 10/??/88), and his obituary lists a Mrs. Porter Smith. After the war, he worked as a canal boatman and as a track walker for the railroad. Mary died June 11, 1903, and he married widow Hannah Rider, née Freeland ca. 1905. He died at his home from "ossification of valves of heart."
The son of Christian & Jane (Heiser) Beasom or Basom, in 1860 he was a laborer living with his family in Greenwood Township, Perry County, Pennsylvania.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the stated age of nineteen in Perry County June 27, 1863, during the Gettysburg crisis, mustered into state service at Harrisburg July 1 as a private with Co. B, 36th Pennsylvania Militia, and honorably discharged with his company August 11, 1863.
He married Mary C. Van Newkirk November 15, 1868, and fathered Lena May (b. 05/28/69 - married Frederick Reed), Charlotte Jane (b. 08/??/72), Wilhelmina G. (b. 05/19/74 - married Lewis M. Blatzer), Susan Stella (b. 09/??/77 - married J. William Bayles), Mary Bertha ("Mame" b. 10/23/80), Pansy or Pamela V. (b. 06/06/83), Charles Stanley (b. 08/23/85 - killed on the railroad leading to a successful lawsuit), and Sarah E. (b. 10/??/88), and his obituary lists a Mrs. Porter Smith. After the war, he worked as a canal boatman and as a track walker for the railroad. Mary died June 11, 1903, and he married widow Hannah Rider, née Freeland ca. 1905. He died at his home from "ossification of valves of heart."
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the stated age of nineteen in Perry County June 27, 1863, during the Gettysburg crisis, mustered into state service at Harrisburg July 1 as a private with Co. B, 36th Pennsylvania Militia, and honorably discharged with his company August 11, 1863.
He married Mary C. Van Newkirk November 15, 1868, and fathered Lena May (b. 05/28/69 - married Frederick Reed), Charlotte Jane (b. 08/??/72), Wilhelmina G. (b. 05/19/74 - married Lewis M. Blatzer), Susan Stella (b. 09/??/77 - married J. William Bayles), Mary Bertha ("Mame" b. 10/23/80), Pansy or Pamela V. (b. 06/06/83), Charles Stanley (b. 08/23/85 - killed on the railroad leading to a successful lawsuit), and Sarah E. (b. 10/??/88), and his obituary lists a Mrs. Porter Smith. After the war, he worked as a canal boatman and as a track walker for the railroad. Mary died June 11, 1903, and he married widow Hannah Rider, née Freeland ca. 1905. He died at his home from "ossification of valves of heart."
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