Mrs. William Beale (died 1899)

BEALE, DUEL, WOODS

Posted By: Ken Wright (email)
Date: 12/16/2008 at 16:16:33

Preston Independent, November 8, 1899.

A Long Life Closed.

Mrs. William Beale, better known as Mrs. Duel, died at her home southeast of Preston, last Sunday morning, of heart failure. Mrs. Beale had reached the ripe old age of seventy years and was one of the early settlers of Van Buren township. Mrs. Beale was a woman esteemed by all for her kind and charitable disposition and will be greatly missed by her many friends in this locality. Besides the husband, deceased leaves a daughter, Mrs. Woods, and a son to mourn her death.