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             Husband: Benjamin U. BEACH (1 2 3 4)
                Born: l 1825 (5)
             Married: 08 JUN 1856 in St. Peters Episcopal Church, Oxford, New Haven, CT (32)
                Died: 27 MAR 1865 in Selma, Alabama (6)
              Buried: in Oxford Congregational Cemetery (7 8)
              Father: 
              Mother: 
             Spouses: 
                Wife: Esther Authelia SMITH (9 10 11 12 13 14 15)
                Born: l 1827 (16)
                Died: 01 APR 1884 (17)
              Buried: in Oxford Congregational Cemetery (18 19)
              Father: Chester SMITH
              Mother: Sally P.
             Spouses:
Children
01               (M): Charles Smith BEACH (20 21 22)
          Christened: 11 NOV 1857 in St. Peters Episcopal Church, Oxford, New Haven, CT (23)
                Died:
             Spouses: 
02               (F): Mary Augusta BEACH (24 25 26)
          Christened: 08 JUL 1859 in St. Peters Episcopal Church, Oxford, New Haven, CT (27)
                Died:
             Spouses: 
03               (M): Samuel Benjamin BEACH (28 29 30)
          Christened: 18 MAR 1860 in St. Peters Episcopal Church, Oxford, New Haven, CT (31)
                Died:
             Spouses:

Footnotes

  1. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 108.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/108.html.]
  2. Compiled by Authority of the General Assembly Under Direction of the Adjutants-General, Record of Service of Connecticut Men in the Army and Navy of the United States During the War of the Rebellion. (Hartford, CT, Press of Case, Lockwood & Brainard, 1889), 456.
    Eleventh Regiment Infantry ...
    Company G ...
    Privates:
    Beach, Benjamin
    Residence: Hartford
    Date of Enlistment: Oct. 1, '61
    Date of muster in this organization: Dec. 12, '61
    Remarks: Cap'd May 16, '64, Drewry's Bluff, Va. Died Mch. 27, '65, Selma, Ala.
  3. 1860 Oxford Census.
    Farmer.
  4. B. H. Davis, Reminiscences of Oxford Homes and People (Seymour Record - 1913), Chapter 5.
    Leaving the home of G. W. Cable, the next place is known as the Chester Smith homestead. The house is of antique design, one and a half story, and was built in the latter part of the 17th century. Uncle Chester, as he was known was twice married. By his first marriage three children were born, Merritt and Stiles, who resided in New Haven, and Polly, the daughter, married Bennett Twitchell of Bethany, where she lived after her marriage and died there a number of years ago. the two sons died in New Haven.
    By his second wife he had two daughters, Augusta, who married Charles Riggs and lived in New Haven, where she died in 1911, at an advanced age; and Esther Athelia, who married Benjamin Beach of Cheshire. Three children were born to them: Charles, Minnie and Samuel. Charles and Minnie deceased; Samuel lives in Bridgeport.
    At the breaking out of the Civil War Mr Beach enlisted, we have been told, in the 20th C. V. He was taken prisoner but was soon exchanged and just before the Battle of Chancellorsville he died. Athelia, his wife, died April 15, 1884,
    Chester Smith was a carpenter and a good one. He built the Oxford Hotel, which stands as a monument to his memory, and many other buildings in and about Oxford Center are specimens of his handiwork. The place is now owned and occupied by Mrs. Sperry.
    (NOTE: The Chester Smith Homestead is house #137 in the EARLY HOUSES OF OXFORD, CONNECTICUT book, published 1976, Historic House Committee of Oxford's Bicentennial Commission).
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/davis-reminiscences/Davis-05.html.]
  5. Andrew Bell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Oxford Congregational Cemetery (Congregational Cemetery), 9.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/cgcemscan9.html.]
  6. Ibid., 9.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/cgcemscan9.html.]
  7. Ibid., 9.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/cgcemscan9.html.]
  8. Congregational Cemetery Photograph - Oxford, CT.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/cem4946.html.]
  9. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 108.
    Benjamin U. Beach of Cheshire and Esther A. Smith of Oxford, June 8, 1856.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/108.html.]
  10. Harriet's Friendship Quilt (Oxford Historical Society).
    [http://www.oxford-historical-society.org/harriet-quilt/Smith-Authelia_Oxford-1851.html.]
  11. 1850 Oxford Census.
    Authelia.
  12. 1860 Oxford Census.
    Authelia.
  13. 1870 Oxford Census.
    Authelia.
  14. 1880 Oxford Census.
  15. B. H. Davis, Reminiscences of Oxford Homes and People (Seymour Record - 1913), Chapter 5.
    Leaving the home of G. W. Cable, the next place is known as the Chester Smith homestead. The house is of antique design, one and a half story, and was built in the latter part of the 17th century. Uncle Chester, as he was known was twice married. By his first marriage three children were born, Merritt and Stiles, who resided in New Haven, and Polly, the daughter, married Bennett Twitchell of Bethany, where she lived after her marriage and died there a number of years ago. the two sons died in New Haven.
    By his second wife he had two daughters, Augusta, who married Charles Riggs and lived in New Haven, where she died in 1911, at an advanced age; and Esther Athelia, who married Benjamin Beach of Cheshire. Three children were born to them: Charles, Minnie and Samuel. Charles and Minnie deceased; Samuel lives in Bridgeport.
    At the breaking out of the Civil War Mr Beach enlisted, we have been told, in the 20th C. V. He was taken prisoner but was soon exchanged and just before the Battle of Chancellorsville he died. Athelia, his wife, died April 15, 1884,
    Chester Smith was a carpenter and a good one. He built the Oxford Hotel, which stands as a monument to his memory, and many other buildings in and about Oxford Center are specimens of his handiwork. The place is now owned and occupied by Mrs. Sperry.
    (NOTE: The Chester Smith Homestead is house #137 in the EARLY HOUSES OF OXFORD, CONNECTICUT book, published 1976, Historic House Committee of Oxford's Bicentennial Commission).
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/davis-reminiscences/Davis-05.html.]
  16. Andrew Bell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Oxford Congregational Cemetery (Congregational Cemetery), 10.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/cgcemscan10.html.]
  17. Ibid., 10.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/cgcemscan10.html.]
  18. Ibid., 10.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/cgcemscan10.html.]
  19. Congregational Cemetery Photograph - Oxford, CT.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/cem4947.html.]
  20. 1860 Oxford Census.
  21. 1870 Oxford Census.
  22. B. H. Davis, Reminiscences of Oxford Homes and People (Seymour Record - 1913), Chapter 5.
    Leaving the home of G. W. Cable, the next place is known as the Chester Smith homestead. The house is of antique design, one and a half story, and was built in the latter part of the 17th century. Uncle Chester, as he was known was twice married. By his first marriage three children were born, Merritt and Stiles, who resided in New Haven, and Polly, the daughter, married Bennett Twitchell of Bethany, where she lived after her marriage and died there a number of years ago. the two sons died in New Haven.
    By his second wife he had two daughters, Augusta, who married Charles Riggs and lived in New Haven, where she died in 1911, at an advanced age; and Esther Athelia, who married Benjamin Beach of Cheshire. Three children were born to them: Charles, Minnie and Samuel. Charles and Minnie deceased; Samuel lives in Bridgeport.
    At the breaking out of the Civil War Mr Beach enlisted, we have been told, in the 20th C. V. He was taken prisoner but was soon exchanged and just before the Battle of Chancellorsville he died. Athelia, his wife, died April 15, 1884,
    Chester Smith was a carpenter and a good one. He built the Oxford Hotel, which stands as a monument to his memory, and many other buildings in and about Oxford Center are specimens of his handiwork. The place is now owned and occupied by Mrs. Sperry.
    (NOTE: The Chester Smith Homestead is house #137 in the EARLY HOUSES OF OXFORD, CONNECTICUT book, published 1976, Historic House Committee of Oxford's Bicentennial Commission).
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/davis-reminiscences/Davis-05.html.]
  23. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 106.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/106.html.]
  24. 1860 Oxford Census.
  25. 1870 Oxford Census.
    Minnie.
  26. B. H. Davis, Reminiscences of Oxford Homes and People (Seymour Record - 1913), Chapter 5.
    Leaving the home of G. W. Cable, the next place is known as the Chester Smith homestead. The house is of antique design, one and a half story, and was built in the latter part of the 17th century. Uncle Chester, as he was known was twice married. By his first marriage three children were born, Merritt and Stiles, who resided in New Haven, and Polly, the daughter, married Bennett Twitchell of Bethany, where she lived after her marriage and died there a number of years ago. the two sons died in New Haven.
    By his second wife he had two daughters, Augusta, who married Charles Riggs and lived in New Haven, where she died in 1911, at an advanced age; and Esther Athelia, who married Benjamin Beach of Cheshire. Three children were born to them: Charles, Minnie and Samuel. Charles and Minnie deceased; Samuel lives in Bridgeport.
    At the breaking out of the Civil War Mr Beach enlisted, we have been told, in the 20th C. V. He was taken prisoner but was soon exchanged and just before the Battle of Chancellorsville he died. Athelia, his wife, died April 15, 1884,
    Chester Smith was a carpenter and a good one. He built the Oxford Hotel, which stands as a monument to his memory, and many other buildings in and about Oxford Center are specimens of his handiwork. The place is now owned and occupied by Mrs. Sperry.
    (NOTE: The Chester Smith Homestead is house #137 in the EARLY HOUSES OF OXFORD, CONNECTICUT book, published 1976, Historic House Committee of Oxford's Bicentennial Commission).
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/davis-reminiscences/Davis-05.html.]
  27. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 106.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/106.html.]
  28. 1870 Oxford Census.
  29. 1880 Oxford Census.
    [Living w/ his mother.]
  30. B. H. Davis, Reminiscences of Oxford Homes and People (Seymour Record - 1913), Chapter 5.
    Leaving the home of G. W. Cable, the next place is known as the Chester Smith homestead. The house is of antique design, one and a half story, and was built in the latter part of the 17th century. Uncle Chester, as he was known was twice married. By his first marriage three children were born, Merritt and Stiles, who resided in New Haven, and Polly, the daughter, married Bennett Twitchell of Bethany, where she lived after her marriage and died there a number of years ago. the two sons died in New Haven.
    By his second wife he had two daughters, Augusta, who married Charles Riggs and lived in New Haven, where she died in 1911, at an advanced age; and Esther Athelia, who married Benjamin Beach of Cheshire. Three children were born to them: Charles, Minnie and Samuel. Charles and Minnie deceased; Samuel lives in Bridgeport.
    At the breaking out of the Civil War Mr Beach enlisted, we have been told, in the 20th C. V. He was taken prisoner but was soon exchanged and just before the Battle of Chancellorsville he died. Athelia, his wife, died April 15, 1884,
    Chester Smith was a carpenter and a good one. He built the Oxford Hotel, which stands as a monument to his memory, and many other buildings in and about Oxford Center are specimens of his handiwork. The place is now owned and occupied by Mrs. Sperry.
    (NOTE: The Chester Smith Homestead is house #137 in the EARLY HOUSES OF OXFORD, CONNECTICUT book, published 1976, Historic House Committee of Oxford's Bicentennial Commission).
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/davis-reminiscences/Davis-05.html.]
  31. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 106.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/106.html.]
  32. Ibid., 108.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/108.html.]

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