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About William James Beith
From the Find A Grave page for Walter James Beith:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=36586798
Birth: Jun. 11, 1858 - Illinois, USA
Death: Mar. 4, 1922 - Asotin, Asotin County, Washington, USA
William James Beith, son of Robert Beith (born Scotland) and Sarah Emma French (born England). Brother of Alice V. Beith, Jessie B. Beith Shively, Jennie Beith Blevans, Clara Beith Blevans and Walter Gray Beith.
Obituary for William J. Beith, Son of Robert and Emma Beith:
Death of William Beith - It was a keen shock to every friend and acquaintance last Sunday morning when the news was passed around, announcing the sudden death the night before of William J. Beith. It was eleven o'clock, or later, when Eugene Cromwell, a neighbor on his way home, passed the home of Mr. Beith, and noticing a light was still burning, stepped to the door to see if anything was the matter, and on opening the door found his neighbor lying on the floor in death. He had been reading and had placed his open book on the table, likewise his glasses, and had evidently risen to replenish the fire or to make ready for bed, and fell forward to the floor, death overtaking him before his body had reached the floor, as there was no evidence of the least struggle. A physician was called and he announced that death had resulted from heart failure and that the man had been dead about three or four hours.
News of Mr. Beith's death was immediately wired to the brother at Joseph, who reached Asotin Monday forenoon, and immediately made arrangements to have the body prepared for shipment to Joseph, for interment. Funeral was held in the Merchant Chapel Tuesday afternoon at two o'clock, Rev. J.B.York preaching the same, and the chapel was nearly filled. The Brother, Mr. Walter G. Beith, left with the remains Wednesday morning, for Joseph, where burial will be made by the side of the parents of the deceased.
William J. Beith was born in Minnesota on June 11, 1858, and would have been sixty-four years of age next June. When about fifteen years of age, he moved to Kansas, with his parents and family, himself driving an ox team, and settled near Dodge City, which at that time was about the toughest place in all that part of the West, made so by the manner in which people could commit thefts and crimes and then escape into the Indian Territory. And on numerous occasions the writer has heard him relate accounts of some of those thrilling and exciting frontier days. At about the age seventeen, the subject of this obituary went to Texas and remained there some five or six years, following the cattle business in the panhandle. Leaving there, he went to Michigan to one of the lumber milling sections and remained for a while, but on hearing at his parents and family were going to cross the plains to Oregon he returned to Kansas, and joining the family circle, also came west, driving a mule team and helping to do his part in the cross-country trip. This was in 1882. Reaching Eastern Oregon, the family settled in Wallowa Country, near Joseph. He followed farming and cattle raising there for about six years, when he came over into Asotin County and continued in the same kind of work, working with the Tuttles, the Farrishes, and with the late W.J. Clemans interests.
He has always lived a bachelor life and being of a fairly frugal makeup had accumulated sufficient means to justify himself retiring some ten or twelve years ago, at least from following hard work, and since that time made his home in Asotin, where he was well known by practically all people. During the World War, he was instrumental in helping to carry on many of the drives to raise funds, and particularly was loyal to the American Red Cross, never tiring in his efforts to assist that organization. Wherever there was sickness or suffering, or people in needy circumstances, he was always ready to give of his services and means in helping to relieve, and when the influenza first passed over the country nearly four years ago, his work in Asotin will never be forgotten. When nearly every other family was down with that epidemic, and those who were not were afraid to go near it, it was William Beith who rallied to the assistance of the physicians and would run the errands, with his automobile, carrying the medicine and provisions and when necessary would sit up with some sick family at night, and then do the same act with some other family during the day. Whatever he did along this line was wholly without ostentation, and while on many occasions people could not help knowing of his work, there were many instances where he had rendered some needy family a needed assistance that nobody but himself and the ones who benefitted therefrom ever knew of the act, unless the party relieved later made it known.
Like all mankind, the deceased may have had his faults, but those for good so overshadowed his failings, that he was a friend to mankind when friendship counted most, and those of us who remain behind would become better citizens if we would emulate his manner of relieving suffering, and in doing charity.
Of his own immediate family, he leaves four sisters, and one brother, aside from a number of nieces and nephews. The sisters are -
- Mrs. Alice Balter, Joseph, Oregon;
- Mrs. Jessie B. Shively, Stillwater, Oklahoma;
- Mrs. Jennie Blevans, Imnaha, Oregon;
- Mrs. Clara E. Blevans, Joseph, Oregon; and a brother,
- Walter G. Beith, Joseph, Oregon.
Family links: Parents:
- Emma Sarah French Beith (1831 - 1886)
Burial: Joseph Cemetery, Joseph, Wallowa County, Oregon, USA
Maintained by: TReams
- Originally Created by: Lorie
- Record added: Apr 30, 2009
- Find A Grave Memorial# 36586798
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William James Beith's Timeline
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June 11, 1858
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Batavia, Kane County, Illinois, United States
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| 1922 |
March 4, 1922
Age 63
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Asotin, Asotin County, Washington, United States
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Joseph Cemetery, Joseph, Wallowa County, Oregon, United States
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