Re: Mary C. Beagles, MO
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Mary C. Beagles, MO
Joseph McCormack III 5/05/00
Hi, Joseph.We've talked before.The first husband of Mary Catherine Beagles was James Morgan Wyatt, my great-grandfather.He was captured in Warrensburg, MO in 1862 by Union forces and sent off to Alton Prison in Illinois where he managed to survive till the end of the Civil War and was released.Upon arriving home he found his wife, Mary, had remarried about 1863 to William Henry Richard Easter, thinking that James Wyatt had perished.By then, Mary had a child or two with Mr. Easter.James Wyatt elected not to disrupt her new family, so he visited his son and then headed through Arkansas to Texas, where he settled, remarried and lived till he died. The boy, Charles Edward Wyatt, joined his father in Texas when he was grown; you can find him there in the 1880 Montague County, TX census in his dad's household.
You will find Mary Beagles' firstborn son, Charles Edward Wyatt, with her and Mr. Easter in the 1870 census, identified only as "Edward" (not Wyatt).Mary and Mr. Easter went on to have a total of eight children in Cass County, Missouri.She died of Bright's disease on 8 Feb 1897 in Camp Branch (Cass Co.) MO and was buried in Staley Mound Cemetery, East Lynn (Cass Co.), MO; her husband survived her.
Mary's parents were Edmund Beagles (b. 1819 TN) and Minerva Matlock (b. 1835 TN). Mary was born to them about 1840 in Crawford County, Missouri, so the Beagles were early pioneers in Missouri.Three of Mary's brothers served in the same Confederate Cavalry unit as James Morgan Wyatt.
After Minerva Matlock Beagles died, Edmund Beagles remarried to Mary A. (Polly) Easter, his young wife in the 1860 census, and had more children.
Another Beagles-Easter connection -- John Easter (brother of William H. Easter, Mary Beagles' second husband) married Julia Ann Beagles in 1851, Pettis County, MO, and moved to Johnson County, MO.