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Rev. George Beebe of the Isles of Shoals - Civil War soldier
Posted by: Sarah O'Connor (ID *****7961) Date: March 10, 2008 at 16:58:44
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I am looking for any information on this man, particularly anything involving his military service in the Mexican War and Civil War.

1. GEORGE BEEBE, son of Richard, b. in Bacomb, Somersetshire, Eng., June 9, 1828. m. first, Dec. 7, 1853, Minerva .1., dau. of John Hunt, b. in Gilford, Jan. 4, 1836. d. in Chichester, March 18, 1871. in. second, Feb. 10, 1874, Ardelle О., dan. of Charles С. Knapp, b. in Lisbon NH in 1849, who m. second, Samuel J. Mead. Methodist and missionary in Melange, South Africa.

Mr. Beebe resided in Littleton NH from 1872 to 1874 as pastor of M. E. Church. He came to America in 1839, studied medicine and practised in Brooklyn. Served as soldier in the Mexican War, and as warrant surgeon in the War of the Rebellion. At the close of the war he gave up the practice of medicine and entered into mission work on the Isles of Shoals. In 1867 he joined the N. H. Conference, and having been ordained an elder, he was excused from the usual course of study and was assigned to the Isles of Shoals for two years. Representative, 1866-7-8-9. In 1870 he was assigned to Chichester ; in 1872 to Littleton NH; 1874 to Lisbon NH; 1876 to Bethlehem NH, where he d. March 10, 1877. Republican.

Children:
i. MINERVA DEBORAH, b. Mt. Morris, N. Y., Sept. 27,1854. m. Wilber F. Robins.
ii. MITTY (Mitylene), b. Gosport NH, July 18, 1856, d. Newcastle NH, June 23, 1863.
iii. MILLIE (Mileta), b. Gosport NH, June 27, 1859, d. Newcastle NH, June 12, 1863.
iv. JESSIE, b. Gosport NH, Aug. 3, 1861, d. Newcastle NH, May 10, 1863.
v. WILLIAM A., b. Gosport NH, Jan. 8, 1864. unm., res. Littleton NH. Glover.
vi. MARTHA, b. Newcastle, Feb. 23, 1865. m. Jan. 1, 1873, Ashler D. Ross, res. Fitchburg, Mass.
vii. G. RICHARD, b. Concord NH, Jan. 21, 1868. res. N. Y. City. Printer.
viii. GEORGE, b. Chichester, Dec. 7, 1869, d. Chichester, Oct. 25, 1871.

Info from George C. Furber and James R. Jackson's History of Littleton, New Hampshire, volume 3. Littleton (N.H.): University Press, 1905. Page 48.


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