Harrison Beal

Brief Life History of Harrison

When Harrison Beal was born on 1 February 1846, in Akron, Summit, Ohio, United States, his father, Samuel Beal, was 45 and his mother, Parmelia French, was 40. He married Ann Lemon on 18 May 1869. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He lived in Buckeye Township, Hardin, Iowa, United States in 1880 and Hardin, Iowa, United States in 1895. He died on 18 February 1895, in Buckeye, Hardin, Iowa, United States, at the age of 49, and was buried in Eldora, Hardin, Iowa, United States.

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Family Time Line

Harrison Beal
1846–1895
Orlena Melvina Lowell
1848–1942
Marriage: 20 June 1877
Alvina Beals
1869–
Mattie Beals
1871–
Melvin Lowell Beal
1877–
Adelbert "Bert" Beal
1882–1935
Maude Mae Beal
1884–1966
Floy Beal
1886–1963

Sources (25)

  • Harrison Beal, "United States Census, 1870"
  • Harrison Beal, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2019"
  • Harrison Beal, "Iowa, Death Records, 1904-1951"

World Events (8)

1851 · Constitution of 1851

Due to the state’s financial crisis during the previous decade and growing criticism toward state government. Voters approve the Constitution of 1851 which forbade the state government from going into debt.

1851

Historical Boundaries: 1851: Hardin, Iowa, United States

1860 · Ohio supports the Union side of the Civil War

Although divided as a state on the subject of slavery, Ohio participated in the Civil War on the Union's side, providing over 300,000 troops. Ohio provided the 3rd largest number of troops by any Union state.

Name Meaning

English (of Norman origin): variant of Beale , from Old French bel(e) ‘fair, lovely’ (see Beau ), either a nickname for a handsome man or a metronymic from this word used as a female personal name.

English (northern): habitational name from any of the places so named in Northumberland and Yorkshire. The former of these (Behil in early records) is named with Old English bēo ‘bee’ + hyll ‘hill’; the latter (Begale in Domesday Book) with Old English bēag ‘ring’, here probably used in the sense ‘river bend’, or an unattested personal name Bēaga derived from this word + halh ‘nook, recess’ (see Beagle 2). An additional source may be Beald, a farm in Cambridgeshire, recorded as Bele super Dedhil, c. 1195. In Lincolnshire, the surname is perhaps from a word or name for a farm derived from Scandinavian bøli ‘farm’.

French (Béal): topographic name for someone who lived by a mill race, from the Lyonnaise dialect term béal, bezale, bedale (of Gaulish origin).

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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