When John Beal II was born on 2 December 1809, in Draycott, Somerset, England, United Kingdom, his father, John Beal I, was 34 and his mother, Christian II Lewis, was 36. He married Ann Deacon on 14 March 1832, in Huntspill, Somerset, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. He lived in Manti, Sanpete, Utah, United States in 1860 and Nephi, Juab, Utah, United States for about 10 years. He died on 4 December 1896, in Ephraim, Sanpete, Utah, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Ephraim Pioneer Cemetery, Ephraim, Sanpete, Utah, United States.
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War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
EARLIEST RECORDED MARKER A Gustram BIRTH 24 Nov 1821 DEATH 3 Oct 1824 (aged 2) BURIAL Ephraim Pioneer Cemetery Ephraim, Sanpete County, Utah, USA PLOT 13 MEMORIAL ID 67193998 · View Source
Convinced that a group of Native American tribes were hostile, The United States formed a frontier militia to stop them in their tracks. Even though Black Hawk was hoping to avoid bloodshed while trying to resettle on tribal land, U.S. officials opened fire on the Native Americans. Black Hawk then responded to this confrontation by successfully attacking the militia at the Battle of Stillman's Run and then left northward. After a few months the militia caught up with Black Hawk and his men and defeated them at the Battle of Wisconsin Heights. While being weakened by hunger, injuries and desertion, Black Hawk and the rest of the many native survivors retreated towards the Mississippi. Unfortunately, Black Hawk and other leaders were later captured when they surrendered to the US forces and were then imprisoned for a year.
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).
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Possible Related NamesAUTOBIOLOGRAPHY OF HENRY ALLEN BEAL (Found in Family Record book of Henry Allen Beal, in possession of Azelia Larsen Beal.) 1950 I, Henry Allen Beal, son of John Beal and Ann Deacon, was born at Syra …
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