The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1907-12-05
MAY BRING BODY OF
GOV. BEALL HOME
RELATIVES OF FORMER LIEUTEN-
ANT GOVERNOR WANT BURIAL
AT FOND DU LAC.
RESTING PLACE WAS U UNKNOWN
Rema rkable Career of Prominent Man in
Early State History Who Was
Shot in Montana.
SLAYER ESCAPED PUNISHMENT.

FOND DU LAC, Wis, Nov. 80
Especial IA dispatch from Helena,
Mont, solves mystery of over one half
a century, as it contains the information
that the body Of former Lieut.. Gov Sam
uel w. Beall of Wisconsin, has been To-
Gated in an abandoned cemetery and
given burial at Forestvae cemetery.
Bring Body to Fond du Lac.
Fond du Lac relatives of Gov. Beall
say that the body will undoubtedly be
dlsinterred within few days and
brought 10 Fond du Lac for interment.
The body should be in a good state of
preservation rs it was buried in a zinc
casket containing alcohol.
Gov Bcall was killed at Helena,
Mont, many years ago by George NJ.
Pinncy editor and postmaster of that
place. The body was buried in a Catho-
lie cemetery, but all efforts to locate it
i'll later years proved uuayailing. Hun
drcds Of dollars were spent by relatives
of the dead man in an attempt to locate
the body aud many graves were opened
without any result.
GOV. Bcall, though a native of New
York, located at Green Bay, Wis, at an
early date. lie was Il relative by mar
riagc with Cooper, the great novelist
At an early period in his life, Gov BuaIl
interested himself in the eastern Indian
tribes and superintendent the bringing Of
the OnCidJs to Wisconsin,
He was born at Baltimore, Md, his
mother being a first cousin of Lord Bal
timOre and much of the old family sill
yer still retained by his descendants
bears the family crest aud the Latin
inscription, In Hoe Spe Nio.' On this
hope ! lIycl
Set His Slaves Free.
Prior to moving to Wisconsin, Gov.
Beall was Il large stakeholder in the
south, but some time before the Civil war
he freed all his slaves and devoted his
entire property to their susteuauCe. In
addition to his relationship to the Baiti-
moTes he was a grandson Of Carlton,
one of the signers Of the Declaration
of Independence
His wife, Elizabeth Cooper, was a
niece Of James Fennimorc Cooper, the
novelist and a granddaughter of Lewis
Morris, also a Signer of the Declaration
of Independence
Member of Constitutional Convention.
Gov. Beall was member of both
Wisconsin constitutional conventions and
was a lieutenant governor and president
of the Senate under the administration
of Nelson Dewey. He was lieutenant
colonel of the Eighteenth Wisconsin,, en-
listing upon the opening Of hOsuitles
and was in the fight at iittsburg Land
ing. when his regiment was cut to pieces.
Subsequently he was in-chief
of a military prison at Elmira, y. y.
with the rank of brcvet hrgadier gen
era He remained there until the close
of the war
At the close Of the war he went 10
Montana, locating at Helena. George NJ.
Pinney was then editor and postmaster
of the place. The people were complain
ing of hinr and Gov Beall in some man.
ner connected with the federal govern
ment, charged him with whatever the
derelictions were. AfterWard, when he
entered Pnney's Office he was shot twice
by him and died from the wounds 4
jury-a military court martial-which
had no more jurisdiction of the case than
the vcstry OF church, acquitted Pin
ney.
And thus went down one of the most
polished, courteous, and WholcSoulcd men
of his time and thus ESCAPED the man
who killed him. Pinucy had distiu-
gushod relatives in this state. lie was
like his victim, Gov. Bcall, 4 remark
able man, but in a different manner. He
was no more afraid of arrest, processes,
indictments, courts and juries than an
eagle is of the rainbow or the light Of
the sun"