Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-12-06
MAY BRING BODY OF
GOV. BEALL HOME
RELATIVES OF FORMER LIEUTEN-
ANT GOVERNOR WANT BURIAL
AT FOND DU LAC.
RESTING PLACE WAS UNKNOWN
Remarkable 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 a 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 ForestyaIe cemetery.
Bring Body to Fond du Lac.
Fond du Lac relatives of Gov. Beall
say that the body will undoubtedly be
disinterred within a few days and
brought to Fond du Lac for interment
The body should be in a good state of
preservation as it was buried in a zine
casket containing alcohol.
Gov. Beall was killed at Helena,
Mont, many years ago by George NJ.
Pinney, editor and postmaster of that
place. The body was buried in q Catho-
lie cemetery, but all efforts to locate it
III later years proved unayailing. Hun
dreds Of dollars were spent by relatives
OF the dead man III an attempt to locate
the body and many graves were opened
without any result.
Gov. BeaII, though a native of New
York, located at Green Bay, Wis, at an
early date. He was relative by mar
riage with Cooper, the great novelist.
At an early period in his life, Gov. BeaIl
interested himself in the eastern Indian
tribes and suDerintended the bringing of
the Oneidas to Wisconsin.
He was born at Baltimore, Md, his
mother being q first cousin of Lord Bal
timore and much of the old family sill
yer still retained by his descendants
bears the family crest and the Latin
Inscription, In Hoe Spe Nio," In this
hope l liyel
Set His Slaves Free.
Prior to moving to Wisconsin,, Gov
Beall was a large STAKEHOLDER in the
he freed all his slaves and devoted his
entire property to their SuStenance. In
addition to his relationship to the Baiti-
mOres he was 4 grandson of Carlton,
one of the signers Of the Declaration
Of Independence.
His wife, Elizabeth Cooper, was
niece of James Fennimore Cooper, the
novelist and a granddaughter of Lewis
Morris, also a signer of the Declaration
Of Independence.
Member of Constitutional Convention.
Gov. Beali 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
listing upon the opening of hostilities
and was in the fight at Pittsburg Land
ing, when his regiment was cut to pieces.
Subsequently he was cOmmander-in-chief
of a military prison at EImira, n. Y,
with the rank of brevet brigadier gen
eral. He remained there until the close
of the war.
At the close of the war he went to
Montana, locating at Helena. George NJ.
Pinney was then editor and postmaster
of the place. The people were complain
ing of him and Gov. Beall in some man
ner connected with the federal govern
ment, charged him with whatever the
derelictions were. Afterward, when he
entered Pinney's office he was shot twice
by him and died from the wounds. A
jury-a military court martial-which
had no more jurisdiction of the case than
the vestry of a church, acquitted Pin
ney.
And thus went down one of the most
polished, courteous, and wholesouIed men
of his time, and thus escaped the man
who killed him. Pinney had distin-
guished relatives in this state. He was
like his victim, Gov. Beall, a 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 SUM-"