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61 Sep 28
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Wilson 56 Sep 14
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Someone in Winslow,
Maine didn’t like Mr. Wood.
In memory of Beza
Wood
Departed this life
Nov. 2nd, 1837 aged 45 years
Here lies one wood
enclosed in wood
One Wood within
another
The outer wood is
very good
We cannot praise the
other
Doctor Ulysses
Simpson Grant Beatty
1871 – 1932
This was the
doctor’s full name but as a rule he would drop the Ulysses. He was the
youngest of twelve children born to Joe and Malinda (Flick) Beatty. Joe Beatty
was livng near what is now Cuzco when he
heard about a tract
of land that some of the Farlow family had leased but let it expire. He looked
into the matter and bought 460 acres from the government for twenty – five
cents per acre. This land was located where the South Liberty Church now
stands. In fact he donated the lands for the church. He later acquired
several more acres making him one of the largest landholders in the township.
While living in Cuzco he built a covered wagon and moved it to his property
and they lived there while he built the log cabin.
I have been in this
cabin and I marveled at the superior workmanship of Joe Beatty. The cabin is
still standing but I don’t know who owns it. It had a loft that ran the full
length of the cabin and this is where the children slept. He later acquired
several more acres and as his children reached maturity he gave each one forty
acres. The place was known as “Beatty Ridge.”
The good doctor was
born on a large farm but I don’t think he took to farming very well. He taught
school several years in Jackson Township and then he took a notion to be a
doctor of medicine. He graduated from the University of Louisville Medical
College in 1898. It must have been a two-year course at that time because I
only find him enrolled as a student in 1897 and 1898. After Joe Beatty died it
seems that Malinda made her home with her son. In the 1900 census her
sister-in-law, Fannie Flick was also living with them.