Henry Beadle
b.1817/Devon.Co.England, d.1862/Civil War prison camp, Macon.GA
and family while in West Auburn, Auburn.Twp
Fayette County Iowa
Plus an overview of the Battle at Shiloh
and the Hornet's Nest position defended by the 'Iowa Brigade.'

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...Overview, Henry Beadle
...Beadle descendent tree
...Brown descendent tree (wife of Henry line)
...Ramsdell descedent tree (dau of Catherine line)
...Patterson descendent tree (dau Lavina line)
...Auburn area map, Fayette.Co.IA
...Photos supplied by contact Thomas Jones
...Civil War, the 12th Iowa & Battle of Shiloh
...Map of Fayette.Co.IA

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Page Chronology: 
....2013Mar19:  Project notes initially uploaded.
....2025Feb:  Descendent trees reloaded.

Contact related to Lavina Beadle x Thomas Patterson line.
    Thomas Jones 2013 email thomas.b.jones@rochester.edu

Overview:

Henry Beadle---b.1817Dec25/Devon.Co.Eng>>>d.1862Aug10/Oglethrope.Prison.Camp/Macon.GA.

....Henry Beadle of Co C, 12th Iowa Inf, surrendered late in the day, 1862Apr06, at Hornet's Nest during the Battle of Shiloh (Pittsburg Landing, on the Tennessee River).
....Henry Beadle died 1862Aug10, in Oglethorpe Prison Camp at Macon.GA.
....Henry, along with other deaths at Oglethorpe Prison Camp were buried unmarked in a pine grove outside the timber stockade,
....When the area was occupied after the war, a wooden fence was put around the graves (today under RR yards).
....Bet. 1865-1869, the Oglethrope bodies were moved; Henry was reportedly reburied at Andersonville National Cemetery, Sumter.Co.GA.

....Henry Beadle left NY and moved to the Janesville area of Rock.Co.WI in 1854, but stayed only a few years.
....Sometime around 1857 the Beadle  family, and brother John Beadle, moved to the Auburn area (Douglass P.O.) of Auburn.Twp, Fayette.Co.IA.
....The Beadle's located in the West Auburn plat area, about 400 feet north of the West Auburn or Earl's Mill, 1 mi west of the Auburn village plat.
....Henry Beadle and wife Diana Brown had seven children (possibly 8, Herman C. abt 1843)
     1.  Lavina 'Bettie' Beadle 1846/NY-1937/IL x Thomas Franklin Patterson 1842/IL-1912/IL
     2.  Romaette Beadle 1848/NY-aft1920/Sumner.IA? x Geo.Wash. Bowers 1843/PA-1917/Waucoma.IA
     3.  Catherine 'Kate' Beadle abt1851/NY-1940/WI.
     4.  William J. Beadle abt1852/NY-?/?
     5.  Lurua E. Beadle 1854/NY-aft1880/1940 x (divorced) Sterling C. Minich 1848/WI-aft1889?
     6.  Alabard L. 'Albert' Beadle 1856/Janesville area, Rock.Co.WI-?/?
     7.  Estella Beadle abt1858/West.Auburn, Fayette.Co.IA-1951/IA, adopted by Avery M. Pitts after mother remarried, referred to as Levilla Pitts census data.
....On 1861Oct07, Henry Beadle, at the age of 44, enlisted in Co C of the 12th Iowa Regiment, living another 4 months.
....Henry Beadle lived the Auburn area, Fayette.Co.IA, only about 4 yrs.
....His wife Diana nee Brown would remarry Avery M. Pitts (Pitts page) sometime after May 1866.
....Diana nee Brown Beadle and Avery M. Pitts lived on the Pitts farm in Sec 1, of Bethel.Twp, 6mi SW of Auburn village.