Samuel Beeler: Revolutionary War Gravesites in McLean County

Samuel Beeler Gravestone

1757-1/14/1840

East Twin Grove Cem., Dry Grove Twp.

Photo by Jim & Lori Rowe, Find-a-grave

~Revolutionary War Gravesites in McLean County~

Introduction - Ebenezer Barnes - Joseph Bartholomew - Samuel Beeler - David Haggard - Frances Hodge - Moses Hougham - John Karr - William Lee - John Maxwell - Thomas McClure - William McGhee or Gee - William McCullough - John Toliday - Jacob Williamson - Gravesites Not in McLean County

Samuel Beeler was born in Virginia around 1760. He enlisted in the Virginia regiment and served with his father, Captain Samuel Beeler. Around 1806, Samuel and his family moved to Kentucky. In the late 1820's, Samuel's son, William, traveled to McLean County and bought land in Dale Township (sec. 3). 

In the fall of 1830, William hitched a wagon with three oxen and moved to his farm. Samuel traveled with him. That first winter was brutal and witnessed an unusually large amount of snow. The snow was so deep that farmers sometimes had to find their livestock by looking for the holes in the snow.

Samuel and his wife, Mary Susannah Graves Beeler, had many children, some of whom may still reside in McLean County. Mary died a year after moving to McLean County. Samuel died in 1840.

References & Map

See the Introduction to Revolutionary War Gravesites in McLean County for references.

Click on the map or this link to view a map of Revolutionary War veterans buried in McLean County.