From "HISTORY OF THE UPPER OHIO VALLEY,"  Vol. I, pages 672-673.
Brant & Fuller, 1890.


JOHN C. BEAM

John C. Beam, a highly respected citizen of Marshall county, born in 
1834, died June 28, 1882, was an industrious and successful farmer 
and a brave soldier. He was the son of Adam and Mary (Sickles) Beam. 
The father was a native of Pennsylvania, and was brought to Ohio when 
two years old. He became a farmer, and later in life was engaged in 
the marble works at Bridgeman, Curran & Beam, of Bellaire, afterward 
removing to Moundsville.  John C. Beam enlisted in August, 1862, in 
Company A, One Hundred and Sixteenth Ohio infantry, and served in 
twenty-one battles and skirmishes, notably in Hunter's raid, and was 
a prisoner at Libby three weeks.  He was honorably discharged in 
June, 1865, with health very much impaired, and as a consequence of 
his over-exertion and exposure, he was sick with hemmorrhage of the 
lungs five years before his death.  He was a brave martyr to the 
cause for which so many fell.  Before the war, in 1860, he was united 
in marriage to Lizzie, daughter of William H. and Mary (Brown) Brock, 
of Monroe county, Ohio.  Her parents were members of the Disciple 
church, and the venerable mother survives at the age of seventy-four 
years.  The father died in 1862, aged fifty-three years.  Lizzie was 
the oldest of their children reared, of whom the others are: Jane, 
wife of Mr. S. D. Wheeler; Oddy, killed at the battle of Piedmont; 
Abel an Daniel, of Monroe county, Ohio; Melissa, wife of Albert C. 
Workman, of Bellaire, and Philemon D.  Mrs. Beam is a member of the 
Disciples church, and is a most estimable lady.  She resides in Clay 
district.


(Linda Fluharty)