Soldier: William Gurley Beatty
Regiment: 174th. OVI
Company: Field Staff
Age: 25
Date Entering Service: 8/16/1864
Period of Service: 11 months 22 days
Remarks (When discharged, re-enlisted, wounded, captured, died of disease or killed):
Promoted from Captain to Major on 12/20/1864. Mustered out with Regiment on 7/14/1865.
William’s older brother, John W Beatty, became Brigadier General in the 3rd. OVI.
Battles in which he fought:
Battle of Overall’s Creek, Tennessee 12/4/1864
Battle of the Cedars, Tennessee 12/5/1864
Battle of Wyse Fork, North Carolina 3/7/1865
Other interesting information discovered:
William G Beatty was born in Erie County, Ohio on 9/5/1837. William followed his older brother, John to Cardington , Ohio in 1854. The brothers entered into the banking profession and through time became the proprietors of their own banking house, the Beatty Brothers Banking. The bank was located at 120 East Main Street, Cardington, Ohio. William married Viola Rees in 1870, five children were born of this union. Viola collected a widow’s pension on 3/20/1899. Beatty died at Pueblo County, Colorado.
Date of Death: 1/31/1899 Place of burial: Oakland Cemetery, Sandusky, Ohio
Adopted By: In memory of the late Don Bowers, and Judy Bowers
Researcher: Velda L Montgomery
