D. B. Beaty

    D. B. Beaty, Sparta Township, farmer and dealer in agricultural implements, Moore's Hill, was born in Ohio County, Indiana, February 14, 1812. His parents were William and Mary A. (Herron) Beaty, natives of Pennsylvania and Ohio respectively. The former was a son of Hugh Beaty, a native of Ireland, and from thence, in an early day, immigrated with his parents to the State of Pennsylvania, where he married Margaret Smith, a native of Pennsylvania, and afterward settled in Lancaster County, where they resided until about the year 1815, at which time they immigrated to what is now Randolph Township, Ohio County, Indiana, entering land and afterward resided there until death. They were the parents of eight children, viz.: Jane, Rosanna, John, George, Mary, Margaret, Nancy and William, the father of our subject. He was born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, in the year 1805, and came with his parents to Ohio County, Indiana in 1815, where he and the above Mary A. Herron, were united in marriage and afterward purchased a farm in Randolph Township, and remained there until 1855, when he removed to Dearborn County, Indiana and from thence, in 1859, to Harrison County, Indiana, where he afterward resided until death, which occurred in July, 1865. The following spring of 1866, his widow removed to Aurora, Indiana, where she resided until 1881, when she went to live with her daughter at Johnson City, Missouri, where she still resides. Then children were born to them, viz.: Hugh S., John H., Lydia, David B., Elisha G., William E., Margaret J., Mary E., Jesse T. and an infant son, who died in infancy and unnamed.

    D. B., our subject, in 1866 began the tinner's trade, but continued the business only about two years, when he and his brother purchased the harness shop of I. T. Campbell, of Aurora, Indiana, which they continued together for about one year, when our subject purchased his brother's interest and carried on the business himself until 1872, at which time he sold out and in the following spring turned his attention to agricultural pursuits, which he has since continued. He was untied in marriage, near Aurora, Indiana, December 19, 1872, to Nancy M., daughter of Edward T. and Elizabeth (Dowden) Hubbartt. She was born in Dearborn County, Indiana, December 4, 1850. Three children bless their union, viz.: Carrie M., Walter E. and Edith L.

     In the spring of 1885, Mr. Beaty purchased a farm in Section 9, Sparta Township, where he removed and ahs since resided. He owns ninety-five acres of fine land, which is well improved and under a high state of cultivation. He and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and he is also a member of the order of Odd Fellows.

Source: History of Dearborn and Ohio Counties, Indiana by F.E. Weakley & Co., 1885.