Harry Hobert Beadle's Obituary

The obituary appeared on page 3 of The Brooklyn Daily Eagle for December 3, 1902. This electronic facsimile was produced from a photocopy by using an optical character recognition (OCR) scanner. Lines have been reflowed to improve readability, but no other attempt has been made to edit the text.

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COLONEL H. H. BEADLE DEAD.

The Well Known Veteran Expired Sud-
denly This Morning in His Union
Street Home

Colonel Harry H. Beadle, one of the best known residents of Brooklyn, where he had lived for nearly fifty years coming here in 1854, dropped dead at his residence, 320 Union street, this morning. He had risen and dressed himself and said he felt quite well, but in a few minutes was dead. Colonel Beadle had for some time been a clerk in the Water Registrar's office and was at his desk yesterday. He had been ill since May, but became so greatly improved that he had

Colonel H. H. Beadle

his family with him on Thanksgiving Day, when he assured all that he was much better than he had been in a long time.

Colonel Beadle was born in Wallingford, Conn., in 1828, and was, therefore, 74 years old. He was well known in church circles and was for twenty-eight years organist of the South Congregational Church and for many years the clerk, his membership dating about a year previous to the coming of the Rev. Dr. Albert J. Lyman, who will conduct the funeral services in the church, full arrangements not having been completed.

In 1861 what was known as the Carroll Guard was organized in the South Church. The company drilled in the Sunday school room, and in May of the year named was made Company F of the Thirteenth Regiment, Mr. Beadle being the second lieutenant and serving in the Civil War with his command. He later became a captain and then brevet colonel and was in command of the regiment at the time of the Brooklyn Theater fire. He was at the time of his death president of the Veteran Association of the Thirteenth Regiment. He was a member of U. S. Grant Post No. 327, G. A. R. Colonel Beadle leaves a widow, two sons, Harry W., who resided at home; William A., who lives at Richmond Hill, and is organist of the Congregational Church there, and a daughter, Mrs. Schmedlin, of President street, whose husband is a captain in the Thirteenth Regiment.