Civil War Veterans of Monterey County, California.

Researched and Compiled by : 
Timothy P. Reese, PCC of Salinas , CA. & Robert L. Nelson ,PCC. of Santa Cruz.CA. 
Both members of the “Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War”. 
Department of California & Pacific. Camp Abraham Lincoln # 10.  
The Reese-Nelson CWV-MC Data Base


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BEECHER E. B.   1847-1922   SAN MATEO
(Pacific Grove Daily Review January 16, 1922)

Death Sunday Morning of E.B. Beecher
Death came to the home of Mr. E.B. Beecher at 5 o'clock yesterday (Sunday) morning 
January 15th, and removed him from his family and friends after a long illness.  Although 
a resident of Pacific Grove but about one short year, he was loved and respected by 
everyone who knew him.  
  Mr. Beecher was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1847.  At the age of 17 he enlisted for 
the Civil War.  He was a member of the Grand Army of the Republic.  He resided in and near 
Auburn, Placer county, California, for 35 years, where he was among the pioneer fruit growers.  
He had lived in Pacific Grove nearly a year, and passed peacefully away at his home in the 
Pacific Grove Marina on Ocean Boulevard at 5 o'clock Sunday morning after quite a long illness.  
His surviving relatives are his widow, Mrs... Minnie D. Beecher of this city; two sons Samuel P. 
Beecher of Peshastin, Washington and Martha L. Beecher of Long Beach, California; four sisters, 
Mrs. Abby B. Abbott and Mrs. Caroline B. Silva of Carmel, Mfrs. B. Longyear of Brookline, 
Massachusetts, and Mrs. Slice B. Munro of Princeton, New Jersey; and a brother, Bryant L. 
Beecher of Chicago, Illinois.
  The funeral will be private, only members of the post and Corps, G.A.R., to be present, and 
will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock at Paul's undertaking parlors.  Cremation will take 
place at Mt. Olivet Cemetery, San Mateo County
ATTENTION G.A.R.
  Members of Lucius Fairchild Post No. 179, G.A.R., you are hereby requested to assemble at Post 
Headquarters, Work Hall, at 1:45 p.m. Tuesday, January 17th to attend the funeral of our deceased 
Comrade E.B. Beecher, at Paul's Undertaking parlor at 2 o'clock.  The funeral exercises will be held 
under the auspices of the Post.  The remains will be taken to Mt. Olivet Cemetery form cremation 
Wednesday morning.