Taken from CHAMBERS COUNTY, TEXAS, in The War Between the States, Kevin Ladd
Born February 24,1845 in Westfield, Hamilton County, Indiana. At the time of the war the family was living in Marshall County Iowa. Beason enlisted in the Union Army on May 9, 1864; serving in Company G., 44th Regiment Iowa Infantry. The family came to Chambers County in 1894 settling in Hankamer and later Oak Island. Beason drowned on December 20, 1909 and is buried in the Benjamin Barrow Cemetery.
Born in 1846 in Freedom, Portage County, Ohio
He enlisted in the 145th Ohio National Guard. He moved to Anahuac in 1895 and helped to locate many families from Kansas in that community. Hamilton was one of the founders of the Anahuac Townsite Company and the Lone Star Canal. He died July 27, 1915 and buried in Kansas City, Kansas.
Born December 17, 1847 in Salem, Ohio. He enlisted in Deep Cut, Ohio on August 13, 1862, serving as First Lieutenant, Company E of the 118th Regular Infantry Regiment, Ohio Volunteers. He and his wife moved to Anahuac about 1922. He died October 1928 in Hutchinson, Kansas.
He enlisted in the Union Army at the age of 15 and served with the 5th Wisconsin Infantry. He was with General William T. Sherman’s March to the Sea. Miller eventually settled in Salina, Kansas then moving to Anahuac in 1908. He owned and operated the Chambers County Telephone Company. Miller died February 1929 and was buried in Salina, Kansas.
Born February 22, 1826 in Dayton, Ohio. He attended Medical School at Keobuck, Iowa. In August 1861 as an assistant surgeon with the 12th Regiment, 3rd Iowa Cavalry. He was later given the title of full surgeon and was promoted to the rank of major. He was discharged in Houston and located to Cedar Bayou. Dr. Morgan died August 23, 1895 and buried in the Morgan Cemetery.
Born March 1, 1841 in Van Buren, Crawford County, Arkansas. Living in Texas when the war started he tried to avoid military service for the Confederacy. Paschal taking his slave with him set sail for Galveston and joined the US warships blockading Galveston. He enlisted as a lieutenant colonel in the 2nd Texas Cavalry Regiment, Union Army.
Born July 27, 1845 in Van Buren, Crawford County, Arkansas. He moved to Smith Point in the early 1860s. Like his brother he too avoided military service for the Confederacy. President Ulysses S. Grant appointed him as collector of customs at Corpus Christi in 1874 and later as the U.S. Commissioner at Laredo in 1880.
JAMES MONROE ROBINSON
Born March 3, 1846 in Pope County, Illinois. He enlisted August 4, 1862 Company H, 131st Illinois Infantry Regiment. At the end of the War he was mustered out at Hempstead, Texas and settle in Chambers County. Robinson died January 26, 1931 at Cleburne, Johnson County, Texas and was buried there in the Nickell Cemetery.
DOCTOR NICHOLS T. SHCILLING
Born in Bavaria, Germany on November 28, 1845. He enlisted in 1864 in Company K, First Regiment, Potomac Home Brigade Maryland Cavalry. In 1874 he settled in Cedar Bayou, Chambers County. His old medical office, containing his books and various medicinal supplies were donated to Chambers County and the office was moved by barge to Anahuac.
JOHN SHEARER
Born February 4, 1847 in Glasgow, Scotland. The family was living in Janesville, Wisconsin when the War broke out. He served as water boy for a Lieutenant Daniels of Company C of the Third Wisconsin Cavalry. In 1862 he joined the 12th Wisconsin Battery and was in Sherman’s March to the Sea. In 1898 he settled in Mont Belvieu, Chambers Co., Texas. Shearer died October 9, 1941 and is buried in the First United Methodist Cemetery in Mont Belvieu.