Beadleston Alonzo01

Waupaca Republican

June 10, 1898

The death of Alonzo Beadleston occurred at Lake Geneva, Wis., where he was at a sanitarium for treatment, on Saturday, June 4. Charles, his brother, received a telegram from Mrs. Beadleston announcing the sad event and he immediately left for Geneva and accompanied his sister-in-law to Waupaca on Monday morning with the remains, where on Monday afternoon, at the residence of Henry Beadleston on Washington Street, the funeral took place Rev. J.R. Reynolds officiating.

Alonzo Beadleston was a son of the late Charles Beadleston, Sr., who was an early settler in Lind township. In the 50’ and before the war Alonzo was a clerk in Barlett’s store where Holly’s furniture store now stands. He was in the war for the Union, a member of the Fourth Wisconsin Infantry. For twenty-five years with the exception of a year or two while clerking for his cousins, Henry and Hiram in this city sometime in ’83 or ’84, he had been employed as a collector for a large coal company in Chicago. He enjoyed the confidence, love and respect of his employers with whom he had served so long. He leaves a wife but no children. His age was nearly sixty-two.