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Source for: William Beaton, -
Index
Name source: S87Page: Page 14
Family Histories: Baird, Holcomb, Goddard, Adams, Lewis, McClurken, ..., (State of Illinois: Illinois Society, D.A.R. 1950). page 14
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Source for: Jean Virginia Beatty, 20 JAN 1909 - JUL 1995
Index
Birth source: S87Page: page 16
Text: Jan. 1908 Family Histories: Baird, Holcomb, Goddard, Adams, Lewis, McClurken, ..., (State of Illinois: Illinois Society, D.A.R. 1950). page 16
Birth source: S82Text: Jan. 20, 1908 Jane Ann Bahrenburg Conger, "Descendants of ? McClurken." page 8
Birth source: S75Text: 20 - Jan - 1909
Columbus, Ohio
Birth source: S194Page: 6/13/1961, page 1
Text: Mrs. Rose Beatty Still Active After Retirement
By BETTY KETCHEN
Staff Writer
Although now an octogenarian who has formally retired after spending most of her lifetime in public service, Mrs. Rose McClurkin Beatty, 84, still actively serves the public by visiting shut-in persons and participating in various local civic organizations.
Mrs. Beatty is also an avid supporter of showing respect and honor for the dead, especially for those men and women who died while fighting for our country.
She regrets very much not hearing of any local church or civic services whatsoever held here on Memorial Day this year in honor of our dead servicemen, and stated that her mother, who had been a volunteer nurse during the Civil War, was the person who first promoted a more dedicated observance of Decoration Day in Princeton.
Mrs. Amanda Howe McClurkin, Mrs. Beatty's mother, worked in a Louisville hospital for veterans during the Civil War, and was the first northern woman to step on land at Vicksburg after the surrender there, having gone there from Louisville on a hospital ship after the surrender, Mrs. Beatty stated. Mrs. Beatty's mother died of pneumonia when Rose was 7 years old.
Mrs. Beatty went on to say that when she was a child, Memorial Day was observed much more formally in Princeton than it is at the present time.
The Sunday preceding Memorial Day, she stated, a sacred service was always held in one of the local churches. Then on Memorial Day, all local school children at that time, dressed in their Sunday best and led by the Princeton City Band, would assemble in their respective rooms and then march to the Oddfellows and Warnock cemeteries (the largest cemeteries in existence here then) to pay tribute to Princeton's deceased servicemen. All living war veterans, sporting their complete uniforms, would accompany the children, she related, and each child would carry a bouquet of flowers to place on a grave, and a miniature American flag. G.A.R. members would place a flag on each grave preceding the ceremony. Following the grave decorating ceremony, "Taps" was sounded over the graves, and everyone would then 'march to either the courthouse lawn or Euterpoe Hall, a local opera house located upstairs in a building just south of the present Gilbert-Stephens store, to hear prominent speakers. She related that empty chairs were placed on the stage of the opera house in honor of deceased G.A.R. (Grand Army of the Republic) members, and little girls would then go forth and place bouquets on each chair in memoriam. Her father, J. C. McClurkin. was a Civil War veteran, and she always made it a practice to return to Princeton each Memorial Day to pay respect to her deceased parents from the years 1904-1947 when she resided away from here,' Mrs. Beatty said.
Mrs. Beatty was born April 19, 1877, about four miles southwest of Princeton in what was then called the White Church Community, now Columbia.
She attended the old Marsh Creek school and the Seminary which was located where the city's present high school now stands. The Seminary, she related, was Princeton's only school at that time.
In 1892, she and her sister, the late Elizabeth McClurkin Bahrenburg, entered the Western Female Seminary in Oxford, Ohio, and Mrs. Beatty graduated from there in 1897 when the institution became known as the Western College. She received her bachelor of arts degree in 1900 from the University of Michigan, and then taught history for a year in Covington, Ind., before going to Racine, Wisc., where she also taught school until 1902 when she returned to Princeton. She taught history and English here from 1902 until 1904 at the local high school which was then located in the present Lowell grade school building.
In June, 1904, she left Princeton to reside in Bowling Green, Ohio, after her marriage to Richard A. Beatty who had been here dealing as an oil producer and broker. Their daughter, Jean Beatty, now supervisor of program planning in a foods establishment at New Orleans, was born in 1909. After Mr. Beatty died in 1920 in San Diego, Calif., his widow began to travel all over the country.
She first lived in Kentucky where she settled her late husband's oil business, and then engaged in selling copies of an eight-volume series of the Bible called 'The Book of Life." Later she worked as assistant manager for a Pittsburgh firm selling "The World Book Encyclopedia," and then went to Los Angeles where she also worked as manager of a book firm and trained other salespeople.
After managing a tea room in Bowling Green, Ohio, for about nine months, she moved to Columbus, 0., where she resided for about three years before accepting employment from Ginn & Co. school book publishers for whom she traveled and sold commencement invitations to schools. She later sold invitations in Cleveland and drove all over Ohio as a traveling saleswoman.
In 1932 she was appointed Superintendent of the Girls Industrial School, a state training school for delinquent girls in Delaware, Ohio, after qualifying highest on that state's civil service exam for the position. She served as Superintendent of the institution for approximately nine years, and reported that during that time, 86 per cent of the girls returned to society "made good." This was the 'highest record attained by any such training school in the United States at that time. She also related that during her nine years as supervisor there, she never once received a bit of impudence from any of the girls.
When she retired, the institution housed 550 delinquent girls and 130 employes, Mrs. Beatty said. The housing limit there now is 300 girls whose ages range from 12 to 18. Mrs. Beatty related that an academic school and a hospital with three graduate nurses was available and every year a class of girls graduated from high school there. A physician always came when needed and twice a week regularly. No limitations were made as to their length of stay at the institution, and the judge who sent a girl there could have nothing to say about her care or her dismissal from the school after she was once committed to the State of Ohio, Mrs. Beatty added. Seventeen buildings, including a farm complete with horses and chickens were available for use during Mrs. Beatty's supervision at the school. Alter leaving Delaware, Mrs. Beatty went to Cleveland for a six months' rest before going its Tullahoma, Tenn., where she served as principal and librarian of the academic school for approximately 3 years. After resigning there, she took her granddaughter and went to Boston where she enrolled the child in an Episcopal school. She then worked in the Women's Reformatory at Framingham, Mass for a year about the end of the war. After working at the reformatory, she returned to Tennessee and worked as principal of the academic school there again, before retiring formally from teaching in 1947 when she returned to Princeton to live permanently after several months' vacation in Florida.
For three or four years after her return to Princeton, she was district manager of sales of the "World Book Encyclopedia" from here, operating in 22 counties, and also hired and trained other salespeople for the firm.
Since that time she has been of great service to her community by visiting shut-in persons, and has accomplished distinguished work as historian for the local chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. She is also active in the local Coterie literary club and in various organizations connected with the First Presbyterian Church.
At the recent 50th anniversary celebration of the local DAR chapter, Mrs. Beatty was presented with a lovely patriotic emblem pin and a carnation corsage for her outstanding accomplishments as historian of the chapter.
Mrs. Beatty has served as historian of the local organization for approximately four years, and also holds the honor of being the eldest member.
She stated that she has no prejudice whatsoever concerning political parties, and considers herself a "Mugwump." After having worked in three states for both the Democrat and Republican parties, Mrs. Beatty concluded that she considers one politician no different from another.
Residence source: S21Text: Richard Beatty
Death source: S215Residence source: S271Page: Rose McClurkin