Oliver P. "Ollie" Beatty

BEATY, Oliver P. - Oliver P. “Ollie” Beaty was the sixth child of Thomas P. and Nancy Odle Beaty and was born in December of 1844.During the Civil War he served with his brothers in Captain Alvin C. Beaty’s Company of Confederate Cavalry. He owned land near his father’s homestead, went to Texas with his brothers for awhile, but returned. He never married and died in 1896.

Horton P. (“Tump”) Beaty, a brother to the four serving in the military, was killed at home in 1863 by “Pin” Indians under the command of Zeke Proctor at the age of 25. His sister Catherine stood one member of the group off with a butcher knife, at her door, telling him if he came any nearer she would slit his throat. [WCHS Flashback Vol. 14, No. 4]