English: Postal Date: August 7, 1868, Valparaiso, Indiana

Scott Catalog Number of Postage Stamp: 88 Collection: Steven R. Shook

SENDER: Unknown

RECIPIENT: To The Clerk of the Common Pleas Court, Monticello White Co Indiana

REMARK: This envelope contained a deposition from William Dunn Crothers in the case of Reuben R. Pettit vs. Isaac Beasey in the Common Pleas Court of White County, Indiana.

Williamson Dunn Crothers was born on January 3, 1818, probably in Indiana, and died on January 30, 1887, at Springfield, Green County, Missouri. He is buried at Maple Park Cemetery located in Springfield. According to 1870 Federal Census records, Williamson was residing with his family in Center Township, Porter County, Indiana.

Reuben R. Pettit was born on November 18, 1826, in Burlington, Burlington County, Vermont, and died on October 30, 1897, at Remington, Jasper County, Indiana. Reuben is buried in Remington Cemetery in Remington. According to 1870 Federal Census records, Reuben was residing with his family in Princeton, White County, Indiana

Isaac Beasey was born January 19, 1827, in Bartholomew County, Indiana. Date and location of Isaac's death and burial is unknown. According to 1870 Federal Census records, Isaac was residing with his family in Honey Creek, White County, Indiana. The following biography of Isaac is contained in F.A. Battey & Company's Counties of White and Pulaski, Indiana, Historical and Biographical, published in 1883 (p. 282):

"ISAAC BEASEY, JR., was born in Bartholomew County, Ind., January 19, 1827, and is the sixth of the sixteen children born to Isaac and Nancy (Penny) Beasey, natives respectively of the Eastern shore of Maryland and of Johnson County, Ohio. Isaac Beasey, Sr., was married in Johnson County, Ohio, where he farmed in shares several years; in about 1824, be moved to Bartholomew County, and in the fall of 1837 came to Big Creek Township, this county, where he entered eighty acres, and also eighty acres in this township; in 1852, he moved to Monticello, and engaged in teaming for about five years. He then bought a farm lying partly in White and partly in Pulaski County, where, on the morning, of April 15, 1869, as he was driving, from his pasture some of a neighbor's trespassing cattle, he was shot dead by their owner, Philip Reeder, who was sentenced to the penitentiary for life for the crime. Mrs. Beasey died in White County in 1853. Isaac Beasey remained on the home farm until twenty-two years of age; then farmed on shares in Big Creek Township, this county, about six years, and then came to this township and farmed on the same terms five years. In the fall of 1864, he bought forty acres in Honey Creek, on which he still resides. July 2, 1861, be married Mary J. Reeves, a native of Carroll County, Ind., who has borne him five children - Samuel M. and Catherine M. Mrs. Beasey died October 10, 1880, a strict member of the Methodist Episcopal Church ; Mr. Beasey is also a member of the same, and in politics is a Democrat."

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