Ethel was the oldest of five siblings. She grew up in the same area she was buried as it was on her grandfather's DLC, Ludlow Maxwell, that she lived after the passing of her father, William Gearhart.
She learned the milliner or hat-making craft and worked in Albany. At the annual Chautauqua event one year she was voted the most beautiful woman.
She married Allen Beamer on 6 April 1889 at the Independence First Baptist Church. They had Glenn and Maude before moving 4 miles to a homestead up the Yachats River on the Oregon Coast.
Glenn remembered that they collected nettles in the spring for salads.
Roy was born while they lived on this property.
Ethel died from dehydration and pneumonia in 1915. She had been committed to the Salem Asylum in 1899 at the age of 32. The facility tried to contact Allen when she was ill and after her passing. He had moved to and remarried in Alberta, Canada after getting a divorce in 1909 from Ethel.
Fortunately, Allen's sister, Etta Beamer Swain, came up from California. She had received a letter from the asylum about Ethel's death. Etta retrieved the cremated remains and took them to Ethel's mother and family that still lived in the Albany, Oregon area.
The mystery of what happened to her remains has been solved. It wasn't until looking at the plot pages of the cemetery for Gearharts and Maxwells that her final resting place was discovered.∼Ethel married Allen Casper Beamer on 5 Apr 1887 in Albany Linn Co, OR. Children: Maude (Beamer) Lehman, Glenn M. and Roy (nmn) Beamer. About 1900 Ethel was sent to the Oregon State Insane Asylum. She was not insane, her husband just sent her there out of meanness.
1900 OR Fed Census -Marion Co, East Salem Pct, Oregon State Insane Asylum, ED 181, dtd 29 Jun, SH 9B, Ln 98
Beamer, Ethel -Inmate 32 F -Dec 1867 -Md-10y -OR IL IA -Child 3 of 3
She learned the milliner or hat-making craft and worked in Albany. At the annual Chautauqua event one year she was voted the most beautiful woman.
She married Allen Beamer on 6 April 1889 at the Independence First Baptist Church. They had Glenn and Maude before moving 4 miles to a homestead up the Yachats River on the Oregon Coast.
Glenn remembered that they collected nettles in the spring for salads.
Roy was born while they lived on this property.
Ethel died from dehydration and pneumonia in 1915. She had been committed to the Salem Asylum in 1899 at the age of 32. The facility tried to contact Allen when she was ill and after her passing. He had moved to and remarried in Alberta, Canada after getting a divorce in 1909 from Ethel.
Fortunately, Allen's sister, Etta Beamer Swain, came up from California. She had received a letter from the asylum about Ethel's death. Etta retrieved the cremated remains and took them to Ethel's mother and family that still lived in the Albany, Oregon area.
The mystery of what happened to her remains has been solved. It wasn't until looking at the plot pages of the cemetery for Gearharts and Maxwells that her final resting place was discovered.∼Ethel married Allen Casper Beamer on 5 Apr 1887 in Albany Linn Co, OR. Children: Maude (Beamer) Lehman, Glenn M. and Roy (nmn) Beamer. About 1900 Ethel was sent to the Oregon State Insane Asylum. She was not insane, her husband just sent her there out of meanness.
1900 OR Fed Census -Marion Co, East Salem Pct, Oregon State Insane Asylum, ED 181, dtd 29 Jun, SH 9B, Ln 98
Beamer, Ethel -Inmate 32 F -Dec 1867 -Md-10y -OR IL IA -Child 3 of 3
Ethel was the oldest of five siblings. She grew up in the same area she was buried as it was on her grandfather's DLC, Ludlow Maxwell, that she lived after the passing of her father, William Gearhart.
She learned the milliner or hat-making craft and worked in Albany. At the annual Chautauqua event one year she was voted the most beautiful woman.
She married Allen Beamer on 6 April 1889 at the Independence First Baptist Church. They had Glenn and Maude before moving 4 miles to a homestead up the Yachats River on the Oregon Coast.
Glenn remembered that they collected nettles in the spring for salads.
Roy was born while they lived on this property.
Ethel died from dehydration and pneumonia in 1915. She had been committed to the Salem Asylum in 1899 at the age of 32. The facility tried to contact Allen when she was ill and after her passing. He had moved to and remarried in Alberta, Canada after getting a divorce in 1909 from Ethel.
Fortunately, Allen's sister, Etta Beamer Swain, came up from California. She had received a letter from the asylum about Ethel's death. Etta retrieved the cremated remains and took them to Ethel's mother and family that still lived in the Albany, Oregon area.
The mystery of what happened to her remains has been solved. It wasn't until looking at the plot pages of the cemetery for Gearharts and Maxwells that her final resting place was discovered.∼Ethel married Allen Casper Beamer on 5 Apr 1887 in Albany Linn Co, OR. Children: Maude (Beamer) Lehman, Glenn M. and Roy (nmn) Beamer. About 1900 Ethel was sent to the Oregon State Insane Asylum. She was not insane, her husband just sent her there out of meanness.
1900 OR Fed Census -Marion Co, East Salem Pct, Oregon State Insane Asylum, ED 181, dtd 29 Jun, SH 9B, Ln 98
Beamer, Ethel -Inmate 32 F -Dec 1867 -Md-10y -OR IL IA -Child 3 of 3
She learned the milliner or hat-making craft and worked in Albany. At the annual Chautauqua event one year she was voted the most beautiful woman.
She married Allen Beamer on 6 April 1889 at the Independence First Baptist Church. They had Glenn and Maude before moving 4 miles to a homestead up the Yachats River on the Oregon Coast.
Glenn remembered that they collected nettles in the spring for salads.
Roy was born while they lived on this property.
Ethel died from dehydration and pneumonia in 1915. She had been committed to the Salem Asylum in 1899 at the age of 32. The facility tried to contact Allen when she was ill and after her passing. He had moved to and remarried in Alberta, Canada after getting a divorce in 1909 from Ethel.
Fortunately, Allen's sister, Etta Beamer Swain, came up from California. She had received a letter from the asylum about Ethel's death. Etta retrieved the cremated remains and took them to Ethel's mother and family that still lived in the Albany, Oregon area.
The mystery of what happened to her remains has been solved. It wasn't until looking at the plot pages of the cemetery for Gearharts and Maxwells that her final resting place was discovered.∼Ethel married Allen Casper Beamer on 5 Apr 1887 in Albany Linn Co, OR. Children: Maude (Beamer) Lehman, Glenn M. and Roy (nmn) Beamer. About 1900 Ethel was sent to the Oregon State Insane Asylum. She was not insane, her husband just sent her there out of meanness.
1900 OR Fed Census -Marion Co, East Salem Pct, Oregon State Insane Asylum, ED 181, dtd 29 Jun, SH 9B, Ln 98
Beamer, Ethel -Inmate 32 F -Dec 1867 -Md-10y -OR IL IA -Child 3 of 3
Gravesite Details
As of 2021, there is no headstone. Her plot is next to the "Bond" plot nearest the fence line.
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