Fountain Claibourne (Beatie) Beattie (1840 - 1923)

Ancestors

Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Youth 1.2 Military 1.3 A chronology of Mosby Ranger Fount Beattie in the Civil War 1.4 A chronology of Fount Beattie's Post-War activities 1.5 Recollections of Fount’s grandson Butler (Bob) Beattie 1.6 From Findagrave.com 2 Citations 3 Acknowledgments 4 Sources

Biography

29 January 1863 POW

Fountain Claibourne Beattie was born on 10 Nov 1840 in Chilhowie, Smyth County, Virginia, the eighth and youngest child and third son of Col. Robert and Paulina White Beatie. He died on 25 March 1923 following a stroke in Alexandria, Virginia. He is buried in St. James Catholic Church Cemetery, Falls Church, Fairfax County, Virginia.

Youth

The home of the Robert Beatie family was the Town House, an inn in Chilhowie. This picture was made after it became old and dilapidated.

When Fountain and his siblings were children, they had pet animals. The pet of Claibourne Beatie was a bear, tamed and kept chained to a tree in the yard. One morning the bear broke loose and got into the dining room where the family was having breakfast. There was meat on the table, and the bear, after chasing out all the people, got on the table and ate the food. The boys' father, Robert Beatie, sent for a Negro and had him shoot the bear from a window, while it was still on the table.

When Fountain, younger than Claibourne, was a boy he had three deer. The deer were kept in a pen in the yard. On Christmas day of each year, the deer were taken to Kilmackronan, an old Beatie estate about four miles west of Chilhowie, and released. Men were there with about forty dogs. After holding back the dogs long enough to give the deer an advantage, they were released and with the men trailed the deer home. A Negro was kept at the Town House, with the door of the pen open, and when the deer got there, they were immediately shut up so that dogs couldn't reach them, thus affording fun for the men and dogs, and a happy ending for the deer. The annual Christmas fun was concluded by a few hours of cockfighting in the cockpit across the road from the Town House, where large sums of money were wagered, won and lost. The cockpit was in the graveyard, which beginning as a Sanders family burying ground, is now the main burying ground of the town of Chilhowie.

(From the now defunct Beattie Family website, formerly maintained by BernieBecker).

Fount attended Emory and Henry College, a Methodist institution in Emory, in Washington County, a few miles southwest of Chilhowie.

The 1860 census

Col. Robert Beatie, 1787-1870

Father: Col. Robert Beatie (1787-1870) Mother: Paulina White (1800-1869) Spouse: *Anne Elizabeth Hathaway (1 May 1846 - 28 Oct 1911) Marr. Date: 4 Jan 1865 Place: Western View, Zulla, FAUQUIER, VA, USA Children: 1. Mary Pauline Beatie (Abt 1866- ) 2. Claiborn Hathaway Beatie (1867-1956) 3. James Robert Beatie (1869-1955) 4. Annabelle Beatie (1871-1874) 5. Lelia Dixon Beatie (1874-1956) 6. Mattie Elizabeth Beatie (1873-1901) 7. Fountain Claibourne Beatie (1876-1962) 8. Charles Walter Beatie (1880-1935) 9. Annie Hathaway Beatie (1883-1925) 10. Lillian Carlin Beatie (1885-1956) 11. John Mosby Beatie (1886-1971) 12. Minter Jackson Beatie (1889-1952)

Maternal grandparents: Grandfather: Richard White Grandmother: Susannah Walker Henry White

Military

(At the start of the Civil War, Fount enlisted at Abingdon for one year in the Washington Mounted Rifles, which became Company D, First Virginia Cavalry upon dissolution of the Washington Mounted Rifles. Fount's brother, Walter S., and cousin, Robert F., also belonged to the unit. The commanding officer was Colonel (later General) "Grumble" W.E. Jones. Another member of the unit was John Singleton Mosby, a native of Powhatan County, Virginia, who had been practicing law in Abingdon, Washington Co., Virginia, and who was to gain renown in the war as the famous partisan ranger -- the "Grey Ghost of the Confederacy." Fount was to become his right-hand man and closest friend. All three men were later to become associated with General J.E.B. Stuart. Fount Beattie became one of Mosby's closest friends as well as one of the most trusted member of Mosby's famous Partisan Rangers -- the 43rd Battalion of Virginia Cavalry, Confederate States of America.)

Fount was the best friend and right-hand man of John Singleton Mosby, 1833-1916, the "Grey Ghost" of the Confederacy

A chronology of Mosby Ranger Fount Beattie in the Civil War

by Bernie Becker

1861 May 14 ~ Enlists in the Washington Mounted Rifles commanded by Captain William E. "Grumble" Jones at Abingdon, Washington County, VA, along with John S. Mosby. (Jones was from Glade Springs, Virginia.)

1861 June 17 ~ Washington Mounted Rifles arrive in Richmond.

1861 July 1 ~ Mosby & Beattie accept "penitentiary" uniforms [approximate date]. Mosby and Fountain Beattie dressed in "penetentiary cloth" on the way into Richmond. The other men refused to wear it.

1861 July 16 ~ When the First Virginia Cavalry completed its formation, the Washington County Rifles became Company D. Beattie was part of Mosby's first detail, consisting of 15 men from the First Virginia Confederate Cavalry.

1861 July 21 ~ Both Mosby and Beattie participated in the Battle of First Manassas as members of the First Virginia Cavalry. In a letter to his wife, Pauline, Mosby wrote: "I shall never forget my sensations when Fount and I spread our blankets on the ground and I laid down to sleep under the Sentinel Stars. I said to Fount, ' This may be the last night we shall sleep together.' Early the next morning we rose at the bugle call. We knew the tremendous issue to be decided that day. Although my name afterwards became better known than it was then there is really nothing in my military life that I remember with so much satisfaction as that on that eventful day..." ^[1]

1861 Nov 21 ~ In another letter to Pauline, Mosby wrote from Camp Cooper: "My dearest Pauline: “On Monday I participated in what is admitted to have been the most dashing feat of the war. Col. [Fitzhugh] Lee took about 80 men out on a scout, - hearing where a company of about the same number of Yankees were on picket, we went down and attacked. They were concealed in a pine thicket, where one man ought to have been equal to ten outside. We charged right into them and they poured a raking fire into our ranks. Fount Beattie and myself, in the ardor of pursuit, had gotten separated some distance from our main body, when we came upon two Yankees in the woods. We ordered them to surrender, but they replied by firing on us. One of the Yankees jumped behind a tree and was taking aim at Fount when I leveled my pistol at him, but missed him. He also fired, but missed Fount, though within a few feet of him. I then jumped down from my horse and as the fellow turned to me I rested my carbine against a tree and shot him dead. He never knew what struck him. Fount fired at one with his pistol, but missed. A South Carolinian came up and killed the other. . . . The man I killed had a letter in his pocket from his sweetheart Clara. . . . They were of the Brooklyn Zouaves and fought at Manassas." ^[2]

1861 Dec 6 ~ Beattie appears as "absent on sick furlough from 6 December1861 for 10 days" on November-December 1861 muster roll. Mosby selected Beattie along with eight others to remain with him on detached service in Northern Virginia.

1863 Jan 1 --May 1 ~ Beattie is one of nine men first detailed to Mosby. Beattie shown as "absent on detached service with Mosby from 1st Virginia Cavalry" since 1-1-1863 on January-February 1863 and May-June 1863 muster rolls on 1Jan 1863.

1863 Jan 5-6 ~ Involved in Mosby's first two raids; attacks on picket posts near Frying Pan Church on Jan 5 and near Cub Run on the Little River Turnpike and at Chantilly.

(When Mosby was given his independent command in 1863, Fountain Beattie was one of the original 15 members of group known as Mosby's Rangers. Mosby brought his wife, Pauline, to the area where the guerillas operated (known as Mosby's Confederacy). She stayed with the family of James and Elizabeth Hathaway in Fauquier Co., Virginia. Fount stayed there too and it was there he met Anna Hathaway, the girl he married.)

Western View, the Hathaway home

Mosby and his wife and Beattie stayed during the war at the Hathaway House (Western View), at Zulla near The Plains , between Rectortown and Middleburg in Fauquier County, Virginia. This was the house where Mosby escaped from the Yankees by climbing out of the bedroom window and taking refuge on the limb of a large tree while the Yankees vainly searched the house for him. ,

1863 Jan 18 ~ Mosby goes to Upper Fauquier with 15 men. Fount Beattie is part of the group.

1863 Jan 27 ~ Fount Beattie is captured in a skirmish with Union boys at Middleburg. (V. C. Jones wrote that the date was 29 January 1863 and that the reason that he was captured was that his horse fell. Mosby reported that several of his men were captured because of the 'falling of their horses' after he had attacked the end of Wyndham's column. In another report dated February 4, 1863, Mosby states: "Fount Beattie was captured by the Yankees - his horse fell with him." ^[3]

1863 Jan 30 ~ Fount Beattie is sent to Old Capitol Prison, Washington D.C.

1863 March 8 ~ Mosby' captures Gen. Stoughton at Fairfax Courthouse while Beattie was being held prisioner.

1863 March 29 ~ Beattie is paroled and sent to City Point, below Richmond. [Note: After being paroled, Beattie was given Bradford Smith Hoskin's (d. 2 June 1863) horse and promoted to sergeant, Company A. No detail information on parole available.]

1863 April 4 ~ General Lee reported to President Davis Mosby's promotion. ^[4]

1863 April 30 ~ Beattie is involved in attacks on General Stahel's expedition into Fauquier County.

1863 May 17 ~ Beattie is involved in fight at the Lynn Farm near Dumfries

1863 May 19 ~ Beattie delivers report to Maj. Gen. Stuart. Mosby requests a mountain howitzer. Beattie returns with a small mountain howitzer from General Stuart.^[5]

1863 May 30 ~ Beattie is involved in raid on Catlett's Station, captured near Greenwich after raid on Catlett's Station. "Lieut. Samuel F. Chapman, who was in charge of the gun, was so badly wounded that he could not be removed , and was paroled on the field. Beattie and Montjoy stood by the gun until surrounded and captured." ^[6] Sent to Old Capitol Prison. No parole record.

?? ~ Promoted to Sergeant, Company A upon his release from prison and given Captain Bradford Smith Hoskin's horse.

1863 June 10 ~ 43rd Battalion Virginia Cavalry formed.

1863 July 1- Aug 1 1863 ~ Fount Beattie is shown as "transferred to Major Mosby" on July-August 1863 muster roll. This entry reflects Beattie's official record of transfer to the 43rd Virginia Cavalry.

1863 July 28 ~ Sergeant Beattie delivers 141 prisoners to Maj. Gen. J. E. B. Stuart. ^[7]

1863 Aug 4 ~ Beattie delivers about 30 prisoners to Major General J. E. B. Stuart in FAUQUIER COUNTY, VA.:

GENERAL: I send over, in charge of Sergeant Beattie, about 30 prisoners, captured on an expedition into Fairfax, from which I have just returned. Most of them were taken at Padgett's, near Alexandria. I also captured about 30 wagons, and brought off about 70 horses and mules, having only 10 men with me. We lost a great many on the way back, as we were compelled to travel narrow, unfrequented paths.

1863 Oct 18 ~ Beattie is one of 15 men from the 1st Virginia Cavalry selected for a 2nd detail to Mosby.

1863 Nov 17 ~ General R. E. Lee recommends rank of Lieutenant-Colonel for Mosby.^[8]

1863 Nov 22 ~ 43rd Virginia Cavalry Battalion formed.^[9]

1864 Jan 10 ~ Beattie is wounded while attacking Cole's Camp, Loudoun Heights, Harpers Ferry. "Lieut. F. Beattie had his horse shot and he himself received a ball in his thigh. . . . Lieut. Fountain Beattie,...and others were wounded."^[10] The ball remained in his hip which always gave him trouble.

1864 Mar 10~ Beattie is involved in fight at Chew's House between Kabletown and Charles Town, West Virginia.

1864 May 9 &/or 12 ~ Wagon raid between Fredericksburg and Belle Plain, Stafford County.

1864 July 4 ~ Beattie involved in raid on Point of Rocks, Maryland.^[11] View article: A Point of Rocks Cruise

1864 July 5 ~ Beattie is sent to find General Jubal A.Early at his camp near Antietam (Sharpsburg) to deliver message of support. ^[12]

1864 July 7 ~ Beattie and Ranger Heaton meet with Early at Sharpsburg ^[13]

1864 July 20 ~ Beattie is Involved in fight near the Aldie and Snickersville Turnpike

Fountain "Fount" Beattie, 11 Nov 1840-25 Mar 1923

1864 July 28 ~ Beattie is promoted to 1st Lieutenant, Company E. "On Thursday, July 28th, at a meeting held in Upperville, Company E was organized. Samuel Chapman was elected Captain; Fountain Beattie, First Lieutenant; William Martin, Second Lieutenant, and W. Ben Palmer, Third Lieutenant." ^[14]

1864 July 30 ~ Beattie is involved in Adamstown, Maryland raid

1864 Sept 4 ~ Beattie is involved in fight at Gold's Farm near Berryville

1864 Sept 23 ~ Attack on Reserve Brigade of Merritt's Cavalry Division near Chester Gap

1864 Oct 13 ~ Skirmishes along the Valley Pike between Winchester and Martinsburg, West Virginia.

1864 Oct 14 ~ "Greenback Raid" on the B&O Railroad near Duffield's Station, Jefferson County, West Virginia

1864 Oct 24 ~ Raid on the cavalry camp at Perkin's Mill, south of Winchester

1864 Oct 25 ~ Attack on a wagon train and capture of General A.N. Duffie on the Valley Pike between Winchester and Martinsburg, West Virginia

1864 Oct 29 ~ Fight at Dulany's near Upperville

1864 Dec 26 ~ Skirmishes with Merrill's and Powell's cavalry divisions in Fauquier County

1865 Jan 14 ~ Fount marries Ann Hathaway (she was 18 and he was 24). Mrs. Mary Hathaway Fant recalled the following toast made at the wedding: "Here's to Capt. Beattie, so gallant and gay, a rival with Shakespeare for Ann Hathaway."

A check of the Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers who served from Virginia, 1861-1865, provided only one entry for Fount Beattie. Apparently Mosby's Rangers were not very good at keeping records. ^[15]

A chronology of Fount Beattie's Post-War activities

by Bernie Becker and Patricia Prickett Hickin

1865 ~ After the war Fount farms.

1865 Oct 23 ~ Fount and Anne’s first child, Mary Pauline (Jane), is born. The Beatties were to have 11 more children.

1872 ~ Both Beattie and Mosby campaign for General Grant.

1875 ~ Fount is appointed deputy Collector of Internal Revenue, VA and serves in that capacity from 1875-1914, in Alexandria, VA.

1878 June 25 ~ Fount and Anne Hathaway Beattie purchase 339 acres, "Green Springs Farm," which is located closer to Alexandria on the Little River Turnpike east of Annandale, Virginia, with money realized from the sale of Western View.

1880 ~ The 1880 census shows FOUNT as a revenue officer living with his wife, Annie, and their 6 children, in Falls Church Dist, FAIRFAX, VA, USA. He was 38 years old and owned his home with a mortgage. The three older children, a girl and two boys, had attended school within the year. Everyone in the family was born in Virginia, as were their parents. BEATTIE Annie 33 BEATTIE Mary P 14 Attended school within year BEATTIE Clay H 12 Attended school within year BEATTIE James R 10 Attended school within year BEATTIE Lelia D 7 BEATTIE Mattie C 5 BEATTIE Fountain C 3

1895 Jan 16 ~ Fount attends the first Reunion of the 43rd Virginia Cavalry in Alexandria, Virginia where he is elected Third Lieutenant Commander in the permanent organization, John S. Mosby Camp, Confederate Veterans. ^[16]

1897 ~ Fount appears on an 1897 list of ex-Confederate soldiers for Fairfax County.

1898 Apr ~ Fount joins the Lee Camp UCV (United Confederate Veterans) at Alexandria.

1899 ~ Capt. Fountain Beattie, of the revenue office, discovers magnetic iron ore and copper while raiding moonshiners in the Blue Ridge Mountains.

1900 Census ~ His situation is much the same in 1900 (most of the 1890 census records were destroyed by fire in 1921) when he lives with his wife, Annie, 7 children and a female servant in Falls Church District, FAIRFAX Co., VA, USA. He is still a revenue officer and he still has a mortgage on his house. His youngest child is 11 and all of the children have attended school.

BEATTIE Annie b May 1846 55 BEATTIE Mary P b Oct 1865 35 BEATTIE Mattie E b May 1873 27 BEATTIE Lelia D b Oct 1875 25 At school 7 months BEATTIE Annie H b May 1883 17 At school 9 months BEATTIE Lilian C b Dec 1885 15 At school 6 months BEATTIE John M b Feb 1887 13 At school 6 months BEATTIE Minter J b Aug 1889 11 At school 7 months HALEY, Mollie b Servant Oct 1865 35 Single

1908 ~ An article in the Fairfax Herald states that the Fountain Beattie residence in Annandale is nearing completion and i s quite an improvement to the neighborhood. Beattie may have been living on the site of the new house in an older house as early as 1900.

1910 census ~ Fount Beattie is living in Alexandria City, Alexandria, VA. [Although he still owns Green Spring Farm, Fount and his family live in a modest house at 422 Peyton Street in Alexandria, Virginia.]

All of his children are grown and an unmarried son and four unmarried daughters are living at home. Three of the children are unemployed but two daughters are teaching in the public schools.

1911 Oct 28 ~ Fount's wife, Annie Elizabeth Hathaway Beattie, dies in Alexandria, Virginia. She has been in ill health several years. Besides her husband she is survived by ten children: Clay Beattie, of Pasadena, Cal ; Minter Beattie, of Milwaukee, Wis ; Robert Beattie, of Fairfax county, Fountain [Claibourn], Walter, [John] Mosby and Misses Mary, Leila, Annie, and Lillian Beattie, of Alexandria. ^[17]

1914 May 6 ~ Fount retires as Deputy Collector of Internal Revenue for Virginia's 6th District. [following the election of Democrat Woodrow Wilson as President.] "Capt Fountain Beattie, nearly 40 years deputy collector of internal revenue in this city and 13 counties of northern Virginia, has been retired...Capt Beattie was a member of Col John S Mosby s command during the Civil War, and like his former chieftain is a Republican in politics..." ^[18]

1914 ~ Following the loss of this political position, he becomes a realtor. “Field Captain F. Beattie, whose early activities helped to make John Mosby famous, said to have retired, has opened an office in Alexandria, and may be seen most any fine day with a load of real estate on his shoulders, hustling around town like a youngster.”

1914 Jul 20 ~ Fount gathers with Mosby and two other men-- Lycurgus Hutchison and George Turberville, Manassas, in PRINCE WILLIAM Co., VA, for a reunion - John Singleton Mosby, Fount Beattie, Lycurgus Hutchison and George Turberville at Manassas Battle Field on July 20, 1914. The occasion was a reunion on the 53rd anniversary of the first Battle of Bull Run [First Manassas].

1915 Nov-Dec ~ Fount visits his children on the West Coast -- in Oregon as well as in California in Nov-Dec 1915.

1915 Nov 27 ~ Post card from Fount Beattie to his son, Fountain Clairborne Beattie from San Francisco California. The occasion is his visit to the Panamanian Exibition. Picture shows Beattie sitting in open air bus. Text as follows: Golden Gate 11-27-15 Meet Clay [his oldest son Claibourn Beattie] on R.R. before getting to Los Angeles - was so fat that I didn't know him. Have been many places of interest. We will leave for Eugene [Oregon] 29th, where I will stay for a while with Edna [Clay's wife] & children. Have been well & delighted. Aff'ly, F. B.

1915 Dec 2 ~ Fount writes to Col. [Mosby] from Eugene, Oregon, where he is visiting his son Clay and daughter-in-law, Edna. He mentions his touring in Southern California and his week at the San Francisco Fair.

1916 June 1 ~ Fount serves as a pallbearer for Mosby's Funeral. Fount accompanies Mosby on his last ride. "[Mosby’s] body was moved to Warrenton by train the morning of June 1. On board as bodyguard and pallbearers were Fount Beattie and other Rangers." ^[19]

1916 Aug 3 ~ Fount begins campaign to erect Mosby Monument. "703 King Street, Alexandria, Va. Capt Fountain Beattie, of Alexandria, one of the most daring officers in the command of Col. John S. Mosby, has started a movement with the object of erecting a monument to the memory of the famous Confederate leader who died recently. It is said that there are less than 70 survivors of Mosby's intrepid band and they are widely scattered Capt. Beattie hopes to locate them and enlist their interest In the project and through them the Interest of the many Confederate societies throughout the United States Col. Mosby was buried it is probable that a monument erected by popular subscription would be placed at some prominent place in that town." ^[20]

1917 Jan 23 ~ Fount sells Green Spring to George Sims and his wife, Marjorie B. Sims.

1918 ~ Fount attends reunion of the 43rd Virginia Cavalry in Front Royal, Virginia.

1919 Sept 24 ~ Fount attends reunion in Fredericksburg, Virginia "Capt- Beatty Heads Mosby's Reunion Special to-Tbe Washington Post. Fredericksburg, Va., Sept. 23— The convention of Mosby's men adjourned today. Capt. Fountain Beatty, Alexandria, was elected commander, John Russell, Berryville, vice-commander and Capt. Chewning Smith, Deleplane, adjutant. A cablegram was received from Mrs. William Waldorf Astor, in England, donating $100 for the Mosby Memorial monument fund." ^[21]

1920 ~ Fount is living, widowed, with 4 daughters, 1 son, and 2 roomers, 1920, in a modest home in Alexandria, VA, and describing his occupation as “real estate broker.” He reports owning his home mortgage-free. His son John Mosby Beattie is a steam railroad conducter. Two of his daughters, Annie and Lillian, are public school teachers, two are unemployed. One of the roomers is a teacher; the other a clerk for the US AirCraft Department.

1920 ~ Fount attends a reunion of the 43rd Virginia Cavalry in Culpeper, Virginia.

1923 Mar 25 ~ Fount Beattie dies and is buried at Saint James Catholic Church Cemetery in Falls Church, Virginia.

March 1923 ~ The Alexandria Gazette contains the following obituary: “Capt. Fountain Beattie, eighty-two years old, one of Alexandria's best known residents, died at 2 o'clock Sunday morning at his home 422 North Peyton Street. Death was due to apoplexy with which he was stricken exactly three weeks ago. The deceased was regarded as one of the bravest of Mosby's men and had an excellent war record. At the outbreak of the war he joined the First Virginia Cavalry under Col. J.E.B. Stuart and later was identified with the Forty-third Battalion, Company C, under Col. John S. Mosby with which command he remained until the close of hostilities. He was shot at Harper's Ferry and at times throughout his life suffered from the effects of the wound. He was born in Chilhowie, Smyth County, Va., November 10, 1840 and he married Miss Annie Hathaway of Fauquier County Virginia, who died several years ago.”

Recollections of Fount’s grandson Butler (Bob) Beattie

Fountain Beattie and son Charles Walter Beattie^[22]

By Butler (Bob) Beattie

I, Butler Beattie, the second son of Charles Waiter Beattie and Josephine Ada Butler Beattie and the grandson of Fountain Claibourne Beattie and Ann Hathaway Beattie am writing the things my father told me about Green Springs Farm. My grandfather met my grandmother when her father, James Hatheway hid him (and John Mosby's family) from the Yankees during the Civil War. They hid at Western View, just north of The Plains, in Fauquier County. My grandparents married as soon as the war was over. When I visited my grandmother's sister, my Great Aunt Molly, in 1933, she showed me an old newspaper clipping that had a short poem about their marriage. I remember it as "There stands Captain Beattie, so gallant and gay, to rival Shakespeare for the hand of Am Hathaway." My grandfolks did not buy and move to Green Spring Farm until after my Aunt Mary, who[m] we called Aunt Janie, was born. The farm was about 330 acres. It had an orchard and was also a dairy farm.

My father, Charles Waiter Beattie, was born at Green Springs Farm in 1880. At that time there were only two stories to the home. My grandfather later enlarged it for his growing family. My father spent his early days working on the farm along with his five brothers and five sisters. He often told his four sons how hard he worked on the farm. His day started early. He got up at four o'clock in the morning to milk the cows. Afterwards he ate breakfast and then he rode a horse to a country school taught by his older sister, Lelia. In the afternoon, he had to milk the cows again. When I used to see him split wood, I knew that he had worked on a farm. The earliest story I heard was from Aunt Molly, my grandmother's sister, who said that Walter and his brother had been caught eating plaster and had been punished for it. She was very sorry for the poor little boys. To celebrate the Fourth of July they would blow up pig bladders and break them in place of fireworks. My mother told me that my grandmother Beattie had the reputation of making the best ice cream in the county.

My grandfather never discussed anything concerning the Civil War. He was very forward looking and not interested in the past. The John Mosby family and the Beattie family remained lifelong friends, and John Mosby did like to recall the war years. He used to talk to my grandfather about them, and my grandfather would just nod and listen, not being really interested. In fact one time John Mosby told a story and asked my grandfather "Fount, do you remember that?" and my grandfather, trying to be agreeable said he did. "Well," John Mosby said, "It never happened!"

President Grant appointed John Mosby consul to Hong Kong. Through Mosby's connection to Grant my grandfather was appointed a revenue officer. One time when my grandfather was out looking for illegal stills someone burned his barn down. Apparently my grandfather was a pretty good shot. One day my father's friends were talking about how the moving picture cowboys could throw a silver dollar up in the air and put a hole in it with a revolver. His friends were convinced it was all faked, but my father said that he had watched his father do it.

My grandfather was much more interested in the future than in the past. He used concrete in the spring house at Green Spring Farm. I heard that was the first use of concrete in that way in Fairfax County and possibly in all of Virginia. He predicted that in the future band music would be played in the home. Also, he predicated that carriages would be pulled without horses. When Langley flew over the Potomac my grandfather ran out of the house on Peyton Street, where he and the aunts [had] moved after selling Green Spring Farm, and told everyone around, "I told you; I knew he could do it. Men can fly!"

By the time my grandfather died all his predictions had come true with the development of radio, automobiles and aviation. When I first became interested in amateur radio my father helped me construct radio receivers and transmitters out of junk parts. He said that his father would have really enjoyed ham radio. That is when he told me things he remembered about his father.

Although Captain Beattie was treated like a king by his family, he was not too practical when it came to money matters. Later in life he went into the real estate business. He traded Green Spring farm for about 1000 acres in North Florida, where he hoped to grow oranges. Unfortunately it was too far north for that and the land proved to be worth very little.

When my father, completed the country school he attended an academy. He said that the only things he remembered from the academy was "Amo, amas, amat." He had a job winding coils on armatures for Westinghouse Electric Company. His next job was as motorman on the interurban that ran between Washington, D.C. and Mount Vernon. He lost that job because of a head-on collision in a fog.

John Mosby's political connections helped my father get a job with the Army Corps of Engineers. In 1904 he began work for them building the Panama Canal. He came home on leave and met and married Ada Butler soon after they had met at a barn dance. They went back to Panama where their first child was born and died in two days. They then returned to Virginia where my father bought a sawmill from his older brother, Fount. He cut ties for the Southern Railway. Eventually the engine wore out. At that time he heard from a coworker from Panama, Frank Masters, that there was a job as civil engineer at the Illinois Steel Company. Since he now had three boys to feed and another child on the way, he went out to Illinois and took the job. He was called Colonel because of his southern accent and some referred to him as the last of the southern gentlemen. His wife, Ada, sons John, Bob, and Walt and their Aunt Sal followed him to Illinois where their fourth son, Frank Masters Beattie was born.

I, Butler Beattie (Bob), 88 years old and my brother, Charles Waiter Beattie, 85, will not be able to attend the 1999 Beattie reunion at Green Spring Farm, unless we could find a way to speed up our walkers. So I will end with the old radio sign of... 73 and 88 old bob

[Butler (Bob) Beattie lives in Austin Texas and wrote this article for the Beattie Family Reunion in August of 1999.]^[23]

From Findagrave.com

1LT Fountain “Fount” Beattie

Birth: 10 Nov 1840 Chilhowie, Smyth County, Virginia, USA; Death: 25 Mar 1923 (aged 82) Annandale, Fairfax County, Virginia, USA; Burial: Saint James Cemetery, Falls Church, Falls Church City, Virginia, USA. Plot: Beattie Family. Memorial #: 12252353.

Bio: Fount. Beattie Enlisted on May 14th 1861 with Co. E 1st Virginia Cavalry in Abingdon, Virginia, where he meet and became very good friends with a John Singlton Mosby. Fountain became one of the original 15 of Mosby's rangers. Fountain would end up being promoted to Lieu. of Co. E 43rd Bn Virginia Cavalry Partisan Rangers. Wounded at the skirmish in Loudoun Heights near Harpers Ferry, WV.

Inscription: The inscription says 25 March 1923. See image at https://www.wikitree.com/photo.php/3/38/Beatie-32-10.jpg.(Fountain was my gr-grandmother's brother.)

Family Members; Spouse: Annie E. Beattie (1843-1911); Children: Clay Hathaway Beattie (1867-1956), James Robert Beattie (1869-1955), Anabel Beattie (1871-1874), Lelia Dixon Beattie (1874-1956), Fountain Claibourne Beattie (1876-1962).^[24]

Citations

1. ↑ The Letters of John S. Mosby, 2nd edition, p.113, Stuart - Mosby Historical Society, 1986.
2. ↑ The Letters of John S. Mosby, 2nd edition, p.18, Stuart - Mosby Historical Society, 1986.
3. ↑ See OR Series 1, Vol. 25, Part 1, Page 5 for details of Wyndham and Mosby's reports. Also see Mosby Memoirs, Electronic edition.
4. ↑ Williamson, p.54.
5. ↑ [Keen] See Official Records of the War of the Rebellion image for report. OR-P861.jpg.
6. ↑ p.67, Williamson.
7. ↑ No. 3. Reports of Maj. John S. Mosby, C. S. Army. FAUQUIER COUNTY, VA., July 28, 1863.
8. ↑ OR reprint on p.407.
9. ↑ [Williamson, p408, OR reprint.
10. ↑ Williamson pp.127-28.
11. ↑ Keen, p.295
12. ↑ Leepson, Marc. Desperate Engagement
13. ↑ Wert, Mosby Ranger, p.178.
14. ↑ Williamson, p.197
15. ↑ Microfilm M-324, Roll #207
16. ↑ See NY Times article: 1895_Mosby_Reunion.pdf)
17. ↑ Washington Post, October 29, 1911.
18. ↑ Washington Post, May 6, 1914.
19. ↑ Jones, V. C., Ranger Mosby, p.190.
20. ↑ WASHINGTON POST - August 3, 1916.
21. ↑ Washington Post, September, 24, 1919.
22. ↑ http://home.comcast.net/~site002/Beattie/History/butler_beattie.htm [sent to me -pph-20070109--as a link by Bernie Becker to his website]
23. ↑ From http://home.comcast.net/~site002/Beattie/Mosby/Fount_Beattie_Mosby_Ranger.htm
24. ↑ Paul Buscher (46811335), maintained by John Wesley "Jack" Donner, Sr. (46739311),”1LT Fountain “Fount” Beattie,” Findagrave.com. Record added 4 Nov 2005. URL: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/12252353/fountain-beattie. Accessed 23 February 2019.

Acknowledgments

• Patricia Prickett Hickin imported the data for Fountain (Beatie) Beattie from P_McC_BEATIE-Rachel ancestors 20130124.ged on 28 Jan 2013.

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