Arrived Oregon: 1st 1843, along with Jesse & Lindsay Applegate
Hanged 1865 for the Murder of Daniel Delaney
Buried: By Daniel Waldo on the Waldo farm,
"Waldo Hills" East of Salem, Marion Co, OR
Occupation: Saloon Keeper/Owner. downtown Salem, Marion Co, OR
Father: Charles William Beale
b. Feb 17, 1771, Botetourt Co, VA, d. Jul 10, 1842, St Clair Co, MO
---m. Sep 1, 1808---
Mother: Anna "Ann" Kyle Beale
b. abt 1779, Botetourt Co, VA, d. abt 1833 (1840?)
Wife #1: Sarah C. L. m12 Mar 1848, St Clair Co, MO, d17 Aug 1855
Wife #2: Mariah S. Taylor, b. abt 1845, Missouri (15 yrs, 1860 Marion Co Census)
Wife #2 Marriage Witnesses: F. G. Taylor, & T. J. (Thomas Jordan) Beale,
The Story: http://www.oregonpioneers.com/gbhang.htm
The Trial: http://www.oregonpioneers.com/gbtrial.htm
(*1) Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon, Saturday Mar 17, 1945 (Paraphrased)
George Beale and George Baker killed and robbed Daniel Delaney. Their double execution in Salem, May 17, 1865, was a well attended and somewhat gala "hangin".
Daniel Delaney had sold his slaves and was well-to-do and hospitable. George Beale, who had worked for old man Delaney, was often his guest at the farm home about a mile west of Turner. Beale knew a lot about the Delaney household. He knew that the old man had money and had recently sold many cattle for cash. He believed he knew where the wealth was hidden.
In the twilight of a Sunday afternoon, January 9, 1865 two men who dressed in black face to look like negroes drove up to Daniel Delaney's home. One went to the door and asked to be directed to the home of one of the old man's sons. Delaney stepped outside.
At this point the stories differ in details. But a musket spit fire. Old man Delaney died. Then Beale and Baker entered Delaney's house, ransacked it. Admittedly they took $1400 In cash and some believed the loot was much more.
But the crime was neither unseen nor unheard. Living with Delaney was Jack DeWolf, a 12-year-old Negro who heard the commotion and bolted the door, then fled and hid in the woodpile.
At daylight the Negro boy ran to the house of David Delaney and told what he had seen. He had either recognized Beale, or he had heard the old man cry out the name. The younger Delaney notified the authorities and an order for the arrest of Beale and Baker was issued. That order is still on file at the Marion County courthouse.
Within a few days Beale and Baker were under arrest. Materials used for blackening the faces, along with a tell-tale hat-band, were found near the old watering trough on Turner road where the pair had applied their makeup.
Marion county grand jury indicted Beale and Baker for murder in the first degree. Their trial opened March 20, 1865. Most of the evidence, except for the testimony at Jack DeWolf, was circumstantial, but overwhelming. On March 25, the Jury returned a verdict of guilty. Beale denied guilt. Judge Boise told him he was surely lying. Both murderers were confined in a small red Jail at the northwest corner of the courthouse grounds. Wilbur Brothers went about building a double gallows in a grove of small oak trees at the southeast corner of Church and Mill streets. (Today large end mature oak trees grow in this locality.)
From chambers in the old Griswold building Judge Boise sentenced the pair to be hanged On May 17, 1865. It was the first execution in Salem and none thereafter was ever better attended.
(*2) http://www.oregonpioneers.com/1843.htm
"George Beale was a dark-skinned, black-eyed young man, the son of a slave-owner in St. Clair County, Missouri. He had been born in 1824 in Boutetourt County, Virginia, so he was nineteen in 1843. Beale was hired by the Applegates as a teamster to drive a wagon containing mainly flour and bacon. There was something not right about the man even in 1843. The Applegate children were told never to ride in the wagon he drove.
Following the execution, relatives of the man known as (George) BAKER, claimed his body and took it to their home territory, near Molalla, for burial. Disposition of the remains of BEALE was in doubt as none of the cemetery wardens in attendance wanted to accept the responsibility of burying him within the confines of their cemeteries. The venerable DANIEL WALDO, whose wife was distantly related to BEALE, said he would accept the responsibility of burial. He loaded the body of BEALE into his wagon and transported it to his home, his Donation Land Claim being SE of Salem, where a family burial ground had been established. (Howell Prairie Rd SE just south of MacLeary Rd SE
(*3) Ref: St. Clair County Missouri Biographies: Calvin Waldo
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mostclai/Biography/SCCBiographiesW.htm
"By act of organization of St. Clair County (Missouri), February 15, 1841 --- appointed commissioners to superintend and conduct an election by the people to decide on a suitable point for the county seat. The elder Waldos were dissatisfied with the choice of Osceola and together with the Applegates and Beals, sold their land and went to Oregon".
(*4) Book of Remembrance of Marion County Pioneers, 1840-1860, Steeves, Sarah Hunt, The Berncliff Press, Portland, Or., 1927, pp 12-15
http://www.marioncountycemetery.com/cloverdale/records/display_record.php?id=3862
Mr. Delany sold all his possessions in Tennessee he set his face toward Missouri, the great western rendezvous, and early in the spring of 1843 found them on their way to Oregon via the covered wagon with Independence, Missouri, the starting point.
In this party, consisting of over 300 wagons, were the families of Daniel Delany, Sr., John McHaley, Daniel Waldo, Nesmiths, Applegates, Looneys, Gains, Pughs, Fords, Gilliams, Dennys, and Ollingers. There were others also, but at this late date it is hard to get their names. Dr. Marcus Whitman was captain and guide.
(*2) http://www.oregonpioneers.com/1843.htm Quoting:
Lisbon APPLEGATE was born Dec 29, 1837 in St. Clair County, Missouri, the son of Charles Applegate and Melinda Miller. He was five years old during the crossing of 1843. While crossing the plains, the boy, perhaps tired of walking on such a hot day, hid out in the wagon drive by George Beale, from whom the Applegate children had been told to stay away. Beale would later commit murder, but even in 1843, it could be seen that he was an unsavory character. Beale was driving the wagon up a steep hill, applying the whip heavily to the oxen. At last they just stopped and the wagon began rolling down the hill backward. Beale jumped out and the wagon crashed, dumping food everywhere. Lisbon was crying and covered in flour, but no one then realized how seriously he was injured. After his accidents, Lisbon began to periodically have seizures. Then the seizures became a daily occurrence and before long he was confined to a wheel chair. Finally, the boy that had so much promise became totally bed ridden and incapacitated. Despite the loving care that was showered upon him, his ability to speak deteriorated and his attic room became his prison from which there was no escape. On the 1870 census, beside his statistics was the notation "idiotic". He died November 22, 1896 at the home of his deceased parents that he shared with siblings. He was buried in the cemetery at Yoncalla.
Jesse A. Applegate, (1835-1919) was named after his father, Lindsay's brother, Jesse Applegate. Jesse A, when about 8 years old, came to Oregon on the 1843 Wagon Train along with the rest of his family. Years later Jesse A. wrote "Recollection of My Boyhood". Paraphrasing his story, one day he became tired of walking and disobeying his mothers earlier orders, climbed aboard the heavy "meat wagon" driven by George Beale (1824-1865). Jesse A. fell off, forward over the foregate, into the oxen heels and the wagon passed over him. Badly hurt, he was not able to conceal the fact and was sure his mother would find out about the accident and that he had disobeyed her.
Earlier, when Jesse A. was about 4 yr old, that same George Beale "taught a little school house in Missouri" and "struck me with a switch". Years later (1865) Beale was convicted and hanged in Salem, Oregon for the murder of Daniel Delaney. Jesse A would sometimes remark "that the only teacher that ever dared to strike me was hanged". Jesse A's children would say, "Pa, why don't they hang my teacher, she struck me today?"
(*5) Fifty Years In Oregon, Charpter XVI, T. T. Geer, Gov of Oregon 1899-1903
"Perhaps no murder trial which has ever been conducted in Oregon received wider attention from the people than that of Beale and Baker, in Salem, in March, 1865.
Beale was a prominent Mason and had good standing with the business men of Salem. He kept a saloon, to be sure, but his character as a man of integrity had not been questioned and his arrest caused general surprise.
As I have already narrated, I was living with Beale's family at the time he committed this murder, and, as the occurrence broke up his household, my schooldays: were permanently terminated. This circumstance of my association with Beale did not deter me from the desire to see him hanged – must I confess it?
(*6) Rachel Belden Brooks and Family, By Danielle Strom
https://www.willametteheritage.org/rachel-belden-brooks-family/
Born in Tennessee in 1829, Rachel was raised as a slave, working in the fields and home of her masters. Around 1840 she became the property of Daniel Delaney Sr.. Preparing to stake his claim in the West, Delaney (also spelled Delany) sold his plantation and all of his slaves. However, Mrs. Elizabeth Magee Delaney was very ill, practically an invalid, and in need of care. To secure a caretaker for his wife, Delaney bought Rachel Belden for $1000. Mr. and Mrs. Delaney crossed the plains with three of their five sons and Rachel, settling in the Champooick District (later named Marion County) in 1843.
Rachel later bore two sons: Newman, born in 1847 (also referred to as Noah), and Jack (also known as Jackson or Jack De Wolf). It is suspected that Mr. Delaney fathered these two mulatto boys.
Many knew Daniel Delaney Sr. as a wealthy man and the temptation of his supposed fortune became too much for George Beale and George Baker. On January 9, 1865, these men painted their faces black, rode to the Delaney property where, to their knowledge, Mr. Delaney was alone. After a brief struggle, they shot Delaney and left him to die. Jack, a well-known companion and servant of Delaney, saw the whole episode take place.
When authorities later apprehended Beale and Baker, it was the testimony of this young boy that stood strongest against them. Both men were convicted and publicly hung; the first in Marion County to die for a capital offense. Amazingly, the house that was the center of Rachel's everyday life, and the location of the murder of Daniel Delaney still stands today just outside of Turner.
(*7) Necktie Parties A History of Legal Executions in Oregon, 1851-1905
By Diane L. Goeres-Gardner, CAXTON PRESS Caldwell, Idaho, 2005
Ms. Goeres-Gardner has presented an impressively researched and meticulously documented examination of the history of legal executions in Oregon from the beginning of the territorial period until the time when executions were moved to the state penitentiary in Salem.
Chapter Thirteen, State of Oregon v. George Beale, State of Oregon v. George Baker, 1865
(*8) "Discover Lost Cemetery", OPB 2012, "Cemetery Found", KATU 2012
Summary: 2015 Nov 10, Email from Brian W. Johnson, Waldo Family descendant.
"The first document is a copy of the ground penetrating radar survey conducted of the gravesite. Reading thru all the science, it appears to me that they located one intact adult grave (undoubtedly Beale's) and at least two disturbed areas that I believe were originally the location of Anne and Jedediah's graves, which I believe were later dug up and re-buried with their parents in Salem."
(*9) Also, Good source of related information and story: Paul and Tracey Saucy, Jean Hunsaker
https://www.marioncountycemetery.org/cloverdale/records/pf_display_record.php?id=3862
Marion County, Oregon Pioneer Cemeteries, 3. Cloverdale Cemetery, Delaney, George (6 Aug-9Jan 1865)
Hanged 1865 for the Murder of Daniel Delaney
Buried: By Daniel Waldo on the Waldo farm,
"Waldo Hills" East of Salem, Marion Co, OR
Occupation: Saloon Keeper/Owner. downtown Salem, Marion Co, OR
Father: Charles William Beale
b. Feb 17, 1771, Botetourt Co, VA, d. Jul 10, 1842, St Clair Co, MO
---m. Sep 1, 1808---
Mother: Anna "Ann" Kyle Beale
b. abt 1779, Botetourt Co, VA, d. abt 1833 (1840?)
Wife #1: Sarah C. L. m12 Mar 1848, St Clair Co, MO, d17 Aug 1855
Wife #2: Mariah S. Taylor, b. abt 1845, Missouri (15 yrs, 1860 Marion Co Census)
Wife #2 Marriage Witnesses: F. G. Taylor, & T. J. (Thomas Jordan) Beale,
The Story: http://www.oregonpioneers.com/gbhang.htm
The Trial: http://www.oregonpioneers.com/gbtrial.htm
(*1) Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon, Saturday Mar 17, 1945 (Paraphrased)
George Beale and George Baker killed and robbed Daniel Delaney. Their double execution in Salem, May 17, 1865, was a well attended and somewhat gala "hangin".
Daniel Delaney had sold his slaves and was well-to-do and hospitable. George Beale, who had worked for old man Delaney, was often his guest at the farm home about a mile west of Turner. Beale knew a lot about the Delaney household. He knew that the old man had money and had recently sold many cattle for cash. He believed he knew where the wealth was hidden.
In the twilight of a Sunday afternoon, January 9, 1865 two men who dressed in black face to look like negroes drove up to Daniel Delaney's home. One went to the door and asked to be directed to the home of one of the old man's sons. Delaney stepped outside.
At this point the stories differ in details. But a musket spit fire. Old man Delaney died. Then Beale and Baker entered Delaney's house, ransacked it. Admittedly they took $1400 In cash and some believed the loot was much more.
But the crime was neither unseen nor unheard. Living with Delaney was Jack DeWolf, a 12-year-old Negro who heard the commotion and bolted the door, then fled and hid in the woodpile.
At daylight the Negro boy ran to the house of David Delaney and told what he had seen. He had either recognized Beale, or he had heard the old man cry out the name. The younger Delaney notified the authorities and an order for the arrest of Beale and Baker was issued. That order is still on file at the Marion County courthouse.
Within a few days Beale and Baker were under arrest. Materials used for blackening the faces, along with a tell-tale hat-band, were found near the old watering trough on Turner road where the pair had applied their makeup.
Marion county grand jury indicted Beale and Baker for murder in the first degree. Their trial opened March 20, 1865. Most of the evidence, except for the testimony at Jack DeWolf, was circumstantial, but overwhelming. On March 25, the Jury returned a verdict of guilty. Beale denied guilt. Judge Boise told him he was surely lying. Both murderers were confined in a small red Jail at the northwest corner of the courthouse grounds. Wilbur Brothers went about building a double gallows in a grove of small oak trees at the southeast corner of Church and Mill streets. (Today large end mature oak trees grow in this locality.)
From chambers in the old Griswold building Judge Boise sentenced the pair to be hanged On May 17, 1865. It was the first execution in Salem and none thereafter was ever better attended.
(*2) http://www.oregonpioneers.com/1843.htm
"George Beale was a dark-skinned, black-eyed young man, the son of a slave-owner in St. Clair County, Missouri. He had been born in 1824 in Boutetourt County, Virginia, so he was nineteen in 1843. Beale was hired by the Applegates as a teamster to drive a wagon containing mainly flour and bacon. There was something not right about the man even in 1843. The Applegate children were told never to ride in the wagon he drove.
Following the execution, relatives of the man known as (George) BAKER, claimed his body and took it to their home territory, near Molalla, for burial. Disposition of the remains of BEALE was in doubt as none of the cemetery wardens in attendance wanted to accept the responsibility of burying him within the confines of their cemeteries. The venerable DANIEL WALDO, whose wife was distantly related to BEALE, said he would accept the responsibility of burial. He loaded the body of BEALE into his wagon and transported it to his home, his Donation Land Claim being SE of Salem, where a family burial ground had been established. (Howell Prairie Rd SE just south of MacLeary Rd SE
(*3) Ref: St. Clair County Missouri Biographies: Calvin Waldo
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mostclai/Biography/SCCBiographiesW.htm
"By act of organization of St. Clair County (Missouri), February 15, 1841 --- appointed commissioners to superintend and conduct an election by the people to decide on a suitable point for the county seat. The elder Waldos were dissatisfied with the choice of Osceola and together with the Applegates and Beals, sold their land and went to Oregon".
(*4) Book of Remembrance of Marion County Pioneers, 1840-1860, Steeves, Sarah Hunt, The Berncliff Press, Portland, Or., 1927, pp 12-15
http://www.marioncountycemetery.com/cloverdale/records/display_record.php?id=3862
Mr. Delany sold all his possessions in Tennessee he set his face toward Missouri, the great western rendezvous, and early in the spring of 1843 found them on their way to Oregon via the covered wagon with Independence, Missouri, the starting point.
In this party, consisting of over 300 wagons, were the families of Daniel Delany, Sr., John McHaley, Daniel Waldo, Nesmiths, Applegates, Looneys, Gains, Pughs, Fords, Gilliams, Dennys, and Ollingers. There were others also, but at this late date it is hard to get their names. Dr. Marcus Whitman was captain and guide.
(*2) http://www.oregonpioneers.com/1843.htm Quoting:
Lisbon APPLEGATE was born Dec 29, 1837 in St. Clair County, Missouri, the son of Charles Applegate and Melinda Miller. He was five years old during the crossing of 1843. While crossing the plains, the boy, perhaps tired of walking on such a hot day, hid out in the wagon drive by George Beale, from whom the Applegate children had been told to stay away. Beale would later commit murder, but even in 1843, it could be seen that he was an unsavory character. Beale was driving the wagon up a steep hill, applying the whip heavily to the oxen. At last they just stopped and the wagon began rolling down the hill backward. Beale jumped out and the wagon crashed, dumping food everywhere. Lisbon was crying and covered in flour, but no one then realized how seriously he was injured. After his accidents, Lisbon began to periodically have seizures. Then the seizures became a daily occurrence and before long he was confined to a wheel chair. Finally, the boy that had so much promise became totally bed ridden and incapacitated. Despite the loving care that was showered upon him, his ability to speak deteriorated and his attic room became his prison from which there was no escape. On the 1870 census, beside his statistics was the notation "idiotic". He died November 22, 1896 at the home of his deceased parents that he shared with siblings. He was buried in the cemetery at Yoncalla.
Jesse A. Applegate, (1835-1919) was named after his father, Lindsay's brother, Jesse Applegate. Jesse A, when about 8 years old, came to Oregon on the 1843 Wagon Train along with the rest of his family. Years later Jesse A. wrote "Recollection of My Boyhood". Paraphrasing his story, one day he became tired of walking and disobeying his mothers earlier orders, climbed aboard the heavy "meat wagon" driven by George Beale (1824-1865). Jesse A. fell off, forward over the foregate, into the oxen heels and the wagon passed over him. Badly hurt, he was not able to conceal the fact and was sure his mother would find out about the accident and that he had disobeyed her.
Earlier, when Jesse A. was about 4 yr old, that same George Beale "taught a little school house in Missouri" and "struck me with a switch". Years later (1865) Beale was convicted and hanged in Salem, Oregon for the murder of Daniel Delaney. Jesse A would sometimes remark "that the only teacher that ever dared to strike me was hanged". Jesse A's children would say, "Pa, why don't they hang my teacher, she struck me today?"
(*5) Fifty Years In Oregon, Charpter XVI, T. T. Geer, Gov of Oregon 1899-1903
"Perhaps no murder trial which has ever been conducted in Oregon received wider attention from the people than that of Beale and Baker, in Salem, in March, 1865.
Beale was a prominent Mason and had good standing with the business men of Salem. He kept a saloon, to be sure, but his character as a man of integrity had not been questioned and his arrest caused general surprise.
As I have already narrated, I was living with Beale's family at the time he committed this murder, and, as the occurrence broke up his household, my schooldays: were permanently terminated. This circumstance of my association with Beale did not deter me from the desire to see him hanged – must I confess it?
(*6) Rachel Belden Brooks and Family, By Danielle Strom
https://www.willametteheritage.org/rachel-belden-brooks-family/
Born in Tennessee in 1829, Rachel was raised as a slave, working in the fields and home of her masters. Around 1840 she became the property of Daniel Delaney Sr.. Preparing to stake his claim in the West, Delaney (also spelled Delany) sold his plantation and all of his slaves. However, Mrs. Elizabeth Magee Delaney was very ill, practically an invalid, and in need of care. To secure a caretaker for his wife, Delaney bought Rachel Belden for $1000. Mr. and Mrs. Delaney crossed the plains with three of their five sons and Rachel, settling in the Champooick District (later named Marion County) in 1843.
Rachel later bore two sons: Newman, born in 1847 (also referred to as Noah), and Jack (also known as Jackson or Jack De Wolf). It is suspected that Mr. Delaney fathered these two mulatto boys.
Many knew Daniel Delaney Sr. as a wealthy man and the temptation of his supposed fortune became too much for George Beale and George Baker. On January 9, 1865, these men painted their faces black, rode to the Delaney property where, to their knowledge, Mr. Delaney was alone. After a brief struggle, they shot Delaney and left him to die. Jack, a well-known companion and servant of Delaney, saw the whole episode take place.
When authorities later apprehended Beale and Baker, it was the testimony of this young boy that stood strongest against them. Both men were convicted and publicly hung; the first in Marion County to die for a capital offense. Amazingly, the house that was the center of Rachel's everyday life, and the location of the murder of Daniel Delaney still stands today just outside of Turner.
(*7) Necktie Parties A History of Legal Executions in Oregon, 1851-1905
By Diane L. Goeres-Gardner, CAXTON PRESS Caldwell, Idaho, 2005
Ms. Goeres-Gardner has presented an impressively researched and meticulously documented examination of the history of legal executions in Oregon from the beginning of the territorial period until the time when executions were moved to the state penitentiary in Salem.
Chapter Thirteen, State of Oregon v. George Beale, State of Oregon v. George Baker, 1865
(*8) "Discover Lost Cemetery", OPB 2012, "Cemetery Found", KATU 2012
Summary: 2015 Nov 10, Email from Brian W. Johnson, Waldo Family descendant.
"The first document is a copy of the ground penetrating radar survey conducted of the gravesite. Reading thru all the science, it appears to me that they located one intact adult grave (undoubtedly Beale's) and at least two disturbed areas that I believe were originally the location of Anne and Jedediah's graves, which I believe were later dug up and re-buried with their parents in Salem."
(*9) Also, Good source of related information and story: Paul and Tracey Saucy, Jean Hunsaker
https://www.marioncountycemetery.org/cloverdale/records/pf_display_record.php?id=3862
Marion County, Oregon Pioneer Cemeteries, 3. Cloverdale Cemetery, Delaney, George (6 Aug-9Jan 1865)
Arrived Oregon: 1st 1843, along with Jesse & Lindsay Applegate
Hanged 1865 for the Murder of Daniel Delaney
Buried: By Daniel Waldo on the Waldo farm,
"Waldo Hills" East of Salem, Marion Co, OR
Occupation: Saloon Keeper/Owner. downtown Salem, Marion Co, OR
Father: Charles William Beale
b. Feb 17, 1771, Botetourt Co, VA, d. Jul 10, 1842, St Clair Co, MO
---m. Sep 1, 1808---
Mother: Anna "Ann" Kyle Beale
b. abt 1779, Botetourt Co, VA, d. abt 1833 (1840?)
Wife #1: Sarah C. L. m12 Mar 1848, St Clair Co, MO, d17 Aug 1855
Wife #2: Mariah S. Taylor, b. abt 1845, Missouri (15 yrs, 1860 Marion Co Census)
Wife #2 Marriage Witnesses: F. G. Taylor, & T. J. (Thomas Jordan) Beale,
The Story: http://www.oregonpioneers.com/gbhang.htm
The Trial: http://www.oregonpioneers.com/gbtrial.htm
(*1) Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon, Saturday Mar 17, 1945 (Paraphrased)
George Beale and George Baker killed and robbed Daniel Delaney. Their double execution in Salem, May 17, 1865, was a well attended and somewhat gala "hangin".
Daniel Delaney had sold his slaves and was well-to-do and hospitable. George Beale, who had worked for old man Delaney, was often his guest at the farm home about a mile west of Turner. Beale knew a lot about the Delaney household. He knew that the old man had money and had recently sold many cattle for cash. He believed he knew where the wealth was hidden.
In the twilight of a Sunday afternoon, January 9, 1865 two men who dressed in black face to look like negroes drove up to Daniel Delaney's home. One went to the door and asked to be directed to the home of one of the old man's sons. Delaney stepped outside.
At this point the stories differ in details. But a musket spit fire. Old man Delaney died. Then Beale and Baker entered Delaney's house, ransacked it. Admittedly they took $1400 In cash and some believed the loot was much more.
But the crime was neither unseen nor unheard. Living with Delaney was Jack DeWolf, a 12-year-old Negro who heard the commotion and bolted the door, then fled and hid in the woodpile.
At daylight the Negro boy ran to the house of David Delaney and told what he had seen. He had either recognized Beale, or he had heard the old man cry out the name. The younger Delaney notified the authorities and an order for the arrest of Beale and Baker was issued. That order is still on file at the Marion County courthouse.
Within a few days Beale and Baker were under arrest. Materials used for blackening the faces, along with a tell-tale hat-band, were found near the old watering trough on Turner road where the pair had applied their makeup.
Marion county grand jury indicted Beale and Baker for murder in the first degree. Their trial opened March 20, 1865. Most of the evidence, except for the testimony at Jack DeWolf, was circumstantial, but overwhelming. On March 25, the Jury returned a verdict of guilty. Beale denied guilt. Judge Boise told him he was surely lying. Both murderers were confined in a small red Jail at the northwest corner of the courthouse grounds. Wilbur Brothers went about building a double gallows in a grove of small oak trees at the southeast corner of Church and Mill streets. (Today large end mature oak trees grow in this locality.)
From chambers in the old Griswold building Judge Boise sentenced the pair to be hanged On May 17, 1865. It was the first execution in Salem and none thereafter was ever better attended.
(*2) http://www.oregonpioneers.com/1843.htm
"George Beale was a dark-skinned, black-eyed young man, the son of a slave-owner in St. Clair County, Missouri. He had been born in 1824 in Boutetourt County, Virginia, so he was nineteen in 1843. Beale was hired by the Applegates as a teamster to drive a wagon containing mainly flour and bacon. There was something not right about the man even in 1843. The Applegate children were told never to ride in the wagon he drove.
Following the execution, relatives of the man known as (George) BAKER, claimed his body and took it to their home territory, near Molalla, for burial. Disposition of the remains of BEALE was in doubt as none of the cemetery wardens in attendance wanted to accept the responsibility of burying him within the confines of their cemeteries. The venerable DANIEL WALDO, whose wife was distantly related to BEALE, said he would accept the responsibility of burial. He loaded the body of BEALE into his wagon and transported it to his home, his Donation Land Claim being SE of Salem, where a family burial ground had been established. (Howell Prairie Rd SE just south of MacLeary Rd SE
(*3) Ref: St. Clair County Missouri Biographies: Calvin Waldo
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mostclai/Biography/SCCBiographiesW.htm
"By act of organization of St. Clair County (Missouri), February 15, 1841 --- appointed commissioners to superintend and conduct an election by the people to decide on a suitable point for the county seat. The elder Waldos were dissatisfied with the choice of Osceola and together with the Applegates and Beals, sold their land and went to Oregon".
(*4) Book of Remembrance of Marion County Pioneers, 1840-1860, Steeves, Sarah Hunt, The Berncliff Press, Portland, Or., 1927, pp 12-15
http://www.marioncountycemetery.com/cloverdale/records/display_record.php?id=3862
Mr. Delany sold all his possessions in Tennessee he set his face toward Missouri, the great western rendezvous, and early in the spring of 1843 found them on their way to Oregon via the covered wagon with Independence, Missouri, the starting point.
In this party, consisting of over 300 wagons, were the families of Daniel Delany, Sr., John McHaley, Daniel Waldo, Nesmiths, Applegates, Looneys, Gains, Pughs, Fords, Gilliams, Dennys, and Ollingers. There were others also, but at this late date it is hard to get their names. Dr. Marcus Whitman was captain and guide.
(*2) http://www.oregonpioneers.com/1843.htm Quoting:
Lisbon APPLEGATE was born Dec 29, 1837 in St. Clair County, Missouri, the son of Charles Applegate and Melinda Miller. He was five years old during the crossing of 1843. While crossing the plains, the boy, perhaps tired of walking on such a hot day, hid out in the wagon drive by George Beale, from whom the Applegate children had been told to stay away. Beale would later commit murder, but even in 1843, it could be seen that he was an unsavory character. Beale was driving the wagon up a steep hill, applying the whip heavily to the oxen. At last they just stopped and the wagon began rolling down the hill backward. Beale jumped out and the wagon crashed, dumping food everywhere. Lisbon was crying and covered in flour, but no one then realized how seriously he was injured. After his accidents, Lisbon began to periodically have seizures. Then the seizures became a daily occurrence and before long he was confined to a wheel chair. Finally, the boy that had so much promise became totally bed ridden and incapacitated. Despite the loving care that was showered upon him, his ability to speak deteriorated and his attic room became his prison from which there was no escape. On the 1870 census, beside his statistics was the notation "idiotic". He died November 22, 1896 at the home of his deceased parents that he shared with siblings. He was buried in the cemetery at Yoncalla.
Jesse A. Applegate, (1835-1919) was named after his father, Lindsay's brother, Jesse Applegate. Jesse A, when about 8 years old, came to Oregon on the 1843 Wagon Train along with the rest of his family. Years later Jesse A. wrote "Recollection of My Boyhood". Paraphrasing his story, one day he became tired of walking and disobeying his mothers earlier orders, climbed aboard the heavy "meat wagon" driven by George Beale (1824-1865). Jesse A. fell off, forward over the foregate, into the oxen heels and the wagon passed over him. Badly hurt, he was not able to conceal the fact and was sure his mother would find out about the accident and that he had disobeyed her.
Earlier, when Jesse A. was about 4 yr old, that same George Beale "taught a little school house in Missouri" and "struck me with a switch". Years later (1865) Beale was convicted and hanged in Salem, Oregon for the murder of Daniel Delaney. Jesse A would sometimes remark "that the only teacher that ever dared to strike me was hanged". Jesse A's children would say, "Pa, why don't they hang my teacher, she struck me today?"
(*5) Fifty Years In Oregon, Charpter XVI, T. T. Geer, Gov of Oregon 1899-1903
"Perhaps no murder trial which has ever been conducted in Oregon received wider attention from the people than that of Beale and Baker, in Salem, in March, 1865.
Beale was a prominent Mason and had good standing with the business men of Salem. He kept a saloon, to be sure, but his character as a man of integrity had not been questioned and his arrest caused general surprise.
As I have already narrated, I was living with Beale's family at the time he committed this murder, and, as the occurrence broke up his household, my schooldays: were permanently terminated. This circumstance of my association with Beale did not deter me from the desire to see him hanged – must I confess it?
(*6) Rachel Belden Brooks and Family, By Danielle Strom
https://www.willametteheritage.org/rachel-belden-brooks-family/
Born in Tennessee in 1829, Rachel was raised as a slave, working in the fields and home of her masters. Around 1840 she became the property of Daniel Delaney Sr.. Preparing to stake his claim in the West, Delaney (also spelled Delany) sold his plantation and all of his slaves. However, Mrs. Elizabeth Magee Delaney was very ill, practically an invalid, and in need of care. To secure a caretaker for his wife, Delaney bought Rachel Belden for $1000. Mr. and Mrs. Delaney crossed the plains with three of their five sons and Rachel, settling in the Champooick District (later named Marion County) in 1843.
Rachel later bore two sons: Newman, born in 1847 (also referred to as Noah), and Jack (also known as Jackson or Jack De Wolf). It is suspected that Mr. Delaney fathered these two mulatto boys.
Many knew Daniel Delaney Sr. as a wealthy man and the temptation of his supposed fortune became too much for George Beale and George Baker. On January 9, 1865, these men painted their faces black, rode to the Delaney property where, to their knowledge, Mr. Delaney was alone. After a brief struggle, they shot Delaney and left him to die. Jack, a well-known companion and servant of Delaney, saw the whole episode take place.
When authorities later apprehended Beale and Baker, it was the testimony of this young boy that stood strongest against them. Both men were convicted and publicly hung; the first in Marion County to die for a capital offense. Amazingly, the house that was the center of Rachel's everyday life, and the location of the murder of Daniel Delaney still stands today just outside of Turner.
(*7) Necktie Parties A History of Legal Executions in Oregon, 1851-1905
By Diane L. Goeres-Gardner, CAXTON PRESS Caldwell, Idaho, 2005
Ms. Goeres-Gardner has presented an impressively researched and meticulously documented examination of the history of legal executions in Oregon from the beginning of the territorial period until the time when executions were moved to the state penitentiary in Salem.
Chapter Thirteen, State of Oregon v. George Beale, State of Oregon v. George Baker, 1865
(*8) "Discover Lost Cemetery", OPB 2012, "Cemetery Found", KATU 2012
Summary: 2015 Nov 10, Email from Brian W. Johnson, Waldo Family descendant.
"The first document is a copy of the ground penetrating radar survey conducted of the gravesite. Reading thru all the science, it appears to me that they located one intact adult grave (undoubtedly Beale's) and at least two disturbed areas that I believe were originally the location of Anne and Jedediah's graves, which I believe were later dug up and re-buried with their parents in Salem."
(*9) Also, Good source of related information and story: Paul and Tracey Saucy, Jean Hunsaker
https://www.marioncountycemetery.org/cloverdale/records/pf_display_record.php?id=3862
Marion County, Oregon Pioneer Cemeteries, 3. Cloverdale Cemetery, Delaney, George (6 Aug-9Jan 1865)
Hanged 1865 for the Murder of Daniel Delaney
Buried: By Daniel Waldo on the Waldo farm,
"Waldo Hills" East of Salem, Marion Co, OR
Occupation: Saloon Keeper/Owner. downtown Salem, Marion Co, OR
Father: Charles William Beale
b. Feb 17, 1771, Botetourt Co, VA, d. Jul 10, 1842, St Clair Co, MO
---m. Sep 1, 1808---
Mother: Anna "Ann" Kyle Beale
b. abt 1779, Botetourt Co, VA, d. abt 1833 (1840?)
Wife #1: Sarah C. L. m12 Mar 1848, St Clair Co, MO, d17 Aug 1855
Wife #2: Mariah S. Taylor, b. abt 1845, Missouri (15 yrs, 1860 Marion Co Census)
Wife #2 Marriage Witnesses: F. G. Taylor, & T. J. (Thomas Jordan) Beale,
The Story: http://www.oregonpioneers.com/gbhang.htm
The Trial: http://www.oregonpioneers.com/gbtrial.htm
(*1) Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon, Saturday Mar 17, 1945 (Paraphrased)
George Beale and George Baker killed and robbed Daniel Delaney. Their double execution in Salem, May 17, 1865, was a well attended and somewhat gala "hangin".
Daniel Delaney had sold his slaves and was well-to-do and hospitable. George Beale, who had worked for old man Delaney, was often his guest at the farm home about a mile west of Turner. Beale knew a lot about the Delaney household. He knew that the old man had money and had recently sold many cattle for cash. He believed he knew where the wealth was hidden.
In the twilight of a Sunday afternoon, January 9, 1865 two men who dressed in black face to look like negroes drove up to Daniel Delaney's home. One went to the door and asked to be directed to the home of one of the old man's sons. Delaney stepped outside.
At this point the stories differ in details. But a musket spit fire. Old man Delaney died. Then Beale and Baker entered Delaney's house, ransacked it. Admittedly they took $1400 In cash and some believed the loot was much more.
But the crime was neither unseen nor unheard. Living with Delaney was Jack DeWolf, a 12-year-old Negro who heard the commotion and bolted the door, then fled and hid in the woodpile.
At daylight the Negro boy ran to the house of David Delaney and told what he had seen. He had either recognized Beale, or he had heard the old man cry out the name. The younger Delaney notified the authorities and an order for the arrest of Beale and Baker was issued. That order is still on file at the Marion County courthouse.
Within a few days Beale and Baker were under arrest. Materials used for blackening the faces, along with a tell-tale hat-band, were found near the old watering trough on Turner road where the pair had applied their makeup.
Marion county grand jury indicted Beale and Baker for murder in the first degree. Their trial opened March 20, 1865. Most of the evidence, except for the testimony at Jack DeWolf, was circumstantial, but overwhelming. On March 25, the Jury returned a verdict of guilty. Beale denied guilt. Judge Boise told him he was surely lying. Both murderers were confined in a small red Jail at the northwest corner of the courthouse grounds. Wilbur Brothers went about building a double gallows in a grove of small oak trees at the southeast corner of Church and Mill streets. (Today large end mature oak trees grow in this locality.)
From chambers in the old Griswold building Judge Boise sentenced the pair to be hanged On May 17, 1865. It was the first execution in Salem and none thereafter was ever better attended.
(*2) http://www.oregonpioneers.com/1843.htm
"George Beale was a dark-skinned, black-eyed young man, the son of a slave-owner in St. Clair County, Missouri. He had been born in 1824 in Boutetourt County, Virginia, so he was nineteen in 1843. Beale was hired by the Applegates as a teamster to drive a wagon containing mainly flour and bacon. There was something not right about the man even in 1843. The Applegate children were told never to ride in the wagon he drove.
Following the execution, relatives of the man known as (George) BAKER, claimed his body and took it to their home territory, near Molalla, for burial. Disposition of the remains of BEALE was in doubt as none of the cemetery wardens in attendance wanted to accept the responsibility of burying him within the confines of their cemeteries. The venerable DANIEL WALDO, whose wife was distantly related to BEALE, said he would accept the responsibility of burial. He loaded the body of BEALE into his wagon and transported it to his home, his Donation Land Claim being SE of Salem, where a family burial ground had been established. (Howell Prairie Rd SE just south of MacLeary Rd SE
(*3) Ref: St. Clair County Missouri Biographies: Calvin Waldo
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mostclai/Biography/SCCBiographiesW.htm
"By act of organization of St. Clair County (Missouri), February 15, 1841 --- appointed commissioners to superintend and conduct an election by the people to decide on a suitable point for the county seat. The elder Waldos were dissatisfied with the choice of Osceola and together with the Applegates and Beals, sold their land and went to Oregon".
(*4) Book of Remembrance of Marion County Pioneers, 1840-1860, Steeves, Sarah Hunt, The Berncliff Press, Portland, Or., 1927, pp 12-15
http://www.marioncountycemetery.com/cloverdale/records/display_record.php?id=3862
Mr. Delany sold all his possessions in Tennessee he set his face toward Missouri, the great western rendezvous, and early in the spring of 1843 found them on their way to Oregon via the covered wagon with Independence, Missouri, the starting point.
In this party, consisting of over 300 wagons, were the families of Daniel Delany, Sr., John McHaley, Daniel Waldo, Nesmiths, Applegates, Looneys, Gains, Pughs, Fords, Gilliams, Dennys, and Ollingers. There were others also, but at this late date it is hard to get their names. Dr. Marcus Whitman was captain and guide.
(*2) http://www.oregonpioneers.com/1843.htm Quoting:
Lisbon APPLEGATE was born Dec 29, 1837 in St. Clair County, Missouri, the son of Charles Applegate and Melinda Miller. He was five years old during the crossing of 1843. While crossing the plains, the boy, perhaps tired of walking on such a hot day, hid out in the wagon drive by George Beale, from whom the Applegate children had been told to stay away. Beale would later commit murder, but even in 1843, it could be seen that he was an unsavory character. Beale was driving the wagon up a steep hill, applying the whip heavily to the oxen. At last they just stopped and the wagon began rolling down the hill backward. Beale jumped out and the wagon crashed, dumping food everywhere. Lisbon was crying and covered in flour, but no one then realized how seriously he was injured. After his accidents, Lisbon began to periodically have seizures. Then the seizures became a daily occurrence and before long he was confined to a wheel chair. Finally, the boy that had so much promise became totally bed ridden and incapacitated. Despite the loving care that was showered upon him, his ability to speak deteriorated and his attic room became his prison from which there was no escape. On the 1870 census, beside his statistics was the notation "idiotic". He died November 22, 1896 at the home of his deceased parents that he shared with siblings. He was buried in the cemetery at Yoncalla.
Jesse A. Applegate, (1835-1919) was named after his father, Lindsay's brother, Jesse Applegate. Jesse A, when about 8 years old, came to Oregon on the 1843 Wagon Train along with the rest of his family. Years later Jesse A. wrote "Recollection of My Boyhood". Paraphrasing his story, one day he became tired of walking and disobeying his mothers earlier orders, climbed aboard the heavy "meat wagon" driven by George Beale (1824-1865). Jesse A. fell off, forward over the foregate, into the oxen heels and the wagon passed over him. Badly hurt, he was not able to conceal the fact and was sure his mother would find out about the accident and that he had disobeyed her.
Earlier, when Jesse A. was about 4 yr old, that same George Beale "taught a little school house in Missouri" and "struck me with a switch". Years later (1865) Beale was convicted and hanged in Salem, Oregon for the murder of Daniel Delaney. Jesse A would sometimes remark "that the only teacher that ever dared to strike me was hanged". Jesse A's children would say, "Pa, why don't they hang my teacher, she struck me today?"
(*5) Fifty Years In Oregon, Charpter XVI, T. T. Geer, Gov of Oregon 1899-1903
"Perhaps no murder trial which has ever been conducted in Oregon received wider attention from the people than that of Beale and Baker, in Salem, in March, 1865.
Beale was a prominent Mason and had good standing with the business men of Salem. He kept a saloon, to be sure, but his character as a man of integrity had not been questioned and his arrest caused general surprise.
As I have already narrated, I was living with Beale's family at the time he committed this murder, and, as the occurrence broke up his household, my schooldays: were permanently terminated. This circumstance of my association with Beale did not deter me from the desire to see him hanged – must I confess it?
(*6) Rachel Belden Brooks and Family, By Danielle Strom
https://www.willametteheritage.org/rachel-belden-brooks-family/
Born in Tennessee in 1829, Rachel was raised as a slave, working in the fields and home of her masters. Around 1840 she became the property of Daniel Delaney Sr.. Preparing to stake his claim in the West, Delaney (also spelled Delany) sold his plantation and all of his slaves. However, Mrs. Elizabeth Magee Delaney was very ill, practically an invalid, and in need of care. To secure a caretaker for his wife, Delaney bought Rachel Belden for $1000. Mr. and Mrs. Delaney crossed the plains with three of their five sons and Rachel, settling in the Champooick District (later named Marion County) in 1843.
Rachel later bore two sons: Newman, born in 1847 (also referred to as Noah), and Jack (also known as Jackson or Jack De Wolf). It is suspected that Mr. Delaney fathered these two mulatto boys.
Many knew Daniel Delaney Sr. as a wealthy man and the temptation of his supposed fortune became too much for George Beale and George Baker. On January 9, 1865, these men painted their faces black, rode to the Delaney property where, to their knowledge, Mr. Delaney was alone. After a brief struggle, they shot Delaney and left him to die. Jack, a well-known companion and servant of Delaney, saw the whole episode take place.
When authorities later apprehended Beale and Baker, it was the testimony of this young boy that stood strongest against them. Both men were convicted and publicly hung; the first in Marion County to die for a capital offense. Amazingly, the house that was the center of Rachel's everyday life, and the location of the murder of Daniel Delaney still stands today just outside of Turner.
(*7) Necktie Parties A History of Legal Executions in Oregon, 1851-1905
By Diane L. Goeres-Gardner, CAXTON PRESS Caldwell, Idaho, 2005
Ms. Goeres-Gardner has presented an impressively researched and meticulously documented examination of the history of legal executions in Oregon from the beginning of the territorial period until the time when executions were moved to the state penitentiary in Salem.
Chapter Thirteen, State of Oregon v. George Beale, State of Oregon v. George Baker, 1865
(*8) "Discover Lost Cemetery", OPB 2012, "Cemetery Found", KATU 2012
Summary: 2015 Nov 10, Email from Brian W. Johnson, Waldo Family descendant.
"The first document is a copy of the ground penetrating radar survey conducted of the gravesite. Reading thru all the science, it appears to me that they located one intact adult grave (undoubtedly Beale's) and at least two disturbed areas that I believe were originally the location of Anne and Jedediah's graves, which I believe were later dug up and re-buried with their parents in Salem."
(*9) Also, Good source of related information and story: Paul and Tracey Saucy, Jean Hunsaker
https://www.marioncountycemetery.org/cloverdale/records/pf_display_record.php?id=3862
Marion County, Oregon Pioneer Cemeteries, 3. Cloverdale Cemetery, Delaney, George (6 Aug-9Jan 1865)
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