Mrs. Emily A. Beach.

Emily A. Beach died at Lawrence, Kansas, at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. D. H. Robinson, at 7 o'clock September 12. Mrs. Beach was born in Bridgewater, Connecticut, October 4,1811, and in 1823 was married to Isaac C. Beach, a graduate of Yale in the class of 1826 and a Presbyterian preacher. Rev. Beach was for three years a home missionary in the state of Illinois, for four years pastor of the Presbyterian church at North Bend, Ohio, of which the family of William Henry Harrison were memembers, and for four years pastor of the Sixth Presbyterian church of Cincinnati, Ohio.

In 1858 by reason of failing health Rev. Beach moved to Kansas with his family and became a resident of Olathe. The first Presbyterian church in Olathe was built by Rev. Beach and he was its first pastor. During the troubled times preceding and during the civil war Rev. Beach and his family found much work to do, great suffering and hardship to relieve. In all that pertained to the work of her husband Mrs. Beach was his ready and encouraging helper. She was a type of the strong earnest Christian New England woman who was such a factor in shaping the destinies of the new state. In all that was for the interests of freedom, temperance and Christianity she was a strong and willing worker. Her thoughtful help and tender sympathy to the distressed and afflicted were a constant source of strength to the workers in the cause of freedom. Many a slave owed his freedom to the ready assistance of the Beach family and many a soldier remembers today her kindly assistance given to him in the hour of suffering and danger. She knew no fear in times when strong men were afraid and considered no compromise with what she considered wrong. The memory of the part she played in the struggle for free Kansas and of her ministrations to the suffering and the wounded was her greatest satisfaction in her old age.

Up to within a short time of her death her mental faculties remained unimpaired and she exhibited an unusual interest in all that was of public concern.

There were born to her eight children, three of whom died in infancy. Her oldest daughter, the wife of Major J. M. Hadley, and her oldest son, Dr. Edward Beach, died in 1875. After the death of her husband in 1873 Mrs. Beach made her home with Mrs. D. H. Robinson of Lawrence, who with two other children, Dr. A. D. Beach and George H.Beach of Olathe, survive her. Funeral services were held at Lawrence Saturday at 1 o'clock and the remains were brought to Olathe and interred in the Olathe cemetery by the  side of her husband.

Olathe Mirror
September 19, 1895
Page 7, col 6