ASHTABULA COUNTY OHIO 
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Transcribed by Cherre Loftus Flynn.

According to 
               THE HISTORY OF ASHTABULA COUNTY, OHIO 
            WITH ILLUSTRATIONS AND BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 
              OF ITS PIONEERS AND MOST PROMINENT MEN  
              Published in Philadelphia by Williams Brothers in 1878

 ABILENO E. BEALS.  " In the year 1818, Edson Beals, grandfather of the subject
 of this sketch, who was a Universalist minister, and Jane Beals, his wife, removed
 from Burlington, Orange County, New York, to Ohio, and made settlement in the
 township of Pierpont Township, Ashtabula County.  Remained there until 1828,
 when they removed to Cherry Valley.  The place of their location was in the east
 part of the township, on the Creek Road, purchasing what was known as the
 Hubbard Farm.  Here the Rev. Mr. Beal lived until his decease, in 1851.  The
 mother is still living at the advanced age of ninety-two years, the last twenty of
 which she has been confined almost constantly to her bed.  Ethener Beals, father
 of Abileno E., was born in Burlington, New York, February 13, 1816.  His wife,
 Lucretia Low, was born December 28, 1815; lived in Pennsylvania during her
 youth.  They were married in 1838, and lived pleasantly together until his death,
 July, 1872.  This worthy couple were among the hard-working settlers of the
 township, always striving to do that which was right.
 A.E. Beals was born in Cherry Valley, September 15, 1848; lived at home until
 February 24, 1870, when he married Miss Elrena J., daughter of Charles and Sally
 Skeels Spellman, of Wayne Township, Ashtabula County, and immediately began
 housekeeping on a farm purchased for him by his father, some two miles south of
 the old homestead, where he yet resides.  They have one child, Frank, born
 December 1, 1876.  The other children of Ethener and Lucretia Beals are Josiah,
 born 1839, died at Grand River Institute, Austinburg, 1861, and Ensign, born
 February 8, 1842, married Maggie Sell; resides on the old farm.   This family are
 Republican in politics."