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462	HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY.
he conducted as a hotel during the remainder of his life. He was an independent Democrat, and a member of the German Lutheran church. He was a member of Lodge No. 785, I. 0. 0. F., also Brotherhood Lodge.     Mr. Beuler married, in Johnstown, in 1854, Dorothy Will, and their children were: John, died at the age of five years. Frederick, died while in school in Philadelphia, at the age of twenty-two. Elizabeth, died young. Charles, also died young. Katy, wife of Obadiah Custer, of Johnstown. Maggie, wife of Jacob Huebner, of Johnstown. John (2), born February 15, 1868, at home. William, born October 25, 1871, teamster. Frank, born April 30, 1879, at home. The death of Mr. Beuler, which occurred October 30, 1891, deprived his family of an excellent husband and father and removed from Johnstown one of its most genial citizens, whose many estimable qualities had won for him a host of friends. He is buried in Sandy Vale cemetery.     Mrs. Beuler was born in 1834, in Hesse-Darmstadt, Germane, and in 1851 came to the United States, making the voyage alone, on a sailing vessel--the "Fairkee Marie," which consumed three months in making the voyage and suffered shipwreck. Mrs. Beuler landed in New York, and the same year went to Johnstown. Her father died in Germany, and her mother subsequently joined her at Johnstown, where she lost her life in the flood. Mrs. Beuler's brother Caspar perished at the same time.     JOHN W. HALL, former postmaster of the borough of Cresson, Pennsylvania, was born February 19, 1856, the son of Ezekiel and Amanda (Spade) Hall.     Concerning the father, it may be said that he was born in Chambersberg, Franklin county, Pennsylvania, in 1824. He was a stone mason and contractor for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company from 1854 to 1861; in 1863 he enlisted from Philadelphia in the One Hundred and Eight-third Pennsylvania Regiment as a private soldier, serving until the close of the war. He was in the battles of Cold Harbor, Greenstown, the Wilderness, Malvern Hill, Spottsylvania Court House, Reams Station and Fair Oaks. After the last named battle he was detailed to do hospital duty and was regimental cook. On his return to Philadelphia he engaged with Mr. Willey of Lancaster, a railroad contractor, and was with him eighteen years, after which time he did contract work on his own account, up to his death in 1888, at Philadelphia. He was a Mason and an Odd Fellow; in church connection a Presbyterian, and in politics a Republican. He married Amanda Spade, by whom the subject was the only child.     The subject's grandfather was David Hall, who lived in Mechanicsburg, Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, to which place he came from Paterson, New Jersey. He was a school teacher and a stone mason, following the former in winter and the latter in the summer season. He married Sarah Miller, by whom were born four sons and five daughters. The following relates to the whereabouts of some of this family: David was killed in the Mexican war; George died in Mechanicsburg; John served in the Civil war, and after it closed he entered the regular army and remained twenty years as a non-commissioned officer and drew his regular pay during his life.     John W. Hall (subject) was by trade a stone mason, but had to abandon it on account of measles in 1889. He was employed in the pension department at Washington, D. C., under the Interior Department, until 1893. In August, 1897, he was appointed postmaster at

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