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Arenac County Independent, Feb. 15, 1901
Transcriber, date unknown
Contributor Matt Larive

An Old Settler Gone
    Daniel Beecham one of the oldest and most respected citizens of Sterling passed away on Sunday evening at about 7 o'clock after a long and lingering illness.
    Came to Arenac Co. over 30 yrs. ago and settled on his farm in Sterling, where he has made a comfortable home, and where he died. Seven yrs. ago he buried his first wife, the mother of his children. Four yrs. ago he married his 2nd wife, who, with his five children, four sons and one daughter, survives him.
    He was 74 yrs. old and has been a robust and hard working man up to 2 yrs. ago when he had a stroke of paralysis which left him in a failing and broken down condition, and from which he never recovered.
    The funeral occurred on Wed. at 2 o'clock from Sterling M.E. Church, Rev. Rosey preaching sermon.
    The remains were interred in the family lot in Sterling Cemetery and thus another has gone the way of all the earth; and in his death the wife and family loose a kind and loving husband and father, and the neighborhood an honest and faithful friend.