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David W. Beller was the fifth son of
William C. Beller and Martha Lovina Wilburn, born abt. 1845 in Carroll
County, Arkansas. David
was one of fifteen children. His mother had died on 7 December 1849, and
her father died two months later on 26 February 1850 of smallpox, leaving
the youngest of the orphaned children to be cared for by members of the
Beller family. David and his sister, Melissa Ann Beller, became the legal
wards of their older sister Minerva Ann (Beller), and her husband, George
Washington Baker. When Minerva Ann (Beller) Baker and her husband made
plans to move to California, it was decided that the two Beller children
would accompany them. David was part of "The Baker Train" group that
gathered, and made their preparations, in the open area of
Milum Spring
(Caravan Spring) near his late father's store called "Beller's Stand".
David W. Beller was 12 years old when he died in the Mountain Meadows
Massacre on 11 September 1857. His sisters,
Melissa Ann Beller, and Minerva Ann (Beller) Baker,
also died in the Massacre, along with his brother-in-law,
George Washington Baker, and his niece
Mary Lovina Baker. Two of his nieces,
Martha Elizabeth Baker, and Sarah Frances Baker, and his nephew William Twitty Baker, survived
the Massacre.
© 2008 A.C. Wallner for the
Mountain Meadows Association. All rights reserved
Inscription:
IN MEMORIAM
IN THE VALLEY
BELOW BETWEEN SEPTEMBER 7 AND 11, 1857, A COMPANY OF MORE THAN 120
ARKANSAS EMIGRANTS LED BY CAPT. JOHN T. BAKER AND CAPT. ALEXANDER
FANCHER WAS ATTACKED WHILE EN ROUTE TO CALIFORNIA. THIS EVENT IS
KNOWN IN HISTORY AS THE MOUNTAIN MEADOWS MASSACRE
DAVID W. BELLER, 12
*Please note that the names of the victims of the 1857 Mountain Meadows
Massacre that appear here are those who we have personally researched and
verified as actual victims. In some cases this list will differ from the
names that were inscribed on the 1990 Monument on Dan Sill Hill.
 Leave
virtual flowers - MMA FIND A GRAVE
MEMORIAL
FOR
DAVID W. BELLER
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