Stowe in Europe. Personal life In 1840, Beecher married Sarah Leland Coffin (1815-1897), a daughter of Nathaniel Coffin and Mary King ( Porter) Coffin. Her maternal grandfather was William King, the first governor of Maine and a half-brother of U.S. Senator and Minister to the United Kingdom Rufus King. Together, they had six children, including: Frederick Henry Beecher (1841–1868), died at the Battle of Beecher Island during the Comanche War. The island was posthumously named after him. Charles McCulloch Beecher (1843–1906), who married Anna Melinda Clary Johnson (1849–1911), the aunt of Robert Livingston Johnson. Helen Louisa Beecher (1847–1901) Mary Isabella Beecher (1849–1928), who married George Warren Noyes (1842–1927). Esther "Essie" Lyman Beecher (1852–1867), who died young. Edith Harriet Beecher (1854–1867), who died young. Beecher died in Georgetown, Massachusetts on April 21, 1900. Published works Beecher’s major publications include: The Incarnation, or, Pictures of the Virgin and her Son (1849) The Duty of Disobedience to Wicked Laws (1851) David and his Throne (1855) Pen Pictures of the Bible (1855) The Life of David King of Israel (1861) Autobiography, Correspondence, etc. of Lyman Beecher (1863) Redeemer and Redeemed (1864) Spiritual Manifestations (1879) The Eden Tableau, or, Object Bible-Teaching (1880) Patmos; or, the Unveiling (1896) Notes References The Duty of Disobedience to Wicked Laws. A Sermon on the Fugitive Slave Law Biography at the Cyber Hymnal 1815 births 1900 deaths 19th-century American clergy 19th-century American male musicians 19th-century American male writers 19th-century American politicians 19th-century Congregationalist ministers American abolitionists American composers American Congregationalist ministers American male composers American people of Welsh descent American Presbyterian ministers American Protestant hymnwriters American religious writers Beecher family Bowdoin College alumni Calvinist and Reformed hymnwriters Congregationalist abolitionists Florida Commissioners of Education Lane Theological Seminary alumni People from Litchfield, Connecticut People from Georgetown, Massachusetts Presbyterian abolitionists Songwriters from Connecticut