Retirement
In his retirement, Beale lived at Decatur House, with yearly visits to Tejon Ranch and more frequent visits to his horse farm at Ash Hill in Hyattsville, northeast of Washington, D.C. At Ash Hill he entertained friends such as Grant, who kept two Arabian horses stabled there, President Grover Cleveland and Buffalo Bill Cody. Ash Hill was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.
Beale died at Decatur House in 1893. His will was witnessed by Ulysses S. Grant and General William Tecumseh Sherman.
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