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Generation: 1
| 1. | John Jacob Beck was born about 1784 (son of Major John George Beck, Sr. and Elizabeth Claver). Notes:
John was a very good bear hunters and was fearless. One story is written that other men were frightened to go into a cave just a mile up the creek from the family mill, but John and his brother, George, entered, shot once and drug out a 450 pound bear. The meat and grease lasted for a month or two. [Beck & Tittle Footprints; Alexander D. Beck biography; 01.October.1998].
John married Anna Rogers. [Group Sheet]
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Generation: 2
| 2. | Major John George Beck, Sr. was born between 1762 and 1764 in Berks County, Pennsylvania (son of Johann Philip Beck and Anna Catherine Crouse). Notes:
[From "Beck and Tittle Footprints" by Nell Truitt prepared 01.October.1998]:
George Beck, Sr. brought his family from North Carolina in 1807, staying a short time in Bear Grass, which is now Louisville, Kentucky. George and his two older sons, John, age 23 and George, Jr. age 16, while out scouting in December 1807, located organ Spring along Mill creek and built a grist-mill ther. The spring was dammed and provided a gallon of water per minute at 60 degree temperature. The first grist mill was a log structure fifteen feet square.
Within a short time, Beck's Hill, as the settlement was known, became a social center as families from a thirty mile radius brought their corn to Beck's Mill to be ground into cornmeal. Sometimes it took two or three days as they waited their turns, so games were played outdoors with the young Beck boys. In the summer of 1825, a frame building, twenty by thirty feet square replaced the first mill structure. Two years later, a lean-to was bult and a carding machine was put in operation. A commodious, two-story frame structure for the mill was built in 1864, and the carding machinery was placed in the second story. The structure still stands in 1998.
John married Elizabeth Claver. [Group Sheet]
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| 3. | Elizabeth Claver Notes:
It is said the Elizabeth could cut more wheat than any may she ever raced against. [Beck & Tittle Footprints; Alexander D. Beck biography; 01.October.1998].
Notes:
George and Elizabeth left Rowan (now Davidson) County, North Carolina in 1807 and settled in Indiana Territory and with their older sons, John Jacob, George Jr., and Andrew M., they build Becks Mill south of Salem, Washington County, Indiana. The old mill, rebuilt in 1864, still stands at the mill stream near Becks Hill, and was the first grist mill in the 30-50 mile area. This is still printed on some maps and atlases. -JNT email 04.October.1998 at 14:48.
Many stories of the Beck's are written in the Washington County, Indiana history. [Beck & Tittle Footprints; John Charles Beck biography prepared 19981001].
Children:
- 1. John Jacob Beck was born about 1784.
- George Beck, Jr. was born about 1791.
- Andrew M. Beck was born on 05 Jul 1795 in Rowan County, North Carolina U.S.A.; died on 19 Aug 1875; was buried in College Mound Cemetery, Kaufman County, Texas U.S.A..
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Generation: 3
| 4. | Johann Philip Beck was born in 1741 in Germany (son of Davault Beck). Notes:
Johann came from Germany in 1750 aboard the ship Phoenix with his parents. The ship arrived in Philadelphia. Moved with his father, wife, and son to Rowan (now Davidson) County between 1766 and 1768. [JNT email; 02.November.1998]
Johann married Anna Catherine Crouse. [Group Sheet]
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Generation: 4
| 8. | Davault Beck Notes:
Brought his young family from Germany in 1750 aboard the ship Phoenix, arriving in Philadelphia. The family lived in Berks County, Pennsylvania. They moved to Rowan (now Davidson) County, North Carolina where Davault paid taxes in 1768. [JNT email; 02.November.1998]
Davault Beck witnessed the baptism of his grandson John Philip Beck, Jr. on 02.February.1766 at Zion's Lutheran Church in what is now Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. [JNT email; 02.November.1998]
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