Major John George Beck, Sr.

1764 -

• Name	John George Beck  [1]
  Title	Major
  Suffix	Sr.
  Born	Between 1762 and 1764	Berks County, Pennsylvania   [2]
  Gender	Male
  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.
  Person ID	I2546	Devin Timber
  Last Modified	25 Mar 2010

  
  

  Father	Johann Philip Beck,   b. 1741, Germany
  Mother	Anna Catherine Crouse
  Family ID	F1202	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth Claver
  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,   b. Abt 1784   2. George Beck, Jr.,   b. Abt 1791 + 3. Andrew M. Beck,   b. 05 Jul 1795, Rowan County, North Carolina U.S.A. ,   d. 19 Aug 1875  (Age 80 years)
  Last Modified	25 Mar 2010
  Family ID	F0945	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Sources

  [S04053] Truitt, Joyce Nell DC, (Descendant Chart). [S04067] Truitt, Joyce Nell 19981006.