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Descendants of George(Major) Beck, Sr.

15. ANDREW JACKSON "JACK"⁵ BECK ((CAPT)JOHN JACOB⁴, GEORGE(MAJOR)³, DAVAULT (DAWALT/DABOLT)², UNKNOWN MR.¹) was born 15 May 1831 in Beck's Mill, Howard Twp., Washington Co., IN, and died 07 April 1890 in Bur. College Mound Cem., Kaufman Co., TX. He married (1) PARTHENA A. BECK 14 February 1856 in Kaufman Co., TX, daughter of ANDREW BECK and (#2) BARKER. She was born 08 May 1836 in Beck's Mill, Howard Twp., Washington Co., IN, and died 13 July 1888 in Bur. College Mound Cem., Kaufman Co., TX. He married (2) SARAH (CLAYTON) STEPHENSON 28 January 1890 in Kaufman Co., TX. She was born 15 March 1838 in ? Indiana; moved to Johnson County, Missouri, and died 27 June 1900 in Bur. College Mound Cem., Kaufman Co., TX.

Notes for ANDREW JACKSON "JACK" BECK:
Source: 1850, 1860 Kaufman Co., TX Census; He was a Master Carpenter by trade, as recorded in the census. Also Billy Beck Oakley, Port Arthur, Texas records from the Family Bible - 1998.

In Kaufman County, Texas records, an A.J. Beck served in the Civil War on Sept 11, 1861 at Rockett Springs in Ellis County. Parson's Texas Calvary Brigade was organized and consisted of 12th Regiment, W.H. Parson, Col.; the 19th Regiment, N.M. Burford, Col.; 21st Regiment, G.W. Carter, Col.

Source: Helen Frances Wall Rankin Templin, 2500 Woodlawn, Ennis, TX 972-875-6155 (1998)

Source: "John Jacob Beck" researched & compiled by Kathey Kelley Hunt, 2309 Elizabeth Street, Kaufman, TX 75142 - d.k.hunt@airmail.net. This book was prepared for the exclusive auction of the College Mound Methodist Church, November 1998:
      Andrew J. Beck married his first cousin, Parthena A. Beck, daughter of his father's brother, Andrew M. Beck. She was also born in Washington County, Indiana, and they were married at College Mound in Kaufman County, Texas. Ten months later, in December 1856, their first child, a son, John Henry Beck, was born.
      John Henry Beck married Lula Florida Swindall, who was also born in Kaufman County, and they had eleven children. They lived in Knox County, Texas.
      Andrew and Parthena's second child, also a son, Edward Jackson Beck, was born in 1859 and he became a medical doctor. He married Elizabeth "Lizzie" Harbison (Harbeson) in 1884. They had five children and in the 1890's moved to Wellington, Texas in Collinsworth County, summoned there by an old friend, James Edward Peters, who was the great, great uncle of the preparer of this document. It seems that James Peters moved his family to Wellington but at the time there was a scarcity of doctors in the Texas panhandle and when he learned Edward was looking for a new location to start a practice, he notified Edward of the town's needs and merits. After Edward and Lizzie went to live with one of her children in Weatherford, Parker County, Texas.
      The third child of Andrew, Andrew Jacob Beck, died when only seven years of age and there is another known infant who died in 1868, nine years later, leaving speculation that there may have been other children born to Andrew and Parthena that nothing is known about. There are several unnamed infants buried at College Mound Cemetery within the Beck plots, that could have been theirs. Another child, Mary, was born to them in 1870 and she died at age six, and another son, Samuel, was born in 1874. Nothing is known of him.
      Andrew and Parthena adopted a girl named Anna Rebecca, who was born in 1880. She married and lived in the Kaufman area the rest of her life. She had a daughter named Eunice.
      Andrew served in the Confederacy, in the 12th Texas Cavalry, Company G, with many of his family members. He enlisted in Jun 1861 at Oak Grove and was discharged in 1865. He saw battle at many locations in Louisiana and was with two of his cousins, Edward and Perry Gardner, when they died in battle.
      Parthena died in 1888 and in January of 1890 Andrew married Sarah Stephenson, a widow. Their married life together was brief, as Andrew died the first week of April that same year. Sarah died in 1900 and was buried near Andrew at College mound Cemetery.
      Andrew received Mercer's Colony land in Henderson and Kaufman Counties, signing his certificates in January 1845 and December 1850. He also acquired several hundred more acres of land around the College Mound area during his lifetime. He owned the bulk of the land which was known as his father's College Mound Tract, which is the land he lived on. He did not live long enough to see the final settlement of his father's estate.
      He was a farmer and raised livestock. He attended College Mound Methodist Church.

1860 Kaufman County Census:
BECK, A.J., age 28, M, Farmer, 330/1811, born IN - 1832
Parthenea A., age 24, F, born IN - 1836
John P. A., age 3, M., born TX - 1857
Andrew J., age 1, M, born TX - 1859

Subj:      Names
Date:      9/6/1999 6:57:04 PM Eastern Daylight Time
From:      d.k.hunt@airmail.net (Kathey Kelley Hunt)
To:      texas1933@aol.com (Nell Beck Truitt)

Nell- these are from this site:
http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/lobby/cif/jrcounty.htm

Persons who received assistance during Civil War as Indigent families-
Kaufman | Beck, A J
Kaufman | Beck, Jacob
Kaufman | Beck, John
Kaufman | Beck, W H
Kaufman | Zink, E

Notes for PARTHENA A. BECK:
Source: 1850 Jackson Twp., Washington Co., IN Census
Source: Marriage from a descendant, Billy Beck Oakley records from the Family Bible - 1998. He resides in Arthur City, TX.

Parthena Beck was born to Andrew M. Beck and Rebecca Barker. They moved from Washington Co., IN to College Mound, Kaufman Co., TX in 1854 where acres of land could be had in the new Texas for a little money.

Her parents had sold property near Beck's Mill, south of Salem, IN where they had inherited it from Andrew's father, George Beck, Sr. This family was the earliest settlers in that Indiana Territory, arriving in late 1807. The family built the first gristmill, called Beck's Mill, where families for 40 miles around came to have their corn ground. Please review my compilation of writings of the George Beck family in my book. Histories of Washington Co., IN are rich with stories, also. The sons of the family, John J., George, Jr. and Andrew M. were renowned hunters of wild game.

Parthena was the oldest daughter of Andrew M. and Rebecca Barker Beck. He had other children by his first wife, Susan Nowlin Devin Beck. She died in childbirth on 5 December 1832 and was buried in Washington Co., IN.

Many ancestors are buried in Beck's Cemetery, high on the hill, at Beck's Mill, Washington Co., IN.

Parents, uncles and aunts and cousins of Parthena and Andrew Jackson Beck are buried at College Mound Cemetery, Kaufman Co., TX, just east of Terrell, TX off I-20.

Source: A descendant, Helen Frances Wall Rankin Templin, 2500 Woodlawn, Ennis, TX 972-875-6155 (1998)

Source: "John Jacob Beck" researched & compiled by Kathey Kelley Hunt, 2309 Elizabeth Street, Kaufman, TX 75142 - d.k.hunt@airmail.net. This book was prepared for the exclusive auction of the College Mound Methodist Church, November 1998:
      See notes under Andrew Jackson Beck, her husband. Parthena died in 1888.

Children of ANDREW BECK and PARTHENA BECK are:

57.	i.	John Henry⁶ Beck, b. 17 December 1856, College Mound, Kaufman Co., TX; d. 02 January 1936, Vera, Knox Co., TX.
	ii.	Andrew Jacob Beck, b. 1859, Kaufman Co., TX; d. 1866, Age 7; Bur. College Mound Cem., Kaufman Co., TX.
58.	iii.	(Dr.)Edward Jackson Beck, b. 12 December 1864, Elmo, Kaufman Co., TX; d. 12 July 1927, Wellington, Collingsworth Co., TX; Bur. Quail, TX.
	iv.	Infant Beck, b. 1868, Kaufman Co., TX; d. 1868, College Mound, Kaufman Co., TX.
	v.	Mary L. Beck, b. 1870, Kaufman Co., TX; d. 1876, College Mound, Kaufman Co., TX.
	vi.	Charles Beck, b. 19 November 1870, Kaufman Co., TX; d. 16 August 1872, Bur. College Mound Cem., Kaufman Co., TX.
59.	vii.	Anna Rebecca (Adopted) Beck, b. 14 March 1880, TX; d. 02 June 1944, Bur. College Mound Cem, Kaufman Co., TX; Adopted child.

16. THOMAS JEFFERSON "JEFF"⁵ BECK ((CAPT)JOHN JACOB⁴, GEORGE(MAJOR)³, DAVAULT (DAWALT/DABOLT)², UNKNOWN MR.¹) was born 1834 in Beck's Mill, Howard Twp., Washington Co., IN, and died Unknown in Unknown. He married MARGARET ELIZABETH "MAGGIE" LIDE 18 December 1884 in Kaufman Co., TX. She was born Unknown in Unknown, and died Unknown in Unknown.

Notes for THOMAS JEFFERSON "JEFF" BECK:
Source: "John Jacob Beck" researched & compiled by Kathey Kelley Hunt, 2309 Elizabeth Street, Kaufman, TX 75142 - d.k.hunt@airmail.net. This book was prepared for the exclusive auction of the College Mound Methodist Church, November 1998:
      Thomas Jefferson Beck was the third son born to John and Annie Beck. He married Margaret Elizabeth "Maggie' Lide in Kaufman County, Texas and they had a son, George Thomas Beck, in 1886.
      Nothing is known about Jeff, what he did for a living, where he lived, etc. He was alive in 1869, as his name was included on the list of Heirs at Law included in his father's estate probate papers. He has not been located on any 1860, 1870, or 1880 Texas Census.


Child of THOMAS BECK and MARGARET LIDE is:

George Thomas⁶ Beck, b. 27 November 1886, Kaufman Co., TX.

17. HARRIETT ANNE⁵ BECK ((CAPT)JOHN JACOB⁴, GEORGE(MAJOR)³, DAVAULT (DAWALT/DABOLT)², UNKNOWN MR.¹) was born 17 April 1836 in Beck's Mill, Howard Twp., Washington Co., IN, and died 18 August 1895 in Lone Oak Cem, Kaufman Co., TX. She married NEEDHAM "NED" HARRISON PARRISH 22 April 1858 in College Mound, Kaufman Co., TX, son of THOMAS PARRISH and ELIZABETH HERRING. He was born 18 March 1832 in Christian Co., KY, and died 06 September 1885 in Bur. Lone Oak Cem, Kaufman Co., TX.

Notes for HARRIETT ANNE BECK:
Source: "John Jacob Beck" researched & compiled by Kathey Kelley Hunt, 2309 Elizabeth Street, Kaufman, TX 75142 - d.k.hunt@airmail.net. This book was prepared for the exclusive auction of the College Mound Methodist Church, November 1998:
      Harried and her husband, Needham Harrison Parrish, did not live in the College Mound area - they lived in Hoffer, better known as the old Becker Community. They attended the Becker/Lone Oak Methodist Church, where Needham - or Ned, as he was called - served as an Elder and Sunday School teacher most of his life. They were neighbors to Captain John Becker, whom the area was named after.
      Ned came to Texas from Missouri in 1853 and bought land in the Lone Oak community. Harriett married him only three months after her father's death in 1858, the last of the Beck children to marry in Kaufman County. Together they had ten children, all of whom were born in the same house on their farm. All their children were educated at Becker School.
      Most of their children married into other families of the Hoffer/Becker Community. Their only daughter, Mary Amelia Emeline, married Seaton Summerfield "Sam" Cummings, whose father owned a store there. Their eldest son, James Albert, married Alice Cotton, daughter of some of the earliest settlers of that community who donated the land for the Lone Oak Cemetery where most of the Parrish family is buried.
      William Edward Parrish married Edna Halbert, whose family moved to Becker around 1883, and the two of them remained on the Parrish family farm until their deaths. William was born and died in the same house.
      John Thomas Parrish married Hattie Cox of Henderson County, Texas, and they lived in that county the remainder of their lives on land that was given to them by her father. He was a member of the Knights of Pythias and a Mason.
      Jesse Eugene Parrish married Lena Duner of the Jiba Community and for a short time after their marriage they lived on the Parrish farm with his parents, then bought land and moved to Clifton in Bosque County around 1890, where three of their children were born. They returned to Kaufman County, To Terrell, around 1900, where their fourth child was born. Jesse was a carpenter and ginner by trade but after returning to Kaufman County he worked for the Texas-Midland Railroad, under Alvin P. Clark, who was the manager of the railroad at that time. Jesse and his family attended church at the First Methodist Church in Terrell and he was a life-long Odd Fellow.
      Two Parrish sons died early in their lives - Thomas Jefferson died in 1863 at age 1 and the youngest child born to Ned and Harriett, a son named Needham Harrison Parrish, Jr. was always a strange child who was temperamental and, at times, violent, and when he was only six years old he was accused of contributing to the death of his baby brother, George, which may be why not many family histories include information about either son. It is known that after Harriett Parrish's death, her oldest son, Albert, was designated as Administrator of her estate and in doing so inherited the burdensome chore as legal guardian to Needham, Jr. as well. Although Needham, Jr. was 21 years of age at the time, he possessed the mind of a child and was not responsible for his actions. After his mother's death, he grew increasingly violent and difficult to live with, so Albert had him deemed mentally incompetent by the Kaufman Courts in 1897 and had him committed to the North Texas Insane Asylum, where he remained the rest of this life, dying in 1917.
      During the Civil War, Needham Parrish, Sr. served in the Confederate States Army. He enlisted 11 September 1861 with Co. G, 12th Texas Cavalry, known as Parson's Brigade, serving with Kaufman notable Robert A. Terrell, his brother-in-law, Andrew J. Beck and several of his nephews. He was engaged in battles in Arkansas, Louisiana and Tennessee, most in the vicinity of the Mississippi River. After the war, Ned was discharged in Tyler, Texas in 1865. Family lore says he walked back to his farm from there.
      Ned Parrish was a 32nd Degree Mason in the Bloomfield Lodge of Kaufman and he was a member of the Knights of Pythias.

Notes for NEEDHAM "NED" HARRISON PARRISH:
Source: "John Jacob Beck" researched & compiled by Kathey Kelley Hunt, 2309 Elizabeth Street, Kaufman, TX 75142 - d.k.hunt@airmail.net. This book was prepared for the exclusive auction of the College Mound Methodist Church, November 1998:
      (Please see the notes under his wife, Harriett Ann Beck.)
      A copy of a note showing a debt to Ned Parrish by the Clarida Estate in 1862 is included in the book written by the above source. Another copy of Ned Parrish's Obituary from the September 11, 1885 edition of the Kaufman Sun:
      Parish - Another noble layman in our church gone to his reward on high. Needham H. Parish, the subject of this sketch, was born in Kentucky, March 18, 1834; was married to Harriet Ann Beck, of Kaufman County, Texas, April 22, 1858, and has lived in the county ever since, till the day of his death, which occurred September 6, 1885. His disease was black jaundice, which accounts for his saying so little about dying or its future consequences. But the sure index to one's preparation for death is the life. If the life has been right, the death will be all right in point of time, place and circumstances. About thirty years ago I baptized and took the subject of this notice in full fellowship in the church. In a reasonable time he was elected steward, and up to the day of his death, always held some official relation to the church. He was rarely ever absent on quarterly meeting occasions. The writer never knew a better steward. He not only gave freely himself, but educated, by his noble example, the membership to come up to the standard of duty. After the late civil war he settled a new place; his means being limited he labored under extreme embarrassment. But the big trouble with his crop (scarcely anything) was how he should manage to pay his preacher. So, in his extremity, he turned his own (then little) farm over to his two little boys and turned out to work two days of each week; one day to buy coffee, the other to pay his preacher. He was a man of strong convictions, and would follow them, if it was to his own hurt. such was his unswerving integrity, that all over Kaufman county his word was accredited. If Needham Parish said a thing, it was true and no mistake. O what a vacuum his death has left around the hearthstone, the church, and society generally. One by one we are passing away. O may we also be ready.
                        J. W. Fields

      The Parrishes were pillars of the Becker Community and many of the Fogleman children bought land and lived near Kemp, also after marrying and having families of their own.

8/3/99 from Kathey K. Hunt, Kaufman Co., TX:
      Needham PARRISH served 2 years 1862-1864 with Co B 6th TX Cavalry.

Children of HARRIETT BECK and NEEDHAM PARRISH are:

Mary Emeline⁶ Parrish, b. 1859; m. Mr. Cummings.

Notes for Mary Emeline Parrish:
Source: "John Jacob Beck" researched & compiled by Kathey Kelley Hunt, 2309 Elizabeth Street, Kaufman, TX 75142 - d.k.hunt@airmail.net. This book was prepared for the exclusive auction of the College Mound Methodist Church, November 1998.

60.	ii.	William Edward Parrish, b. 23 August 1867, Kemp, Kaufman Co., TX; d. 03 April 1938, Bur. Lone Oak Cem., Kaufman Co., TX.
	iii.	James Albert Parrish, b. 1861.
	iv.	John Thomas Parrish, b. 1863.
61.	v.	Jesse Eugene Parrish, b. 06 June 1869, Hoffer, Kaufman Co., TX; d. 1955, Bur. Oakland Cem., Terrell, Kaufman Co., TX.
62.	vi.	Robert E. Lee Parrish, b. 1871, Kaufman Co., TX; d. 21 March 1938, Kaufman Co., TX.
	vii.	George Washington Parrish, b. 25 October 1878; d. 31 October 1882, Lone Oak Cem, Kaufman Co., TX.
	viii.	Needham H. Parrish, Jr., b. 16 February 1874.
	ix.	Charles Henry Parrish, b. 05 August 1876.

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