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MONROE COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA - BIOS: BECKETT Family
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Submitted to the West Virginia Biographies Project by:
SSpradling@aol.com
September 20, 1999
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A History of Monroe County, West Virginia
Oren F. Morton, B. Lit.
Staunton, VA
The McClure Company, Inc.
1916
p. 307-308
BECKETT FAMILY
About 1785 three Becketts, said to be of a collateral branch of the familv to
which the celebrated Robert A. Beckett belonged, came from England, one
settling in Connecticut, one in Maryland, and one in Virginia. Of the eight
children of Daniel (Lydia Wade) of Blacksburg, William H. H. (Catharine D.
Callaway, 1841, Margaret Tracy) came to Monroe before his first marriage.
C: Amanda M. (A. C. Lynch)-Margaret (Rice Cart, Rw. P. 5. Chandler)-Wilber
F. (Jennie Devers)-James D. (A B. Peck, 1879)-George H. (Sarah M. Michie,
Mrs. Eliza-beth A. Hodge)-Henry C. (Mary W. Crews)-A. W. (m. in
Wood)-Elizabeth E. (George Kountz)-Erastus (Margaret Still) ; by 2d
m.-Ballard P. (Elizabeth Harvey)-Samuel F. (Nannie Spangler)-Robert
D. (Julia Robertson)-Catharine B. (William Martin)-Dora B. (Walter
Dent)-Arthur T.-Willie H. (Charles Stromer). All but the first of the
older family are yet living and none is under the age of 58. W. F. and
3. D. were in the Confederate army, the former being present in 17 batties.
3. D. has spent much time in school work and has served three
terms as county superintendent and two as circuit clerk; is now
President of Monroe county court. Dr. H. C. studied at Holbrook and
Vanderbilt universities and graduated in medicine at the University of
Nashville. He has been a practitioner at Scottsburg, VL, since 1885, ranks
high in his profession, and is author of several papers on medical topics.
Samuel ( Eddy), brother to W. H. H., married in Monroe. C. of 3. D.:
Ray P. (Lorna Miller) Mamie (R. M. Steele) and Emile.
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