Notes for Roswell Manford Beck

Family Group Sheet

Notes for Roswell Manford Beck

!Source:
BIRTH: Yakima, WA. County birth records #494.
MARRIAGE: Marriage Certificates Yakima, WA County Courthouse.
DEATH: Orib.
BURIED: Headstone Tahoma Cemetery Yakima, Washington

Came to Yakmia Washington in a covered wagon.

!Headstone: Rosswell M. Beck Died Nov 6 1897 43yrs
First wife along side, Second wife along side

!Death Notice: has b 7 Nov 1854, d 6 Nov 1897.
Rosswell M. Beck, was a teacher in Yakima schools. He died of pneumonia prior to the birth of their dau. Maude Frances

Family Folk Lore is he died of pneumonia because he was in the Yakima River saving someone during a flood?

Family Folk Lore: Martha Goodwin Beck (Roswell's Mother) Took in two children whose father had died and whose stepfather was a man of bad disposition. Childrened live with Becks until they married.

(Research found that the father died in Oct 1877 -- The mother did remarry to a Patrick Carey.. There were 6 children in the family Margaret and her brother Anthony were the two middle children. We do not have the date that Margaret and Anthony came to live with the Becks.)

The girl taken in was Margaret Gertrude Frederick.. Margaret had her first child in Jul 1883. Margaret was 14 years old. The baby was named Martha Beck. In September of 1883, Roswell and Margaret were married.. In Jan 1886 Margaret and and Roswell had a child Lizzie Beck who died at 18 months old.. On 7 Mar 1887 Margaret and Roswell had a child -- Margaret Frederick Beck at the age of 18 died on 22 Mar 1887. Her daughter who was named Margaret G Beck after mother..

In 1892 Roswell married his second wife Sarah Frances Gerking Leaming Allen Beck -- Her third marriage..