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| Name | Lifespan | Where Born | |
| George BECK | 1762-1847 | Rowan County, NC | |
| Additional Notes | Migration Steps | ||
| George Beck, Sr. was a Private in the Revolutionary War, and served on the Yadkin River in North Carolina. He married Elizabeth Claver, called Betsy, about 1783, and they took their children John Jacob Beck, George Beck, Jr., Susannah Beck, Andrew Milton Beck, David Beck, Jacob Beck, and William B. Beck where they settled in Indiana Territory and built the historic Beck\'s Mill, south of Salem, Indiana. Source: The History of Washington County, Indiana has many stories of the Beck family, and the Forts built to protect the settlers during the War of 1812. Major George Beck wrote a letter to the Indiana Governor asking for additional guards on the Frontier after the Pigeon Roost Massacre on September 3, 1812, a few miles away. Source: Library of Congress William H. English Collection, University of Chicago Library. Source: Indiana Territorial Pioneer Records, 1801-1815, compiled by Charles M. Franklin, 1983 : January 15, 1812 - Harrison County - Muster Roll of a Company of Indiana Infantry Militia of the County of Harrison called into the Service of the United States by general order of his excellency John Gibson, acting governor and Commander in and of the said Territory, under the command of Capt. Henry Dawalt, Commanded by Col. Joseph Paddacks, this 27th day December A.D. 1812: John Colglazier, Seargt, John Daugherty, Jacob Hedrick, George Beck, among others. George Beck died 16 August 1847 and is buried in Beck\'s Cemetery on Beck\'s Hill. Elizabeth, his wife, who died 24 January 1847, is buried beside him, and many relations are also interred there. On September 21,2002, the Washington County Cemetery Association, in coordination with the Indiana Sons of the American Revolution, and descendants from several states, dedicated a new memorial marker to Maj. George Beck, Sr. and his wife, in honor of their service to America. Source: Indiana State Sons of the American Revolution website. The old mill was rebuilt in 1864, after a carding machine and furniture manufacturing building had been added. This historic mill is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and still stands, in disrepair, with the overshot water wheel and the gushing spring water flowing over the man-made dam. Source: Family historian J. Nell Beck Truitt, DAR #782314. |
to Becks Mill, Washington County, IN in 1807 | ||
| Researcher: Joyce Nell Beck Truitt | |||
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