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Personal data John W. BECK 

• He was born in the year 1780 in Loudoun, Virginia, Verenigde Staten.Sources 2, 3
• He died on January 23, 1844 in Fillmore, Montgomery, Illinois, USA, he was 64 years old.Source 3
• A child of Paul BECK and Martha LEWIS

Household of John W. BECK

(1) He is married to Nancy BLAIR.

They got married on February 3, 1814 at Adair, Kentucky, USA, he was 34 years old.Source 4

Child(ren):

1. Elizabeth Artemissa BECK  ± 1825-1855
2. Jane M. BECK  ????-± 1844
3. Susannah M. BECK  ± 1822-????
4. Sarah BECK  ± 1819-????
5. Joseph P. BECK  1830-????
6. Nancy Telitha BECK  ± 1832-????
7. Ruth Isarurah Moniah Isabelle Buchanan BECK  1828-1864 
8. Mecca Melissa BECK  1821-1893 
9. Martha BECK  ± 1816-± 1856 
10. Colbert Washington BECK  ± 1817-????
11. Mary Lucitta BECK  1834-????
12. John Powell BECK  1837-1910 

(2) He is married to Fanny ASKORN.

They got married on May 4, 1801 at Franklin, Virginia, Verenigde Staten, he was 21 years old.Source 5

Child(ren):

1. Edward M. BECK  1806-1856 
2. William BECK  1803-1863 

Notes about John W. BECK

(from BECK'S CREEK-HERRICK-DIAL-VEST-BECK-GUINN-DOWELL-TATE Website--)
About BECK, John W, 1778:
What I have collected comes from published sources and my own conversations during the 1950s with a few elderly residents of the southern part of Montgomery County. I began this pursuit during my high school years. John W. Beck was a member of a group of Kentucky men called Russell`s Rangers, sent northwest to IL by wealthy Kentucky landowners soon after the new century to scout an area northwest of the Kaskaskia River in what is now Madison, Montgomery, Illinois, USA and Fayette Counties. Their first expedition into IL was in 1810-1811, when they built several small enclosures later to be known as forts. One of these was Fort Russell, which can be located by a township of that name in Madison County, IL. Their mission was to survey and explore for potential settlement. Records of their experiences have survived. John Beck returned to Montgomery County in 1817-1818, when it was still part of Bond County, and settled along the Harricane (cq) Creek in the extreme northern end of the county. In 1819, John Beck and his wife Nancy T. (Blair) Beck became parents of what is considered the first white child born in Montgomery County. Identifying this child has been impossible, I have only been able to conclude it was one of three daughters: Jane, Sally or Elizabeth. John Beck`s farm, or "home place," was on the East side of the East Fork of the Shoal Creek, identified in Traylor`s History of Montgomery County, as "near the Richard Blackburn" farm. John Beck died January 23, 1844 at his home. John Beck`s daughter Meeky, after her marriage to Daniel Sellers, sold 280 acres which must have been the Beck home farm to Richard Blackburn. The land transaction, dated February 24, 1853, of land in Fillmore Township, was four 80 acre plots plus one of 40 acres. Three of the 80 acre plots can be traced to the original purchase of land by John W. Beck from the land office in St. Louis. Two were purchased on August 5, 1819 and the third on December 16, 1829. John Beck was an active participant in the governing of the new Montgomery County, created in 1819. He was a justice of the peace in 1821 and a member of the county commission to locate the county seat, named on April 7, 1821. One of his duties as a Justice of the Peace was to officiate at marriages. County records show that John Beck married Daniel Francisco and Charity Virden on January 10, 1822. He was a member of the first county grand jury, which sat October 15, 1821. He provided the security bond for Elisha Freeman to be appointed constable for the county on March 4, 1822. He was a member of the grand jury of June 1824 and was named to be a member in the next term in September of that year. He was a member of the petit jury list of August 18, 1828. John Beck served as a Montgomery County election judge in 1832 and 1834, and was the overseer for the poor (a court appointed task) for the Harricane District in 1826. His last service was as Justice of the Pe[ace].

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