Pike-Butts County GaArchives Obituaries.....Beck, Rev. James Washington March 17, 1908
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Lynn Cunningham http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00011.html#0002535 November 27, 2006, 11:09 am

The Pike County Journal. Zebulon, Pike County, Georgia, March 20, 1908
Rev. J.W. Beck Died in Florida

Col. J.W. Beck, who was well known throughout middle Georgia died at his 
daughter’s home in Florida Tuesday night after a several week’s illness. He 
had been in bad health for several years having suffered a stroke of paralysis 
a few years back.

He was a resident of Zebulon for a number of years and served the Zebulon 
Baptist church as its pastor for twelve years. He also served the Baptist 
churches at Concord, Milner and Mt. Olive. He was a an uncle of Mrs. W.A. 
Strickland, of Concord, with whom he lived for several years and the father of 
Judge Marcus W. Beck of the supreme court and formerly judge of the Flint 
Circuit. He taught school at Milner and Concord for several years and was well 
and favorably known throughout this part of the state. He was colonel of the 
fourth [should be Forty-fourth] Ga. Regiment serving with distinction through 
the civil war.

His remains were buried in Jackson, his old home, yesterday morning.

(Transcribed 11/26/06 Lynn Cunningham)

Additional Comments:
At Jackson City Cemetery, Butts County, Georgia:
Beck, James W., b. 23 Oct 1831, d. 17 Mar 1908 - Southern Cross of Honor-CSA
Beck, Margaret, b. 14 Feb 1834, d. 17 Apr 1887 - Wife of James W. Beck


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