Biographies: Robert Eugene and Louise Adams Beck, 1991, Winn Parish, LA.
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: September 11, 1991 Winn Parish Enterprise News-American (Article 321 by
Staff Historians-article furnished by Mrs. Fay Gilstrap Ratcliff)

Robert Eugene and Louise Adams Beck

Robert Eugene, son of Robert S. Beck, was born in Mississippi in 1894 but 
spent his childhood in the Beech Creek Community of Winn Parish.  He left here
to attend high school in Verda where he worked for his bed, room, and board. 
A. Leonard Allen was principal of Verda High School at that time.

When the United States entered World War I just prior to his high school
graduation, he volunteered for service in the U. S. Navy.  After boot camp at
Great Lakes Naval Training Center, he served as yeoman aboard a troop
transport ship ferrying troops to Europe, making six round trips before the
end of the war.  After being honorably discharged from the Navy, he returned
to Winnfield where he worked briefly as a locomotive fireman, then secured
employment with the Winn Parish School Board and later became a deputy clerk
of court.  In December of 1919, he married his high school sweetheart, Louise
Adams of Verda, whose father was Asa Manuel Adams.  Mr. Adams was born at
Harper's Crossing on Dugdemona in 1852.

While Eugene Beck was serving as Deputy Clerk of Court under Cyrus McGinty, he
decided to study law.  Judge Cas Moss tutored him along with his brother, Alan
Moss.  Mr. Beck was admitted to the bar in 1922, and he was thereafter engaged
in the general practice of law in Winnfield until his death in 1945.  Louise
Adams Beck continued to live in the family home at 307 North Laurel until her
death in 1978.

The Becks were parents of three children: Charles Leonard who became a lawyer,
Robert Eugene who became an independent petroleum land man, and Mary Nell who
taught school prior to her marriage to Matt Milam, Jr.  Mrs. Milam resides in
Winnfield, Charles makes his home in Lafayette and Shreveport, and Gene Beck,
Jr., resided in Shreveport until his death in 1945.

Mrs. V. Matt Milam, Jr. (nee Mary Nell Beck) adds that the home on North
Laurel Street was originally built for her father by a Winnfield building
contractor, W. Oscar Averett, and her family moved there just before the 1922
birth of her brother, Gene Beck, Jr.

After Mrs. Beck's death, the family sold the home in 1979 to W. Ira Warner, a
bachelor and former long time resident on La. Hwy. 34 north near Winnfield.
Mr. Warner and his unmarried sister, Miss Mary Lou, resided in the home until
their deaths.  Their sister, Mrs. Rosa Warner Jones, at age 95, who formerly
lived at 407 N. Park Street, Winnfield, but who reared her four daughters in
the Gaars Mill area, now resides in the North Laurel Street residence.