Gillie Ann Elizabeth Beckner

Brief Life History of Gillie Ann Elizabeth

When Gillie Ann Elizabeth Beckner was born on 18 April 1848, in Franklin, Virginia, United States, her father, Abner Beckner, was 28 and her mother, Martha Frances Angle, was 19. She married William James Pinckard Sr on 2 February 1869, in Franklin, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in West District, Mecklenburg, Virginia, United States in 1860 and Brown Hill District, Franklin, Virginia, United States in 1900. She died on 16 September 1937, in Franklin, Virginia, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Ferrum, Franklin, Virginia, United States.

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Family Time Line

William James Pinckard Sr
1848–1907
Gillie Ann Elizabeth Beckner
1848–1937
Marriage: 2 February 1869
Amanda Frances Pinckard
1871–1953
Mary Elizabeth Pinkard
1873–1936
Bertha Pinkard
1874–1896
Minnie Lorena Pinckard
1877–1961
Lera A. Pinckard
1879–1913
Charles Thomas Pinckard
1881–1923
Cyrus A. Pinckard
1881–1908
William James Pinckard Jr
1886–1940
John Sidney Pinckard
1888–1921
Martha Mae Pinckard
1891–1978

Sources (58)

  • Ann Pinikard, "United States Census, 1870"
  • Gillaras, "Virginia, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Birth Records, 1853-1896"
  • Gil... E. Beckner, "Virginia Marriages, 1785-1940"

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1861 · The Battle of Manassas

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1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

1872 · The First National Park

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Name Meaning

German: variant of Böckner (and, in North America, also an altered form of this), a habitational name for someone from any of the places named Böcken, from Middle Low German boke, böke ‘beech tree’.

Americanized form of German Bechner, a very rare variant of Becher 2.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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