When Alma Albert Beckstead was born on 28 December 1846, in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States, his father, Francis Beckstead Jr., was 36 and his mother, Maria Beckstead, was 36. He lived in Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States in 1850 and Bellevue, Sarpy, Nebraska, United States in 1880. He died on 12 December 1925, at the age of 78.
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Historical Boundaries: 1847: Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Nebraska is the 37th state.
Americanized form of North German Beckstedde or Beckstedt: topographic name from Low German Beck ‘stream’ + -stedde ‘place’, or a habitational name from Beckstedt near Wildeshausen, Oldenburg.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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