When Pvt Lewis Fletcher Beck was born on 11 December 1843, in Walshville, Montgomery, Illinois, United States, his father, Moses Beck, was 24 and his mother, Lucinda Sidwell, was 20. He married Nancy Ann Corlew on 18 March 1868, in Montgomery, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Witt, Montgomery, Illinois, United States in 1880 and Litchfield, Montgomery, Illinois, United States for about 10 years. He died on 26 April 1917, in Montgomery, Illinois, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Elmwood Cemetery, Litchfield, Montgomery, Illinois, United States.
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English: topographic name for someone who lived beside a stream, from northern Middle English bekke ‘stream’ (Old Norse bekkr).
English (of Norman origin): habitational name from any of various places in northern France named Bec, for example Bec Hellouin in Eure, named with Old Norman French bec ‘stream’, from the same Old Norse root as in 1 above.
English: from the Middle English personal name Becke (Old English Becca or Beocca), of uncertain origin.
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