When Amasa Beckstead was born on 12 January 1867, in South Jordan, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, his father, Thomas Wesley Beckstead, was 33 and his mother, Sarah Ellen Ashton, was 20. He married Elizabeth Anne Dunkley on 22 October 1890, in Whitney, Franklin, Idaho, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in West Jordan, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1870. He died on 30 November 1931, in Preston, Franklin, Idaho, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Whitney, Franklin, Idaho, United States.
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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.
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AMASA BECKSTEAD Amasa Beckstead was a native pioneer born January 12, 1867 in Jordan, Utah, the son of Thomas Wesley Beckstead and Sarah Ellen Ashton. He was the second of ten children from his …
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