When John Thomas Wesley Beckstead was born on 25 February 1859, in West Jordan, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, his father, Thomas Wesley Beckstead, was 25 and his mother, Lydia Marie Rose, was 23. He married Elizabeth Miranda Jensen on 1 September 1881, in Endowment House, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Whitney, Franklin, Idaho, United States in 1930 and Whitney Election Precinct, Franklin, Idaho, United States in 1940. He died on 22 February 1953, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 93, and was buried in Preston Cemetery, Preston, Franklin, Idaho, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Historical Boundaries 1866: Oneida, Idaho Territory, United States 1890: Oneida, Idaho, United States 1913: Franklin, Idaho, United States
The LDS Oneida Stake was formed at a meeting in Franklin on June 1, 1884. William C. Hendricks was the first Stake President and Solomon H. Hale and George C. Parkinson served as counselors.
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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