When Alexander Beckstead was born on 16 March 1802, in Schoharie, New York, United States, his father, Francis Johannis Beckstead, was 28 and his mother, Margaret Margaritta Barkley, was 29. He married Catherine Lince on 25 January 1823, in Williamsburgh Township, Dundas, Upper Canada, British North America. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 7 daughters. He lived in Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1850 and South Jordan, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1860. He died on 25 February 1870, in West Jordan, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 67, and was buried in South Jordan Cemetery, South Jordan, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.
Historical Boundaries 1803: Louisiana Purchase, United States 1812: Missouri Territory, United States 1821: Missouri, United States
The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.
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.
Samuel Aiexander Beckstead was an original settler in West Jordan, arriving on 15 September 1849. He was born 16 March 1802 to Francis and Margaret Barkley Beckstead in Williamsburg, Ontario, Canada. …
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