When George Rueford Beach was born on 30 March 1905, in Glencoe, Payne, Oklahoma, United States, his father, Charles Amos Beach, was 39 and his mother, Mary Martha "Mattie" Van Cleave, was 32. He lived in Montrose, Colorado, United States in 1920 and Election Precinct 13 South Olathe, Montrose, Colorado, United States in 1930. He died on 18 August 1960, in Tulare, California, United States, at the age of 55, and was buried in Porterville, Tulare, California, United States.
English: topographic name from Middle English beche ‘beech-tree’ (Old English bēce) or Middle English beche ‘stream’ (Old English bæce). Middle English beche may be from Old English bēce ‘beech’ or bæce ‘stream’, and without further evidence it is impossible to distinguish these in Middle English.
Americanized form of Alsatian and German Bitsch: habitational name from Bitche (German Bitsch) in Alsace and Lorraine, at the foot of the northern slope of the Vosges.
Americanized form of German (mainly Hesse) Bitsch: unexplained.
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