When Gordon Silas Beckstead was born on 25 November 1825, in Williamsburg, South Dundas, Stormont Dundas and Glengarry, Ontario, Canada, his father, Alexander Beckstead, was 23 and his mother, Catherine Lince, was 18. He married Barbara Etta Park on 24 August 1852, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. He lived in Utah, United States in 1870 and Calls Fort, Box Elder, Utah, United States in 1880. He registered for military service in 1851. He died on 31 January 1891, in Preston, Oneida, Idaho, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in Preston Cemetery, Preston, Franklin, Idaho, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1827: Hancock, Illinois, United States
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
"In October 1845, the newspaper Times and Seasons published a poem written by Eliza R. Snow entitled ""My Father in Heaven."" It has become the well known hymn, ""Oh My Father."" The song is only one in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints hymnbook that referrs to a Heavenly Mother."
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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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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