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Note: U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970
Name: John Beckett
SAR Membership: 56974
Birth Date: April 22, 1752,
Birth Place: Co., Antrim, Ireland
Death Date: April 22, 1843
Death Place: Union Twp., Burtler Co., Ohio
Spouse: Mary Beckett
Children: James C Beckett
John C. Beckett, Born April 22, 1752, Co., Antrim, Ireland, died April 22, 1843, Butler Co., Ohio
Married Mary Beckett, wife, born January 6, 1761, Ireland, died January 6, 1822, Butler Co., Ohio
John C. Beckett, son, born December 24, Hamilton Co., Ohio, died July 18, 1878, Butler Co., Ohio
Married Elizabeth Burns, wife, born May 29, 1818, Ohio, died December 16, 1870, Butler Co., Ohio
Mary A. Beckett, daughter, born June 17, 1830, Butler Co., Ohio died September 23, 1860, Butler Co., Ohio
Married Solon Palmer, husband, born 1823, died 1903
Ida C. Palmer, daughter, born 1855, died 1931, New Jersey
Married George C. Coon, husband, born 1865, died 1909 New Jersey
Ida Mary Coon, daughter, born 1884, died 1923, New Jersey
Married George L. Naught, husband, born 1872
Morgan J. Naught, son, born October 8, 1908, New Jersey, died July 30, 1991, Elizabeth, Union Co., New Jersey
Married Mildred Naught, wife, born December 11, 1906, New Jersey, died March 1979, Elizabeth, Union Co., New Jersey
Application for Membership: Descendant of John C. Beckett, by Solon Palmer; Stanley Aldridge Brady, born April 20, 1906, Rochester, New York.
Application for Membership: Descendant of John C. Beckett, by Solon Palmer; Lubin Palmer, 141 Mountain Avenue, Montclair, New Jersey, on October 26, 1923.
Application for Membership: Descendant of John C. Beckett, by Morgan J. Naught; Ralph John Van Derwerker; wife Priseilla Burr Whiten on May 4, 1939, Westfield, New Jersey.
Children & Grandchildren of applicant: Virginia Van Derwerker, born May 28, 1931. Valerie Van Derwerker, born October 14, 1932.
http://search.ancestry.com/browse/view.aspx?dbid=2204&iid=32596_242510-00363&pid=1203726&ssrc=&fn=John&ln=Beckett&st=g
http://search.ancestry.com/iexec?htx=View&r=an&dbid=2204&iid=32596_242210-00345&fn=John&ln=Beckett&st=r&ssrc=&pid=470175
Union Township Memorial Cemetery as called in 1963 was laid out in 1870. The cemetery is currently known as Brookside Cemetery this name is posted at the entrance to the cemetery and has been known as the West Chester Cemetery. A burial ground on the James Cummins farm was the start of the cemetery prior to the 1830�s. Cemetery Layout provided by Mary Raffel. John Beckett and James C. Beckett farms, were located in in south west corner of section 38, Northern Union Twp., of Butler Co., Ohio. Name spelling were John Becket and John C. Becket. John Becket had 40 acres, John C. Becket had 40 acres in section 38 and 38 acres in section 27, west of the James Cummins farm AKA as Brookside Cemetery.
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ohbutler/kowallek/union-maps/1836-s-med.html
History: Westchester, Union Twp., Butler Co., Ohio
Prominent among the early settlers of Union Township was the old Revolutionary soldier, John C. BECKETT, who settled near Westchester in 1810. He was an American officer during that war, and after its close was engaged in transporting goods between Cincinnati and Fort Hamilton. His son, James C. BECKETT, who was born December 24, 1799, on Mill Creek, Hamilton Co., came with his father in 1810 to this section of the county and lived to an old and honored age.
May 29, 1936 John Beckett S. 15324 Mrs. V. W. Wood
1019 E. 8th Street
Pueblo, Colorado
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your Letter in which you furnish further information in regard to John Beckett,soldier of the War of the Revolution.
The date which follow were obtained from papers on file in pension claim,
S.15324, based upon the service of John Beckett, during the Revolutionary War. This is the record of the only John Beckett found on file in the Revolutionary War records of this office; the surname was searched under similar spellings.
John Beckett was born September 15, 1755 in County Antrim, Ireland. The names of his parents were not given.
(He?) volunteered at Bedford Cove, Bedford Co., Pennsylvania, sometime in September, 1766, served as ensign in Captain Thomas Paxton's company of rangers, under Colonel George Woods, in pursuit of Indians and Hessians, length of service five months. He Volunteered at Bedford Cove, late in the fall of 1777, served as ensign under Captain James Shelby and Thomas Blair, in pursuit of Indians, length of service one month. He was in two skirmishes with the Indians.
He was allowed pension on his application executed, October 18, 1832, at which time he was resident of Butler Co., Ohio, where he lived about twenty-one years.
The pages in this claim contain no data concerning the family of the soldier, John Beckett.
If you desire information in regard to the last payment of pension, name and address of person paid, and possibly the date of death of this pensioner, you should apply to The Comptroller General, Accounting Office, Records Division, Washington, D. C., and give the following:
John Beckett
Certificate # 19613
Issued August 8, 1833
Rate $20.00 per annum
Commenced March 4, 1831
Act of June 7, 1832
Ohio Agency
Very truly yours A. D. Hiller Executive Assistant to the Administrator http://www.clpgh.org/exhibit/neighborhoods/hazelwood/haze_n10.html
Hazelwood: The Woods Family
"Old Mansion in Hazelwood Retains Many Memories: Woods' Home There Once the Gathering Place of Many Famous Men and Women" in unknown, undated Pittsburgh newspaper, c1909.
This domicile of "ye olden time" is the Woods home, residence of Miss Mary C. Woods, sole surviving descendant in Pittsburg of Colonel George Woods, the man who laid out the first official survey of this city.
Colonel Woods comes of fighting blood and of a family noted for military prowess. He was a captain in the Colonial Army and confined in Fort Duquesne at the Point after being captured by the Indians and turned over to the French, but was ransomed by Big Chief Hudson for 20 pounds of tobacco, the weed then being valuable in Indian eyes. Henry Woods of Bedford, Pennsylvania, grandfather of Miss Mary C. Woods, was also a soldier, being captain of the Bedford Scouts in the French and Indian War. Miss Woods proudly displays to visitors his sword, the handle of which is of bone, and the scabbard, partly missing, of leather. It is not large, but has a very sharp point. Another interesting relic of the gallant warrior is a large metal tray, or waiter, on which were placed glasses and decanters, used when the captain entertained Washington at dinner in Bedford. The center of the tray bears a colored picture of personages dressed after the manner of the latter part of the eighteenth century. Henry Woods was a member of the Continental Congress, so served his country both as soldier and statesman. By so doing he became acquainted with Washington and enjoyed that great man's esteem.
Brookside Cemetery map
AKA Union Twp Cemetery Union Township Memorial Cemetery West Chester Cemetery
Pre 1865/1870 burials on James Cummins land
Section 27 Union/ W Chester Township Butler Co., Ohio
Under Construction- �Old Yard� has been photographed.
Sect 1 (oldest stones) & Sect 2 completed 2008.
Sections 3 4 & 7 Completed 2009 39.3244�N 84.4144�W
Brookside Cemetery
West Chester Twp., West Chester Rd.
Butler Co., Ohio
Phone: 513-777-8765
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ohbutcem/WchesterUnionTwpCem/BrooksideCem/
BrooksideCem.htm or BrooksideCemA_H.htm
John Beckett, (D) April 22, 1843. Revolutionary War Veteran
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ohbutcem/WchesterUnionTwpCem/BrooksideCem/images/IMG_3068.jpg
Brookside Cemetery map
AKA Union Twp Cemetery Union Township Memorial Cemetery West Chester Cemetery
Pre 1865/1870 burials on James Cummins land
Section 27 Union/ W Chester Township Butler County Ohio
Under Construction- �Old Yard� has been photographed. Sect 1 (oldest stones) & Sect 2 completed 2008.
Sections 34 & 7 Completed 2009 39.3244�N 84.4144�W
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ohbutcem/WchesterUnionTwpCem/WchesterUnionTwpCem.htm
BrooksideCemetery A-H
David GS BEATTY Section 3 BECKETT, Anna Jackson 2nd ... 1878 Wife of C K Beckett Old Yard BECKETT, Cordelia J. September 2, 1950 Wife of James M BECKETT Old Yard BECKETT Eliza Jane, 2nd of May
www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ohbutcem/WchesterUnionTwpCem/BrooksideCem/Broo...
Union Township Memorial Cemetery as called in 1963 was laid out in 1870. The cemetery is currently known as Brookside Cemetery this name is posted at the entrance to the cemetery and has been known as the West Chester Cemetery. A burial ground on the Cummins farm was the start of the cemetery prior to the 1830�s. Cemetery Layout provided by Mary Raffel. (Thanks)
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ohbutcem/WchesterUnionTwpCem/BrooksideCem/BrooksideCemA_H.htm
Brookside Cemetery map
AKA Union Twp Cemetery Union Township Memorial Cemetery West Chester Cemetery
Pre 1865/1870 burials on James Cummins land
Section 27 Union/ W Chester Township Butler Co., Ohio
Under Construction- �Old Yard� has been photographed. Sect 1 (oldest stones) & Sect 2 completed 2008.
Sections 3 4 & 7 Completed 2009 39.3244�N 84.4144�W
The Woods Family Hazelwood
"Old Mansion in Hazelwood Retains Many Memories: Woods' Home There Once the Gathering Place of Many Famous Men and Women" in unknown, undated Pittsburgh newspaper, c1909.
Fronting on Chatsworth Avenue, perhaps the most beautiful residence street of Hazelwood, is a picturesque stone house, weather-scarred by the blasts of more than a hundred winters, and in the summer time garbed with loving ivy. It attracts the attention of many pedestrians who involuntarily wonder whose homestead it is, when it was built, and whether it has a history. How many people realize what an interesting tale of Pittsburg's earlier days, the somber, gray walls, if they only had tongues, would tell!
This domicile of "ye olden time" is the Woods home, residence of Miss Mary C. Woods, sole surviving descendant in Pittsburg of Colonel George Woods, the man who laid out the first official survey of this city. The pantograph he utilized in this important work is still treasured by Miss Woods, his great-granddaughter, and in the same box he laid it away she keeps it. As Colonel Woods made his survey in 1784, the instrument is at least 125 years old. Besides this valuable relic of early Pittsburg, Miss Woods has other possessions that once belonged to noted forbears, including swords, pistols and table ware. Nor is this all. The old house is famous as the place where Stephen Collins Foster, America's greatest song writer, composed and played some of his finest airs, and in the parlor stands the quaint mahogany piano, at the keyboard of which he spent innumerable happy hours."
The Woods Family and Estate.
The Woods family, at one time wealthy and socially prominent, were the pioneer land owners in Hazelwood, John Woods building the old stone house, quarrying the material himself from the land. This was prior to 1800. The original Woods tract was granted under the name of "Scotch Bottom," so called because many natives of the Land of the Thistle settled on it. The name is still in vogue, but now applies only to that settlement along Second Avenue in the neighborhood of Rutherglen Street and the site of the old Marion Station on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. Marion Station, by the way, was named for General Francis Marion of Revolutionary fame, hero of the Carolinas and one of the truest patriots of the War of Independence. Many years before this land was granted--in the latter part of the eighteenth century--the Woods tract received the name of "Tullymet," a name still preserved in Hazelwood, the old Woods house itself, which is at the corner of Chatsworth Avenue and "Tullymet" Street.
For many years the house was the home of the steward of the Woods family, but in April, 1855, it became the residence of the family itself, and has been so ever since. Ex-Sheriff Harry Woods, father of Miss Mary C. Woods, the present occupant, lived there until his death in 1861. Before 1855 he lived on Penn "Street," now Penn Avenue, which in those days was one of the best residence thoroughfares of Pittsburg. Miss Woods' mother, Rachel Woods, died about five years ago and Miss Maria, the latter's daughter, followed her six weeks later.
Origin of Hazelwood
Hazelwood received its name from John George Woods, an uncle of Miss Mary C., who built the large house on "Hazel Hill," formerly the residence of Hill Burgwin, Esq. When the Woods family went to Hazelwood to live in the stone house, the country roundabout was covered with magnificent forests, in which hazelnuts flourished. At that time, 50 years ago, there was a peach orchard in the rear of the house, and much expense was incurred in setting out rare and beautiful flowers. The old stone well, with its fine spring, is still in use near the house.
One of the very earliest buildings or habitations on the "Scotch Bottom" tract was a little stone house at Glenwood, near the traction barn of today, but the addition of a second story has made the original almost unrecognizable. The vast extent of the Woods holdings may be imagined when it is stated that the original grant embraced all the land between "Frankstown," at Second Avenue, and Forward Avenue and Glenwood, extending back to the river to Squirrel Hill. Owing to financial reverses, due to endorsements, ex-Sheriff Harry Woods lost a great deal of this acreage. At one time he owned the famous Bedford Springs property.
Relics of Colonel Woods.
The pantograph of Colonel Woods is made of brass and when folded up is over twenty inches long, but strange to say, the name of the maker does not appear on it. It is as good today, after a century and quarter's existence, as it was when the colonel laid out the streets and alleys of downtown Pittsburg from Grant and Eleventh to the Point. The territory within these limits and the two rivers was the borough of Pittsburg, or rather it became the borough in 1794, ten years after the survey by Woods and his assistant, Thomas Vickroy. The survey and plans were approved by Tench Francis, attorney for the Penns, proprietaries of Pennsylvania, until the time of the Revolution, when they were divested of their holdings, with the exception of the "manors" they were allowed to retain in various parts of the Commonwealth. The "manor" of Pittsburg was one of these, and thus it happened the original sales of downtown realty were made by the Penns.
Colonel Woods comes of fighting blood and of a family noted for military prowess. He was a captain in the Colonial Army and confined in Fort Duquesne at the Point after being captured by the Indians and turned over to the French, but was ransomed by Big Chief Hudson for 20 pounds of tobacco, the weed then being valuable in Indian eyes. Henry Woods of Bedford, Pennsylvania., grandfather of Miss Mary C. Woods, was also a soldier, being captain of the Bedford Scouts in the French and Indian War. Miss Woods proudly displays to visitors his sword, the handle of which is of bone, and the scabbard, partly missing, of leather. It is not large, but has a very sharp point. Another interesting relic of the gallant warrior is a large metal tray, or waiter, on which were placed glasses and decanters, used when the captain entertained Washington at dinner in Bedford. The center of the tray bears a colored picture of personages dressed after the manner of the latter part of the eighteenth century. Henry Woods was a member of the Continental Congress, so served his country both as soldier and statesman. By so doing he became acquainted with Washington and enjoyed that great man's esteem.
Stephen C. Foster's Inspirations.
Stephen C. Foster often visited the Woods home, both on Penn Avenue and at Hazelwood, and played on the piano and guitar. He was an accomplished performer on the latter, which was his favorite instrument, but on the piano was indifferent. The guitar, which belonged to Mrs. Woods, is treasured as a precious relic. The song writer was one of her warm friends, and the moody, sensitive artist was sure to find a welcome there and a ready ear to listen to his woes. Like most men of genius, Foster had little business ability, and his publishers took shameless advantage of him, buying his immortal manuscript scores for a pittance. He was often so hard up that he was compelled to sell a fine song for as low a price as $15. Mrs. Woods always said that Foster's fortune was made when he wrote "My Old Kentucky Home" at least it should have been made--but his usual pressing need for cash and lack of business talent let this golden chance of acquiring a rich competence slip away.
Miss Woods relates that one night Foster visited her mother's home on Penn Avenue in company with a friend McCarty, and in a burst of inspiration sat down at the piano and composed "Jennie, with the Light Brown Hair." At another time he was present when Mrs. Woods' old Negro servant poked her head in the door and this so interested Foster that he asked, laughing, who she was. "Why, that's Nellie Bly," replied his hostess. Like a flash a thought came to the composer to write a song with this title, and he did. The song "Where is Thy Spirit, Mary?" was dedicated to Mary D. Keller, a sister of Mrs. Woods, Foster writing the words as well as the music, and playing it for the first time on the old piano. At this piano also he wrote "Sadly to Mine Heart Appealing," which he dedicated to Mrs. Woods.
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