Ebenezer White Beckwith

  Noted events in his life were:

• Education: From Catalogue of the Officers and Graduates of Yale University 1701 - 1898, 1847. * Ebenezer White Beckwith, M. A. *1865

Page 94

The *1865 is the date of his death.

• Residence: From 1850 Census, 1850, Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut. He is living with his mother and is identified as a teacher.

• Residence: From 1860 Census, 1860, Cromwell, Middlesex, Connecticut. Name E W Beckwith
Age 35
Birth Year abt 1825
Gender Male
Race White
Birth Place Connecticut
Home in 1860 Cromwell, Middlesex, Connecticut
Post Office Cromwell
Dwelling Number 160
Family Number 193
Occupation Boarding School Teacher
Real Estate Value 9000
Personal Estate Value 1000
Inferred Spouse
Sarah F Beckwith
Household Members (Name) Age
E W Beckwith 35
Sarah F Beckwith 27
Hannah C Eastman 50
Georgia A Eastman 20
Angelo Caragol 13
Ventura Caragol 14
Manuel S Chaves 23
Cornelius W Ruggles 14
Hannah Skenan 22

Source Citation
The National Archives in Washington D.C.; Record Group: Records of the Bureau of the Census; Record Group Number: 29; Series Number: M653; Residence Date: 1860; Home in 1860: Cromwell, Middlesex, Connecticut; Roll: M653_83; Page: 675; Family History Library Film: 803083

Source Information
Ancestry.com. 1860 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.

Original data: 1860 U.S. census, population schedule. NARA microfilm publication M653, 1,438 rolls. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.

• Gravestone: From Find a Grave, 1865, Cromwell, Middlesex, Connecticut. Ebenezer White Beckwith
Birth: 1827
Death: 1865 (aged 37–38)
Burial: Old Center Cemetery, Cromwell, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
Memorial #: 13812509
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• Obituary: From Obituary Record of the Graduates of Yale College Page 210, 25 Jul 1866. Ebenezer White Beckwith died at Indianapolis, Sept. 30, 1865, aged 40 years. He was the son of Josiah Beckwith, of Hartford, and was born at Middletown, Upper Houses, (now Cromwell,) April 17, 1825.

After graduation he was engaged for seven years in teaching at the South, He then returned to his native town, and established a military boarding school, which he continued eight years. In April, 1865, he went to Indiana, to engage in business, and there died, after a sudden illness.

He married in 1859, Miss Fanny Peck, of Milford.

Source: Obituary Record of the Graduates of Yale College
Deceased during the academical year ending in July, 1866, including the record of a few who died a short time previous, hitherto unreported
Presented at the Meeting of the Alumni, July 25th, 1866
No 7 of the printed Series, and No 25 of the whole Record

Ebenezer married Sarah Fanny Peck in 1859 in Connecticuit. (Sarah Fanny Peck was born in 1833 in Milford, Connecticut.)