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Opal Sidney (Macdonald) Beck (1895 - 1972)

Opal Sidney Beck formerly Macdonald
Born in Thurber, Erath County, Texas, United Statesmap
Ancestors ancestors
Daughter of and
Sister of [half], [half], [half], [half], [half], [half] and [half]
Wife of — married about 1917 [location unknown]
Mother of , , and
Died at age 77 in Murphysboro, Jackson County, Illinois, United Statesmap
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Biography

Descendant
Descendant of Hezekiah Lambert.

Opal was born May 31, 1895 in Thurber, Texas.

1895 - August 8, death of her mother Sidney Jane.

1900 - living with aunt Lenorah Bell ("Maude") and her husband Andrew Woodard, in Jackson Co., Illinois.[1]

1910 - living in Murphysboro with Andrew and Lenorah. Age 14, attended school.[2]

1930 - living with Harry & children in Murphysboro, Jackson Co., Illinois.[3]

1940 - living with Harry & children in Murphysboro.[4]

1972 - June 29, died in Murphysboro. July 1, buried in Pleasant Grove Cemetery, Murphysboro.[5]


Sources

  1. ↑ Census Place: Vergennes, Jackson, Illinois; Roll: 307; Page: 1A; Enumeration District: 0034; FHL microfilm: 1240307.
  2. ↑ "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MKD6-2Z7 : accessed 9 November 2021), Opel Mc Donald in household of Andrew J Woodard, Murphysboro Ward 3, Jackson, Illinois, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 60, sheet 9A, family 196, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 293; FHL microfilm 1,374,306.
  3. ↑ Year: 1930; Census Place: Murphysboro, Jackson, Illinois; Roll: 521; Page: 13A; Enumeration District: 30; Image: 149.0; FHL microfilm: 2340256.
  4. ↑ Year: 1940; Census Place: Murphysboro, Jackson, Illinois; Roll: T627_814; Page: 12A; Enumeration District: 39-31.
  5. ↑ Findagrave


Notes

Was raised by Aunt Maude (Lenorah Bell) after the early death of her mother. (per Elsie Schumacher's family history)




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