Individual Details
John Beck
(17 Oct 1777 - 14 Aug 1861)
This line if from an autosomal DNA match - all relationships apparently from Ancestry trees. Did find the same lineage on FamilySearch.
1850 Census. Haywood, NC, Hh 475
John Beck, 72, b. NC
Mary Beck, 63, b. NC
Biographical Sketch printed in the Heritage of Swain County, NC 1988, Bryson City, NC.
Devault Beck had a son, Jacob, who married Mary Winkler. This couple, along with a party of German immigrants which included Jacob's father and Mary's father, Ludwig Winkler, moved to Rowan (now Davidson) County, North Carolina. John Beck was born October 17, 1777 at Abbotts Creek Community. As a young man, John moved to Lincoln Co., and later to Buncomb County where he met and married Jane Swearingen, daughter of Samuel Swearingen (c.1800). Around 1806 John and Jane and members of Jane's family moved to Haywood County and settled on the Oconalufty River (now Swain County and part of the Cherokee Indian Reservation). John and Jane were members of the Ocanalufty Baptist Church. John and Jane S. Beck had nine children. One of their sons, Samuel, born 11 April 1806, married Cynthia White, b. 26 July 1829. Samuel and Cynthia moved to Camp Creek around 1830. They had seven children.
Events
| Birth | 17 Oct 1777 | Davidson County, North Carolina | |||
| Death | 14 Aug 1861 | Swain County, North Carolina | |||
| Marriage | Mary Jane Swearingen |
Families
| Spouse | Mary Jane Swearingen (1785 - 1867) |
| Child | Nancy Alvira Beck (1816 - 1893) |
| Child | Samuel Beck (1806 - 1893) |
| Father | Jacob Beck (1735 - 1826) |
| Mother | Maria "Mary" Winkler (1751 - 1826) |
| Sibling | Mary "Polly" Beck ( - ) |
| Sibling | Henry Beck (1772 - 1846) |
| Sibling | Frederick Beck (1775 - 1837) |