This came from Sigrid Beck-Catanzaro, Memphis, Tn e-mail
BECKS(a)ten-nash.ten.k12.tn.us
This would be the Battle/Cato connection in the GA/AL line (Green Cato's
descend.)
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While trying to work up some of our family history, I found a copy of an
information request dated May 15, 1928 for the Battle Book. Apparently,
my father (who is now 83) had a
Battle as a great grandfather. My father, James Moreno Beck's father was
Alexander Rabun Beck. Alexander
Rabun Beck was the son of Alexander Beck and Cora Selack Warren who were
descended, from the
information I have, from Jesse Brown Battle and Martha Battle Rabun. My
father's mother was Marie Isla
Smith, born May 21, 1886 and daughter of Octavius Smith and Pearl M.
Moreno. Alexander Rabun Beck and
Isla Smith married on December 27, 1909. My father James Moreno Beck was
born in Pensacola, Florida on
July 29, 1913. Alexander Rabun died in New York City in October of 1919.
My father has no information
regarding Alexander Beck. My father's maternal grandmother was Margaret
Pearl Moreno, daughter of Don
Francisco Moreno, one of the founding families of Pensacola, Florida.
There has been extensive research
conducted and publications on the Moreno family published by Regina
Moreno Kirchoff Mandrell, published
by Perdido Bay Press, Pensacola, Florida. Margaret Pearl Moreno was born
in 1859 and died in 1958. Her
daughter, Marie Isla Smith Beck Bland, lived to be almost 100 as well.
Alexander Beck had a sister, Minna
______ Beck, who may have been a teacher at the Alabama College in
Montevallo, AL as it was she who sent
the information to Mr. Smith on April 13, 1929. If you are interested in
additional information, please contact
me at Becks(a)ten-nash.ten.k12.tn.us
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:) White Co., Ark.
http://www.webkeeper.com/cato/WH.html :)
:) Cleburne Co., Ark.
http://www.webkeeper.com/cato/CLhome.html :)
:) Rusk Co., Tex.
http://www.rootsweb.com/~txrusk/index.htm :)
:) Cato Family Homepage
http://www.webkeeper.com/cato/c.html :)
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