Mary Jane Beeker ^{1 2}

   FamilySearch ID: L7Z2-3V1.

  Noted events in her life were:

1. Mary appeared in the household of Joseph Owens Beeker in a census in 1900 in Buffalo, Leon, TX. ^{3 3} The 1900 census recorded owning a home: Joseph Beeker, farmer, 43, born Oct 1857, living with wife Ella, 32, Feb 1868; Mary, 14, Nov 1886; Henry, 12, Mar 1888; and Minnie, 7, May 1893. Ella and Joseph were married for 14 years and she had birthed 3 children, all alive in 1900. Joseph and his parents were born in North Carolina. Ella and her children were born in Texas, and her father in Alabama and mother in Tennessee. A neighbor is Ella's mother, Mary Baker, farmer, widow, 58, May 1842, and her son Albert, 18, Mar 1882. Mary and her mother were born in Tennessee and her father in North Carolian. Albert was born in Texas and his father in Alabama.

2. She appeared in the household of Joseph Owens Beeker in a census in 1910 in Justice Precinct, Ellis, TX. ^{4 4} The 1910 census recorded Joseph Beaher [indexed wrong due to poor handwriting], farmer, widowed, 51; living with daughter Mary J. 23; son Henry A., 21; daughter Minnie M., 16; and son Edwin R., 8. Joseph and his parents were born in North Carolia. The children and their mother were born in Texas.

Mary married Thomas Allen Dillard. (Thomas Allen Dillard was born on 25 Aug 1885 in , Macon, TN,⁵ died on 9 Jun 1972 in Lockney, Floyd, TX ⁵ and was buried in Lockney: Lockney Cemetery, Floyd, TX ⁵.)