Margaret Ruth Beeker ^{1 2 3 4 5 6}

   FamilySearch ID: L2F8-5RS.

  Noted events in her life were:

1. Census in 1910 in Cleveland, Rowan, NC. The 1910 census recorded J. H. Beeker (handwriting on census is poor and is indexed online was W S Baker), farmer, no age listed, living with wife Annie, 39; son W. S., farm laborer, 19; son J. C., farm laborer, 18; son James, farm laborer, 16; son Thomas, farm laborer, 16; son Gus, farm laborer, 14; daughter B. May, farm laborer, 12; daughter Blanche I., 8; daughter A. B., 5; daughter M. R., 0, and son H. H., 0. Everyone and their parents were born in North Carolina. J.H. and Annie were married for 20 years and she had birthed 10 children by 1910, all alive that year.

2. Census in 1920 in Cleveland, Rowan, NC. ⁸ The 1920 census recorded Will S. Bieker [indexed wrong due to poor handwriting], farmer, 29, living with wife Pearl L., 22; and sons William H., 4; and James B., 1. Next door is Will's father, J. Henry Bieker, farmer, 57, with his family indexed incorrectly as surname Becker: wife Annie, 48; son Gustus C., 24; daughters Blanche F., 18; Annie B., 14; son Henry H., 10; and and daughter Hallie M., 5. Everyone and their parents were born in North Carolina.

3. Residence: on 3 Dec 1964 in Rockwell, Rowan, NC. ⁹

4. Residence: on 28 Mar 1969 in Rockwell, Rowan, NC. ¹⁰

5. Residence: on 21 Oct 1973 in Rockwell, Rowan, NC. ³

6. Residence: on 26 Dec 1975 in Mooresville, Iredell, NC. ⁶

7. Residence: on 9 Jun 1977 in Rockwell, Rowan, NC. ⁴

8. Occupation: seamstress on 18 Aug 1978 in Rockwell, Rowan, NC. ⁵

9. Obituary: Greensboro Daily News: obituary of Ruth Beeker Lentz on 20 Aug 1978 in Greensboro, Guilford, NC. ⁷ MRS. RUTH B. LENTZ
ROCKWELL -- Mrs. Ruth Beaker Lentz, 68, of Miller Road, died Friday at N.C. Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem.
Funeral will be 3 p.m. today at Summersett Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. David Nelson, pastor of Saint James Lutheran Church, where she was a member, officiating. Burial will be in Rowan Memorial Park.
She was a native of Rowan County and was educated in the county schools. She was employed by Norman Draperies as a seamstress before her retirement. She was a member of the Senior Citizens of Rockwell.
Surviving are son, John Lentz of Rockwell; brother, A.C. Beaker of Cleveland; sisters, Mrs. Clyde Hartman of Kannapolis, Mrs. Mae Childress of Mooresville, Mrs. Ernest Kendrick of Charlotte.

Margaret married Benjamin Herman Lentz, son of Rufus Walter Lentz and Nellie Elizabeth Sides, on 16 Oct 1942 in , Rowan, NC.¹ (Benjamin Herman Lentz was born on 7 May 1909 in , Cabarrus, NC,¹¹ died on 14 Feb 1967 in Salisbury, Rowan, NC ¹¹ and was buried in Salisbury: Memorial Park Cemetery, Rowan, NC ¹¹.)