Ralph Raymond Beeker ^{1 3 4 5}

   FamilySearch ID: L7LK-9TK.

  Noted events in his life were:

1. Census in 1910 in Gilmer Township, Guilford, NC. ⁶ The 1910 census recorded renting a home on Summit Avenue: O. J. Beeker, farm manager, 30, living with wife Patty, 27; Claude, 8; Ralph, 6; Pearl, 4; and James, 2. Everyone and their parents were born in North Carolina. O.J. and Patty were married for 10 years and she had birthed 4 children by 1910, all alive.

2. Census in 1920 in Albemarle, Stanly, NC. ⁷ The 1920 census recorded Oscar Beaker, laborer in hosiery mill, 40, living with wife Pattie, 37; son Claudie, laborer in cotton mill, 18; Ralph, laborer in cotton mill, 16; daughter Pearl laborer in cotton mill, 14; james, 12; Helen, 10; Julius, 7, and nephew Roy Livingtood, laborer in hosiery mill, 18. Everyone and their parents were born in North Carolina.

3. Obituary: Greensboro Daily News: obituary of Ralph R. Beeker on 5 Jun 1941 in Greensboro, Guilford, NC. ⁵ Ralph R. Beeker
Funeral service for Ralph R. Beeker, 37, 2504 Williams street, who died at noon yesterday in Wesey Long hospital after illness of four months, will be held at 10:30 o'clock Friday morning at the home.
Rev. W. E. Wisseman, pastor of First Congregational Christian church will officiate and interment will be in the Albemarle cemetery. There will be a graveside service at 1 o'clock Friday afternoon.
Mr. Beeker had been employed for the past 14 years at Mock-Judson-Joehringer, incorporated. He is survived by his wife, the former Miss Ann Swanner; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. O. J. Beeker, Albemarle; three brothers, James Beeker, Asheboro; C. C. Beeker and Julius Beeker, Albemarle; two sisters, Mrs. Ramie Turner and Mrs. Curtis Tate, Albemarle.

Ralph married Martha Anne Swanner, daughter of Isiah Marshall Swanner and Susan Clementine Thomas, on 28 Jul 1925 in Albemarle, Stanly, NC.^{1 2} (Martha Anne Swanner was born on 27 Feb 1904 in Marshville, Union, NC,⁸ died on 29 Mar 1978 in Greensboro, Guilford, NC ⁸ and was buried in Greensboro: Guilford Memorial Park, Guilford, NC ⁸.)