Bessie May Beeker ^{1 2 3}

  Noted events in her life were:

1. Census in 1910 in Grand Saline, Van Zandt, TX. ¹ The 1910 census recorded on Dallas and Shreveport Road: William H. C. Becker [sic], farmer, 38, living with wife Ada, 29; Bessie, farm laborer, 14; Bertha, 3; Lottie, 0; and grandmother Kissiah Babb, 80. William and Kissiah and their parents were born in North Carolina. Ada and her children were born in Texas. The children's father was born in North Carolina. Daughter Bessie's mother was born in North Carolina, and Bertha and Lottie's mother in Texas. This indicates Bessie's mother is not Ada, further confirmed because William's martial status is M2 indicating Ada is his second marriage. Ada's status is M1, and the census records she was married 8 years to William and had birthed 2 children by 1910, both alive that year.

2. Census in 1920 in , Van Zandt, TX. ⁴ The 1920 census recorded Willie H. C. Baker [indexed wrong, handwriting poor - Beaker], farmer, living with wife Ada M., 39; daughte rBisie M., 24; daughter Birtha S., 13; daughter Lottie D., 10; daughter Sallie M., 7. Willie and his parents were born in North Carolina. Ada was born in Texas, her father in South Carolina, and mother in Georgia. The children were born in Texas.

Bessie married Aquilla Bascom White. (Aquilla Bascom White was born on 5 Oct 1885 and died about 1941.)