Charles Wilbur Beeker ^{1 3 4 5}

   FamilySearch ID: K8YM-QX1.

  Noted events in his life were:

1. Census in 1900 in Fairfield Township, Tippecanoe, IN, USA. ⁶ The1900 census recorded at 1007 Union St.: Chas. Berker [indexed wrong due to poor handwriting], farmer, 45, born May 1855; Anna, 40, Nov 1859; Wilbur, 16, Aug 1883; Lena, 13, Jul 1888. Also in the home is sister Rosetta Gallahen, 31, Sep 1868; with her son Daniel, 5, Jul 1894. Everyone and their parents were born in Indiana, except Anna's parents in Germany, and Rosetta's father in Pennsylvania and mother in Kentucky, and Danel born in Wisconsin.

2. Census in 1910 in Lafayette, Tippecanoe, IN, USA. ⁷ The 1910 census recorded renting a home at 202 Perrin Avenue: C. Wilbur Becker [indexed wrong due to poor handwriting], dredging and drain contractor, 26, living with wife Nancy, 22. They had birthed no children by 1910. They and their parents were born in Indiana.

3. Census in 1930 in Lafayette, Tippecanoe, IN, USA. ⁸ The 1930 census recorded renting at 425 North 7th Street: Charles W. Becker [indexed wrong due to poor handwriting], salesman for publishing company, 46, living with wife Nancy, millinery, 42; and brother-in-law George B. Seawright, foreign manager for electric company, single, 32. Everyone and their parents were born in Indiana.

4. Cause of Death: pulmonary aedema due to heart decompensated, 20 Jan 1944, Lafayette, Tippecanoe, IN, USA. ³

5. Residence: 1217 S. 14th Street, Lafayette, IN on 20 Jan 1944 in Lafayette, Tippecanoe, IN, USA. ³

6. Obituary: Journal and Courier: obituary of C. Wilbur Beeker on 21 Jan 1944 in Lafayette, Tippecanoe, IN, USA. ² C. Wilbur Beeker, 60, 1217 South Fourteenth street, died Thursday noon at St. Elizabeth hospital. Born at Battle Ground, he married Nancy Seawright in 1909. He was graduated from Culver Military academy and attended Indiana University where he was a member of the Kappa Sigma fraternity. For seven years he was sales engineer for the Holland Furnace company and later was connected with the Haywood publishing company. Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Nancy Beeker, manager of the Day Time Frock shop; a sister, Mrs. Earl Billings of Chalmers and his mother, Mrs. Charles Beeker of Lafayette. Body at the Rogers and Henderson funeral home after 7 Friday evening for services there at 2 Saturday.

Charles married Nancy Hughes Seawright, daughter of Frank Brainard Seawright and Nancy Crouch, on 12 Oct 1909 in , Tippecanoe, IN.^{1 2} (Nancy Hughes Seawright was born on 18 Jun 1887 in Lafayette, Tippecanoe, IN, USA ¹ and died on 19 May 1976 in West Hartford, Hartford, CT, USA ⁹.)