This is a Message Board Post. Reply to the message or author by clicking on the link below. *************************************************************************** MESSAGE: (#223590) Fannie Davis Veale Beck <http://iagenweb.org/boards/louisa/obituaries/index.cgi?rev=223590> AUTHOR: David L. Skipto DATE: 2/26/2009 at 14:12:02 Surnames: BECK,VEALE,DAVENPORT,HAYS,MCALPINE Morning Sun, March 26, 1956. Last rites for Mrs. H.H. Beck, who died Saturday morning, Mar 24, 1956 in St. Louis, will be held at the Presbyterian Church of Morning Sun at 2 p.m. Tuesday. The Rev. Floyd Bowerman will officiate, and burial will be in Elmwood Cemetery. Fannie Davis Veale, eldest daughter of a large family of Texas Pioneers, was born at Dresden, Texas, on Oct. 15, 1861. Her parents were Judge and Mrs. William Veale. Her father was a prominent attorney. Two of her brothers were Texas cowboys and her grandmother Hardin, said to have been the first white woman married in Texas after its annexation to the Union. She was married to Henry H. Beck, who came to Texas from Morning Sun and built the first department store in her home town. The couple later moved to Morning Sun, where Mrs. Beck became a teacher in the Presbyterian Sunday School and a leader in the town's activities. After the death of her husband, Mrs. Beck spent the winters at the home of her daughters, the Misses Mary, Annie, Ruth, Mildred and Marion Beck who are teachers in that city. It was at their home that she died. Her youngest daughter, Esther Beck, is an associate professor at Alabama Polytechnic University at Auburn, Ala. Also surviving are two other daughters; Mrs. R.H. Davenport, Washington D.C.,; and Mrs. J. Milford Hays, of Morning Sun, a brother, Judge Warren C. Veale, Breckenridge and a sister, Mrs. R.H. McAlpine, of Amarillo, Texas.