Is anyone researching the Beck family of old Tippah and now Benton Co. Miss.? Orrin Beck owned land next to my gg grandfather, Elijah Cox. He was a brother of Miriam Beck Forrest, mother of Lt. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest. According to the Andrew Brown history of Tippah Co. the Forrests settled on Beck's land in 1831. I believe William D. Beck, Capt. of Co. D 2nd Miss. Inf. was a sibling of Miriam and Orrin. I am confused by the Orrins though. An Orrin A(lston?) Beck was a Lt. in the 2nd Miss. and there was an Pvt. Orrin A. Beck in Co. A 18th Btn. Miss. Cav. I don't believe this is the same Orrin above since he was born in 20 Feb. 1803 and would have been to old for the war. Are Orrin A. of the 2nd MS and the 18th MS Cav. the same man? The area the Coxes and Becks lived in was about two miles south of old Salem. The day after the battle at Brice's Cross Roads Forrest pursued the fleeing Federals as far as Salem and Andrew Brown says Gen. Forrest spent the night at Orrin Beck's. This area was given much attention by the Yankees who were trying to capture Forrest since the Becks were his relatives and his boyhood home was only about a mile south of Orrin's home. There is a Beck cemetery on Orrin's former property. In it is a grave marked Col. W.D. Beck. Andrew Brown lists him as a Capt. I think I have read some place that he was promoted to Lt. Col. If he was a later promoted to Col., what unit did he command? Brown says he was a Maj. Gen. of Militia before the war and Wm. Falkner was a Brig. Gen., yet Beck served as a Capt. under Col. Falkner in the 2nd Miss. Inf. FredGet more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com