This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5BC.2ACI/1607 Message Board Post: Daily News Record, Tuesday, April 6, 1915. ALEXANDER BECK DEAD Confederate Veteran Dies at home Near Grottoes After Illness of Several Weeks The funeral of Alexander Beck, who died Saturday evening at his home in Grottoes, was held yesterday morning from the Mount Horeb Presbyterian Church. Interment was in the cemetery near the church. Mr. Beck was severty-three years old. He had been ill for several years of Brights disease. He was a Confederate veteran and during the War between the States he was captured and held for nine months in the prison at Fort Delaware. Mr. Beck was a native of Deerfield but for four years has lived at Grottoes. He was a member of the Presbyterian Church. Besides his wife who was Miss Annie Garber, of Deerfield. Mr. Beck is survived by four sons, Robert Beck of Greenville, Henry Beck, of near Staunton. Everett and Frank Beck, at home, and one daughter Mrs. J. W. Cox of Doma, California. Angel Joseph-DeLawder ~Wild Roots Genealogy~