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Becks Chapel
est. circa 1882
Photo courtesy Brad Molgaard, June 2018 |
History
on a Pinhead
David Anding moved his family here in the late 1840s and is regarded
as the founder. The community may have been named for an earlier church,
but no information is immediately available.
There are, however, reports of a school being here in 1906 which schooled
43 area children. No population figures are available but in the 1930s
there was still a church although the school had since closed. The
prosperity of the postwar era drew more people away in search of jobs
and only a few families remained. By the 1990s, the community was
a virtual ghost town – with only a church, cemetery and scattered
residences.
Beck’s Chapel was suggested for inclusion by Jack Palmer.
See Beck's Chapel Cemetery
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Becks Chapel
Photo courtesy Brad Molgaard, June 2018 |
| Photo
courtesy Brad Molgaard, June 2018 |
More views of
Becks Chapel
Photo courtesy Brad Molgaard, June 2018 |
| Photo
courtesy Brad Molgaard, June 2018 |
Beck's Chapel
Cemetery
Photo courtesy Nick
Samano, February 2017 |
| Photo
courtesy Brad Molgaard, June 2018 |
Robert Beck Tombstone
Photo courtesy Brad Molgaard, July 2018 |
Josephine Beck
Tombstone
Photo courtesy Brad Molgaard, July 2018 |
Photographer's
Note:
"I drove to Beck's Chapel to photograph the Anding/Beck grave
stones. I located two grave stones of Robert & Josephine Beck who
were husband and wife. Their birth dates were 1867 & 1865. With the
chapel displaying the established date of 1882, I figure Robert would
have been 15 years of age when it was built. These two were the oldest
birth dates I could find.
Of the Andings, I found Buddie and Lillie, birth dates of 1887/1893.
I could not find a gravestone of founder David Anding. There are some
grave markers that are illegible... I was unable to view all of the
grave markers on that particular morning." - Brad Molgaard, July
30, 2018 |
Buddie & Lillie
Anding Tombstone
Photo courtesy Brad Molgaard, July 2018 |
Lela Anding
Tombstone
Photo courtesy Brad Molgaard, July 2018 |
R.B. Anding Tombstone
Photo courtesy Brad Molgaard, July 2018 |
Boyce Rance Anding
Tombstone
US Army
Korea
Photo courtesy Brad Molgaard, July 2018 |
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