Ninth Generation

2760. Merritt Asbury Beck³⁹⁶ was born on 6 Feb 1881 in Sullivan County, Indiana. In 1920 he was a coal miner in Sullivan County, Indiana.⁹⁴⁵ In 1930 he was a cement finisher in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois. He died on 24 Apr 1932. He was buried in Center Ridge Cemetery, Sullivan, Indiana.

• 1920 Census for Sullivan, Sullivan County, Indiana, shows Merritt Beck, age 50, a coal miner, as head of household with: wife Mertie, age 53; son Ralph, 16; daughter Fern, 15; and daughter Eva, 12.

• 1930 Census for Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, shows Merritt A. Beck, age 49, a cement finisher in the building trades, as head of household with: wife Mertie E., 45; son Ralph, 25, an inspector at a radio factory; daughter-in-law Mildred, 20, a saleswoman at a department store; granddaughter Dorothy, age 3 and 2/12, born in Florida; and daughter Eva, 23, a trained nurse in a factory. They rent a home for $34/mo.

Merritt Asbury Beck and Mertie [--?--] were married. Mertie [--?--] was born about 1877 in Indiana.⁹⁴⁵

Merritt Asbury Beck and Myrtle Smith were married on 29 Jul 1900. Myrtle Smith was born in 1884. She died in 1963. Merritt Asbury Beck and Myrtle Smith had the following children:

+4942	i.	Ralph Beck.
+4943	ii.	Fern Marie Beck.
4944	iii.	Eva Beck.