Information from Kansas West card file (discarded): 1856 - born August 16 in Lewistown, Lewis County, MO to John and Lydia A. Beacock 1877 - admitted to the bar in MO June 1; practiced until 1886 1889 - married Emma Smith December 25 (married by David R. Francis) 1890 - conversion, Geuda Springs, KS, December 1; baptised March 23 at Newton, KS by W.S. Martindale; joined church, Geuda Springs by F.W. McKinney; licensed to preach, December 29 1891 - licensed to exhort, January 11 1892 - received on trial, Southwest Kansas Conference; Ulysses-Hugoton 1893 - Ingalls 1894 - full connection and deacon; Hazleton 1895 - Hazleton or Nashville (different cards conflicted) 1896 - elder; Cunningham 1897 - transferred to Oklahoma 1898 - transferred from Oklahoma 1898-99 - Douglass Circuit 1900-02 - Wendell 1903 - supernumerary 1908 - superannuated 1925 - died May 23 in Clermont, FL; memoir, Southwest Kansas Journal (p.207 or 211) (no confirmation from gcah index) children: 3 sons (incl?) John Carl (b. October 2, 1891), 1 daughter college: University of Missouri-Columbia (grad. March 1877)