Person:Electa Beach (1)

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Electa Beach
b.1769
  1. Samuel Beach1761 - 1793
  2. Nancy Day Beach1767 - 1805
  3. Electa Beach1769 - 1854
m. 21 May 1795
m. 3 May 1808
Facts and Events
Name Electa Beach
Gender Female
Birth? 1769
Marriage 21 May 1795 Morristown, Morris Co., New Jersey, United Statesto Silas Dickerson
Marriage 3 May 1808 Morristown, Morris Co., New Jersey, United Statesto Col. Joseph Jackson
Death? 7 Feb 1854 Rockaway, Morris Co., New Jersey, United States
Burial[1] First Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Rockaway, Morris Co., New Jersey, United States

Joseph married a second time to a widow of Silas Dickerson, Electa Beach, dau of Capt. Enoch Beach. She died without issue.

Record of Electa's church membership was found here: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jdevlin/nj/hanover_nj_bapt-marr.htm Extracted from Marriages & Baptisms at Hanover, Morris Co., N. J., During the Pastorate of Rev. Jacob GREEN, And to the Settlement of Rev. Aaron CONDIT 1746 - 1796 W. Ogden WHEELER & Edmund D. HALSEY, 1893

Admitted to membership 20 Jun 1790; Nancy BEACH (Mrs. Abraham HALSEY) Admitted to membership 20 Jun 1790, Electra (Beach) Dickerson (wife of Silas Dickerson). Electra transferred her church membership in 1808 when she married her second husband, Joseph Jackson. to The Presbyterian Church at Rockaway, NJ. (info found at ancestry.com from the book "A Brief History of the Church at Rockaway, New Jersey". Her husband Joseph and step-son Stephen Joseph did not become members of this church until ten years later, in 1818.

Tombstone Inscription found at Find-a-Grave: Honored & Beloved 45 and 1/2 years The wife of Col Joseph Jackson Aged 85 Years

References
  1. Find A Grave
    Memorial# 85115555.
  2.   Crayon, J. Percy. Rockaway records of Morris County, N.J., families: cemetery records, church history, military records, local history, genealogies of old families, nearly 20,000 data. (Rockaway, N.J.: Rockaway Pub. Co., 1902).
  3.   First Family of Rockaway
    32.
  4.   Mary Beth Wheeler, wc.rootsweb.com ID mbwheeler.
  5.   John Littell, Family Records or Genealogies of the First Settlers of Passaic Valley and Vicinity 1852, www.roo.