Person

Quiros Elmo Beckwith (Mississippi County, Missouri, farmer)

b. 1801-09-25 d. 1862-09-03

Mississippi County, Missouri, farmer. Virginia native. Son of Newman Beckwith and Judith A. Neal Beckwith. Married to Susan Johnson Beckwith on April 2, 1839. Father of Thomas Beckwith, Ellen Beckwith, Margaret Beckwith, and Quiros Beckwith. Farmer in Mississippi County, Missouri, in 1850. Owned forty enslaved persons in Mississippi County in 1850. Farmer in Mississippi County in 1860. Owned ninety enslaved persons, including Elijah and James, in Mississippi County in 1860.

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Sex
Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Missouri, Mississippi County, District 57, p. 472A-B.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Missouri, Mississippi County, p. 671.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Missouri, Mississippi County, Wolf Island, p. 529.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Missouri, Mississippi County, Wolf Island, p. 88A-B.

Paul Beckwith, The Beckwiths, (Albany: Joel Munsell's Sons Publishers, 1891), 66-67.

"Quiros Elmo Beckwith (1801-1862)," Find A Grave, Memorial 246193034, accessed January 16, 2023, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/246193034.

Citation

Beckwith, Quiros Elmo. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32280712 (November 13, 2026).

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