John Franklin Becraft
Sex: M
AKA: Frank J.
Individual Information
Birth: 6 Aug 1893 - Georgetown, Price Co, WI 1
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Death: 11 Sep 1961 - Eagle River, WI 2
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Events
• Draft Registration 3, WW I Draft Registration Card
John Franklin Becraft, 01 Aug1894, Caucasian, born WI; USA, not stated, Marshall, IN.• Census, Federal, 1900 in Georgetown, Price Co, WI
Elijah Becraft, b June 1852, age 49, married 24 years, born NY, farmer; wife Flora M, b June 1862, age 37, (6 children, 5 living), born MI; son James W, b Dec 1885, age 14, born KY, at school; dau Lora Ella, b Sept 1891, age 9y, born WI, at school; son John F, b Aug 1893, age 7y, at school; dau May A, b Sept 1898, age 1y.• Census, 1930 Census, 1930 in Phelps, Vilas, WI
Frank Becraft age 35 born WI, listed with wife Beulah Becraft age 29.• Death, 11 Sep 1961 in WI
Name:John F Becraft
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Event:Death
Event Date:11 Sep 1961
Event Place:, , Wisconsin
Residence:, Wisconsin
Gender:Male
Age:67
Certificate Number:025132
Parents
Father: Elijah Franklin Becraft 1
Mother: Flora Miranda Smith
Spouses and Children
1. *Anna Peirce 1
Marriage: 2 Jan 1918 - Marshall Co, IN 1
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2. Fay E. 1
Marriage: 1927
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Children:
1. Becraft
3. Beulah Temple
4. Catherine Stevens 1
Marriage: 20 May 1935 - Eagle River, WI 1
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Children:
1. Mary M Becraft
2. John F Becraft
3. Catherine Becraft
4. Margaret Becraft
5. Laura Becraft
6. Theresa Becraft
Notes
General:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~nyhamilt/bios/Becraft1.html
Descendants of John say that he fought in WW I and that afterward, suffered from shellshock. When he moved to Eagle River, Wisconsin, he worked at a sawmill. When the mill closed down, he went to the woods and worked as a lumberjack. Eventually, he bought some lots of timber and started his own sawmill behind his house. John was also skilled at carving. Some of his carved pieces were in King's Gateway, a large ski lodge in Land O Lakes, Wisconsin. When the place was sold the pieces were auctioned off for quite a bit of money. One of John's carvings is at a museum in Eagle River; it was a piece he had traded for a jersey cow. Another carving rests on the fireplace mantle of the Murphy Mansion in Eagle River, the location for the ice skating scenes for the movie, "Damien Omen II."
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Sources
1. Joanne Murray (lajkam@gmail.com), The Becraft Family of Morehouse (http://hamilton.nygenweb.net/bios/Becraft1.html).
2. Joanne Murray (lajkam@gmail.com), The Becraft Family of Morehouse (http://hamilton.nygenweb.net/bios/Becraft1.html). .... LDS, Wisconsin, Death Index, 1959-1997.
3. Ancestry.com (National Archives and Records Administration. World War I Selective Service System Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918. M1509, 20,243 rolls. Washington, DC: National Archives and Records Administration.)