Ann Elizabeth (Hannah) Beecroft
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 15 Mar 1862 - Ontario, Canada 2
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Death: 7 Sep 1949 - Los Angeles Co, CA 2
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Events
• Biography
Annie Beecroft was born at Greenbank, Canada West, in 1860 and was married in 1879 to David Leslie Briggs, a storekeeper in Myrtle. She learned music from Professor Wyatt of Brooklin and became a music teacher. She moved to Toronto with her husband after his store burned at Myrtle in 1889 and some years later lost her hearing. She was editor of the Canadian Ladies' Home Journal and a contributor of articles to "Progress" and other magazines. She began wintering in Los Angeles, California after she lost her hearing, and her husband joined her there permanently about 1914. She became a member of the California Women's Press Club and won the club's first prize for three years in succession for the best one-act play. She assisted prisoners in the California jails as well as their families and was able to get pardons and reprieves for some of them. She corresponded with former U.S. presidents including Woodrow Wilson, and toured Europe where she met Bernard Shaw. She was a frequent letter writer to newspaper editors. Mrs. Briggs died at California in September 1949.• Census, Canadian, 1871 in Reach Township, Ontario, Canada
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1871 census 049b4 family 134
@ca.on.ontario_county.reach_township division 4 page 37 film C9975 lds0349175 <http://www.ogs.on.ca/ogspi/7/7.htm>
electoral district of Ontario County North
14 BEACOFT Alvery m 41 Eng PMeth English carpenter married
15 BEACOFT {?} Margaret f 37 Ont PMeth Irish married
16 BEACOFT Albert m 16 Ont PMeth English
17 BEACOFT Hannah E. f 10 Ont PMeth English
18 BEACOFT Rosena f 8 Ont PMeth English
19 BEACOFT Heslevan? f 5 Ont PMeth English
20 BEACOFT Franklin m 3 Ont PMeth English
indexed 2003 by members of OGS Durham Region Branch <http://www.ogs.on.ca/branches.htm>
Parents
Father: Alvary Beecroft 3
Mother: Margaret Lloyd 3
Spouses and Children
1. *David Leslie Briggs
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Sources
1. LDS. .... www.familytreelegends.com.
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3. LDS.