Elias Becraft

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      Sex: M

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Individual Information

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          Birth: 1845 - NY
    Christening: 
          Death: 4 Dec 1862 - Washington, DC 1
         Burial: 
 Cause of Death: Typhoid Fever
           AFN : 
                 

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Events

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• Census, Federal, 1850 in Hamilton Co, NY

340, 349
Becraft, Jacob H, age 27, M, farmer, 400, NY
Sirena, age 21, F, , , NY
Elias, age 5, M,,,NY
Sarah M, age 3, F,,,NY
Peter H, age 19, , Laborer, , NY
Peter, age 1,,, NY
Miller, Katherine, age 86, F ,,, NY

• Census, Federal, 1860 in Morehouse Twp, Hamilton, NY

Peter Becraft, age 26, carpenter, born NY; Elizabeth age 57, born NY; Elias age 15, at school, born NY; Anna Williams age 19, com. school teacher, born NY.

Elizabeth is Peter's mother, Elias is the son of Jacob Henry, Peter's brother.

• Military, 97th NY Infantry, Company E, 26 Oct 1861 in NY

BECRAFT, ELIAS: age 18, enlisted Oct. 26, 1861 at Morehouseville; to serve 3 yrs., private, Co. E; died of typhoid fever, Dec. 4, 1862 at Washington, D. C. *(listed as Beacraft, Elias)

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Parents

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         Father: Jacob Henry Becraft
         Mother: Serena Rickart

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Notes

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Death Notes:

of typhoid fever

General:

http://www.rootsweb.com/~nyhamilt/census/1850more.html

Sources

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1. Joanne Murray (lajkam@gmail.com), The Becraft Family of Morehouse (http://hamilton.nygenweb.net/bios/Becraft1.html).

1 Joanne Murray (lajkam@gmail.com), The Becraft Family of Morehouse (http://hamilton.nygenweb.net/bios/Becraft1.html).