Alonzo Cabell Beckner was my grandfather,and the son of George and Teressa "Mills" Beckner, born April,4,1886 in Franklin Co. Virginia. He married Lucy Emma Stump Aug.14,1904.. I never knew him. My father said that he was a man that a lot of people feared, including his own family. He was a bully-type person..When my dad, "William" was about nine years old, "Alonzo" his Dad , disappeared.. They say he got up from the supper table to go to the garden to get a tomato, and never returned. [Wheres Maulder When you need him?] It happened in the 1920s. As far as I know Alonzo has never been seen since.
After talking to some relatives , some think that Alonzo left and went to Ohio and changed his name to Brown. Others think that he was killed. None of us know for sure.. There is a story in the family about one of Alonzo's brothers that was murdered on a ridge. But know one is sure which one it was. But all agree that he was "waylaid " so our parents and grandparents tell us. The story is that some one threw a rock and hit him in the head. My father told this story when I waa little, but I dont recall which of his uncles he said it was. ***********************************************************************
CHILDREN OF ALONZO AND LUCY BECKNER
Harry Alfred Beckner-1905-1982
Robert Erie Beckner- 1909- died when hit by a train in the 1930s
Stanford Horton Beckner- B.Fe.. 18, 1910- D. Nov.11,1978
William Everett Beckner- B. Sept.25, 1913 - D. Nov. 7, 1978
Helen M. Beckner- B. June 1915- D. July, 1983
Florence M. Beckner- B. March,5,1917- d. Jan. 1986
Julia Christine Beckner- B. March,18, 1919 -D. Jan. 1983
Edith Pauline Beckner- 1924- 1924
Curnie Beckner- Abt. 1925- 1998
Pansy Beckner- Abt. 1926-
Esther Beckner- still living
Sylvia Beckner- still living
