Anna M. (Lowe) Beckett
(1881-1961)
Anna
M. (Lowe) Beckett was born in 1881, presumably in Hopwood, Fayette County, PA, the daughter of
Thomas "Jefferson" and Harriet
Louise (Minerd) Lowe.
Anna married Alonzo "Lon" Beckett (1878-1935), the son of Andrew J. and Rachel (Braden) Beckett of Uniontown, Fayette County. They had no children.
As a teenager, Alonzo served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War. The Uniontown Morning Herald once said, "Although under age at the time of the Spanish-American War, Mr. Beckett volunteered and served in the Philippines throughout the duration of the war as a member of Company C, 10th Pennsylvania Infantry."
The Becketts resided in Uniontown. Said the Morning Herald, "He spent his entire life as a resident of this city where he was active in real estate. Besides constructing several buildings in the East End, including a garage in Main street, he also built the Beckett and Redstone apartment buildings in Shady Lane."
In
1927, after the death of Anna's father, her widowed mother came to live in their
home.
Alonzo
came down with a fatal case of bronchial pneumonia in the fall of 1935. "He
was removed to the [Uniontown] hospital," said the Morning Herald,
"when his condition became suddenly alarming." He passed away there,
at age 57, on Oct. 4, 1935. His remains were laid to rest at Sylvan Heights
Cemetery in Uniontown, with the services led by Rev. James C. Clark, pastor of
the Second Presbyterian Church.
Anna survived her husband by more than a quarter of a century, and resided at 12 Shady Lane in Uniontown.
She passed away at age 79 on Sept. 5, 1961, and was laid to rest at Sylvan Heights Cemetery in Uniontown between her husband and parents. Her obituary in the Morning Herald noted little more than that her husband had died in 1935, and that she was "survived by several cousins, nieces and nephews."
Copyright © 2006 Mark A. Miner