Andrew Jackson was born 15 May 1831 in Beck's Mill, Washington Co., IN, and was called "Jack" by all who knew him.  He was the son of John J. Beck and Annie Rogers and made the infamous journey from Indiana to Texas with his family.

   Jack married his first cousin, Parthena A. Beck, daughter of his father's brother, Andrew M. Beck, on 14 Feb 1856.  She was also born in Washington County, Indiana, and they were married at College Mound in Kaufman County, Texas.  Ten months later, their first child, a son, John Henry Beck, was born.  John Henry Beck married Lula Florida Swindall, who was also born in Kaufman County, and they had eleven children.  They lived in Knox County, Texas.

   The second child of Jack, Andrew Jacob Beck, died when only seven years of age and there is another known infant who died in 1868, nine years later, leaving speculation that there may have been other children born to Andrew and Parthena that nothing is known about.  There are several unnamed infants buried at College Mound Cemetery within the Beck plots, who could have been theirs.

   Jack and Parthena's third known child, also a son, Edward Jackson Beck, was born in 1864 and he became a medical doctor.  He married Elizabeth "Lizzie" Harbison (Harbeson) in 1884.  They had five children and in the 1890's moved to Wellington, Texas in Collinsworth County, summoned there by an old friend, James Edward Peters.  James Peters had moved his family to Wellington but at the time there was a scarcity of doctors in the Texas panhandle and when he learned Edward was looking for a new location to start a practice, he notified Edward of the town's needs and merits.

   Another child, Mary, was born to them in 1870 and she died at age six, and another son, Samuel, was born in 1874.  Nothing is known of him.

   Andrew and Parthena adopted a girl named Anna Rebecca, who was born in 1880.  She married and lived in the Kaufman area the rest of her life.

   Jack Beck served in the Confederacy, in Co G 12th Texas Cavalry, with many of his family members.  He enlisted in June 1861 at Oak Grove and was discharged in 1865.  He saw battle at many locations in Louisiana and was with two of his cousins, Edward and Perry Gardner, when they died in battle.

   Parthena died in 1888 and in January of 1890 Jack married Sarah Stephenson, a widow.  Their married life together was brief, as Jack died 7 Apr 1890.  Sarah died in 1900 and was buried near him at College mound Cemetery.

   Jack received Mercer's Colony land in Henderson and Kaufman Counties, signing his certificates in January 1845 and December 1850.  He also acquired several hundred more acres of land around the College Mound area during his lifetime.  He owned the bulk of the land which was known as his father's College Mound Tract, which is the land he lived on.  He did not live long enough to see the final settlement of his father's estate.

   He was a   Master Carpenter by trade, also a  farmer and raised livestock.  He attended College Mound Methodist Church.

KNOWN CHILDREN of JACK & PARTHENIA BECK