On 1 June 1860 he is 15 years old and lives with his parents and siblings in Petersburg, Virginia. 302 In 1870 he and his father T. Stanly Beckwith do not live with the rest of the children in Petersburg. On the 1870 census of Petersburg, Virginia, Thomas, 27, his wife Emma, 26, Edmund, 26, Margaret, 28, Susan, 24, Agnes, 22, Charles, 19, Mildred, 17 and Kate 13, live together with John Carey, 24, and domestic servants in Ward 3, Petersburg. Their mother is deceased and their father and brother John are not living with them.490 No Thomas Stanly Beckwith or variant can be found on the 1870 US Census, but his brother, Bishop John Watrous Beckwith and his family live in Macon, Georgia.491 The 14 March 1871 edition of the Daily Columbus Enquirer contains an advertisement for T. Stanley Beckwith and Son, General Agents for the Piedmont and Arlington Life Insurance Company of Virginia. The 1872 Haddock’s Macon, Georgia directory lists the address for T. Stanley Beckwith and , General Agents as 92 Mulberry. T. Stanley Beckwith lives on High between Spring and Orange and his son John Beckwith lives on Mulberry between Spring and New. Dr. John Beckwith and Mrs. John S. Beckwith are registered as communicants of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Macon on 7 May 1871 . In October 1871 John marries C. E. Edwards in Augusta, Richmond County, Georgia. They lived in Augusta until after their first child died on 22 July 1873, and then moved back to Petersburg between 1873 and 1875 as their oldest child, John is born in 1875 in Petersburg. At age 34 in 1880 he is a bank clerk and lived at 150 Jefferson Street, West Side, Petersburg, Virginia with his wife C.E. , John F. and Catherine W. 122 He died at age 61.1216

Dr. John Beckwith and Mrs. John S. Beckwith are registered as communicants of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Macon on 7 May 1871. In October 1871 John marries C. E. Edwards in Augusta, Richmond County, Georgia. John was not a Dr. nor married on 7 May 1871, and Mary Isabel was not born to T. Stanly until 1874.

There are four Beckwith families in Dinwiddie County in 1880:
John Beckwith C. E. Petersburg, Dinwiddie, VA abt 1846 Virginia Self
is a bank clerk and lives at 150 Jefferson Street?
C. E. Beckwith John Petersburg, Dinwiddie, VA abt 1853 South Carolina Wife
John Q. Beckwith John C. E. Petersburg, Dinwiddie, VA abt 1875 Virginia Son
Catherine L. Beckwith John, C. E. Petersburg, Dinwiddie, VA abt 1879 Virginia Daughter

T. S. Beckwith Petersburg, Dinwiddie, VA abt 1813 Virginia Self
is a widowed physician and lives at 14 Long Market Street?
M. S. Beckwith T. S. Petersburg, Dinwiddie, VA abt 1843 Virginia Daughter
Meldred R. Beckwith T. S. Petersburg, Dinwiddie, VA abt 1854 Virginia Daughter
Kate R. Beckwith T. S. Petersburg, Dinwiddie, VA abt 1859 Virginia Daughter

T. S. Beckwith C. Emma Petersburg, Dinwiddie, VA abt 1843 Virginia Self
works in a books store and lives at 12 Long Market Street?
C. Emma Beckwith T. S. Petersburg, Dinwiddie, VA abt 1843 Virginia Wife
S. Cary Beckwith T. S. C. Emma Petersburg, Dinwiddie, VA abt 1871 Virginia Son
J. Ruffin Beckwith T. S. C. Emma Petersburg, Dinwiddie, VA abt 1873 Virginia Son
T. Stanley Beckwith T. S. C. Emma Petersburg, Dinwiddie, VA abt 1876 Virginia Son
Emma Beckwith T. S. C. Emma Petersburg, Dinwiddie, VA abt 1876 Virginia Daughter
E. R. Beckwith Mary J. Petersburg, Dinwiddie, VA abt 1845 Virginia Self
is an apothecary and lives at 127 Halifax Street, at the intersection with Long Market Street.
Mary J. Beckwith E. R. Petersburg, Dinwiddie, VA abt 1850 North Carolina Wife

She was from Charleston, South Carolina. 291 She was 7 years old and born in South Carolina on the 22 September 1860 census when she lived in Aiken, South Carolina. She lived with Chas. Edmonston, a 78 year old gentleman born in Scotland who had real estate valued at $5200 and a personal estate valued at $3000. Mrs. M. P. Edmonston, 71, born in south Carolina, E. P. Edmonston, a 35 year old female born in South Carolina, J. N. Edmonston, a 29 year old male born in South Carolina, J. D. Edwards, a 30 year old female born in South Carolina, and M. P. Edwards, an 8 year old female born in South Carolina lived with him498. She was 17 years old and born in South Carolina on the 28 June 1870 Census when she lived in the 3rd Ward, Augusta, Georgia, with Thomas W. Johnson, a 45 year old cotton factor and his wife, Isabella, 40, both born in South Carolina. Her grandmother, Mary Edmonston, age 81, lived with them. 277 She was age 27 when she lived with her husband and two children at 150 Jefferson Street, Petersburg, Virginia in 1880. 122