He was born in North Carolina, and came with his father to Petersburg, Virginia at an early age. In 1860 he is 16 and lives with his parents and siblings in Petersburg, Virginia. From the age of fifteen years he was engaged in the bookselling and stationery trade in that town, and conducted a store on Sycamore Street for many years. On the 1870 Census of Petersburg, Virginia he is 27 and lives with his wife, Emma, 26, and with Edmund, 26, Margaret, 28, Susan, 24 and Agnes Beckwith, 22. In 1872 he attended the University of Virginia. In 1872-4 he and C. V. Bingley had a book store at 74 Sycamore under the name T. S. Beckwith & Co. ®2796He was a soldier of the Confederate army and made a prisoner. ®102 In 1880 he is aged 37, works in a bookstore, and lives with his wife Emma, age 37, son S. Cary age 9, son J. Ruffin age 7, son T. Stanley age 4, daughter Emma age 4 at 12 Long Market Street, Petersburg, Virginia, Rooming with them is his 27 year old brother-in-law M. K. Cary, who clerks at a store. ®96 In June 1901 he was elected Secretary of the Petersburg Cycle Club. In the 1910 Census of Ward 3, Petersburg, Dinwiddie County, Virginia, Thomas Jr. is 67 and lives at 12 North Market Street with his wife Emma, age 66, his single son Thomas S, age 33, his single daughter Emma, age 33 and his single daughter Anna, age 26. They had been married for 41 years and had five children, of which 5 are alive in 1910. They and their children and parents were all born in Virginia. Thomas owns a bookstore at which his son is a salesman. Next door at 14 North Market Street live Margaret S. Beckwith, a single 68 year old female with her sister, Mildred E., a 56 year old single female. They and their parents were all born in Virginia, and they live on their income. Next door at 16 North Market live Edmund R. Beckwith, age 64, Mary J., age 60, his wife, their two single daughters, Mary W., age 26, Agnes R., age 24 and a single nephew, Bolton W. Williams, age 27. They have been married for 35 years, and had 6 children of whom two are living in 1910. His wife was born in North Carolina and her father in Scotland and mother in North Carolina. His nephew and his parents were all born in North Carolina. The two daughters were born in Virginia. Edmund owns a drugstore, Mary W. is a stenographer in a lawyers office and the nephew is a bookkeeper in a bank. ®2779 He died at age 75 in 1919 in Petersburg, Virginia. ®104

There are four Beckwith families in Dinwiddie County in 1880:
John Beckwith C. E. Petersburg, Dinwiddie, VA abt 1846 Virginia Self (Head)
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 (Head)
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 (Head)
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 (Head)
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