In 1860 he is 15 and lives with his parents and siblings in Petersburg, Virginia. ®108 He served in the 1st Battalion Signal Corps in the Army of Northern Virginia, CSA and surrendered at Appomattox. On the 1870 Census of Petersburg, Virginia he is 26, single, and lives with Emma and her husband, Thomas, 27 and with Margaret, 28, Susan, 24 and Agnes Beckwith, 22. He is a clerk in a drug store. In 1880 he was a 35 year old apothecary and lived with his wife, Mary, and no children, at 127 Halifax Street in Petersburg. In 1910 he was 64 and lived at 16 North Market Street in Petersburg, Virginia with his wife Mary J., age 60, 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 were 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

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