Kentucky:  A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed., 
1886. Warren County.

CAPT. LA FAYETTE S. BECK, a leading citizen of Warren County, was born 
December 5, 1825, in Clinton County, Ky., and is the second of six sons 
and two daughters born to John R. and Tabitha W. (Stockton) Beck.  John 
R. Beck was born, in 1796, in Virginia; in 1797 his parents located near 
Albany in Clinton County, then Cumberland County, Ky., where he was 
reared.  He married and remained in same county until 1830, and then 
moved to Overton County, Tenn.; in 1848 he moved to the east part of 
Warren County; in 1851 he located on Beaver Creek, Barren County, Ky., 
where he remained on a farm the rest of his life and died in the fall of 
1881.  While in Tennessee he filled the office of constable.  He was a 
son of Silas Beck who married Anna Richard, both born in Virginia.  They 
immigrated to Clinton County, Ky., in 1797, where they remained during 
life.  Silas Beck died in 1830, aged fifty-six years.  Mrs. Tabitha W. 
Beck was born in Wayne County, Ky., and was a daughter of Peter and 
Rachel (Stockton) Stockton, who were both born near Petersburgh, Va., 
and immigrated to Wayne County, Ky., about 1800, where a farm was 
entered and improved.  Capt. La Fayette S. Beck was reared on a farm and 
educated at an academy called Alpine Institute, at the Chalybeate 
Springs, in Overton County, Tenn., and after arriving at maturity taught 
several terms of school.  April 9, 1850, he married Sarah A. Dillard, of 
Wilson County, Tenn., a daughter of William M. and Eliza F. (Corley) 
Dillard, both natives of Virginia and early pioneers of Wilson County, 
Tenn.  William M. Dillard was a farmer and slave holder.  He moved to 
Pontotoc County, Miss., where he remained until his death in 1862.  He 
was a son of William M. Dillard and Sarah (Leeth) Dillard, both of whom 
were born and reared in Virginia and were of English descent.  Mr. and 
Mrs. Beck have had born to them nine children:  William W., Frances A., 
John O., Tabitha A. (died April 7, 1885), La Fayette F., Junius W., 
Nemias B., Hewlins S., and Karl Ulyss.  All the family are members of 
the Cumberland Presbyterian Church; two of the sons are ministers and 
one a lawyer and farmer.  Capt. Beck has taken a great interest in the 
education of his children, nearly all of whom are graduates of first-
class colleges. After marriage he located in the east part of Warren 
County and engaged in farming.  While living in Tennessee he served as 
constable. Being a strong Union man, in August, 1862, he made up Company 
B, Thirty-third Kentucky Infantry, of which he was elected captain; 
afterward the regiment was consolidated with the Twenty-sixth Kentucky, 
and he became captain of Company H., and was in all the engagements in 
which the regiment participated, except from January to March, 1865.  He 
was discharged in July, 1865, at Salisbury, N. C., and was mustered out 
at Louisville, Ky.  He located where he now resides, three miles east of 
Smith's Grove, in 1866, on 146 acres, and served as postmaster at 
Smith's Grove for six years.  In 1870 he assisted in taking the census 
of Warren County.  He is a member of the F. & A. M., and was a leading 
member of the Grange, of which he was master for two years, and then 
county lecturer one year.  He made the race for State Senator of Warren 
and Allen Counties in 1871, on the Republican ticket, receiving the full 
Republican vote, and has been very active in politics.  He cast his 
first presidential vote for Gen. Taylor, but since the war has been an 
active Republican.

Beck Stockton Richard Dillard Corley Leeth
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Albany-Clinton-KY Cumberland-KY Overton-TN Barren-KY VA Wayne-KY VA 
Wilson-TN Pontotoc-MS NC St._Louis-St._Louis-MO Allen-KY

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