From The Wayne Inependent Nov. 29, 1923
Malinda A. Beckwith widow of Edmund H. Beckwith, died at the residence of her daughter Mrs. Frank Burdick in Waymart, Tuesday am. at 3:30 o'clock after a ten day illness from diabetes. Malinda A. Hinds was the daughter of the late Samuel Hinds and Ruth (Stanton, Hinds) Neely, and was born in Salem, August 25, 1853. When very young, she removed with her parents to Clinton township and after her marriage to Mr. Beckwith in 1877 by the Rev. J.F. Reinsen pastor of the Aldenville and Clinton Centre Baptist church, had always resided in the township untill her removal to Waymart, after the sale of their farm in 1922, with her husband. Mrs. Beckwith was an earnest Christian woman, a charitable neighbor, and a devote mother. When very young she united with the Baptist denomination and had been a consistent member at the Clinton Centre Baptist church for over 60 years. Surviving are two daughters, Minnie B. wife of Frank Burdick and Cora I. wife of Ray Estelle of Waymart, two sons, Orville E. and Claude S. Beckwith and 14 grandchildren all of Waymart, also one brother, William Hinds of Hopbottom, Susquehanna county. Services will be held from the home of her daughter Mrs. Frank Burdick, Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock, conducted by the Rev. C.K. Shoup pastor of the Waymart Baptist church. Interment will follow in the family plot in the Clinton Centre Baptist cemetery.
Malinda A. Beckwith widow of Edmund H. Beckwith, died at the residence of her daughter Mrs. Frank Burdick in Waymart, Tuesday am. at 3:30 o'clock after a ten day illness from diabetes. Malinda A. Hinds was the daughter of the late Samuel Hinds and Ruth (Stanton, Hinds) Neely, and was born in Salem, August 25, 1853. When very young, she removed with her parents to Clinton township and after her marriage to Mr. Beckwith in 1877 by the Rev. J.F. Reinsen pastor of the Aldenville and Clinton Centre Baptist church, had always resided in the township untill her removal to Waymart, after the sale of their farm in 1922, with her husband. Mrs. Beckwith was an earnest Christian woman, a charitable neighbor, and a devote mother. When very young she united with the Baptist denomination and had been a consistent member at the Clinton Centre Baptist church for over 60 years. Surviving are two daughters, Minnie B. wife of Frank Burdick and Cora I. wife of Ray Estelle of Waymart, two sons, Orville E. and Claude S. Beckwith and 14 grandchildren all of Waymart, also one brother, William Hinds of Hopbottom, Susquehanna county. Services will be held from the home of her daughter Mrs. Frank Burdick, Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock, conducted by the Rev. C.K. Shoup pastor of the Waymart Baptist church. Interment will follow in the family plot in the Clinton Centre Baptist cemetery.
From The Wayne Inependent Nov. 29, 1923
Malinda A. Beckwith widow of Edmund H. Beckwith, died at the residence of her daughter Mrs. Frank Burdick in Waymart, Tuesday am. at 3:30 o'clock after a ten day illness from diabetes. Malinda A. Hinds was the daughter of the late Samuel Hinds and Ruth (Stanton, Hinds) Neely, and was born in Salem, August 25, 1853. When very young, she removed with her parents to Clinton township and after her marriage to Mr. Beckwith in 1877 by the Rev. J.F. Reinsen pastor of the Aldenville and Clinton Centre Baptist church, had always resided in the township untill her removal to Waymart, after the sale of their farm in 1922, with her husband. Mrs. Beckwith was an earnest Christian woman, a charitable neighbor, and a devote mother. When very young she united with the Baptist denomination and had been a consistent member at the Clinton Centre Baptist church for over 60 years. Surviving are two daughters, Minnie B. wife of Frank Burdick and Cora I. wife of Ray Estelle of Waymart, two sons, Orville E. and Claude S. Beckwith and 14 grandchildren all of Waymart, also one brother, William Hinds of Hopbottom, Susquehanna county. Services will be held from the home of her daughter Mrs. Frank Burdick, Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock, conducted by the Rev. C.K. Shoup pastor of the Waymart Baptist church. Interment will follow in the family plot in the Clinton Centre Baptist cemetery.
Malinda A. Beckwith widow of Edmund H. Beckwith, died at the residence of her daughter Mrs. Frank Burdick in Waymart, Tuesday am. at 3:30 o'clock after a ten day illness from diabetes. Malinda A. Hinds was the daughter of the late Samuel Hinds and Ruth (Stanton, Hinds) Neely, and was born in Salem, August 25, 1853. When very young, she removed with her parents to Clinton township and after her marriage to Mr. Beckwith in 1877 by the Rev. J.F. Reinsen pastor of the Aldenville and Clinton Centre Baptist church, had always resided in the township untill her removal to Waymart, after the sale of their farm in 1922, with her husband. Mrs. Beckwith was an earnest Christian woman, a charitable neighbor, and a devote mother. When very young she united with the Baptist denomination and had been a consistent member at the Clinton Centre Baptist church for over 60 years. Surviving are two daughters, Minnie B. wife of Frank Burdick and Cora I. wife of Ray Estelle of Waymart, two sons, Orville E. and Claude S. Beckwith and 14 grandchildren all of Waymart, also one brother, William Hinds of Hopbottom, Susquehanna county. Services will be held from the home of her daughter Mrs. Frank Burdick, Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock, conducted by the Rev. C.K. Shoup pastor of the Waymart Baptist church. Interment will follow in the family plot in the Clinton Centre Baptist cemetery.
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Stone reads Melinda but in all documentation I have come across her name was spelled Malinda.
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