Sunday, October 23, 2011

Children of Garth and Edna - Carlos

Carlos Lane "Card" Beckington was also born in Garden Prairie, Illinois. His date of birth was August 17, 1908. He was named after Edna's father, Carlos Webster Childs, and her grandmother, Sarah Ann Lane, married to Brooks Bowman Hazelton. These are Edna's mother, Mary Ella Hazelton Childs' parents. I do not know exactly how or why he became known as Card. Carlos married Ferina Catherine "Catherine" Maxwell on February 22, 1936 in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Catherine was born on July 14, 1911 in Tittabawassee Township, Saginaw, Michigan. There was some confusion to Catherine's first name as her parents couldn't agree on Ferina (which is on her birth certificate) or Serena (which is on her baptism certificate). She went by Catherine to the Beckington family, but was called Ferina by her family in Saginaw. She does have a great-granddaughter named after her with Serena as the first name. Card and Catherine had six children. Card was killed in a farming accident on February 27, 1963 on their farm in Chelsea, Michigan. Catherine was a hair stylist for many years and died of cancer on December 10, 1973. They are both buried in Oakwood Cemetery in Saline, Michigan.

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