Beckwith, Andrew J

Beckwith, Andrew J.

a minister In the Methodist Episcopal Church South, was born at Fredericksburg, Va., March 13, 1833. He was early impressed with religibon, which he embraced at the age of fourteen; and in 1854 entered the Virginia Conference. In 1862, while stationed on King George Circuit, the advance of the Federal army drove him from his work, and he went to Florida to improve his health. He died Nov. 27, 1866. See Minutes of Annual Conferences of the M. E. Church South, 1867, p. 101.