Guy Beckley

1805 - 1847  (42 years)

• Name	Guy Beckley
  Birth	25 Dec 1805
  Gender	Female
  Death	26 Dec 1847	Ann Arbor, Washtenaw, MI
  Person ID	I14282	Family Tree
  Last Modified	22 May 2017

  
  

  Father	Josiah Beckley
  Mother	Mary Norton
  Family ID	F5335	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Phyla Baker,   b. 15 May 1810, Charleston, Cheshire, NH d. 1850, Ann Arbor, Washtenaw, MI (Age 39 years)
  Marriage	10 May 1840	Bradford, Orange, VT
  Notes	from "The Vermont Phoenix", 22 May 1840 MARRIED - In Bradford, May 10, Rev. Guy Veckley of Ann Arbor, Michigan, to Miss Phyla Baker of the former place.
  Family ID	F5334	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	22 May 2017

  
  

• Notes

  from "The Salem Observer", 29 Jan 1848 In Michigan, Rev. Guy Beckley, 42 - for several years an anti-salvery agent and lecturer. from Wikipedia listing (de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Beckley) Guy Beckley, 1827 at the age of 22, was preacher candidate of the New England Methodist Conference and first worked in Rochester. In 1829 he was appointed deacon, and consecrated to the Presbyter in 1831. In the next few years he was a wanderer, and in 1836 he became a member of the American Anti-Slavery Society. After his first wife, Caroline Beckley, born Walker, died on 18 May 1839 in Northfield and left him with five children, Beckley married again and moved with his children to Ann Arbor, where a brother and a sister were already living. There he was active in his brother's commercial house, founded the Michigan Anti-Slavery Society, and became editor of the newspaper Signal of Liberty, which was committed to the liberation of the slaves. In addition, he was a major contributor to the Underground Railroad, which helped slaves from the southern states escape to the north of the US and further to Canada.