Obituary, Capt. S. M. Beck, 1902

The Clayton Tribune, Thursday, September 11, 1902, Vol. V No. 35, p. 3

Capt. S. M. Beck, aged 77 years died last Monday night, at 11 o'clock at the home of his daughter, Mrs. J. I. Langston, of a conplication [sic] disease. It will be remembered that he got his hand fearfully sawed by falling against his saw. He then took typhoid fever, inflamatory rheumatism, any one of which was almost sufficient to cause death. He suffered [greatly].

Capt. Beck was among the most prominent men in this section of Ga. Our sympathy goes out to the bereaved.