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Footnote Copied from the family bible Charles Henry Beckwith married to Martha Melissa Owen at Oxford N.Y. May 25th 1841 by Revd. John B Hoyt ? 2 The lure of prospective prosperity, he had left Albany, where he had established his home since his marriage in 1841 [[left margin]]?[[/left margin]] and transported his [[strikethrough]] little [[/strikethrough] family, consisting of a wife and two little sons to the wildness of the west, where the recollections of my sensitive mother, as recounted to me in later years, were full of experience such as one [[strikethrough]] can [[/strikethrough] could only have had in the raw frontier life of the place and period. My father was bitterly opposed to slavery so, our household servants were leased from neighboring owners and a negro nannie was my care-taker. Those were high strung states in the years proceeding the war and my mother once told me of a scene at a dinner party she attended in St. Louis where she saw one of the guests suddenly rise and throw his glass of wine directly