Isaiah Smith Becraft ^{1 2}

  Noted events in his life were:

• He owned land Document # 10050 on 28 Oct 1835 in Macomb Co, MI. ⁵ 40 acres
NENE, 12/, 4-N, 12-E, No, Michigan-Toledo Strip, MI, Macomb

• He appeared on the 1850 Federal Census census in 1850 in Dowagiac Station, Cass Co, MI. p. 324, res. 1104
Beecraft, Isaeh, 39, carpenter and farmer, $400 real estate, NY
Caroline, 25, PA
Fenton, 11, MI (William Fenton?)
Ann, 7, MI (Cynthia Ann?)
Onseyman (?), 4/12, MI
Wallace, Julia, 21, PA

• He appeared on the 1860 Federal Census census in 1860 in Dowagiac vlg., Cass Co, MI. p. 9, res. 68
Beecroft, Isaiah S., 50, carpenter, $500 real estate, $200 pers. estate, NY
Caroline, 36, PA
William, 19, n___ maker, MI, in sch.
Cynthia Ann, 16, MI, in sch.
Julius, 10, MI, in sch.
Clarence, 6, MI, in sch.
Frances, 8 or 5, MI, in sch.
Margaret, 3, MI
Sarah, 6/12, MI (abt. Dec. 1859)

• Biography: "History of Cass Co., MI" (1905) by Glover, 1905. Isaiah married Caroline Wallace and they had four children, of which Cynthia was the youngest. One brother, W. F., was still alive in 1905 and resided in Augusta, Kalamazoo Co., MI. After Caroline died, Isaiah married again and had five more children from that union. Isaiah moved to Dowagiac in June, 1849, and was prominent in the public affairs in an early day, serving as postmaster of Dowagiac, also as deputy sheriff and as provost marshal during the period of the Civil War.

Isaiah married Caroline Wallace, daughter of James Wallace and Betsy Belknap, on 10 Sep 1848 in Van Buren Co, MI. (Caroline Wallace was born about 1825 in Seusquehanna, PA,^{1 6} died in 1898 in Cass Co, MI ^{4 7} and was buried in Riverside Cemetery, Dowagiac, Cass Co, MI ⁴.)

  Marriage Notes:

http://www.rootsweb.com/~mivanbur/MarrB6.htm

Isaiah next married Lydia Wallace, daughter of James Wallace and Betsy Belknap, in 1840.¹ (Lydia Wallace was born on 4 Dec 1817 in PA ¹ and died before 1850.)