This is my Great, Great Grandpa. My great grandma Bea was with him when he died. Great Gran Bea bought up up from a baby. Burphee Beckwith In the employ of the British government, as government physician at Jamaica.(rootsweb.ancestry/~canbrnep/beckwithFamHisto.htm). 1871 Census, 01 Burpe Beckwith M 24y Upper Canard Cemetery Burpee Beckwith, M.D. died 13 July 1898, age 51, on voyage from Jamaica to Halifax on steamship BETA. Berwick Register (rootsweb.ancestry/~canbrnep/beckwithFamHisto.htm) July 20th 1898 Register DEATH OF DR. BECKWITH. - Dr. Burpee Beckwith son of the late Mayhew Beckwith, Esq., and a former resident of Berwick, died very suddenly last week while on a journey from Jamaica to Halifax. He was apparently in the best of health, and on Wednesday at 7.30 was on deck talking to the mate. He went below to his room and one of the stewards asked him if he would have some coffee. He replied in the negative, but said he would have some seltzer instead. He afterwards went to lie down, and when his daughter, who was accompanying him, went to his room less than two hours later, she found him stretched out, appearing ghastly white. She called the steward, who found that he was quite cold, and had probably expired within a half hour previous. The body was brought to Halifax whence it was sent to Canard for burial. Dr. Beckwith leaves a widow - a sister of the Misses Musgrave, of Aylesford. July 27th 1898 - On Wednesday, 13th July, on board the S.S. Beta, on voyage from Jamaica to Halifax, Burpee Mayhew Beckwith; M.D., son of the late Mayhew Beckwith, of Canard, in the 51st year of his age.
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