The Beck Cemetery of Millville

Filmed on location October 28, 2022. 

The Beck Cemetery was established in 1857 at Millville. The first burial was that of Paul Heryford, a local farmer, who was born in 1794, in Wilkes County, North Carolina. Heryford died on October 3, 1857, at Pine Grove, in Shasta County, California, at the age of sixty-three years old from a congestive chill. His body was then transferred to this cemetery for burial. This cemetery lies within the boundaries of the Millville Cemetery District. Additional burials were made within this small cemetery. The last recorded burial occurred in 1877, but there are three unknown burials at this historic site in Shasta County.

Resources:

1850 U.S. Census

Millenium File for Paul Heryford available at Ancestry.com

Find A Grave Memorial: Paul Heryford 1794-1857