Johannes and Catharina Beckel with their daughter, Lina, and son Adolph,
  settled on a farm two miles south of Woodbine in the early 1870's. Johannes
  had been a linen merchant and truck gardner in Talheim, Hanover, Germany. When
  they first came to America they operated a truck garden in Cincinnatti, Ohio.
  There Johannes was plagued by the ague and they came to Woodbine.
       Catharina Humburg Beckel was born in 1838 at Nederzwaren, Hessen, Germany
  and died in 1894. Johannes Beckel was born in 1813 in Talhaim, Hanover, Germany
  and died in 1896. To his union were born Lina Beckel Shippy, 1861 in Germany;
  Adolph, 1863 in Germany; Maria Beckel Mitchell, 1873 south of Woodbine; and
  Willi, 1875 south of Woodbine.
       The Beckels farmed south of Woodbine until the health of Johannes failed.
  They moved to Wichita and later to Augusta. Here they lost their home on a
  mortgage. Soon after Catharina went to work in a restaurant in Kiowa, Kansas.
  While she was there, the Cherokee Strip opened and she, with a borrowed wagon,
  ran in the land run, and homesteaded 160 acres. Here she and her youngest son, 
  Willi, lived in a dugout until her death in 1894.
       Their daughter, Lina, married William Shippy in 1880. Adolf married Sadie
  Ruckert in 1889. Johannes spent the rest of his life with Lina and Adolph. He
  died in the home of his son, Adolf, in 1896.   
               
  Source: Woodbine, Kansas Centennial, 1887 - 1987, 
          Woodbine through the years pg. 64.
  Submitted by: Margaret Shippy