John BEARD

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      Sex: M

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Individual Information

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          Birth: 7 Jan 1839 - Hancock Co, OH 1
    Christening: 
          Death: 26 Mar 1917 - Sumner, Lawrence, IL 2 3
         Burial: 26 Mar 1917 - Antioch Cemetery, Sumner, Lawrence, IL 4
 Cause of Death: 
          AFN #: 
                 

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Events

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1. Unknown ^{5 6}, Civil War service in Union Army in Ohio Volunteers

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Parents

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         Father: Amos BEARD (1805-After 1886) 
         Mother: Susannah PRICE (Abt 1817-Abt 1852) 

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Spouses and Children

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1.  *Amanda Zana SHAW (16 Feb 1836 - 24 Mar 1918) 
       Marriage: 24 Dec 1861 - Marysville, Union Co, OH
       Children:
                1. Wallace Gilbert BEARD (1862-1923)
                2. Harrison Shaw "Harry" BEARD (1864-1940)
                3. Oliver A. BEARD (1866-1866)
                4. Lewis Norris BEARD (1868-1938)
                5. Anna Mae "Annie" BEARD (1869-1938)
                6. Emery Lee BEARD (1871-1872)
                7. Lewtrell Fay BEARD (Twin) (1873-1873)
                8. Lutrellis Day BEARD (Twin) (1873-1873)
                9. John Hillis BEARD (1874-1950) 7
                10. Ennis Riley BEARD (1876-1955)

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Notes

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General:

Ancestral File Number:<AFN> GB30-5B
He and his family moved from Ohio to Illin ois about 1866. There is an heirloom truck that he carried with him when he joi ned the army at the time of the Civil War. This trunk is now in the possession of his great-granddaughter Linda Walton.

1 Cemetery Records: Wheeler Cemetery, Wheeler, Jasper Co, Illinois (site), Cemetery Records: Wheeler Cemetery, Wheeler, Jasper Co, Illinois (site), Birth date from tombstone.

2 Ibid, Date of death.

3 Death Records, Obituaries, Death Records, Obituaries, Sumner Press, Sumner Illinois.

4 Cemetery Records: Wheeler Cemetery, Wheeler, Jasper Co, Illinois (site), Cemetery Records: Wheeler Cemetery, Wheeler, Jasper Co, Illinois (site), Place of burial.

5 Pension Records, Pension Records, #753548 (John Beard).

6 Military, Military, Beard, John*Union soldier).

7 "Ancestral File (R)," Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "Ancestral File (R)" (1980 (c) July 1996 (c), data as of 2 January 1996, 1997, 2000), AFN: GB30-2S.