Conecuh County AlArchives Biographies.....Beard, William August 15 1827 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
   WILLIAM BEARD.-The subject of this mention is of Revolutionary stock and back
of that of Irish ancestry. His grandfather was a native of the Emerald Isle,
came to America in the time of the colonies, and served with distinction in the
war of independence. He died in the state of North Carolina a number of years
ago. Maternally, Mr. Beard is descended from Scotch ancestors, who settled in
North Carolina in an early day and subsequently removed to Alabama, locating in
the county of Monroe. Neal Beard, father of William, was born in Cumberland
county, N. C., February 3, 1780, and on the 4th of July, 1819, married, in
Alabama, Miss Anna A. Moore, and immediately thereafter returned to his native
state, where he resided until 1835. In that year the family moved to Alabama,
settling in Monroe county, where the father died April 7, 1856, and the mother
on the 24th day of March, 1854. By a previous marriage with Elizabeth Plumber,
of North Carolina, Neal Beard raised, a family of two children, namely:
Alexander and Sophia, both deceased. His second marriage was blessed by the
birth of eight children, namely: Sara J., wife of Veal McCarty, deceased;
Arabella, wife of Zachariah Williams; Steven D., died in 1858; William;
Caroline, wife of P. O. Mauldin ; Helen, deceased; Jarvis B.; Blakely, deceased,
and Margaret G., widow of Robert Baird. William Beard is a native of
Fayettville, N. C., and dates his birth from the 15th day of August, 1827. His
educational training was acquired by an attendance at the common schools, and he
grew to manhood in Monroe county, to which part of the state his family removed
when he was but a youth. In the late war he served in company D, Twenty-third
Alabama infantry, until the cessation of hostilities, and took a part in a
number of campaigns, including that of Atlanta, in all the hard-fought battles
of which he participated. His company was with Hood in the Tennessee raid and
was engaged in the bloody battles of Franklin and Nashville, and also
Bentonville, one of the last engagements of the war. Severing his connection
with the army after the surrender, he returned to Alabama, and for sometime
thereafter was employed as assistant in the probate judge's office at the town
of Sparta. He was elected, in 1877, assessor of Conecuh county, which position
he held for a term of three years, and was then complimented by being chosen
county clerk, the duties of which position he discharged in a highly creditable
manner for six years. In 1886, in partnership with his brother, Jarvis Beard,
under the firm name of Beard & Co., he engaged in the mercantile business at
Castleberry, which he still carries on. As a citizen, Mr. Beard is held in the
highest esteem, is progressive and enterprising, and has always taken an active
interest in the moral and material prosperity of the county. He is a master
Mason of Greening lodge, No. 53, Evergreen, and has been a stanch supporter of
democratic party since attaining his majority. He was married in January, 1862,
to Catherine, daughter of Judge A. D. Carey of Sparta.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 700-701


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