Conecuh County AlArchives Biographies.....Beard, Jarvis B. October 27 1834 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
   JARVIS B. BEARD, brother of the preceding and seventh child of Neal and Anna
Beard, was born October 27, 1834, in Fayetteville, N. C., and has spent the
greater part of his life in Alabama. His educational training was limited, but,
being a close observer of men and events, he has, by a long life of active
business, become the possessor of a practical education such as schools and
colleges fail to impart. At the breaking out of the late Civil war he enlisted
in company E, Twenty-third Alabama infantry, and was with his command throughout
the entire struggle, most of the time in Johnston's army. He was not engaged in
any battles of importance until the Atlanta campaign, in which he bore an active
part, and subsequently accompanied the army of Hood to Tennessee, in which state
he participated in the battles of Franklin and Nashville. Owing to severe
sickness, he was compelled to leave the ranks at the latter place and return to
Franklin, where, with many others of this command, he was captured by the enemy
and sent to Camp Chase, and there held a prisoner until after Lee's surrender in
1865. At the close of the war he returned to Monroe county and engaged in the
pursuit of agriculture, and in 1867 removed to Indiana, where he was similarly
employed for two years. Not liking it in that state, he returned to Alabama, but
afterward went to Texas and farmed for four years in Collins county. In 1874 he
again returned to Alabama, locating in Castleberry, where he is now engaged in
the mercantile business in partnership with his brother, William Beard, and also
carries on farming in the vicinity of the town. Mr. Beard is one of the
substantial citizens of the community, enterprising and progressive, and
occupies a prominent place in the confidence and esteem of the public. He is a
steward of the M. E. church, a member of the Masonic fraternity, and democratic
in politics.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 701-702


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