Bio: Jeremiah H. Beaird, Bienville, Natchitoches, Red River  &
Caddo Parish La
Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana
The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago & Nashville,  1890

Submitted by: Suzanne Shoemaker
sueshoe@hotmail.com




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Jeremiah H. Beaird, planter and merchant of Ward 8, Caddo Parish,
La., was born near Natchitoches, in 1830, to Joseph and Mary
Charlotte (Morrell) Beaird, the former born in Tennessee in 1808,
and the latter in Louisiana in 1812.  The were married near
Natchitoches, and in 1837 came to what was then Caddo, but is now
Red River Parish, but soon returned to Natchitoches, but in 1842
came back to Caddo Parish, and in 1847 purchased the farm on which
the subject of this sketch now resides and on which the father died
in 1865, his widow dying in Red River Parish in 1889, she being an
earnest member of the Methodist Episcopal Church at the time of her
death.

Mr. Beaird was a planter by occupation, and at one time held the
office of justice of the peace and was postmaster of Bayou La
Chute, being one of the early settlers of the Red River country
above Natchitoches.  John Morrell, the maternal grandfather, was
born in Massachusetts, and when a young man came to Louisiana and
was married in Rapides Parish, settling afterward in Natchitoches,
where he spent the rest of his days, having served in the War of
1812, being with Jackson at New Orleans.

Jeremiah H. Beaird was the eldest of six children, was educated on
a farm, but received only about one year's schooling  At the age of
twenty-one he began following the occupation of overseeing,
continuing about nine years, but at the breaking out of the war he
gave up this calling to enlist in Company A., First Louisiana
Infantry, and served with the Army of Virginia, participating in
the engagements around Richmond, his services being  utilized as a
sharpshooter.  On August 26, 1863, he was severely wounded and
paroled, but before he reached home he was captured at Marion, Ala.
He was shortly afterward paroled, and returned home, being unfit
for further service in the field.  He was married in 1866, his
wife, formerly Miss Mollie H. Brown, being a daughter of Henry and
Harriet Brown, the former born in North Carolina in 1812 and the
latter in Georgia in 1822, their marriage taking place in the
latter State.

>From there they moved to Bienville Parish in 1849. and in 1865 to
Nevada County, Ark., where they died in 1890 and 1887,
respectively, the father being a fruit grower by occupation.  Mrs.
Beaird was born in Georgia, and her union with Mr. Beaird has
resulted in the birth of six children, one son and four daughters
now living.  For the past twenty-five years Mr. Beaird has resided
on his present farm, which is about thirty miles below Shreveport,
and he is now the owner of 2,719 acres of land, of which 700 acres
are under cultivation, and on which he raises over 380 bales of
cotton annually.  He also conducts a plantation store, and in both
callings is doing exceptionally well, being considered one of the
prominent men of this section.  he has filled the office o justice
of the peace a number of years, also postmaster, and socially
belongs to the A. F. & A. M.  His wife is a Methodist and a worthy
lady in every respect.