Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Beard, James H. (Mr.) December 6, 1919
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Lake Odessa Wave - Times - December 12, 1919
           48 YEARS RESIDENT OF ODESSA TOWNSHIP

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             PIONEER IN THIS VICINITY.  WELL KNOWN, 

               FAITHFUL OLD VETERAN OF CIVIL WAR. 

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   Another of the few remaining Civil War residents of this section answered the
Great Roll Call last Saturday 
when James Beard passed from this earthly life to the life beyond.

   The funeral was held at the Liberal U. B. church and Rev. Isaac Mourer preached. 
Burial was at Lakeside.

                                       OBITUARY

   James H. Beard was born in Ohio, Apri 27, 1845, and died December 6, 1919, aged
74 years, 7 months and 9 
days.

   He moved with his parents to Michigan in 1852 locating at Woodbridge, Hillsdale
county, where he lived 
until his enlistment in the Union army in 1862.  He served until the end of the
war.

   He came to Odessa in February, 1871, where he was married to Sarah Elizabeth
Wicoff April 27, 1876, she 
living only one year after.

   In November 1878 he was married to Mrs. Ellen Wade of Gratton. To this union were
born two children, 
Emma May who died in childhood and Rose Ella Meyers of Sebewa. He leaves to mourn
their loss his wife, one 
daughter, four grand children, one step-grand daughter whom he reared from infancy,
one brother William of 
Odessa, two sisters Mrs. Susan Anway of Ionia and Mrs. Lydia Reed of Grand Ledge and
a host of friends.

   He was converted at the West Odessa church in 1876 and has lived a consistent
Christian life and was 
prepared for the great change which he knew was to come.

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                                CARD OF THANKS

   We wish to thank our neighbors and friends for their kindness during the illness
and death of our dear 
husband and father also for the beautiful flowers, the singing and the minister for
his kind words.

                                   Mrs. James Beard

                                       and children.

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