When Frances Cameron “Fannie” Beard was born on 13 October 1859, in Pocahontas, West Virginia, United States, her father, Charles Woods Beard, was 32 and her mother, Elizabeth Jeannette Perkins, was 25. She married Richard Valentine Callison on 26 October 1887, in Hillsboro, Pocahontas, West Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Little Levels District, Pocahontas, West Virginia, United States for about 30 years and Lewisburg, Greenbrier, West Virginia, United States in 1920. She died on 10 December 1927, in Beard, Pocahontas, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Old Droop Church, Pocahontas, West Virginia, United States.
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The Battle of Manassas is also referred to as the First Battle of Bull Run. 35,000 Union troops were headed towards Washington D.C. after 20,000 Confederate forces. The McDowell's Union troops fought with General Beauregard's Confederate troops along a little river called Bull Run.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
English:
nickname for a bearded man (from Middle English berd, Old English beard). To be clean-shaven was the norm in non-Jewish communities in northwestern Europe from the 12th to the 16th century, the crucial period for surname formation. There is a placename and other evidence to show that this word was used as a byname in the Old English period, when beards were the norm; in this period the byname would have referred to a large or noticeable beard. In North America, this surname has absorbed cognates and equivalents in other languages, in particular German Barth 1.
habitational name from a place called Beard in Derbyshire (now represented by Beard Hall and Beardwood Farms in New Mills parish), which derives its name by dissimilation from Old English brerd ‘rim, bank’.
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