Enoch Simpson Beard

Brief Life History of Enoch Simpson

Enoch Simpson Beard was born about 1815, in Kentucky, United States. He married Sarah Elizabeth Lovell on 8 December 1837. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 9 daughters. He lived in New Salem Township, McDonough, Illinois, United States in 1860 and Pleasant Township, Fulton, Illinois, United States in 1870. He died in 1877, in Smithfield, Fulton, Illinois, United States, at the age of 63.

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Family Time Line

Enoch Simpson Beard
1815–1877
Sarah Elizabeth Lovell
1816–1881
Marriage: 8 December 1837
William M Beard
1835–1907
Sarah Miranda Beard
1835–1910
James M. Beard
1837–
Mary Elizabeth Beard
1840–1920
Emeline Beard
1843–
Elsie Margaret Beard
1846–1911
Angelina Beard
1848–
Ann Melissa Beard
1849–
Julia Ann Beard
1851–1924
Benjamin Franklin Beard
1853–
Nancy C Beard
1854–1898
Enoch R Beard
1856–1935
Amanda Beard
1857–
Stephen A Douglas Beard
1860–

Sources (10)

  • Enoch Beard, "United States Census, 1850"
  • Simpson Beard in entry for Julia A Phillips, "Iowa, Death Records, 1904-1951"
  • E S Beard, "United States Census, 1860"

World Events (8)

1818

Illinois is the 21st state.

1818 · Jackson Purchase

The western part of Kentucky purchased by Andrew Jackson from the Chickasaw Indians in 1818. It became known as the Jackson Purchase. This included land that wasn't originally part of Kentucky when it became a state.

1832 · Black Hawk War

"The Black Hawk War was a brief conflict between the United States and Native Americans led by Black Hawk, a Sauk leader. The war erupted soon after Black Hawk and a group of other tribes, known as the ""British Band"", crossed the Mississippi River, into Illinois, from Iowa Indian Territory in April 1832. Black Hawk's motives were ambiguous, but records show that he was hoping to avoid bloodshed while resettling on tribal land that had been given to the United States in the 1804 Treaty of St. Louis."

Name Meaning

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’.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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