Son of Adam Beard, Sr. of Bedford County, Virginia.
Captain David Beard was a Revolutionary War soldier in the Battle of Gulford County House, North Carolina. He commanded a company in Colonel Lynch's regiment under George Washington and was present at the siege of Yorktown, York County, Virginia, when the British surrendered on October 16, 1781.
Husband of Isabella Carson. Their children:
John Beard
Polly Beard
Adam Beard
Elizabeth "Betsey" Beard
David Beard
Samuel Beard
Ann "Fanny" Beard (per JTL, m Rev. David Foster, mem #16649349)
Thomas Carson Beard
Sarah "Sally" Beard
Captain David Beard moved with his family to Tennessee about 1796 and settled on the headwaters of de Sha's Creek in Summer County.
Captain Beard's will is recorded in the Sumner County Court House, Gallatin, Tennessee.
Contributor JTL offers the following: "Mrs. Ann Foster, wife of Rev. David Foster, was, before her marriage, Miss Ann Beard. She was the daughter of Captain David Beard. Her mother's original name was Isabel Carson. Her father and mother were both Virginians. Captain Beard was an officer in the Revolutionary War, and bore an active part in the battle of Guilford Court House and in the siege of Yorktown. He was, I suppose, a native of Bedford county, in Virginia, as I have learned from the family history that his father lived and died in that county, and I have never been able to trace the lineage of the family farther up."
"Captain Beard was a member of the Presbyterian Church, and connected in Virginia with one of the congregations of Rev. David Rice, who afterwards became the father of Presbyterianism in Kentucky. The subject of this sketch was born in Virginia, and was doubtless baptized by Mr. Rice. Sometime about 1784 her father moved from Virginia to the West, and made his final settlement in Sumner county, Tennessee, about six miles from where Gallatin now stands. He and his family, as far as they were professors of religion, connected themselves with Shiloh congregation, which was successively under the pastoral care of Revs. Thomas B. Craighead, William McGee, and William Hodge. Shiloh became historical in the old revival of 1800. That work reached the congregation early in the century, and the pastor, Mr. Hodge, became one of its most active supporters. In that revival Captain Beard himself, after a long and terrible experience (in the course of which, from despair of his spiritual condition's ever being improved, he was often driven to the borders of suicide), made a second profession of religion. ..."
[Source: Logan, J. B. History of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Illinois, Containing Sketches of the First Ministers, Churches, Presbyteries and Synods; also a History of Missions, Publication and Education. Alton, Ill.: Perrin & Smith, 1878, pages 133-138.]
Captain David Beard was a Revolutionary War soldier in the Battle of Gulford County House, North Carolina. He commanded a company in Colonel Lynch's regiment under George Washington and was present at the siege of Yorktown, York County, Virginia, when the British surrendered on October 16, 1781.
Husband of Isabella Carson. Their children:
John Beard
Polly Beard
Adam Beard
Elizabeth "Betsey" Beard
David Beard
Samuel Beard
Ann "Fanny" Beard (per JTL, m Rev. David Foster, mem #16649349)
Thomas Carson Beard
Sarah "Sally" Beard
Captain David Beard moved with his family to Tennessee about 1796 and settled on the headwaters of de Sha's Creek in Summer County.
Captain Beard's will is recorded in the Sumner County Court House, Gallatin, Tennessee.
Contributor JTL offers the following: "Mrs. Ann Foster, wife of Rev. David Foster, was, before her marriage, Miss Ann Beard. She was the daughter of Captain David Beard. Her mother's original name was Isabel Carson. Her father and mother were both Virginians. Captain Beard was an officer in the Revolutionary War, and bore an active part in the battle of Guilford Court House and in the siege of Yorktown. He was, I suppose, a native of Bedford county, in Virginia, as I have learned from the family history that his father lived and died in that county, and I have never been able to trace the lineage of the family farther up."
"Captain Beard was a member of the Presbyterian Church, and connected in Virginia with one of the congregations of Rev. David Rice, who afterwards became the father of Presbyterianism in Kentucky. The subject of this sketch was born in Virginia, and was doubtless baptized by Mr. Rice. Sometime about 1784 her father moved from Virginia to the West, and made his final settlement in Sumner county, Tennessee, about six miles from where Gallatin now stands. He and his family, as far as they were professors of religion, connected themselves with Shiloh congregation, which was successively under the pastoral care of Revs. Thomas B. Craighead, William McGee, and William Hodge. Shiloh became historical in the old revival of 1800. That work reached the congregation early in the century, and the pastor, Mr. Hodge, became one of its most active supporters. In that revival Captain Beard himself, after a long and terrible experience (in the course of which, from despair of his spiritual condition's ever being improved, he was often driven to the borders of suicide), made a second profession of religion. ..."
[Source: Logan, J. B. History of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Illinois, Containing Sketches of the First Ministers, Churches, Presbyteries and Synods; also a History of Missions, Publication and Education. Alton, Ill.: Perrin & Smith, 1878, pages 133-138.]
Son of Adam Beard, Sr. of Bedford County, Virginia.
Captain David Beard was a Revolutionary War soldier in the Battle of Gulford County House, North Carolina. He commanded a company in Colonel Lynch's regiment under George Washington and was present at the siege of Yorktown, York County, Virginia, when the British surrendered on October 16, 1781.
Husband of Isabella Carson. Their children:
John Beard
Polly Beard
Adam Beard
Elizabeth "Betsey" Beard
David Beard
Samuel Beard
Ann "Fanny" Beard (per JTL, m Rev. David Foster, mem #16649349)
Thomas Carson Beard
Sarah "Sally" Beard
Captain David Beard moved with his family to Tennessee about 1796 and settled on the headwaters of de Sha's Creek in Summer County.
Captain Beard's will is recorded in the Sumner County Court House, Gallatin, Tennessee.
Contributor JTL offers the following: "Mrs. Ann Foster, wife of Rev. David Foster, was, before her marriage, Miss Ann Beard. She was the daughter of Captain David Beard. Her mother's original name was Isabel Carson. Her father and mother were both Virginians. Captain Beard was an officer in the Revolutionary War, and bore an active part in the battle of Guilford Court House and in the siege of Yorktown. He was, I suppose, a native of Bedford county, in Virginia, as I have learned from the family history that his father lived and died in that county, and I have never been able to trace the lineage of the family farther up."
"Captain Beard was a member of the Presbyterian Church, and connected in Virginia with one of the congregations of Rev. David Rice, who afterwards became the father of Presbyterianism in Kentucky. The subject of this sketch was born in Virginia, and was doubtless baptized by Mr. Rice. Sometime about 1784 her father moved from Virginia to the West, and made his final settlement in Sumner county, Tennessee, about six miles from where Gallatin now stands. He and his family, as far as they were professors of religion, connected themselves with Shiloh congregation, which was successively under the pastoral care of Revs. Thomas B. Craighead, William McGee, and William Hodge. Shiloh became historical in the old revival of 1800. That work reached the congregation early in the century, and the pastor, Mr. Hodge, became one of its most active supporters. In that revival Captain Beard himself, after a long and terrible experience (in the course of which, from despair of his spiritual condition's ever being improved, he was often driven to the borders of suicide), made a second profession of religion. ..."
[Source: Logan, J. B. History of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Illinois, Containing Sketches of the First Ministers, Churches, Presbyteries and Synods; also a History of Missions, Publication and Education. Alton, Ill.: Perrin & Smith, 1878, pages 133-138.]
Captain David Beard was a Revolutionary War soldier in the Battle of Gulford County House, North Carolina. He commanded a company in Colonel Lynch's regiment under George Washington and was present at the siege of Yorktown, York County, Virginia, when the British surrendered on October 16, 1781.
Husband of Isabella Carson. Their children:
John Beard
Polly Beard
Adam Beard
Elizabeth "Betsey" Beard
David Beard
Samuel Beard
Ann "Fanny" Beard (per JTL, m Rev. David Foster, mem #16649349)
Thomas Carson Beard
Sarah "Sally" Beard
Captain David Beard moved with his family to Tennessee about 1796 and settled on the headwaters of de Sha's Creek in Summer County.
Captain Beard's will is recorded in the Sumner County Court House, Gallatin, Tennessee.
Contributor JTL offers the following: "Mrs. Ann Foster, wife of Rev. David Foster, was, before her marriage, Miss Ann Beard. She was the daughter of Captain David Beard. Her mother's original name was Isabel Carson. Her father and mother were both Virginians. Captain Beard was an officer in the Revolutionary War, and bore an active part in the battle of Guilford Court House and in the siege of Yorktown. He was, I suppose, a native of Bedford county, in Virginia, as I have learned from the family history that his father lived and died in that county, and I have never been able to trace the lineage of the family farther up."
"Captain Beard was a member of the Presbyterian Church, and connected in Virginia with one of the congregations of Rev. David Rice, who afterwards became the father of Presbyterianism in Kentucky. The subject of this sketch was born in Virginia, and was doubtless baptized by Mr. Rice. Sometime about 1784 her father moved from Virginia to the West, and made his final settlement in Sumner county, Tennessee, about six miles from where Gallatin now stands. He and his family, as far as they were professors of religion, connected themselves with Shiloh congregation, which was successively under the pastoral care of Revs. Thomas B. Craighead, William McGee, and William Hodge. Shiloh became historical in the old revival of 1800. That work reached the congregation early in the century, and the pastor, Mr. Hodge, became one of its most active supporters. In that revival Captain Beard himself, after a long and terrible experience (in the course of which, from despair of his spiritual condition's ever being improved, he was often driven to the borders of suicide), made a second profession of religion. ..."
[Source: Logan, J. B. History of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Illinois, Containing Sketches of the First Ministers, Churches, Presbyteries and Synods; also a History of Missions, Publication and Education. Alton, Ill.: Perrin & Smith, 1878, pages 133-138.]
