Person:Joseph Beard (13)

Watchers
m. 8 Apr 1792
  1. Isaac Beard1794 -
  2. Jacob Beard1794 - 1826
  3. Elizabeth 'Betsy' Beard1795 - 1883
  4. Joseph Beard1796 - 1858
  5. Esther Sarah Beard1798 - 1873
  6. Mary Beard1810 - 1826
  1. James Joseph Beard1837 - 1915
Facts and Events
Name Joseph Beard
Gender Male
Birth[1] 1 Dec 1796 Rockingham County, Virginia
Marriage to Martha Ann Rice
Death[1] 6 Mar 1858 Edwardsville, Madison County, Illinois


Records in Virginia

10 Mar 1826 - Joseph Beard mortgage to Joseph Gaw for $75, pledging three beds, furniture, two chests, two tables, one kettle, one pot, one oven, two tubs, two buckets, shovel and tongs, half dozen knives and forks, all his earthenware, all his tinware, one dozen spoons, three Windsor chairs. Amount due 13 March 1827. Trustee: Phillip Williams Jr. (Shenandoah County Deed Book EE, p224.)


13 Mar 1826 - Joseph Beard, one of the heirs of Mary Beard, dec’d, who was one of the legatees and heirs of Esther Reese, decd, sells to Joseph Stover for $175 all his interest in the estate of Mary Beard, decd to which she was entitled as heir of Esther Reese decd. (Shenandoah County Deed Book EE, p224.)


4 Nov 1834 - Settlement of Esther Reese estate recorded. (Shenandoah Will Book M, p474) Entries, some with earlier dates, included the following:
Mary Beard for Joseph Sonnstine, $20.00 (in 1818)
Cash paid Mary Beard legatee as per receipt, $457.00 (in 1819)
Jacob Beard Jr. as per receipt, $4.10 (in 1820)
Paid Esther Beard for housework, $1.36 (in 1820)
Cash paid Esther Floyd heir of Mary Beard decd. as per receipt, $210.92
Cash paid Mary Dull as per receipt, $86.33
Cash paid Joseph Beard as per receipt, $69.22


2 Feb. 1835 - Joseph Beard and Martha Ann his wife, of Rockingham County, an heir of Mary Beard decd who was one of the heirs of Esther Reese decd, to Joseph Stover for $250 all his interest in the estate…in two tracts on the North Fork of the Shenandoah near Strasburg…also one other tract in Hampshire County on the Potomac River near Frankford… (Shenandoah County Deed Book OO, p8.)
References
  1. 1.0 1.1 Ancestry.com. Public Member Trees: (Note: not considered a reliable primary source).
  2.   http://www.genfiles.com/baird/Shenandoah.htm