1. Anderson H. Beard was born 20 March 1812 in Tennessee, probably in Maury County. In 1840 he may be the Anderson Beard listed in Chickasaw County, Mississippi, for in 1850 he was listed in nearby Panola County, Mississippi where he had many many relatives. The family of Hugh Beard, his father's cousin, and of James Beard, another cousin, had all moved from Tennessee to Panola County in about 1836. In this 1850 census, Anderson is listed "Anderson H. Beard", age 38, born Tennessee, and he lived next door to his second or third cousin, William C. Beard. [William C. Beard was this author's great great grandfather.] Anderson had a wife named Leticia, just twenty years old. This was Letitia "Lettie" Cauthen, the daughter of Ludy and Elizabeth Harrison Cauthen of Panola County. Lettie was born on 13 December 1830 in Tennessee and married Anderson on 24 January 1850 in Panola County, Mississippi. In 1853 they were still in Panola County, listed on the state census there. In 1854, they lost a baby son who died in Panola County; his name was James Pleasant Hamilton Baird/Beard. They went to Texas about the year 1856, and in 1860 they were at Port Sillarin, Western District, Milam County, Texas with two young sons. Anderson Beard died on 24 July 1864 in Maysfield, Milam County. Lettie sadly joined him in death on 29 September 1866 in same. They are both buried at the Little River Baptist Church Cemetery, Jones Prairie, Milam County, Texas. Lettie had a sister, Marina Cauthen, who married Jesse M. Jones. They lived in Panola County, Mississippi at the same time the Beards did, listed there in 1850. They apparently went to Milam County, Texas at the same time as Anderson and Lettie Beard and are listed on that census in 1860 at the town of Cameron. When Anderson and Lettie's five surviving young children became orphans, the Joneses took them in to raise. In 1870, the family was listed in Milam County with their own children and the "Baird" children--William, Stanford, Dora, Madison, and Anderson. In 1880 in Milam County, "Mattison", Stanford, and Anderson Baird were still in the home of their aunt and uncle, Jesse and Marina Jones. Marina Cauthen Jones died on 16 August 1885 in Maysfield, Milam County and is buried at Pebble Grove Cemetery in Maysfield. Jesse Jones lived to be ninety, passing away on 9 July 1911 in Milam County. He is at peace with Marina at Pebble Grove Cemetery.
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