Person:Elizabeth Beard (2)

Born in Hagerstown MD. At age of 4 moved in 1822 to Lodi, O. 1838 to Troy Twp in Indiana First Family information on Genweb Whitley Co, Indiana: James and Eliza (Beard) Grant. "Troy Twp in 1839 from Ohio"

Lives Troy TWP, Whit Co. With Gr-Dtr Ms.Chas Sellers

Obituary in Columbia City Post September 17, 1913 Grant, Eliza Beard SECOND OLDEST RESIDENT DEAD. MRS. ELIZA BEARD GRANT PASSED AWAY AT THE HOME OF HER SON, J. D. GRANT, SATURDAY MORNING - PAST 95. After enjoying a life of nearly one hundred years comparatively free fro sickness, Mrs. Eliza Grant, who has lived in Whitley county for three quarters of a century, entered into peaceful and eternal rest Saturday morning about 5:30. She did not feel well Friday but was up and around most of the day, and Saturday mornig she was up for a few minutes but had returned to her bed when she was overcome by a sinking spell and all of the members of the family were called to her bedside. In less than five minutes the spark of life had departed and her long life was ended. Mrs. Grant was one of the most remarkable pioneers of this county. At the time of her death she was ninety-five years, three months and seventeen days old, and if she had lived until this fall she would have had a continuous residence here of seventy-five years. With the single exception of John Haas, of this city, who is past ninety-six, she was the oldest person in Whitley county. In 1914 she won the loving cup offered for the oldest person registering on Old Settlers' Day and this distinction was one which the deceased prized most highly. Elizabeth Beard was born in Hagerstown, Maryland, May 26th, 1818. When she was four years old her father died and her mother moved with the nine children of the family, in 1822, to Lodi, Ohio. All of the children of the family learned early what it meant to work and at the age of fifteen, on July 25, 1833, she was united in marriage to James Grant, and she was at the head of a household of her own at that early age. Five years later, or in the fall of 1838, she came with her husband and three children to Indiana and homesteaded in Troy township. Eleven children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Grant, six of whom survive. T hey are: Mrs. Sarah Coleman, of Indiana Harbor: John, of Los Angeles, Calif.,: Mrs. Celia Miller, of Gooding, Idaho: J. D. Grant, of this city: Mrs. Charles Sellars, of Toyu township, and Mrs. Eli Taylor of Georgia. There are many grandchildren and a number of great grandchildren, but all brothers and sisters have passed away. Mr. Grant died twenty-four years ago. The deceased was a charter member of the Baptist church in this city and she lived a devout Christian life. The passing of Mrs. Grant has removed another of the early pioneers who came to this county when it was really a wilderness, and the hardships and privations of the early days were endured by this venerable woman with fortitude and bravery, and she loved to indulge in reminiscences pertaining to the days of the pioneers and her own experiences in meeting and solving the problems which so often confronted her while rearing a family and doing her part in building and maintaining a home.      The remains may be viewed any time Sunday at the Judd Grant home, and the funeral will occur Monday afternoon, leaving that residence at 1 o'clock for the Free Methodist church, at Lorane, where the services will be conducted at 2 o'clock; interment in the Adams cemetery.

Posted: October 15, 2003 GSWC First Families of Whitley County (052-FF),,

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4. ↑ Obit in Col. City Post Wed Sept 17, 1913
5. ↑ Free Meth Church at Lorane.
6. ↑ In 1905 Lived In Lorane
7. ↑ Baptist Church