1. Oliver Beard was born in Adair County, Kentucky about 1803. He married on 11 April 1829 in same to Bertha Hill, the younger sister of Catherine, who married Sevier Beard. In 1830, with one young daughter, Oliver and wife were listed in Hardin County, Kentucky. By 1838, they had joined Sevier and Catherine Hill Beard in Maury County, Tennessee and were listed in the same district on the school census there with two school children. Right after, Oliver and Bertha moved west, to Des Moines, Iowa Territory. They were listed there in 1840 with three children. Bertha Hill Beard died in Cedar County, Iowa in April 1850. Soon afterward, widower Oliver Beard was enumerated on the 1850 census as a miller. With him were his daughter and his married son and family. Some reports say that Oliver died about 1851 in Springfield, Cedar County, Iowa, but that would not seem to be the case as we have found a Jackson County, Iowa marriage record for Oliver Beard, groom, to Isabella Johnson, bride, on 10 April 1853. We have not been able to find Oliver or his wife after this marriage. We do not know a burial place for either Oliver or Bertha Beard or Isabella Beard.
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