1. Sevier Beard was born in 1802 in Adair County, Kentucky. He married there on 9 March 1825 to Catherine Hill, the daughter of Zadock and Rebecca Harvey Hill. Catherine was born in 1802 in North Carolina. We suspect that the Oliver Beard who married Catherine's sister Bertha Hill in Adair County in 1829 was Sevier's brother. On the 1830 census, Sevier Beard is listed in Adair County, Kentucky with a young family of four children under five. Soon after they moved to Maury County, Tennessee, where other Beards of this family owned property at various times. By census records on his children, Sevier probably moved down to middle Tennessee in the 1833 time period. In 1838 they are listed on the Maury County School Census in District 25 with five children of school age. Oliver Beard is listed there as well in the same district with two scholars. We continue to search for this family on the 1840 census with no luck so far. They are probably listed in Maury or Henry County, Tennessee. In 1850, indexed as "Levier Beard", Sevier and family are enumerated in Henry County, Tennessee. They lived next door to W. H. Beard, their married son William Henry. Next came a move into Texas. From a family history written in 1944 by Ray Gaines: "Sevear Beard pioneered from middle Tennessee to Pilot Point in Denton County, Texas with his family. After the war, Sevear traded his farm in Texas for a farm in Arkansas which he had never seen. The moves from Tennessee to Texas and then to Arkansas were made by oxen and wagon. [In Arkansas] his farm was about five miles from Lead Hill, due south. Their house was a two room log house and they carried water from a spring close by. Jasper Casey and Karoline (Sevear's daughter) built a frame house and lived there, taking care of Grandpa and Grandma until their death. Parts of buildings still stand. I remember well when Jasper Casey died. He was a "hard shell" Baptist. They (Sevear and Catherine) had four children." [This is incorrect; they had eight children listed on various censuses with them.] On censuses, the family was listed om Denton County, Texas in 1860 with four daughters still at home. The 1870 is still not found. In 1880, they were in the home of William Jasper Casey and wife Caroline Beard Casey at Sugar Loaf Township, Marion County, Arkansas. We have not yet found burial places of Sevier or Catherine, but family trees available list him dying in 1884 in Arkansas, and Catherine in 1888 in same.
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