This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: BEARD BATEMAN CARNAHAN DOWNING MCCREIGHT PINKERTON KELLEY METZGAR Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hg.2ADI/651 Message Board Post: Obituary from the Argus, Rock Island, Illinois, Friday, June 5, 1931: (Large photo next to her obituary.) MRS BEARD, 81 YEARS OLD, DIES AT VIOLA HOME Elderly Woman Passes After Long Illness at Residence of Daughter, Mrs. Clyde Carnahan _______________ (Special to The Argus) Aledo, Ill., June 5 --- Mrs. Mary Beard, 81 years old, of Aledo, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Clyde Carnahan, west of Viola, yesterday afternoon at 2:45 o'clock. Mrs. Beard, formerly Miss Mary Bateman, was born in Zanesville, Ohio, where she was married April 15, 1875, to Jasper Beard, who died in July 1928. They came to Mercer county in 1880 and spent many years near Viola. About 20 years ago they moved to Aledo. For two years Mrs. Beard had lived with her daughter in Viola. Surviving are four daughters, Mrs. John Pinkerton of Aledo, Mrs. Clyde Carnahan, of Viola, Mrs. R. V. McCreight, and Mrs. John Downing of Rock Island; a sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Kelley, of South Zanesville, Ohio, and a granddaughter, Mrs. W. P. Metzgar, of Omaha, Neb. She held membership in the United Presbyterian church at Viola and attended the United Presbyterian church in Aledo for many years. The funeral will be held at the Carnahan home at 2:30 o'clock Saturday afternoon with Rev. S. W. Woodburn of Aledo officiating, assisted by Rev. W. A. Service of Viola.