Hey, Ideana, >>3 Florence Beardon 1909 -<< Florence Beardon married Chester Hensley, s/o Benjamin Hensley and Maggie Long. She died 27 May 1970, here in Branson. They lived up by the Berry Cemetery, on land that is just south of the current Branson High School. I posted about this back in June, when our cemetery hopper group was featured in the Springfield paper. There were tombstones taken from the cem and used in the rock porch and outbuildings. You can see them quite clearly. There is a small building out of the rock, once used by George Beardon as a house. I don't imagine he had more than a cot and maybe a cabinet in it--if memory serves me right, Grandma said that it was also a chicken coop. If you want to get really twisted up....(gosh, a person shouldn't have so much fun being cruel...LOL) Are you "listening", Pama? Maggie Long was the daughter of Franklin Long and Susan Charity Wilson. Susan was the daughter of David William Wilson and Catherine Ann Brant. David and Catherine were my ggg grandparents. David and Catherine's son, John William, was my gg grandfather. His first wife was Millie Wilson, who was the daughter of Johnathon Wilson and Mary Ann Chrisman. Johnathon and David Wilson were brothers, so John William married his first cousin (this was not an Indian marriage; these folks were probably Irish). John William Wilson and Susan Charity Wilson Long had a sister, Ruth, who married Thomas Jefferson "Jeff" Nash, who were Pama's great-grandparents. Catherine Ann Brant Wilson is buried in Renshaw Cemetery. Please forgive me for forgetting...but someone else onlist is looking for Beardon info. Florence's father was Louis F. Beardon, as Ideana stated. Louis' father was Frances Marion Beardon. The last child you have under Louis and Laura Cupp Beardon, was Lorea Beardon. Her husband was Albert Compton. I don't have any information on them other than that. So you are cousins, at least by marriage--I'd be afraid to figure the exact degree out--to both me and Pama, possibly Don H., my husband Greg (who is a Blansit/St. Clair descendant), the whole Bilyeu shebang, and most of the folks who lived in Bear Creek Valley. Hee hee. Gawrsh, dat wuz fun... Congrats on your new info...way to go! Vonda