This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Beard Brown Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/UaB.2ACI/821 Message Board Post: Davis News, Thursday, April 30, 1936 MRS. BEARD PASSES AFTER BRIEF ILLNESS Mrs. Laura Beard, aged 75 years, pioneer Davis citizen, passed away Sunday morning after an illness of only 12 days. Creeping paralysis was given as the cause of her death. Funeral rites were held at her home Monday afternoon, with Rev. J.F. Crews officiating. Burial was in Green Hill cemetary beside her husband two children. Mrs. Laura Vergilia Beard, nee Brown, was born in Tennessee, Sept. 26, 1860. On Feb. 15, 1880, she married Geo. M. Beard, to which union 11 children were born, eight of whom are living, namely: Mrs. Laura Brown in California; Mrs. Ervin Harmon, Davis; Mrs. P.O. Starks, Fort Worth; Mrs. Susie Blocker, Sulphur, Okla; Jake Beard, Salinas, Cal.; Bill Beard, Beebe, Okla., and Frank Beard, Davis. Leaving Tennessee Mrs. Beard and husband lived in North Texas many years, coming to Davis before statehood. AFter the death of her husband in 1913 she went to California and lived several years. The remainder of her life was spent in Davis where she made friends of those with whom she came in contact. (Contributed by Jackie Fannell)