Granddaughter of John Gaines Biard, one of the founding fathers of Biardstown, Lamar County, Texas.
OBITUARY
Born Maude Elizabeth Biard in Paris, Texas on October 29, 1906. She was the daughter of James Washington "Bud" Biard, and Mary Rebecca Phipps of Paris, Texas and resided there all her childhood until 1931. She attended Miss Louise Sekel's Private School, Paris High School and graduated from Paris Jr. College in 1930.
The Biard family, pioneers and farmers, founded the first Church of Christ in Lamar County at Biardstown, Texas in 1846. A Texas Historical monument marks the Antioch Church and cemetery there. Her father helped found the First Christian Church in Paris which still exists today. Maude was also a descendent of Rebecca Stone Biard, her great-grandmother, who was a daughter of an American Revolutionary soldier {Ezekiel Stone}and is buried at the Antioch cemetery, her grave marked by a D. A. R. historical plaque. Also, through the Biard ancestry, Maude was a descendent of Thomas Nelson Jr., commander of the Virginia militia in the American Revolution and delegate to the Continental Congress and signed of the Declaration of Independence
{note: some researchers think the connection is to Thomas Stone, rather than Thomas Nelson}.
In 1931 she married Alva A. Abernathy, a successful Dallas Mortgage Banker, and was married to him for 56 years. Maude was a member of Northway Christian Church, Preston Hollow Country Club, Preston Hollow Book reviewers, The City Club, Glen Rose Historical Society, Believers Chapel Tape Ministries, The Republican Party of Texas, and other civic organizations in Dallas.
She had three children, Mary Jane Tarlow, Wayne Biard Abernathy and John Phipps Abernathy and six grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. We who knew and loved her will deeply miss this wonderful mother and grandmother. She was an inspiration and example of Christian generosity and love and the epitome of the perfect mother and wife. Proverbs 31: 10-31.
OBITUARY
Born Maude Elizabeth Biard in Paris, Texas on October 29, 1906. She was the daughter of James Washington "Bud" Biard, and Mary Rebecca Phipps of Paris, Texas and resided there all her childhood until 1931. She attended Miss Louise Sekel's Private School, Paris High School and graduated from Paris Jr. College in 1930.
The Biard family, pioneers and farmers, founded the first Church of Christ in Lamar County at Biardstown, Texas in 1846. A Texas Historical monument marks the Antioch Church and cemetery there. Her father helped found the First Christian Church in Paris which still exists today. Maude was also a descendent of Rebecca Stone Biard, her great-grandmother, who was a daughter of an American Revolutionary soldier {Ezekiel Stone}and is buried at the Antioch cemetery, her grave marked by a D. A. R. historical plaque. Also, through the Biard ancestry, Maude was a descendent of Thomas Nelson Jr., commander of the Virginia militia in the American Revolution and delegate to the Continental Congress and signed of the Declaration of Independence
{note: some researchers think the connection is to Thomas Stone, rather than Thomas Nelson}.
In 1931 she married Alva A. Abernathy, a successful Dallas Mortgage Banker, and was married to him for 56 years. Maude was a member of Northway Christian Church, Preston Hollow Country Club, Preston Hollow Book reviewers, The City Club, Glen Rose Historical Society, Believers Chapel Tape Ministries, The Republican Party of Texas, and other civic organizations in Dallas.
She had three children, Mary Jane Tarlow, Wayne Biard Abernathy and John Phipps Abernathy and six grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. We who knew and loved her will deeply miss this wonderful mother and grandmother. She was an inspiration and example of Christian generosity and love and the epitome of the perfect mother and wife. Proverbs 31: 10-31.
Granddaughter of John Gaines Biard, one of the founding fathers of Biardstown, Lamar County, Texas.
OBITUARY
Born Maude Elizabeth Biard in Paris, Texas on October 29, 1906. She was the daughter of James Washington "Bud" Biard, and Mary Rebecca Phipps of Paris, Texas and resided there all her childhood until 1931. She attended Miss Louise Sekel's Private School, Paris High School and graduated from Paris Jr. College in 1930.
The Biard family, pioneers and farmers, founded the first Church of Christ in Lamar County at Biardstown, Texas in 1846. A Texas Historical monument marks the Antioch Church and cemetery there. Her father helped found the First Christian Church in Paris which still exists today. Maude was also a descendent of Rebecca Stone Biard, her great-grandmother, who was a daughter of an American Revolutionary soldier {Ezekiel Stone}and is buried at the Antioch cemetery, her grave marked by a D. A. R. historical plaque. Also, through the Biard ancestry, Maude was a descendent of Thomas Nelson Jr., commander of the Virginia militia in the American Revolution and delegate to the Continental Congress and signed of the Declaration of Independence
{note: some researchers think the connection is to Thomas Stone, rather than Thomas Nelson}.
In 1931 she married Alva A. Abernathy, a successful Dallas Mortgage Banker, and was married to him for 56 years. Maude was a member of Northway Christian Church, Preston Hollow Country Club, Preston Hollow Book reviewers, The City Club, Glen Rose Historical Society, Believers Chapel Tape Ministries, The Republican Party of Texas, and other civic organizations in Dallas.
She had three children, Mary Jane Tarlow, Wayne Biard Abernathy and John Phipps Abernathy and six grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. We who knew and loved her will deeply miss this wonderful mother and grandmother. She was an inspiration and example of Christian generosity and love and the epitome of the perfect mother and wife. Proverbs 31: 10-31.
OBITUARY
Born Maude Elizabeth Biard in Paris, Texas on October 29, 1906. She was the daughter of James Washington "Bud" Biard, and Mary Rebecca Phipps of Paris, Texas and resided there all her childhood until 1931. She attended Miss Louise Sekel's Private School, Paris High School and graduated from Paris Jr. College in 1930.
The Biard family, pioneers and farmers, founded the first Church of Christ in Lamar County at Biardstown, Texas in 1846. A Texas Historical monument marks the Antioch Church and cemetery there. Her father helped found the First Christian Church in Paris which still exists today. Maude was also a descendent of Rebecca Stone Biard, her great-grandmother, who was a daughter of an American Revolutionary soldier {Ezekiel Stone}and is buried at the Antioch cemetery, her grave marked by a D. A. R. historical plaque. Also, through the Biard ancestry, Maude was a descendent of Thomas Nelson Jr., commander of the Virginia militia in the American Revolution and delegate to the Continental Congress and signed of the Declaration of Independence
{note: some researchers think the connection is to Thomas Stone, rather than Thomas Nelson}.
In 1931 she married Alva A. Abernathy, a successful Dallas Mortgage Banker, and was married to him for 56 years. Maude was a member of Northway Christian Church, Preston Hollow Country Club, Preston Hollow Book reviewers, The City Club, Glen Rose Historical Society, Believers Chapel Tape Ministries, The Republican Party of Texas, and other civic organizations in Dallas.
She had three children, Mary Jane Tarlow, Wayne Biard Abernathy and John Phipps Abernathy and six grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. We who knew and loved her will deeply miss this wonderful mother and grandmother. She was an inspiration and example of Christian generosity and love and the epitome of the perfect mother and wife. Proverbs 31: 10-31.
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