Susan Lavinia Field was the third daughter and fourth of eight children born to Elswick Sherwood Field (1808-1867) and Guilianna Lindsay (1807-1885). She was probably named after her mother's aunt, Susannah Lindsay (1789-1857, Mrs. Dr. Joseph Wood), and her mother's sister, Nancy Lavinia Lindsay (c.1813-1850/56, Mrs. Milton H. Saunders).
Susan married Augustus Henry Shepherd Beard (1829-1904, a son of William Asbury Beard and Martha Henley) on 16 June 1857. From the Greensborough Patriot, 26 June 1857: "MARRIED.---At Mountain Island, Gaston county, on Tuesday morning, the 16th instant, by Rev. I. (or L.?) Wood, A. H. S. BEARD, Esq., of Kernersville, Forsythe county, and Miss SUSAN LAVINIA, daughter of E. S. Field, formerly of Greensborough."
Susan and Augustus lived at Kernersville (where her maternal grandmother Elisabeth Briggs, Mrs. William Lindsay, c.1784-1871, had moved in 1848). This is only about 6 miles from the old Lindsay plantation on Deep River in Guilford County, which Susan's maternal great grandfather, Judge Robert Lindsay (c.1735-1801) had established in the 1750s or 1760s, and which served as the meeting place of the court of Guilford County from the county's founding in 1771 until 1774.
Susan's parents moved to the city of Greensboro around the time of their marriage in 1831, where Elswick S. Field was associated with the Mt. Hecla Cotton Mill, the first steam powered cotton mill in the South, built by Henry Humphreys, a Lindsay family connection. The family moved to Gaston County around 1850, where Elswick designed, built and ran the Mountain Island Cotton Mill.
Susan attended Greensborough Female College, now Greensboro College, along with her older sister, Elizabeth Eleanor Field. The college was a Methodist institution for the education of women, founded in 1837. Among the original trustees of the college were Susan's uncle, Rev. Benton Field (1797-1871) and her mother's uncle, Andrew Lindsay (1786-1844). A bequest for the building of the first of the college's buildings was provided by her great grandmother's half sister, Susanna McGee (1761-1843, Mrs. Elisha Mendenhall).
Susan Lavinia Field and Augustus H. S. Beard lived in Kernersville, where they were members of the Main Street Methodist Church. A. H. S. Beard served as mayor of Kernersville for a time. He was also a merchant and tobacco manufacturer.
Augustus and Susan had ten children: Charles Rush Beard (1859-1915), William Elswick Beard (1861-1933, m. Lula Williams), Thomas Shepherd Beard (1863-?, m. Mary Silas Barbour, lived at Cincinnati, Ohio), Ernest Lee Beard (1865-?, last heard from in South America), Junius Benton Beard (1867-1923, m. Mary Wells Wise, lived in Davidson Co., NC), Lura Alice Beard (1869-1954, m. Edward Parker Story), Claude Henry Beard (1871-1942, m. Margaret Banner), Paul Lindsay Beard (1873-1928, m. Ethel Becker), Marvin Odell Beard (1877-1944, never married) and Frances Mozelle Beard (1881-1961, m. Oscar Emil Neiss).
Many thanks to Mike Marshall for information about the children of A. H. S. and Susan Field Beard, and also to Find A Grave contributor Isabel for the photographs and information on the death of Charles Rush Beard.
Susan married Augustus Henry Shepherd Beard (1829-1904, a son of William Asbury Beard and Martha Henley) on 16 June 1857. From the Greensborough Patriot, 26 June 1857: "MARRIED.---At Mountain Island, Gaston county, on Tuesday morning, the 16th instant, by Rev. I. (or L.?) Wood, A. H. S. BEARD, Esq., of Kernersville, Forsythe county, and Miss SUSAN LAVINIA, daughter of E. S. Field, formerly of Greensborough."
Susan and Augustus lived at Kernersville (where her maternal grandmother Elisabeth Briggs, Mrs. William Lindsay, c.1784-1871, had moved in 1848). This is only about 6 miles from the old Lindsay plantation on Deep River in Guilford County, which Susan's maternal great grandfather, Judge Robert Lindsay (c.1735-1801) had established in the 1750s or 1760s, and which served as the meeting place of the court of Guilford County from the county's founding in 1771 until 1774.
Susan's parents moved to the city of Greensboro around the time of their marriage in 1831, where Elswick S. Field was associated with the Mt. Hecla Cotton Mill, the first steam powered cotton mill in the South, built by Henry Humphreys, a Lindsay family connection. The family moved to Gaston County around 1850, where Elswick designed, built and ran the Mountain Island Cotton Mill.
Susan attended Greensborough Female College, now Greensboro College, along with her older sister, Elizabeth Eleanor Field. The college was a Methodist institution for the education of women, founded in 1837. Among the original trustees of the college were Susan's uncle, Rev. Benton Field (1797-1871) and her mother's uncle, Andrew Lindsay (1786-1844). A bequest for the building of the first of the college's buildings was provided by her great grandmother's half sister, Susanna McGee (1761-1843, Mrs. Elisha Mendenhall).
Susan Lavinia Field and Augustus H. S. Beard lived in Kernersville, where they were members of the Main Street Methodist Church. A. H. S. Beard served as mayor of Kernersville for a time. He was also a merchant and tobacco manufacturer.
Augustus and Susan had ten children: Charles Rush Beard (1859-1915), William Elswick Beard (1861-1933, m. Lula Williams), Thomas Shepherd Beard (1863-?, m. Mary Silas Barbour, lived at Cincinnati, Ohio), Ernest Lee Beard (1865-?, last heard from in South America), Junius Benton Beard (1867-1923, m. Mary Wells Wise, lived in Davidson Co., NC), Lura Alice Beard (1869-1954, m. Edward Parker Story), Claude Henry Beard (1871-1942, m. Margaret Banner), Paul Lindsay Beard (1873-1928, m. Ethel Becker), Marvin Odell Beard (1877-1944, never married) and Frances Mozelle Beard (1881-1961, m. Oscar Emil Neiss).
Many thanks to Mike Marshall for information about the children of A. H. S. and Susan Field Beard, and also to Find A Grave contributor Isabel for the photographs and information on the death of Charles Rush Beard.
Susan Lavinia Field was the third daughter and fourth of eight children born to Elswick Sherwood Field (1808-1867) and Guilianna Lindsay (1807-1885). She was probably named after her mother's aunt, Susannah Lindsay (1789-1857, Mrs. Dr. Joseph Wood), and her mother's sister, Nancy Lavinia Lindsay (c.1813-1850/56, Mrs. Milton H. Saunders).
Susan married Augustus Henry Shepherd Beard (1829-1904, a son of William Asbury Beard and Martha Henley) on 16 June 1857. From the Greensborough Patriot, 26 June 1857: "MARRIED.---At Mountain Island, Gaston county, on Tuesday morning, the 16th instant, by Rev. I. (or L.?) Wood, A. H. S. BEARD, Esq., of Kernersville, Forsythe county, and Miss SUSAN LAVINIA, daughter of E. S. Field, formerly of Greensborough."
Susan and Augustus lived at Kernersville (where her maternal grandmother Elisabeth Briggs, Mrs. William Lindsay, c.1784-1871, had moved in 1848). This is only about 6 miles from the old Lindsay plantation on Deep River in Guilford County, which Susan's maternal great grandfather, Judge Robert Lindsay (c.1735-1801) had established in the 1750s or 1760s, and which served as the meeting place of the court of Guilford County from the county's founding in 1771 until 1774.
Susan's parents moved to the city of Greensboro around the time of their marriage in 1831, where Elswick S. Field was associated with the Mt. Hecla Cotton Mill, the first steam powered cotton mill in the South, built by Henry Humphreys, a Lindsay family connection. The family moved to Gaston County around 1850, where Elswick designed, built and ran the Mountain Island Cotton Mill.
Susan attended Greensborough Female College, now Greensboro College, along with her older sister, Elizabeth Eleanor Field. The college was a Methodist institution for the education of women, founded in 1837. Among the original trustees of the college were Susan's uncle, Rev. Benton Field (1797-1871) and her mother's uncle, Andrew Lindsay (1786-1844). A bequest for the building of the first of the college's buildings was provided by her great grandmother's half sister, Susanna McGee (1761-1843, Mrs. Elisha Mendenhall).
Susan Lavinia Field and Augustus H. S. Beard lived in Kernersville, where they were members of the Main Street Methodist Church. A. H. S. Beard served as mayor of Kernersville for a time. He was also a merchant and tobacco manufacturer.
Augustus and Susan had ten children: Charles Rush Beard (1859-1915), William Elswick Beard (1861-1933, m. Lula Williams), Thomas Shepherd Beard (1863-?, m. Mary Silas Barbour, lived at Cincinnati, Ohio), Ernest Lee Beard (1865-?, last heard from in South America), Junius Benton Beard (1867-1923, m. Mary Wells Wise, lived in Davidson Co., NC), Lura Alice Beard (1869-1954, m. Edward Parker Story), Claude Henry Beard (1871-1942, m. Margaret Banner), Paul Lindsay Beard (1873-1928, m. Ethel Becker), Marvin Odell Beard (1877-1944, never married) and Frances Mozelle Beard (1881-1961, m. Oscar Emil Neiss).
Many thanks to Mike Marshall for information about the children of A. H. S. and Susan Field Beard, and also to Find A Grave contributor Isabel for the photographs and information on the death of Charles Rush Beard.
Susan married Augustus Henry Shepherd Beard (1829-1904, a son of William Asbury Beard and Martha Henley) on 16 June 1857. From the Greensborough Patriot, 26 June 1857: "MARRIED.---At Mountain Island, Gaston county, on Tuesday morning, the 16th instant, by Rev. I. (or L.?) Wood, A. H. S. BEARD, Esq., of Kernersville, Forsythe county, and Miss SUSAN LAVINIA, daughter of E. S. Field, formerly of Greensborough."
Susan and Augustus lived at Kernersville (where her maternal grandmother Elisabeth Briggs, Mrs. William Lindsay, c.1784-1871, had moved in 1848). This is only about 6 miles from the old Lindsay plantation on Deep River in Guilford County, which Susan's maternal great grandfather, Judge Robert Lindsay (c.1735-1801) had established in the 1750s or 1760s, and which served as the meeting place of the court of Guilford County from the county's founding in 1771 until 1774.
Susan's parents moved to the city of Greensboro around the time of their marriage in 1831, where Elswick S. Field was associated with the Mt. Hecla Cotton Mill, the first steam powered cotton mill in the South, built by Henry Humphreys, a Lindsay family connection. The family moved to Gaston County around 1850, where Elswick designed, built and ran the Mountain Island Cotton Mill.
Susan attended Greensborough Female College, now Greensboro College, along with her older sister, Elizabeth Eleanor Field. The college was a Methodist institution for the education of women, founded in 1837. Among the original trustees of the college were Susan's uncle, Rev. Benton Field (1797-1871) and her mother's uncle, Andrew Lindsay (1786-1844). A bequest for the building of the first of the college's buildings was provided by her great grandmother's half sister, Susanna McGee (1761-1843, Mrs. Elisha Mendenhall).
Susan Lavinia Field and Augustus H. S. Beard lived in Kernersville, where they were members of the Main Street Methodist Church. A. H. S. Beard served as mayor of Kernersville for a time. He was also a merchant and tobacco manufacturer.
Augustus and Susan had ten children: Charles Rush Beard (1859-1915), William Elswick Beard (1861-1933, m. Lula Williams), Thomas Shepherd Beard (1863-?, m. Mary Silas Barbour, lived at Cincinnati, Ohio), Ernest Lee Beard (1865-?, last heard from in South America), Junius Benton Beard (1867-1923, m. Mary Wells Wise, lived in Davidson Co., NC), Lura Alice Beard (1869-1954, m. Edward Parker Story), Claude Henry Beard (1871-1942, m. Margaret Banner), Paul Lindsay Beard (1873-1928, m. Ethel Becker), Marvin Odell Beard (1877-1944, never married) and Frances Mozelle Beard (1881-1961, m. Oscar Emil Neiss).
Many thanks to Mike Marshall for information about the children of A. H. S. and Susan Field Beard, and also to Find A Grave contributor Isabel for the photographs and information on the death of Charles Rush Beard.
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