Thomas C. Beard, Kansas City, Kans., died of asthma, February 22, 1906. He was the third son of John Beard, a cousin of Dr. Richard Beard, and a grandson of Rev. Ezekiel Cloyd. He was born in Wilson county, Tenn., October 31, 1832. He was reborn at Stoner's creek in 1846. Aversion to slavery took them to Illinois, at Cherry Grove, in 1848. Here he was married, June 29, 1855, to Salinda Jane Coy, who died February 14, 1879, Rev. T. K. Roach officiating. He moved to Iowa in 1858; but returned in 1861; then to Round Prairie, Kans., in 1863. He was ordained an elder in 1868. He attended more synods and presbyteries than any elder I have known, and often going when he had just enough means to take him there. But the Lord had more than this for him to do; and after a struggle, he yielded to the work of the ministry, March 2, 1872. He worked against great odds for more than six years, when he retired, April 13, 1878, allowing the things of this world to intervene, which he bitterly regretted to his last day as many others have done. Of course it was a great mistake not to please God first. But he never lost the spirit of it, and while he limited it to a private message, none were ever about him who did not hear some of it. I was his pastor ten years at Round Prairie, and when he moved to Kansas City, in 1897, received him into the church there, and at my suggestion he was elected a ruling elder, serving until his death. He was liberal in church work, giving five dollars a month to the Leavenworth mission. He was the last of the family, four brothers dying in the last fourteen months. He knew the end was near but had no concern for himself--and how blissful is such a life here, and how prophetic of what is to follow! He leaves five children, all in the church. He was taken to Round Prairie; Rev. J. C. Moore, his pastor, held services in his old home church, using I Cor. 3: 22, 23, and then he was laid away with wife, mother, father, two brothers and the others--one in Texas, one in Tennessee, one in Illinois and the only sister at Greenton, Mo., all to meet again at the resurrection of the just in the glorified kingdom.
Thomas C. Beard, Kansas City, Kans., died of asthma, February 22, 1906. He was the third son of John Beard, a cousin of Dr. Richard Beard, and a grandson of Rev. Ezekiel Cloyd. He was born in Wilson county, Tenn., October 31, 1832. He was reborn at Stoner's creek in 1846. Aversion to slavery took them to Illinois, at Cherry Grove, in 1848. Here he was married, June 29, 1855, to Salinda Jane Coy, who died February 14, 1879, Rev. T. K. Roach officiating. He moved to Iowa in 1858; but returned in 1861; then to Round Prairie, Kans., in 1863. He was ordained an elder in 1868. He attended more synods and presbyteries than any elder I have known, and often going when he had just enough means to take him there. But the Lord had more than this for him to do; and after a struggle, he yielded to the work of the ministry, March 2, 1872. He worked against great odds for more than six years, when he retired, April 13, 1878, allowing the things of this world to intervene, which he bitterly regretted to his last day as many others have done. Of course it was a great mistake not to please God first. But he never lost the spirit of it, and while he limited it to a private message, none were ever about him who did not hear some of it. I was his pastor ten years at Round Prairie, and when he moved to Kansas City, in 1897, received him into the church there, and at my suggestion he was elected a ruling elder, serving until his death. He was liberal in church work, giving five dollars a month to the Leavenworth mission. He was the last of the family, four brothers dying in the last fourteen months. He knew the end was near but had no concern for himself--and how blissful is such a life here, and how prophetic of what is to follow! He leaves five children, all in the church. He was taken to Round Prairie; Rev. J. C. Moore, his pastor, held services in his old home church, using I Cor. 3: 22, 23, and then he was laid away with wife, mother, father, two brothers and the others--one in Texas, one in Tennessee, one in Illinois and the only sister at Greenton, Mo., all to meet again at the resurrection of the just in the glorified kingdom.
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