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Benjamin Beard, a native of Pennsylvania, who had been a prominent farmer in Ohio, Indiana, and Iowa, and had officiated as an elder in the Presbyterian Church for fifty years, passed away in California at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Alfred Baird, having reached the advanced age of ninety-three years, and his wife, who in maidenhood had been Mary Ann Knott, a native of New Jersey, also came to California and spent her last days with her daughter, passing away at her home at the age of seventy-one years.
Benjamin Beard, a native of Pennsylvania, who had been a prominent farmer in Ohio, Indiana, and Iowa, and had officiated as an elder in the Presbyterian Church for fifty years, passed away in California at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Alfred Baird, having reached the advanced age of ninety-three years, and his wife, who in maidenhood had been Mary Ann Knott, a native of New Jersey, also came to California and spent her last days with her daughter, passing away at her home at the age of seventy-one years.
Thank you Lester for the added information...
Benjamin Beard, a native of Pennsylvania, who had been a prominent farmer in Ohio, Indiana, and Iowa, and had officiated as an elder in the Presbyterian Church for fifty years, passed away in California at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Alfred Baird, having reached the advanced age of ninety-three years, and his wife, who in maidenhood had been Mary Ann Knott, a native of New Jersey, also came to California and spent her last days with her daughter, passing away at her home at the age of seventy-one years.
Benjamin Beard, a native of Pennsylvania, who had been a prominent farmer in Ohio, Indiana, and Iowa, and had officiated as an elder in the Presbyterian Church for fifty years, passed away in California at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Alfred Baird, having reached the advanced age of ninety-three years, and his wife, who in maidenhood had been Mary Ann Knott, a native of New Jersey, also came to California and spent her last days with her daughter, passing away at her home at the age of seventy-one years.
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