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Joel C Beard

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Joel C Beard

Birth
Kentucky, USA
Death
11 Sep 1881 (aged 81–82)
Marion Township, Hancock County, Ohio, USA
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Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio, USA Add to Map
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"It takes a strong soul, a courageous nature to leave the comforts of a civilized home for the privations and hardships of the frontier. When Joel Beard came to Hancock county, in 1827, he brought with him a family of three generations. The region was still a vast wilderness, and, though the Indians were still numerous but friendly, these early pioneers suffered many and severe hardships. Game was fortunately plentiful, for they were often compelled to go without the foods of civilization. Once they had neither bread nor salt for a period of six months. Deer and turkey roamed through the forest, and the skill of the Kentucky marksman many a time saved these brave frontiersmen from starvation. Clothing, too, was scarce; the skins of the roebuck replaced the cottons and woolens of ordinary usage. John, the younger, wore a buckskin suit for seven years. But industry and perseverance can make even the wilderness habitable. The father planted flax and the mother spun the fibre and wove it into cloth; the coat of skin was laid aside. When further development permitted attention to animal husbandry a flock of sheep cropped the herbage in the clearing and John was clad in woolens.
Upon coming to Hancock county the two elder members of the Beard family, John and Joel, each entered eighty acres of land in Marion township from the government, cleared it and built a log hut in which Joel lived until his death. Joel later added forty acres to his holding and brought the whole under cultivation. Both were natives of Kentucky. They were men of sterling qualities, able to cope with the difficulties that beset the path of the frontiersman. Both have passed away, but both will go down in the history of this community as thoroughly good men."

Excerpt from "A Centennial Biographical History of Hancock County, Ohio" Lewis Publishing Company, 1903. Pages 406-408
"It takes a strong soul, a courageous nature to leave the comforts of a civilized home for the privations and hardships of the frontier. When Joel Beard came to Hancock county, in 1827, he brought with him a family of three generations. The region was still a vast wilderness, and, though the Indians were still numerous but friendly, these early pioneers suffered many and severe hardships. Game was fortunately plentiful, for they were often compelled to go without the foods of civilization. Once they had neither bread nor salt for a period of six months. Deer and turkey roamed through the forest, and the skill of the Kentucky marksman many a time saved these brave frontiersmen from starvation. Clothing, too, was scarce; the skins of the roebuck replaced the cottons and woolens of ordinary usage. John, the younger, wore a buckskin suit for seven years. But industry and perseverance can make even the wilderness habitable. The father planted flax and the mother spun the fibre and wove it into cloth; the coat of skin was laid aside. When further development permitted attention to animal husbandry a flock of sheep cropped the herbage in the clearing and John was clad in woolens.
Upon coming to Hancock county the two elder members of the Beard family, John and Joel, each entered eighty acres of land in Marion township from the government, cleared it and built a log hut in which Joel lived until his death. Joel later added forty acres to his holding and brought the whole under cultivation. Both were natives of Kentucky. They were men of sterling qualities, able to cope with the difficulties that beset the path of the frontiersman. Both have passed away, but both will go down in the history of this community as thoroughly good men."

Excerpt from "A Centennial Biographical History of Hancock County, Ohio" Lewis Publishing Company, 1903. Pages 406-408

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"At the time of the 1995 reading of cemetery transcriptions at this cemetery this stone was either not present or not legible. There are not many stones at this cemetery and many that remain are in poor condition." — Jody Cook B. Find-A-Grave ID 4874

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