Our American Family - Person Sheet
Our American Family - Person Sheet
NameMary COX
Birth Date20 Aug 1813
Birth PlaceRoss, Butler County, Ohio
Death Date8 Aug 1907 Age: 93
Death PlaceGreensfork, Randolph County, Indiana
Burial Date10 Aug 1907
Burial PlaceLynn, Randolph County, Indiana, Quaker Lynn Cemetery
FatherBenjamin COX Sr. (1780-1847)
MotherAnn RHOADS (1776-1841)
Spouses
Birth Date7 Dec 1812
Birth PlaceGuilford County, North Carolina
Death Date2 Jul 1889 Age: 76
Death PlaceRandolph County, Indiana
Burial PlaceLynn, Randolph County, Indiana, Quaker Lynn Cemetery
Family ID8849
Family Media
Notes for Mary COX
aul Beard, Jr., was born in North Carolina in 1812, and came to Randolph County, Ind., in 1817. He is the son of Dr. Paul Beard, who emigrated to this county at that time, and entered land near Lynn Meeting-House.

Paul Beard, Jr., married Mary Cox in 1833. They have had nine children, eight now living and seven married. Their names are Levi, Ezra, Ann, Asa, Eunice, Louisa, Lindley, Ruth, Henry. Lindley joined the Sixtieth Indiana Regiment in his eighteenth year. Mr. Beard is an Elder in the Society of Friends, and a Republican. His wife is also an Elder. They reside on the farm entered by Paul Beard, Sr., near Lynn Meeting-House for Friends. They are intelligent, sober-minded, pious people, walking in industry and sobriety of spirit, and in the love and practice of the truth.

Paul Beard was raised a farmer, and still follows that avocation for a livelihood. He is the uncle of Elkanah Beard, who has become a noted preacher among Friends, having traveled extensively (as also his wife, who is a preacher) in the East, the South and the West, they having been missionaries to India, etc. The wife of Eikanah Beard is Irena Johnson, grand-daughter of Jesse Johnson, one of the earliest pioneers of the township.

On Find A Grave from rebecca james.

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Notes for Paul (Spouse 1)
Paul Beard, Jr., was born in North Carolina in 1812, and came to Randolph County, Ind., in 1817. He is the son of Dr. Paul Beard, who emigrated to this county at that time, and entered land near Lynn Meeting-House.

Paul Beard, Jr., married Mary Cox in 1833. They have had nine children, eight now living and seven married. Their names are Levi, Ezra, Ann, Asa, Eunice, Louisa, Lindley, Ruth, Henry. Lindley joined the Sixtieth Indiana Regiment in his eighteenth year. Mr. Beard is an Elder in the Society of Friends, and a Republican. His wife is also an Elder. They reside on the farm entered by Paul Beard, Sr., near Lynn Meeting-House for Friends. They are intelligent, sober-minded, pious people, walking in industry and sobriety of spirit, and in the love and practice of the truth.

Paul Beard was raised a farmer, and still follows that avocation for a livelihood. He is the uncle of Elkanah Beard, who has become a noted preacher among Friends, having traveled extensively (as also his wife, who is a preacher) in the East, the South and the West, they having been missionaries to India, etc. The wife of Eikanah Beard is Irena Johnson, grand-daughter of Jesse Johnson, one of the earliest pioneers of the township.

On Find A Grave from rebecca james.

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