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SAURINA BEARD CELEBRATES 101 YEARS
Union County Illinois Genealogy Trails Transcribed and submitted by Darrel Dexter Mrs. Saurina Beard celebrated her 101st birthday at the home of her granddaughter, Mrs. George Foster, in Herrin last Saturday. A dispatch in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat of Monday says that Mrs. Beard was born and raised near Alto Pass in Union County. Her father was a shoemaker, and the family lived upon a small tract of ground where they raised their own cotton, made their own clothes and grew everything for their table. She was married when 20 years of age at the old court house in Jonesboro. Her husband died in the spring before the civil war, leaving her with five children all of whom she has outlived. Mrs. Beard is in excellent health and full possession of all her faculties. She is now piecing a quilt for her great-grandson—“Then I am done,” she says. We are curious to know what Mrs. Beard’s family name was. (Jonesboro Gazette, Jonesboro, Illinois, Friday, 4 Mar 1921) |