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and was active in the organization of the Floyd County Agricultural and 

 Horticultural Society, now one of the best established and most useful 

 and successful local societies in the State. He never tired in his labors 

 for the promotion of the agricultural and horticultural interests of the 

 couutj', and particularly of southern Indiana. 



His beautiful farm and residence near Edwardsville are models of his 

 skillful culture. His fruit bore the highest grade of any grown in the 

 county, and the home and farm were often visited by many of the lead- 

 ing citizens and officials of Indiana, and he had the respect and admira- 

 tion of the leading farmers and fruit growers of the State and county. 



Mr. Beard was a charter member of Georgetown Lodge Free and 

 Accepted Masons, as faithful to the principles of that ancient and honor- 

 able order as he was in all things else. But it was Mr. Beard's request 

 none of the orders of which he was a member should make a public 

 demonstration at his funeral, and the members of the Masonic Order 

 attended as friends. The religious services conducted at the residence by 

 the Rev. Mr. Fowler, of Crandall, an old friend of the family. 



Mr. Beard will be missed from the social and business circles he 

 has honored. But the bereavement that comes to his wife and son is 

 inexpressible. He was a devoted husband, and an affectionate father, 

 and this means much to the bereaved ones. 



JESSE P. ELLIOTT, OF JENNINGS TOWNSHIP, FAYETTE 



COUNTY. 



This enterprising and progressive farmer was born in Bracken County, 

 Kentucky, August 19, 1820, and died October 28, 1003. When seven 

 years of age his father, John Elliott, moved to Union County, Ind., 

 where he lived five years, after which he settled in Jennings Township. 

 Jesse Elliott, up to his eighteenth year, lived on the farm, attending 

 the district school in winter and working on the farm in summer, thus 

 obtaining a good practical education. He was married Mai-ch 9, 1847, 

 to Nancy Hulgan. This wife died in 1853. He Avas again married to 

 Margaret Darby in 1855. For seventeen years Mr. Elliott operated a 

 saw mill in Fayette County. In 18G1 he purchased a farm, the one on 

 which he died. He was eminently successful as a farmer and horticul- 

 turist, owning several hundred acres of well improved land besides other 

 property. Mr. Elliott was an uncompromising Republican, possessing 

 good business ability, far-seeing in all his dealings, a staunch advocate 

 of good roads, strictly honest in all his business transactions. A useful 

 and honest man has gone to his reward. 



MILTON TRUSLER. 



30— Afri. 



