Floyd County, Indiana
Petersburg (VA) Evening Progress, November 7, 1919, p. 18.
WILL ATTEND CELEBRATION
Gordonsville, Nov. 7-Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Matthias will leave November 14 for
New Albany, Ind., to attend a reunion of Mrs. Matthias' grandfather Beard's
grandchildren on the old Beard farm just opposite Louisville, Ky. It was
entered by Mr. Beard in 1819, this being the 100th anniversary. There he
reared 13 children, all dead except Miss Caroline Beard who is in her 80th
year. All the grandchildren who can will be present, Mrs. J. H. Matthias
being one of them. In 1819, Jonathan Beard and his bride journeyed on
horseback to what was then the Far West from Augusta County, Virginia.