Welcome to the West Virginia Beard Web site
This site is dedicated to the descendents of Thomas Beard and Jean McNutt, of Augusta County, Virginia — now in their fourteenth generation.
Hath this been in your days, or even in the days of your fathers? Tell your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation. — Joel, Chapter 1, verses 1–2
Burnside, West Virginia · June 1916
Standing: Quinn Gumm, Lillian Fowler, Leta Beard, Mattie Lewis, Opal Rogers, Myrtle Sharp, Elizabeth Fote, Eula Hill, Dare Kinnison, Madge Weiford, Francia Clark, Zadil Kinnison, Roxie Carlisle, Wardel Harper
Sitting: Ligon Gumm, Ernest Burr, Guy Kinnison, Julian Lynn Beard, Norman Lolley, Wint Hill, John Sheets, Earl Carlisle, Ite Powers, Earl Beard, Gilbert Morrison.
Inscription on the back: "Dear Lynn (this is Julian Lynn Beard): It is my hope that this little picture will remind you, as it does me, of our last big feed together. Yours sincerely, Clifton E. G—rd."
