NameBEARD, Stephen McKinley
Birth Date11 Aug 1822
Birth PlaceNelson County, Kentucky
Death Date7 Dec 1858 Age: 36
Death PlaceSpencer County, Kentucky
Misc. Notes
Stephen Beard’s Kentucky death record lists typhoid as cause of death but according to a questionnaire completed by his son-in-law, George Thomas Schoolfield, Stephen died as a result of having been bit by a boar on the thumb Emma's father "died at 36 years old from mortification caused by boar's bite on his thumb."
Spouses
Birth Date15 Mar 1828
Birth PlaceKentucky
Cause of DeaPneumonia
Death Date18 Jan 1897 Age: 68
Death PlaceDanville, Boyle County, Kentucky
Misc. Notes
Mrs. Elizabeth Allen
[Special Dispatch to The Leader}
Danville, Ky., Jan. 19,—Mrs. Elizabeth Allen, wife of Dr. Joseph Allen of Taylorsville, died here this morning of pneumonia at the home of her daughter, Mrs. George T. Schoolfield. She was 69 years of age.
Mrs. Allen was the mother of Mrs. R. H. King, of this city, and a daughter of Alexander Thomas, of Spencer county, a man who was distinguished for his business sagacity and integrity, as well as for his generous hospitality.
Her first husband was Stephen Beard, uncle to Mr. M. H. Beard, of North Broadway, who left a handsome competency to his family.
Her surviving husband, Dr. Joseph Allen, now well advanced in years, has been a prominent physician in the State and is a brother to Col. “Jack” Allen, of Mexican and Confederate war fame.
Mrs. Allen was a devoted and consistent member of the M. E. Church. She as a lovely Christian character, who had by her many acts of kindness and generous hospitality drawn about her hundreds of devoted friends and admirers who join most sincerely in their sympathy with the bereaved family.
Marr Date16 Sep 1846
Marr PlaceSpencer County, Kentucky