Henry Beard, Former Slave & Member 105th Illinois-- Part 3: After the War

After living at the two-room house for ten years and with an expanding family, Henry Beard and his wife moved to a larger house on another portion of land a mile west of Brickville Road.  The Beards eventually had fourteen children.

Henry Beard died at Glidden Hospital in DeKalb, Illinois, on December 11, 1924, hours after being clipped by a train at the age of 84.

By the time Judy Beard died in 1941, only two sons survived.

--Old Secesh