Ada Myrtle Fanchier
She was not related by blood, but was my great-grandmother. She was known as Myrtle, and was married to Charles Pinkney Beard. They married when my grandmother was just nine years old. Her mother, Beatrice Brown, died in 1911. Myrtle was the only mother she knew, really.
Myrtle was born in October of 1891 somewhere in Alabama, to John F. Fanchier and Georgia Ann Oliver. Her first husband was James Starling Haney. I don't know as yet what happened to him, death or divorce. Myrtle had 4 children which she brought to the marriage. James, Beatrice, Georgia, and Zelma were the children of James Haney, plus my grandmother, Bizzie was already there. Then, she and Charles had 10 more. Louie, Lois, Frank, John, Charles, Bertha, Mary, Leonard, Frances, and Virginia were the product of their marriage. Big family!
There are several tiny graves of the babies she lost in the graveyard. The only children that I know died as infants from the above names are Lois, which was Louie's twin, and Charles who lived about 10 days. The other graves of Beard children must have not been full term babies.
Myrtle died on March 11, 1972 in Gum Spring, Alabama. She is buried in the Noble Hill Church Cemetery in Duck Springs beside Charles.
I have much work to do on her, like getting the sources together and entering them. While she was not blood, my grandmother loved her. That is enough to be family.
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