Charlie is my second great-grandfather. He was born in George to John A. and Malinda Cook Beard in 1852. He was the 4th of 10 children. This is who I have been working on at the moment. I have several mysteries to solve where he is concerned.
I have not yet found a marriage record for him and first wife, Jane. They had 3 children, Francis M., also known as Frank, who I am still chasing, James A., which turns out I had him with the family but had not known who he really was. He is James Andrew, my mysterious "Drew". I know much more about him now. Last, but not least, Malinda who is a mystery too.
Charlie is 26 in the 1880 census and married to Jane with 3 children. He's a farmer, I think, born in Georgia. The census said his occupation was stacking wood? It looks like stacking anyway. Hard to believe that could be an occupation. I will have to look into that. I imaged that perhaps Jane was home when the census taker showed up and she said her husband was out stacking wood. He made the assumption that was his job. LOL Maybe it was a real job back then.
Does it say stacking wood?
Jane was suddenly gone and he married Nancy Elizabeth Bearden, my second great-grandmother, on April 16, 1884.
In the 1900 census I learned that census takers did not need to know how to spell. He was listed as Barde, C. H., Nancy as Nannie, and my great-grandfather was Chutly. His actual name was Charles Pinkney, mostly known as Pink. I went down the entire census page. The census taker could not spell. Really. Anyway, he is renting a farm. He could read and write, which I can prove. Charlie is 48.
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