Glade Plantation
Information submitted by Margaret Shuman
The Beard Family home located at Glade Plantation and family history.
The Beard home at Glade was built by William Beard (1803-ca1875). William Beard
came to Louisiana from Pennsylvania in about 1837 with his son George W. Beard
(1827-1852). William married widowed Julia Elizabeth Holstein Holmes (1804-ca1875)
in about 1840. She had three children from her first marriage, Benjamin K. Holmes
(b. 1830), William Holmes (b. 1832), and Mary Ann Holmes (1832-1865). William
and Julia Elizabeth Beard had two children: Julia Elizabeth (1843-1874) and
Michael Johnston Beard (1847-1888). Mary Ann Holmes was married to Dr. G.B.
May of Black River. After her death, he married Julia Elizabeth Beard, and after
her death in 1874, Dr. May married Clara Amanda Wilmoth. Michael Johnston Beard
married Annie Maria Montgomery in 1869.
Enlargement of the individuals in the above photo. They are not known, but may be members of the family, possibly Annie Maria Montgomery Beard (1869-ca. 1905) and her grown children.
