Glade Plantation Cemetery
Submitted by Margaret Shuman

Graves were moved to the Jena Cemetery when the Corp of Engineers dug a new
channel for Black River, right through the area of Glade Plantation.  There is a
marker for the graves that were moved.

BEARD, William  
BEARD, Elizabeth H.
BEARD, George W.    
BEARD, Mike J.
BEARD, Annie Maria M.
MAY, Mary A. H.
MAY, J. Elizabeth B.
MAY, Albert Sidney
BEARD, Infant
BEARD, Salley     
MEYERS, Charles

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.

The graves listed are for William Beard, his wife Elizabeth Beard, his son George Jr., their son Mike J., Mike's wife Annie Maria, their daughter Annie Maria, Julia Elizabeth Beard's daughter Mary A., William and Elizabeth's daughter Julia Elizabeth May, Mary A.'s son Albert Sidney, an unknown infant Beard, Salley Beard (1878-1895) daughter of Mike J. and Annie Maria, and Charles Meyers, not a member of the family.

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