Salem Pioneer Cemetery ~ Hester Beard ~ part of the Marion County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
Hester Beard
LAST NAME: Beard FIRST NAME: Hester MIDDLE NAME:  NICKNAME: 
MAIDEN NAME: Fry AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3: 
TITLE:  GENDER: F MILITARY: 
BORN: 22 Jun 1870 DIED: 7 Mar 1922 BURIED: 10 Mar 1922
ETHNICITY:   OCCUPATION:  Housewife
BIRTH PLACE:  Woolvenskill, Banwell, Somerset, England
DEATH PLACE: Salem, Marion Co., Oregon
NOTES: 
IOOF - Mrs. H. Beard, age 51, died in Salem. 
1881 ENG CENSUS - Hester Fry, age 10, b. Banwell, Somerset, is enumerated with [mother] Sophia Fry, age 55, widow, washerwoman, b. Banwell, Somerset, and [sister] Sophia, age 18, b. Banwelll, Somerset. Hester was the first wife of Herbert Charles Beard (1872 -1942). Mr. John Fry was the father of Hester (b. abt. 1825).

PHOTOGRAPH NOTE - The picture of Hester Beard, circa 1920, is courtesy of Ginni Morey.
OBITUARY: 
BEARD--At her home 555 North Fifteenth street, March 7, Mrs. Hester Beard at the age of 51 years. Besides her husband, she is survived by four sons, William, Bert, Ralph and Victor Beard, all of Salem. Also by two daughters, Mrs. Nellie Illum and Mrs. Daniel Thorpe, both of Idaho. The body is in care of Webb & Clough. Funeral arrangements have not as yet been announced. 
Oregon Statesman 8 Mar 1922 5:6. 

The funeral of Mrs. Hester Beard will be held at Webb & Clough’s funeral parlors at 1 p.m. Friday. Interment will be in the I.O.O.F. cemetery. 
Oregon Statesman 9 Mar 1922 5:2
INSCRIPTION: 
Beard 
Hester 
1870 - 1922 
[shares marker with Herbert]
SOURCES: 
LR 
LD 
IOOF Register of Burials 
OSBH DC (Marion Co., 1922) #193
Saucy Survey & Photographs 
1881 ENG Census (Somerset, Banwell, Dist. 1, Folio 17, pg 28) 
OS 9 Mar 1922 5:2 S&H pg 4
CONTACTS: 
LOT: 656 SPACE: 3 NW LONGITUDE: N 44° 55.220' LATITUDE: W 123° 02.914'
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