Jabez Elliott Beard (1910)

BEARD, BURCHITT

Posted By: Kent Transier
Date: 7/10/2024 at 21:20:37

The Pella Chronicle
Pella, Iowa
Thursday, March 17, 1910
Page 1, Column 1

HAND OF DEATH

BEARD

Rev. J. E. Beard died very suddenly Tuesday afternoon. Mr. Beard was born in Marion county, near Durham. June 18, 1862, making him nearly 48 years of age. Deceased has lived in Pella for five years, and has been a hard-working man, trying to care for his large and growing family. He was a well informed man and but for his excessive deafness would have been in demand in the ministry. His daughters, Floy and Hallie, of Macksburg, came this morning. The interment will be at Grand River, to which place the family will go for their future home, with Mrs. Beard’s parents.
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The Pella Chronicle
Pella, Iowa
Wednesday, March 30, 1910
Page 4, Column 5

REV. J. E. BEARD

This minister of the everlasting gospel died in Pella, Iowa, March 15th. The end was sudden and unexpected. He had been confined to his house for some eight weeks, but his condition was not considered serious until complications arose which quickly brought the end.

Bro. Beard was born in Marion County, June 18, 1862. When 18 years of age he was converted and united with the Oak Springs church in Nebraska He received a fair education at a school in Nebraska, which grew into what is now Grand Island College.

He married his first wife in 1892, and two children were born to the home, Floye and Hallie, who now reside at Macksburg, where the mother died. In July 1896 he married Mattie Burchitt, daughter of Deacon Burchitt, of the Camden church, near Grand River.

Bro. Beard was pastor of several churches in Nebraska in his early ministry; also in Missouri and in the East Grand River Association, in Iowa. His hearing became so defective that he was compelled to give up the pastorate and came to Pella five years ago and worked for some time as compositor in the RRCORD office, supplying churches near by as occasion demanded. For two years or more he preached regularly as pastor at the Coal Ridge church, where he was highly esteemed. He did very faithful mission work at Durham and Fifield as long as he was able or until they could make better arrangements.

Bro. Beard was a well-informed man, a careful student, and worked hard to support his family of wife and six small children, whom he left in indigent circumstances.

Deacon Burchitt had come to make the family a visit of a few days just at the time acute Bright’s disease set in which speedily brought the end. The Pella church in which he and his wife and Cleta had been faithful members, took hold with strong hand, and every needed provision was made for the care of both the deceased brother and the family, and all were sent to the old home near Grand River, which the bereaved parents opened to receive and care for the widow and the fatherless little ones.

Bro. Beard fought a hard battle all through life, but was cheerful and trusting. He often quoted the famous word of Paul, “I know him whom I have believed”; and had the 91st Psalm read frequently during his last illness. Not long before he died he repeated the following lines which seemed to be favorites with him:

“I see not a step before me,
As I tread the paths of the year;
But the past is all in God’s keeping,
The future, his presence will cheer.
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Transcriber's note: Full name taken from daughter Hallie's Iowa Delayed Certificate of Birth. The deceased was married in Madison County in 1891 and still resided there in the 1895 census.

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