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Beard (Old Beard Homestead) Cemetery
Pricedale, Pike County

Cemetery:       Beard gravesite
Other:          Old Beard Homestead
Sign:           No
Street:         Eric Price Road
City:           Pricedale, appx. 2 miles south
Township:      
County:         Pike
State:          Mississippi
Nation:        
Zip:            39648
lat_ns:         N
lat_h:         
lat_mmss:      
long_ew:        W
long_h:        
long_mmss:     
Status:         Abandoned
Size:           Small
Directions:     From Pricedale go S.on Cowart-Price road about 1 mile,bear
right onto Coffey Road for about 3/4 mile, turn left onto Eric Price
Road(Gravel road).Appx. 200feet up road enter into old home site(looks like
gravel pit area) The two Beard graves are located about 150 feet west of
this entry by some tall pine trees. May be overgrown and hard to locate.
Type:           Road-public
Location:       Urban
Terrain:        Level
Watersource:    No
Features:       Pine trees, overgrown brush
Property:       Private
Access:         Open
Enclosure:      Fence-Broken
Gate:           None
Established:    Feb. 1893
Gravestones:    Two graves
Oldest:         28 Feb 1893
Newest:         3 Jan 1902
Removed:        No
Relocated:      No
Repairs:        No
Methods:        Adhesives
Restoration:    No
Association:    No
Records:        Unsure
Inventory:      Unsure
Availability:  
Landscaping:    No
Paths:          No
Trees:          Yes4
Crypts:         No
Fencing:        No
Brickwork:      No
Ironwork:       No
Sculpture:      No
Fountains:      No
Roads:          No
Buildings:      No
Cement:         No
Granite:        Yes
Marble:         Unsure
Native:         No
Slate:          No
Others:         No
Wood:           No
Materials:      No
Architectural:  No
Angels:         No
Draperies:      No
Fraternal:      No
Hands:          No
Lambs:          No
Monograms:      No
Plants:         No
Photos:         No
Religious:      No
Scrollwork:     No
Urns:           No
Carvings:       No
Condition:      Cemetery in danger of destruction
Unmarked:       No
Broken:         Yes
Toppled:        Yes
Disintegrating: No
Buried:         No
Weather:        Unknown
Pollution:      No
Vandalized:     No
Report:         Yes
VA1:           
VA2:           
VA3:           
VA4:           
VA5:           
Overgrowth:    
Overgrowth1:   
Overgrowth2:   
Overgrowth3:    Gravestones-Disturbing
Overgrowth4:   
GroundCover:    Yes
Moss:          
Vines:          Yes
Drainage:       Good
Problem1:      
Problem2:      
Owner:          Family
Use:            Residential
Bordering:      Woods
Change:         Same
Reason:         Roads
Visited:        Rarely
Archeology:     No
Habitat:        Yes
Contacted:     

Surnames:

Beard, Thornhill

Other_Information:

There are only two graves here, John Elbert Beard,b.27 Sep 1818, d. 28 Feb
1893 and his wife Rebecca Ann Thornhill Beard, b.18 Sep 1823,d. 3 Jan 1902.
It is located on their old home place. (No sign left of old buildings) 

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Name:           Earl Alexander
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Date:           1 May 2004



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