Life History

Notes

• The following notes came from Pamela Dyess Mann,http://awtc.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=bigmann&id=I1748(EDITED)
  
  It appears from sources cited that Richard lived to be two weeksshort of 100 years old.  However, the actual age reported in the June1860 census was 103, which would make the birth year 1757.  Thissource has an exact birth date, which would make the age 100 on July 61860.  The notes below from that same source say Richard was 92 in1850, and Sarah age 85.  In the 1860 census Sarah does not appear.
  
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  Military service abt 1781 Dragoon service, term 10 months, under Capt.William Smith (according to Irma Frances Bearden Casey) under Col.John Thomas, joined Gen Sumter.
  
  [More details on the battles:
  http://72.14.235.104/search?q=cache:8SmYOqd5J04J:www.southerncampaign.org/newsletter/v2n4.pdf+Gen+Sumter&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=2
  On General Sumter:
  http://www.sumter-sc.com/AboutSumter/History_GenSumter.aspx/]
  
  Ga. Census for 1790-1890 [This references the Tax lists for Wilkes Co,North Carolina, 1793]
  
  "Gone to Georgia" lists him in 1805 Wilkes Co. GA land lottery,revolution pension data
  
  Richard Bearden--Hall Co. 1820
  
  no township--1820 Federal Census-page 129
  
  Richard Bearden--Carroll Co.1840 pg 054 Federal Census
  township--729th Dist. 1850--11th Dist pg 015  [appears to be his sonRichard]
  
  Richard Bearden--Lumpkin Co. 830th Dist. 1840 pg.240
  
  Lumpkin Co., Amacalola Dist. 1850 pg.021
  [This district is written Amacalola in the actual census sheets;called Amicaloa in Ancestry.com]
  Bearden, Richard age 92 farmer birthstate unknown
  Sally age 85? birthstate unknown
  
  Richard Bearden--Walton Co., 88th Dist. 1850 pg. 015 also 1840--TownDist. pg. 098 [Same year as above -- this would be a different RichardBearden; this wa a 12-year-old]
  
  1834 Lumpkin Co., GA State Census
  Name/# in HH BERDIN, Richard.......7
  
  Lumpkin Co, GA marriage William C Bearden = Elizabeth Snow 12/14/1848
  [Dawson County was created out of Lumpkin in 1857]
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  I am not including in my genealogy listings the previous generationsof Beardens here.  Others have covered the Beardens.  I am includingin these notes the following information from Pamela Dyess Mann onRichard's parents and siblings.
  
  ID: I1826
  Name: John William BEARDEN
  Sex: M
  Birth: Abt 1717
  Death: 10 OCT 1797 in Spartanburg District, South Carolina
  Burial: Flat Creek Cemetery, Bedford, Tennessee
  
  Note:
  Carroll County Georgia Tax Digest 1853
  Last Name First Name Misc. GMD Land Dist
  Bearden James 681 4
  Bearden Richard 681 4
  Bearden Soloman 729 5
  Beardon Aran 729 5
  
  Carroll Co., GA
  Bearden, Andrew J-Jane A Huckabee 9/15/1841
  Bearden, Edward-Elizabeth Boatright 10/1/1856
  Bearden, James J-Frances A Daugherty 9/22/1853
  Bearden, Feubin H-Nancy E Handley 2/20/1859
  Bearden, Solomon-Elizabeth Ann Cockwell 2/7/1847
  Bearden, Aaron-Adaline Boone 4/20/1851
  Change Date: 29 JAN 2003 at 22:04:27
  
  Father: Francis BEARDEN b: 1692 in Isle of Wight, Va
  Mother: Sarah BLASINGAME b: 1695
  
  Marriage Richard Bearden to Lettice WINN
  Children
  Lettice Winn BEARDEN b: 1740
  Elizabeth BEARDEN b: Abt 1742
  Edmund BEARDEN b: 1743
  John BEARDEN b: 11 MAR 1744
  Isaac BEARDEN b: 1746
  Humphrey BEARDEN b: 1746
  Mary BEARDEN b: Abt 1750
  Thomas BEARDEN b: 1752
  Richard BEARDEN b: 6 JUL 1760
  Mourning BEARDEN b: 15 JUN 1763
  William BEARDEN
  Arthur BEARDEN b: 1772
  Benjamin BEARDEN b: 1773
  Ansel BEARDEN b: 1775
  -- http://awtc.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=bigmann&id=I1826

Sources

• 1. Ancestry Trees
  • Pamela Dyess Mann,
• 2. Ancestry Trees
  • http://awtc.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:2779675&id=I549288
• 3. Tax Lists, NC Early Census Index
• 4. 1860 Federal Census, Dawson County, Georgia
  • 4 June, Amacalola (Amicaloa) District, PO Dawsonville, p 44,
• 5. Marion L Mixon, Bearden-Langston Genealogy