Mary (Smith) Beardsley (1838 - 1916)

Born 28 Mar 1838 in Pierpont, Ashtabula County, Ohio, USA

Wife of Leonard Everett Beardsley — married 25 Jul 1861 in Richmond, Ashtabula, Ohio, USA

Descendants

Died 26 Apr 1916 at age 78 in Conneaut, Ashtabula County, Ohio, USA

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Mary (Smith) Beardsley was married to a descendant of the immigrants William Beardsley and Mary Harvie.

Biography

Mary (Smith) Beardsley was an Appalachian.

Mary (Smith) Beardsley was an Ohioan.

Mary Smith was born on March 28, 1838 in Pierpont, Ashtabula County, Ohio, USA. Her parents were Plin Smith and Aurelia Weeks. She married Rev. Leonard E. Beardsley on July 25, 1861 in Richmond, Ashtabula County, Ohio, USA. Together they had 2 children:

1. Mark Beardsley
2. Jay Wirt Beardsley (1875-1950)

She died on April 26, 1916 in Conneaut, Ashtabula County, Ohio, USA and was buried in City Cemetery in Conneaut.

Sources

• Beardsley Genealogy: The Family of William Beardsley, One of the First Settlers of Connecticut. Compiled and edited by Nellie Beardsley Holt and Charles Eleazer Holt. Published at West Hartford, Connecticut, 1951. Holt Record #588, Pg. 246.

• Find-A-Grave Virtual Cemetery memorial #127654097 in City Cemetery, Conneaut, Ashtabula County, Ohio, USA. Plot: D06-124
• "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MXSP-FST : 9 November 2014), Mary Smith in household of Plin Smith, Andover, Ashtabula, Ohio, United States; citing family 84, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
• "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MCG5-FX8 : 30 December 2015), Mary Smith in entry for Plin Smith, 1860.
• Ashtabula County, Ohio, Marriage Records, 1853-1863 Vol E: 454, Leonard E. Beardsley-Mary Smith, 25 July 1861; image, “Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013,” FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-6QYQ-FR6 : accessed 29 Mar 2017); citing “county courthouses, Ohio; FHL microfilm 890,265.”
• "Ohio Deaths, 1908-1953," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X8NQ-NFB : 8 December 2014), Beardsley in entry for Mary Beardsley, 26 Apr 1916; citing Conneaut, Ashtabula, Ohio, reference fn 22617; FHL microfilm 1,983,647.
• Find-A-Grave Virtual Cemetery memorial #127654097 in City Cemetery, Conneaut, Ashtabula County, Ohio, USA. Plot: D06-124
• Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio, Embracing the Counties of Ashtabula, Geauga, and Lake..., Chicago: Lewis Publishing Co., 1893, p. 779-80, Mary (Smith) Beardsley in bio of Plin Smith; image copy, The Internet Archive, (https://archive.org/details/biographicalhist00lewi_1/page/778/mode/2up : accessed 6 Aug 2021).
• obituary of Mrs. Leonard E. Beardsley with photo; Minutes of North-East Ohio Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Fifth Annual Session Held in the First Methodist Episcopal Church, Steubenville, Ohio, September 12 to 18, 1916 (Cleveland: C. Hauser, 1916), 121; image copy, HathiTrust Digital Library (https://hdl.handle.net/2027/osu.32435053210308?urlappend=%3Bseq=127 : accessed 23 Mar 2017).

Acknowledgments

Thank you to Kitty Smith for contributions to this profile.