Laura Ann (White) Beardsley (1839 - 1928)

Born 29 Aug 1839 in Columbus, Columbus Township, Warren, Pennsylvania, United States [uncertain]

Ancestors

Wife of Matthew Hale Beardsley — married 5 Mar 1865 in PA, Warren Co., Colombia

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

Biography

Laura Ann White^[1]

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Lura was born in 1839. She is the daughter of Mark White and Rachel Walker.

Educated in the village schools, she began teaching at the age of eighteen, which she followed for about five years, when the failling health of her mother confining her to her home, which had been increased by the four orphan children of her brother Levi, she, in connection with her brother Lucius, cared for them all until they could care for themselves. She married March 5th 1856, Matthew Hale, son of Emmanuel and Phoebe Beardsley of Clymer NY, but still remained with her brother on the homestead or on their own farm nearby.

Sources

1. ↑ Profile created by Doug Zimmerman, 25 November 2015. Added information from Beardsley family researcher Nick Dann, 2 Mar 2016.

• 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. Laura is the wife of Matthew Beardsley, Holt Record #892, Pg. 347.^[2] She married, second, Jeremiah S. Beardsley, Matthew's brother.^[3]
• Descendants of John White, of Wenham and Lancaster, MA, 1639-1900, by Almira Larkin White

See also:

• [Descendants of John White, of Wenham and Lancaster, MA], 1639-1900, Almira Larkin White. Volume 2. Pg 550; Chase Brothers Printers, Haverhill, MA, 1900. Digital copy courtesy of InternetArchive.org.

• [Descendants of John White, of Wenham and Lancaster, MA], 1639-1900, Almira Larkin White. Volume 4. Pg 135; Chase Brothers Printers, Haverhill, MA, 1900. Digital copy courtesy of InternetArchive.org.

Find A Grave: Memorial #130673971

Footnotes

• http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=ssimonw&id=I73080

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