• • • • • • • • • • McNutt and Beard Family photos • • • • • • • • • •
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Ferdinand McNutt and wife Lucy Ellen Payne were my mother's maternal grandparents. They raised their family in Missouri, one of whom was my grandmother, Nellie May McNutt. Nellie married Frederick Jacob Beard, and raised 7 children, one of whom was my mother Evelyn Lucille Beard Smith.

Ferdinand and Lucy Ellen
Payne McNutt
Ferdinand and Lucy with their children
Lucy Ellen Payne McNutt with
great-greandchildren, including
me on the left.

Group photo at the Antioch Baptist Church, near Manila, in Pettis County, Missouri. Note on the front says "Basket Dinner", and photo by Thomas 115 East Second St. Sedalia, MO back note says "presented to Fred Beards by Roger Francis of Plainview, Texas" "Rev. David Roberts pastor" photo shows Nellie Beard, my grandmother, at right center, just below and to the left of a man who may be her brother.
Closeup of Nellie Beard from the previous photo. I estimate her age to be about 14, which would date the photo at 1905.
Antioch Baptist church today, with the cemetery in which several McNutts are buried, including Ferdinand and Lucy, daughter Bessie and son Leroy. Photo and cemetery listing are from the George Willick webpage.

Women of Frytown, newspaper clipping, with Nellie Beard kneeling on the left side of the front row. This was long after Nellie and Fred married and had a family in Iowa. Ruth Beard is also identified, who married their son Paul Beard. Photo is from about 1938.
Fred Beard posing with his Allis Chalmers tractor
Nellie Beard with her flock of chickens..

Nellie and Fred Beard, photo taken late in life. Both lived into their 90's
Three of the Beard brothers, Robb and Fred in front, Manley behind
Photo of Manley Beard at a younger age..

Newspaper photo of Nellie and Fred Beard, taken at their 50th wedding anniversary. They later celebrated their 70th.
Wedding photo of John Hormel and Carrie Beard, parents of Fred.
Carrie Beard at an older age..

original scan of badly damaged photo of Louise Beard, sister of Carrie Beard, Fred's mother, both daughters of John and Carrie. Within the family, she was "Aunt Lou"
Painstaking restoration of the photo of Aunt Lou. The original is marked “Aunt Lou Feb 12th 1897” She was born 3-13-1865, so this was taken shortly after she turned 32.
Donald Beard, son of Fred and Nellie.

Not sure where this was taken, but it had to be about 1942, because I’m the boy sitting front right. Right behind me is my uncle Freddie Beard. Nellie is kneeling on the left. Third from the left in the back is Donald, and Freddie’s wife Roberta. Emery Rhodes is standing on tip-toes in the back. 2nd from the right in back is Grampa Beard (Fred) and his brother Manley just to the left of him. In front of Manley is my mother Evelyn (I think), but it may be Ellen.
This appears to have been taken about 1945, probably in the Iowa City Park From the left, is Thelma, with hubby John Beard (with their two boys?). Behind and between is Grampa Fred Beard. On the far right is Donald Beard and wife Florence. Again, Emery Rhodes is tip-toes in the back. I think that may be Ellen Beard Rhodes with the white hat. No Smiths present... we lived in Illinois at that time.
Another shot of the same group, with some movement in between..

Ferdinand and Lucy Ellen Payne McNutt	Ferdinand and Lucy with their children	Lucy Ellen Payne McNutt with great-greandchildren, including me on the left.
Group photo at the Antioch Baptist Church, near Manila, in Pettis County, Missouri. Note on the front says "Basket Dinner", and photo by Thomas 115 East Second St. Sedalia, MO back note says "presented to Fred Beards by Roger Francis of Plainview, Texas" "Rev. David Roberts pastor" photo shows Nellie Beard, my grandmother, at right center, just below and to the left of a man who may be her brother.	Closeup of Nellie Beard from the previous photo. I estimate her age to be about 14, which would date the photo at 1905.	Antioch Baptist church today, with the cemetery in which several McNutts are buried, including Ferdinand and Lucy, daughter Bessie and son Leroy. Photo and cemetery listing are from the George Willick webpage.
Women of Frytown, newspaper clipping, with Nellie Beard kneeling on the left side of the front row. This was long after Nellie and Fred married and had a family in Iowa. Ruth Beard is also identified, who married their son Paul Beard. Photo is from about 1938.	Fred Beard posing with his Allis Chalmers tractor	Nellie Beard with her flock of chickens..
Nellie and Fred Beard, photo taken late in life. Both lived into their 90's	Three of the Beard brothers, Robb and Fred in front, Manley behind	Photo of Manley Beard at a younger age..
Newspaper photo of Nellie and Fred Beard, taken at their 50th wedding anniversary. They later celebrated their 70th.	Wedding photo of John Hormel and Carrie Beard, parents of Fred.	Carrie Beard at an older age..
original scan of badly damaged photo of Louise Beard, sister of Carrie Beard, Fred's mother, both daughters of John and Carrie. Within the family, she was "Aunt Lou"	Painstaking restoration of the photo of Aunt Lou. The original is marked “Aunt Lou Feb 12th 1897” She was born 3-13-1865, so this was taken shortly after she turned 32.	Donald Beard, son of Fred and Nellie.
Not sure where this was taken, but it had to be about 1942, because I’m the boy sitting front right. Right behind me is my uncle Freddie Beard. Nellie is kneeling on the left. Third from the left in the back is Donald, and Freddie’s wife Roberta. Emery Rhodes is standing on tip-toes in the back. 2nd from the right in back is Grampa Beard (Fred) and his brother Manley just to the left of him. In front of Manley is my mother Evelyn (I think), but it may be Ellen.	This appears to have been taken about 1945, probably in the Iowa City Park From the left, is Thelma, with hubby John Beard (with their two boys?). Behind and between is Grampa Fred Beard. On the far right is Donald Beard and wife Florence. Again, Emery Rhodes is tip-toes in the back. I think that may be Ellen Beard Rhodes with the white hat. No Smiths present... we lived in Illinois at that time.	Another shot of the same group, with some movement in between..