We regret to learn of the death of Mr. T. F. Biard, which occurred at Nash, Texas, Thursday night. The remains were brought the next day to Grant, his old home, for burial.
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Third child of William Washington Biard, one of the three brothers who founded Biardstown, Texas. Tolbert was named after a Restoration Movement preacher from Tennessee that was popular in Alabama at the time of his birth.
Tolbert was born in Alabama, but was reared at Biardstown and married Miss Lillian Johnson at Biardstown, Texas on Sep 3, 1866. He later lived in Paris, where he ran a hotel for several years, and at Grant, Oklahoma (in Choctaw County south of Hugo). According to Moselle Biard Coonfield, Tolbert Biard was a Justice of the Peace in Grant, Oklahoma.
He died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Amanda Kenney, at Nash, Texas (near Texarkana), but was buried at Grant, OK beside his wife, Lillian. She was a daughter of Dr. Alexander Johnson, the first physician to locate at Biardstown, according to the Biard Book by Maud Biard Smith.
Another child: Quincy Biard; buried at Antioch Qemetery
Quincy Biard
We regret to learn of the death of Mr. T. F. Biard, which occurred at Nash, Texas, Thursday night. The remains were brought the next day to Grant, his old home, for burial.
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Third child of William Washington Biard, one of the three brothers who founded Biardstown, Texas. Tolbert was named after a Restoration Movement preacher from Tennessee that was popular in Alabama at the time of his birth.
Tolbert was born in Alabama, but was reared at Biardstown and married Miss Lillian Johnson at Biardstown, Texas on Sep 3, 1866. He later lived in Paris, where he ran a hotel for several years, and at Grant, Oklahoma (in Choctaw County south of Hugo). According to Moselle Biard Coonfield, Tolbert Biard was a Justice of the Peace in Grant, Oklahoma.
He died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Amanda Kenney, at Nash, Texas (near Texarkana), but was buried at Grant, OK beside his wife, Lillian. She was a daughter of Dr. Alexander Johnson, the first physician to locate at Biardstown, according to the Biard Book by Maud Biard Smith.
Another child: Quincy Biard; buried at Antioch Qemetery
Quincy Biard
Family Members
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John Wilson Biard
1841–1913
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Joseph V. Biard
1843–1862
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Sam Houston Biard
1846–1901
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Harriet Elizabeth Jane "Hattie" Biard Poteet
1849–1938
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William Andrew Biard
1851–1851
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John Washington "Buster" Biard
1852–1938
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Quincy Moore Biard
1855–1857
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Martha Caroline Rebecca "Mattie" Biard
1857–1944
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Charles Henry Biard Sr
1861–1897
