He was the son of Milton and Creasy Tatum Beard, sometimes it might be spelled Baird. He was the son of Milton and Creasy Tatum Beard, sometimes it might be spelled Baird. Not very much is known about his early, other than the fact that his family was enslaved but was formally emancipated before the end of the Civil War.
After emancipation, he became a sharecropper and a businessman. Later, after suffering injuries related to his work in the Railroad industry, he designed a coupler that was meant to spare many a man from being injured or killed when coupling cars together.
He sold the rights to his invention as well as the rights to another invention and died reportedly paralyzed and impoverished.
His grave is not marked in Greenwood (also known as Woodlawn) Cemetery. Removing that would remove legitimate information until such time as it is marked.
Read more at this link.
https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/andrew-jackson-beard/
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After emancipation, he became a sharecropper and a businessman. Later, after suffering injuries related to his work in the Railroad industry, he designed a coupler that was meant to spare many a man from being injured or killed when coupling cars together.
He sold the rights to his invention as well as the rights to another invention and died reportedly paralyzed and impoverished.
His grave is not marked in Greenwood (also known as Woodlawn) Cemetery. Removing that would remove legitimate information until such time as it is marked.
Read more at this link.
https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/andrew-jackson-beard/
Sent by:
L.Walker
He was the son of Milton and Creasy Tatum Beard, sometimes it might be spelled Baird. He was the son of Milton and Creasy Tatum Beard, sometimes it might be spelled Baird. Not very much is known about his early, other than the fact that his family was enslaved but was formally emancipated before the end of the Civil War.
After emancipation, he became a sharecropper and a businessman. Later, after suffering injuries related to his work in the Railroad industry, he designed a coupler that was meant to spare many a man from being injured or killed when coupling cars together.
He sold the rights to his invention as well as the rights to another invention and died reportedly paralyzed and impoverished.
His grave is not marked in Greenwood (also known as Woodlawn) Cemetery. Removing that would remove legitimate information until such time as it is marked.
Read more at this link.
https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/andrew-jackson-beard/
Sent by:
L.Walker
After emancipation, he became a sharecropper and a businessman. Later, after suffering injuries related to his work in the Railroad industry, he designed a coupler that was meant to spare many a man from being injured or killed when coupling cars together.
He sold the rights to his invention as well as the rights to another invention and died reportedly paralyzed and impoverished.
His grave is not marked in Greenwood (also known as Woodlawn) Cemetery. Removing that would remove legitimate information until such time as it is marked.
Read more at this link.
https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/andrew-jackson-beard/
Sent by:
L.Walker
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