Bevard, Levi bio

History of Fulton County, Illinois; together with Sketches of its Cities, Villages and Townships, Educational, Religious, Civil, Military, and Political History; Portraits of Prominent Persons and Biographies of Representative Citizens. Chas. C. Chapman & Co., Peoria, Illinois, 1879, page 869, Putman Township
Levi Bevard, farmer, sec. 2; P. O., Cuba. Levi is a son of Jacob and Anna (Buckley) Bevard; was born in Licking county, O., in 1825. Eleven years later he was brought to this county. Mr. B. had very meager opportunities to gain an education. He used to work out by the month. He remembers working for Isaac Dowell at $7 per month, and also for A. C. Thomas at same figures. He now owns 240 acres of good land. He was married in the Buckeye State to Miss Bettie Newel, who has borne him 5 children. Susan, John and Jasper are living; one girl and one boy deceased.
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