Infant Daughter of Charlie Bell Beard

Black female, stillborn on 14 April 1932 in Pensacola, FL. Mother was Charlie Bell Beard, born in Pensacola; father was Loren Leach, born in Illinois. Official cause of death was premature birth. Place of death was 421 N. Davis Street, Pensacola. The informant on the death certificate was Alberta McGee, Pensacola. The child was buried in the Escambia County Poor Farm.

The N. Davis St. residence must have been rented, as the owners listed in the 1931 City Directory are of no obvious relationship to Charlie Bell. Cursory research seems to show Alberta McGee to have been her sister. There are no records that I can find that show Loren Leech and Charlie Bell Beard in the same household, so their relationship was likely brief and unofficial. Charlie Bell Beard had another stillborn daughter on 11 July 1931; the father of this child was Charley McKinley. (The infant was buried in Zion Cemetery.)

FAMILY:

Mother: Charlie Bell Beard

Father: Loren Alex Leech

Maternal Grandfather: William Beard

Maternal Grandmother: Virginia Williams

Paternal Grandfather: Alexander Leech

Paternal Grandmother: Lottie C. Washington

SOURCES:

Florida Certificate of Death, Florida Deaths, 1877-1939. Database. FamilySearch. http://FamilySearch.org : 14 June 2016. Index based upon data collected by the Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City.

Ancestry.com. U.S., City Directories, 1822-1995 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.

Obituary of Richard (Smokey) Adams, Pensacola News-Journal, 1 May 1978, p. 16.

“Charlie Bell Foster,” Ancestry.com. U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015. Original data: Social Security Applications and Claims, 1936-2007.