Biography (Cumberland Presbyterian Church)
Richard Beard is buried at Cedar Grove Cemetery, Lebanon, Tennessee.
Brief Biographical Sketches of Some of the Early Ministers of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, First Series (1867)
Brief Biographical Sketches of Some of the Early Ministers of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, Second Series (1874)
Why Am I a Cumberland Presbyterian? (1874)
Brief Historical Sketch of Cumberland College (1876)
Fifty Years a Teacher (1879)
