West Virginia Place Names: Their Origin and Meaning, ...
Hamill Kenny
16. DIUSGS FayQ Ed. 1931. Peters-Carden, Fayette, p. 578, attribute the n. to one Mr. Beard who, with his camp beneath a cliff here, hunted wild animals and dug ginseng. Mr. L. Neil Darlington, of Wriston, states, in a letter dated November 28 ...