Isaac Beery

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1. [S51] Joseph H. Wenger, History of the Descendants of Nicholas Beery Born 1707. Immigrated from Switzerland to Pennsylvania in 1727, pages 25-27 - Isaac Beery. born in Pennsylvania, June 10, 1777, and died June 18, 1851. Mary Cradlebaugh, also born in Washington Co., Pa., Feb. 29, 1784, died March 7, 1850. Both are buried near Bremen, Fairfield Co., Ohio. Their granddaughter, Mrs. Dianah S. Morris, says they were married in 1806. There was rather a romance connected with their first acquaintance and later their marriage. Both were raised in Pennsylvania, but up to this time had been strangers. Isaac Beery, as a single man, was making arrangements at Redding, Pa., for a trip to Ohio. When he was about ready to start, Mary Cradlebaugh, a handsome, ambitious young girl, although an entire stranger, heard of his intentions and at once applied for passage to Ohio for herself and sister, Catharine Cradlebaugh, who later married Isaac's brother George.
   It appeared that Cupid was busy and their attractions for each other at first sight were mutual, and they were married six weeks after they landed at Bremen, Ohio. Of their mode of travel I am not informed, but later they came down the Ohio River on a flatboat.
   Isaac Beery was a minister of promience and high character in the Church of the Brethren, known as Dunkards.* His children, as noticed, were also members. Isaac and his family lived on a portion of his father's (Nicholas Beery's) large original purchase on Raccoon Creek, near Bremen, Fairfield county, Ohio.
   Note: •Mary and Catharine Cradlebaugh were daughters of John Cradlebaugh (German, Kradlebaugh), born in Germany about 1750, and educated by his uncle in Holland, who wanted John to join the army, to which lie objected. One day, at the age of 19, as he was standing at shiplanding, in Holland, he concluded to sail to America, He landed at New York and settled in western Pennsylvania. He joined the Revolutionary army and fought under Gen. George Washington.. In 1782 he married Dorothea Moonshiner, and soon after entered the ministry, in the German Lutheran church. In 1802 they moved to Bremen, Ohio, where he died in 1820, and is buried near Bremen upon an eminence overlooking Rush Creek. Their family consisted of Fred, John, Jacob, Andrew, Susan, Elizabeth, Mary and Catharine. The youngest two sisters married the two brothers, Isaac and George Beery.
   This is rather digressing from the Beery lineage, but is intended for the descendants of the Isaac and George Beery families,-J.     W.
   Children: Delilah [April 1,1807]; Catharine [April 11, 1808]; George C. [April 28, 1810]; Andrew [1812-ca. 1830]; Levi L. [Feb. 3, 1814]; Jesse G. [1816]; Maria [Aug. 29, 1817]; Elijah [1819]; Elizabeth [1820]; Isaac [Feb. 2, 1822];Enoch [Sept. 19, 1823]; Priscilla [1825].
   *The parents of the above family were Dunkards, the father being a minister. They are known as the "Church of the Brethren," of which the author is a member. I hope the Brethren will pardon me for calling them "Dunkards." because they are everywhere known by that name, especially by those who are not members. In my extensive travels I am often asked my church relation, and when I say "Church of the Brethren," they seem to know nothing about them, but when r say "Dunkards," they answer, "Yes; I know all about them as my ancestors were Dunkards."---.T. a W.
2. [S599] A. A. Graham, History of Perry & Fairfield Counties, Ohio, Chapter XXXIX – Rush Creek Township - page 251 - Isaac
   The German Baptist church is situated in section 28 and was first organized about 1805. They held meetings in dwellings until 1856, when they built a church on the east side of John Meracle's farm. The first members were Abram Beery, John Beery, Casper Hoffert, George Hendricks, George Bright and Jacob Hunsaker. The first minister was Isaac Beery, who preached four times a year. They now have preaching every other Sunday.