George Beery1

M, b. 3 April 1783, d. 10 April 1856
FatherNicholas Beery II b. 16 Jun 1739, d. 16 Feb 1811
MotherMary Elizabeth Keller b. c 1742, d. 1788
     George was born on Thursday, 3 April 1783 in Rockingham County, Virginia. George married Catharine Cradlebaugh in 1809 in Bremen, Rush Creek Township, Fairfield County, Ohio. George & Catherine had children: Samuel [12/01/1810-5/22/1871][, John C. [10/02/1812-3/14/1879][m. Mary Black] , Christena "Tena" [12/26/1814-9/27/1888][m. 3/15/1832 Charles Stuart], Joseph [4/15/1816-9/26/1835], Mary [3/30/1818-5/23/1910][m. John Ashbaugh], Isaac [2/19/1820], Anthony [2/19/1820-1/24/1886][twins][m. Jeanette Sherman], George W. [7/01/1822-6/18/1885][m. Joy Ann McDonald], Simon [10/28/1823-2/12/1883][m. 3/05/1846 Mary M. Grove], Noah [12/07/1826- 11/22/1827]. Solomon A. [8/07/1829-12/20/1904][m. Louisa A Hammack & 2nd. Mary Jane Marlow] & Thomas Ewing [7/06/18357/19/1911]. Around 1800, George was the first of his family to remove from Virginia to Breman, Fairfield County, Ohio. They belonged to the Mennonite Church. George departed this life on Thursday, 10 April 1856 in Bremen, Rush Creek Township at age 73 years and 7 days. He was buried there in the Grandview Cemetery.

Citations

  1. [S51] Joseph H. Wenger, History of the Descendants of Nicholas Beery Born 1707. Immigrated from Switzerland to Pennsylvania in 1727, pages 27-28 - George Beery, born in Rockingham Co., Va., April 3, 1783; died April 10, 1856; no church. Catharine Cradlebaugh (sister to his brother Isaac's wife), born in Washington Co., Pa., Feb. 16, 1789; died Sept. 28, 1870; Dunkard or Mennonite. They were married in the vicinity of Bremen, Ohio, in 1809.
    George Beery was the first Beery that came to Fairfield Co., Ohio, in 1800. He came down the Monongahela and Ohio Rivers in a flatboat, and up the Hocking to the falls; thence through the woods to Lancaster, the infant county scat of Fairfield Co., Ohio, at that time. He began his fortune by clearing land at 25 cents per day. His father (Nicholas No. 23 and fifteen of his sixteen children soon came from Rockingham Co.. Va., and all settled near Bremen. Ohio. They were an industrious, sober people. In the year 1834 George Beery laid out the town of Bremen and began merchandising, which occupation is still followed by many of his descendants. In the War of 1812 he was pressed into the service with his team. He was a personal friend of the Hon. Thomas Ewing, in whose honor he named his tenth and youngest son, Thomas Ewing Beery. It is said by T. E. Beery that his father, George Beery, resembled George Washington. Mrs. George Beery was a daughter of a Revolutionary soldier, who later was a German Reformed minister of considerable influence, and later in life also emigrated to Fairfield county,Ohio.
    Many of the George Beery descendants still reside in the vicinity of Bremen. George Beery first settled on Rush Creek, near Bremen. Mr. Beery and wife were members of the Mennonite church. I can not close this article without referring to the first school taught in that vicinity by Christopher Welty in George Beery's kitchen.
    Children: Samuel [Dec. 1, 1810]; John C. [Oct. 2, 1812]; Christena [Dec. 26, 1814]; Joseph [April 15, 1816-Sept. 26, 1835]; Mary [March 30, 1818]; Isaac [Feb. 19, 1820]; Anthony [Feb. 19, 1820][twins]; George W. [July 1, 1822]; Simon [Oct. 28, 1823]; Noah [Dec. 7, 1826-Nov. 22, 1827]; Solomon A. [Aug. 7, 1829]; Thomas Ewing [July 6, 1835].