1818 Elizabeth Wanger and Abraham Beery were married on April 14 in Rockingham County, Virginia. [1] [2]
1850 Magdalene Beery died in March, at age 27 in Rockingham County, Virginia. She died of Diarrhea. [3] [4]
1850 Abram Beery (born in Virginia) lived in Rockingham County, Virginia, in a household with Elizabeth Beery (53), Barbara Beery (25), Henry Beery (23), Abram Beery (21), Mary Beery (19), Catharine Beery (17), Lydia Beery (14), and Abram Miller (12). Abram Beery was a farmer. [5]
1853 Abraham Beery died on March 1 at Edom, Rockingham County, Virginia and was buried at Lindale Mennonite Church Cemetery, Linville, Rockingham County, Virginia. Abraham Beery was born on July 23, 1789. [6] [7] [8]
1860 Elisabeth Beery (age 64, born in Virginia) lived in District 1, Rockingham County, Virginia, in a household with Catherine Bury (26), and Lydia Bury (24). [9]
1861 Anna Burkholder, spouse of David Burkholder, died on September 8 in Rockingham County, Virginia. She was born on April 5, 1819 in Rockingham County, Virginia, daughter of Abraham Beery and Elizabeth Beery. [10]
1869 Elizabeth Wenger Beery died on February 27 at Rockingham County, Virginia and was buried at Lindale Mennonite Church Cemetery, Linville, Rockingham County, Virginia. Elizabeth Wenger Beery was born on April 13, 1796. [11] [12]
1882 Mary Wenger Landes, spouse of David H. Landes, died on November 5. She was born on February 15, 1831, daughter of Abraham Beery. [13]
1895 Henry C. Beery died on December 25. Henry C. Beery was born on January 27, 1827, child of Abraham Beery and Elizabeth Beery. [14]
1903 Abraham W. Beery died on February 8 in South Pasadena, Los Angeles County, California. Abraham W. Beery was born on March 28, 1829 in Linville, Rockingham County, Virginia. [15]
1908 Catharine Beery died on September 19. Catharine Beery was born on April 10, 1833, child of Abraham Beery and Elizabeth Beery. [16] [17]
1921 Lydia Beery Suthard died on May 28 in Rockingham County, Virginia. She was born on January 3, 1836, daughter of Abraham Beery and Elizabeth Wenger. [18] [19]
Research Notes:
A biosketch of Abraham Beery reported [20]:
Abraham Beery, born July 23, 1789, died March 1, 1853. Elisabeth Wenger, born near Edom, Va., April 13, 1796, and died Feb. 27, 1869. (See Wenger History.) Abraham Beery is supposed to have been born at his father's homestead, now (1905) owned by Mrs. Anna Wampler, one and one-half miles south of Edom, Rockingham Co., Va. After marriage he lived for a time on Muddy Creek (hence called " Muddy Creek Abe ") near what is now called Singers Glen in the above county. The greater part of his life was spent on a farm which he bought two miles north of Harrisonburg on the Kratzer Spring road. Later on, during the years of 1860 and thereafter, this farm has been in possession of Mr. Emanuel Rhodes. Mr. Beery died at the above place, and was buried at the Lindale Mennonite church cemetery. He and wife and all their children, except one, were Mennonites.
Mennonite card file. [21]
Family histories. [22]
[1] Virginia, Compiled Marriages, 1740-1850, [AncestryRecord].
[2] U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900, [AncestryRecord].
[3] U.S. Federal Census Mortality Schedules, 1850-1885, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[4] North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[5] United States Federal Census, 1850, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[6] Find A Grave Memorial 64845791, [FindAGrave].
[7] Find A Grave Memorial at Ancestry.com, [AncestryRecord].
[8] Virginia, U.S., Death Registers, 1853-1911, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[9] United States Federal Census, 1860, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[10] Find A Grave Memorial at Ancestry.com, [AncestryRecord].
[11] Find A Grave Memorial 128136890, [FindAGrave].
[12] Find A Grave Memorial at Ancestry.com, [AncestryRecord].
[13] Find A Grave Memorial at Ancestry.com, [AncestryRecord].
[14] Find A Grave Memorial at Ancestry.com, [AncestryRecord].
[15] Find A Grave Virtual Memorial at Ancestry.com, [AncestryRecord].
[16] Find A Grave Memorial 67466133, [FindAGrave].
[17] Find A Grave Memorial at Ancestry.com, [AncestryRecord].
[18] Virginia, Death Records, 1912-2014, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[19] Find A Grave Memorial at Ancestry.com, [AncestryRecord].
[20] Joseph H. Wenger, History of the descendants of Abraham Beery: Born in 1718 (1905), 16-17, [InternetArchive], [GoogleBooks].
[21] Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society, Genealogical Card File (Lancaster, Pennsylvania), [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[22] North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].