1736: Born to Nicholas Beery and Barbara George in East Manchester Township, York Co., PA. (1 p11-12) (4 p168) (2 p54-55) (5)

Owned land in Shrewsbury Twp. (1 p12)

1783: Paid a special tax to help defray expenses of Revolutionary War. (1 p12)

Emigrated to Rockingham Co., VA and settled near Cross Keys Presbyterian church cemetery. (1 p12)

1758 ca.: Abraham Beery marries Elizabeth Gochenauer. (1 p14) (2 p55) (4 p168)

  1762       : Abraham   (1 p15)
  1764       : Nicholas  (1 p22)
  1767       : John      (1 p23)
  1769 Sep 11: Jacob
  1773       : George    (1 p55)
  1777 Jun 26: Magdalena (1 p58)
  1777 Jun 26: Christian

1799 May 26: Abraham dies in Rockingham Co., VA. Buried Union Church Cemetery. (4 p168)

1800: Elizabeth dies. Buried in Lindale Mennonite Church Cemetery near Edom, VA. (1 p12) (2 p55)

1902: Abraham's descendants erect a grave marker for him. At this time the burial ground is known as the Union Church Cemetery. (1 p12) (2 p55)

1902: Elizabeth's descendants erect a marker for her at Lindale Cemetery reading "Mother of John Beery, died 1800." (1 p12) (2 p55)

Notes

1. Phyllis Fulk and Lois Brown Miller, History of the Beery Family of Page County, Iowa (Newport, Arkansas: Evans Press, 1976).

2. William Beery and Judith Beery Garber, Beery Family History (Elgin, IL: Brethern Publishing House, 1957). Reprinted by Higginson Book Co., Salem, MA.

3. Jane Evans Best and Howard C. Francis, "Six Good Families of Early Lancaster County, Pennsylvania" in Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage, Vol. XII, No. 3 (Lancaster, PA: Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society, 1989 Jul), p11-28.

4. Helen Ummel Harness, "The Beery Family from Switzerland to Pennsylvania" in Mennonite Family History (Masthof Press, 2006 July), p167-170.

5. Joseph H. Wenger, History of the Descendants of Abraham Beery: Born in 1718, Emigrated from Switzerland to Pennsylvania in 1736 (Kokomo, IN: Selby Publishing, 1989; first published by Joseph H. Wenger, South English, IA, 1905). Abraham Beery was born in York Co. PA rather than Switzerland as the subtitle of this book says.