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  1. SUBJECT:

    2. The "Joe" Byerly Home.

  2. LOCATION:

    3. 1.5 miles southeast of Bridgewater, Virginia.

  3. DATE:

    4. About 1820.

  4. OWNERS:

    5. The Byerly Home is a very early Virginia home built by Joe Byerly a Pennsylvania Dutch immigrant to Virginia about 1820. It came into the possession of G.W. Berlin about 1870. The property was involved in litigation for several years and finally it was bought by the present owner Frank Landis.

  5. DESCRIPTION:

    6. See form 3496.

  6. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

    7. Granddaddy Byerly also operated his flour and grist mill. In the fall of 1833 during the meteoric shower he decided that the end of the world was near. At eleven o’clock he closed the mill, awoke his wife and children, read the Bible and prayed until dawn, but the Lord "fooled em". So they all lived and died a natural death. This was one hundred and four years ago. They are still waiting for the judgment.

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  8. SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

History of the Byerly Family.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

April 20, 1937 W.A. Byerly

Bridgewater, VA