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Works Project Administration – Articles from Rockingham County
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John Beery Home, 1803
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Mr. Beery’s parents, Abraham and Mary Beery, rather late in life also came to Virginia and settled at Cross
Keys, in Rockingham county, Abraham buying a tract of 157 acres from Daniel Stoner. Here he died May 26,
1799, at the advanced age of 81 years, and was buried at Union Church Cemetery. John Beery died June 25,
1834, his wife following him, September 25, 1835, and both are buried in the Lindale Mennonite Church
Cemetery, just north of Edom. The Beery name has been spelled in various ways, especially when they first
landed at Philadelphia, they knowing only German or Dutch and the entry clerks knowing only English, the
name was spelled according to the way it sounded, as Biera, Piere, Biery, Peary, Beary, Beery and Berry, which
now seems to be the present way of spelling the name. In the early years the Beerys were large landowners,
totaling, according to Dr. Wayland’s Valley Records, 1695 acres. They also have the following military record:
Rinly, Elisha, John, George, and Kinley Beery, being members of the 116th Reg. Virginia, Vol., Thomas
Hopkins Company, entering service July 7th, 1813. (Dr. Wayland’s Valley Records.)
In the 1860s we find the following:
Isaac N. Beery, April 1, 1862, private, Company C, 11th Virginia Cavalry, Laurel Brigade.
Joseph W. Beery, 1861, Stonewall Brigade, mortally wounded at Bolivar, West Virginia. January 6, 1862, died
two days later.
John C. Beery, September 10, 1862, sergeant, Company B, 7th Virginia Cavalry, incapacitated by rheumatism,
detailed as miller for the war’s duration. Son of John K. Beery.
Joseph Beery, September 10, 1862, private, Company A. Virginia Militia, Captain Taylor, mortally wounded at
Martinsburg, West Virginia. Son of John K. Beery, (Civil War Records.)
7. ART:
Photograph.
8. SOURCES OF INFORMATION:
Rockingham County Court Records, Harrisonburg, Virginia.
History of the Beery Family by Joseph H. Wenger.
History of Shenandoah Valley by John W. Wayland
Civil War Records.
December 17, 2024 Geo. W. Fetzer
Harrisonburg, VA
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HOUSES
John Beery Home, 1803
Page Two
Mr. Beery’s parents, Abraham and Mary Beery, rather late in life also came to Virginia and settled at Cross
Keys, in Rockingham county, Abraham buying a tract of 157 acres from Daniel Stoner. Here he died May 26,
1799, at the advanced age of 81 years, and was buried at Union Church Cemetery. John Beery died June 25,
1834, his wife following him, September 25, 1835, and both are buried in the Lindale Mennonite Church
Cemetery, just north of Edom. The Beery name has been spelled in various ways, especially when they first
landed at Philadelphia, they knowing only German or Dutch and the entry clerks knowing only English, the
name was spelled according to the way it sounded, as Biera, Piere, Biery, Peary, Beary, Beery and Berry, which
now seems to be the present way of spelling the name. In the early years the Beerys were large landowners,
totaling, according to Dr. Wayland’s Valley Records, 1695 acres. They also have the following military record:
Rinly, Elisha, John, George, and Kinley Beery, being members of the 116th Reg. Virginia, Vol., Thomas
Hopkins Company, entering service July 7th, 1813. (Dr. Wayland’s Valley Records.)
In the 1860s we find the following:
Isaac N. Beery, April 1, 1862, private, Company C, 11th Virginia Cavalry, Laurel Brigade.
Joseph W. Beery, 1861, Stonewall Brigade, mortally wounded at Bolivar, West Virginia. January 6, 1862, died
two days later.
John C. Beery, September 10, 1862, sergeant, Company B, 7th Virginia Cavalry, incapacitated by rheumatism,
detailed as miller for the war’s duration. Son of John K. Beery.
Joseph Beery, September 10, 1862, private, Company A. Virginia Militia, Captain Taylor, mortally wounded at
Martinsburg, West Virginia. Son of John K. Beery, (Civil War Records.)
7. ART:
Photograph.
8. SOURCES OF INFORMATION:
Rockingham County Court Records, Harrisonburg, Virginia.
History of the Beery Family by Joseph H. Wenger.
History of Shenandoah Valley by John W. Wayland
Civil War Records.
December 17, 2024 Geo. W. Fetzer
Harrisonburg, VA
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