Obituary—Reminiscences of the Bever/Beaver Family
The death, on Feb. 24th, A. D., 1875, of Mrs. Susan Beaver, of Smith's Ferry, Pa., wife of John W. Beaver, of Wayne county, O. (OH), breaks another link in the shortening chain of an honored pioneer family.
Her maiden name was Miss Susan Smith, respectably and influentially connected in Beaver county—the Ferry bearing the family name—having been married to John W. Beaver on the fourteenth of August, 1836.
Soon after their marriage they removed to Wayne county, Ohio, and in 1839-40 Mr. Beaver kept the United States Hall, then a very popular resort for the traveling public, and where the obliging, generous and congenial qualities of Mr. and Mrs. Beaver were ever conspicuous.
From Wooster they went to Edinburgh, in this county, where Mr. Beaver engaged in mercantile business, but his experience, in this direction was soon terminated, as he died on the 11th of August, 1843, in the very meridian of his life and at the age of thirty-six years. His remains were deposited in the old Baptist burial ground, South of the Catholic Church, but were subsequently removed from there to the cemetery.
After his death for a number of years his widow continued to live at Edinburgh, but lately had made her home in Beaver Co., Pa., where in February last she died, her body being brought to Wooster and buried beside her husband in the cemetery he having preceded her to the shadow-land over thirty years.
By the marriage of John W. and Susan Beaver, was born three children, Susan J., the oldest of the family dying at the early age of six years, Myrtilla J. B. being the only surviving daughter, resides at this time in the city of Wooster, being the wife of Hon. Owen A. Wilhelm, Mayor of Wooster, to whom she was joined in marriage on the fourteenth of July, 1860. James Beaver, her only brother, is at present making his home with them. Mrs. Wilhelm is the last of the Beaver family in Wayne county and is highly esteemed as an intelligent and accomplished lady.
Her mother, whose death it has been our unpleasant duty to announce was an amiable, sympathizing, modest Christian woman. She was a faithful wife, a devoted mother, and her departure, to her daughter and son, as well as to her large circle of friends, is the occasion of a profound grief.
We have in these lines already written probably exceeded the prescribed limits of an obituary notice but we assume that the facts justify us.
The Beaver family is a venerable and honorable one. Hon. John Beaver, the uncle of John W. and Susan Beaver was, in the early times, with Joseph Larwill and Wm. Henry, one of the proprietors of Wooster. "Beaver Street" in our city was named in honor of him, as was Beaver county, Pa., in honor of his family. (History of Beaver Co would disagree. The county was named for the beaver the trappers came for. )
He was born in Ireland and emigrated to this country at an early age with two brothers and a sister, settling in Georgetown, Beaver county, Pa. His father was a German by birth, and his mother of Irish descent, and she spoke the German language with accuracy and fluency. Religious troubles in Germany caused the original family to remove to Ireland. As there is considerable division of opinion as to the orthography and pronunciation of the name we will add that the Irish spelled and pronounced it Beaver; the Germans Bever, pronouncing the e as in ever.
At the time of his death, and for long years before, he had been a member of the Episcopal Church.
His death occurred May 26th 1836 on his farm which fore the name "Springford" in Columbiana county, Ohio, and he was buried about forty rods from his residence upon the farm.
In the year 18?5 (1855) a slide of the hill-side occurred on which he was buried, wrecking the brick wall inclosing the grave when his son H. V. Beaver, of Paris, Ill., had the remains removed to the burial place of his second wife—the mother of H. V. Beaver, on her farm one mile east of Oneida, Carroll county, Ohio.
He was an enterprising, enthusiastic public spirited man. At an early date he was employed by the Federal Government to furnish provisions to the block houses established for the protection of the white settlers on the southern side of the Ohio river. He was Government Surveyor, and aided in running of Columbiana, Stark and Wayne and other counties in the State and was prominent in laying out the county seats of the aforementioned counties.
In this way he was enabled to get possession of property that became valuable on his hands, so that at his death, his wealth was estimated at two hundred thousand dollars.
He shared in an ? degree the confidence of Generals Putman and Mansfield, both of whom were unspairing in eulogizing his energy and abilities.
As before intimated the lady whose death we have chronicled was the wife of the nephew of this man who stands out so prominently in the pioneer annals of Wooster and hence we deemed it with in our province to indulge in this somewhat ? sketch.
Source: The Wooster Republican, 15 Apr 1875,” Wooster Digital History Project
Contributor:
waD
The death, on Feb. 24th, A. D., 1875, of Mrs. Susan Beaver, of Smith's Ferry, Pa., wife of John W. Beaver, of Wayne county, O. (OH), breaks another link in the shortening chain of an honored pioneer family.
Her maiden name was Miss Susan Smith, respectably and influentially connected in Beaver county—the Ferry bearing the family name—having been married to John W. Beaver on the fourteenth of August, 1836.
Soon after their marriage they removed to Wayne county, Ohio, and in 1839-40 Mr. Beaver kept the United States Hall, then a very popular resort for the traveling public, and where the obliging, generous and congenial qualities of Mr. and Mrs. Beaver were ever conspicuous.
From Wooster they went to Edinburgh, in this county, where Mr. Beaver engaged in mercantile business, but his experience, in this direction was soon terminated, as he died on the 11th of August, 1843, in the very meridian of his life and at the age of thirty-six years. His remains were deposited in the old Baptist burial ground, South of the Catholic Church, but were subsequently removed from there to the cemetery.
After his death for a number of years his widow continued to live at Edinburgh, but lately had made her home in Beaver Co., Pa., where in February last she died, her body being brought to Wooster and buried beside her husband in the cemetery he having preceded her to the shadow-land over thirty years.
By the marriage of John W. and Susan Beaver, was born three children, Susan J., the oldest of the family dying at the early age of six years, Myrtilla J. B. being the only surviving daughter, resides at this time in the city of Wooster, being the wife of Hon. Owen A. Wilhelm, Mayor of Wooster, to whom she was joined in marriage on the fourteenth of July, 1860. James Beaver, her only brother, is at present making his home with them. Mrs. Wilhelm is the last of the Beaver family in Wayne county and is highly esteemed as an intelligent and accomplished lady.
Her mother, whose death it has been our unpleasant duty to announce was an amiable, sympathizing, modest Christian woman. She was a faithful wife, a devoted mother, and her departure, to her daughter and son, as well as to her large circle of friends, is the occasion of a profound grief.
We have in these lines already written probably exceeded the prescribed limits of an obituary notice but we assume that the facts justify us.
The Beaver family is a venerable and honorable one. Hon. John Beaver, the uncle of John W. and Susan Beaver was, in the early times, with Joseph Larwill and Wm. Henry, one of the proprietors of Wooster. "Beaver Street" in our city was named in honor of him, as was Beaver county, Pa., in honor of his family. (History of Beaver Co would disagree. The county was named for the beaver the trappers came for. )
He was born in Ireland and emigrated to this country at an early age with two brothers and a sister, settling in Georgetown, Beaver county, Pa. His father was a German by birth, and his mother of Irish descent, and she spoke the German language with accuracy and fluency. Religious troubles in Germany caused the original family to remove to Ireland. As there is considerable division of opinion as to the orthography and pronunciation of the name we will add that the Irish spelled and pronounced it Beaver; the Germans Bever, pronouncing the e as in ever.
At the time of his death, and for long years before, he had been a member of the Episcopal Church.
His death occurred May 26th 1836 on his farm which fore the name "Springford" in Columbiana county, Ohio, and he was buried about forty rods from his residence upon the farm.
In the year 18?5 (1855) a slide of the hill-side occurred on which he was buried, wrecking the brick wall inclosing the grave when his son H. V. Beaver, of Paris, Ill., had the remains removed to the burial place of his second wife—the mother of H. V. Beaver, on her farm one mile east of Oneida, Carroll county, Ohio.
He was an enterprising, enthusiastic public spirited man. At an early date he was employed by the Federal Government to furnish provisions to the block houses established for the protection of the white settlers on the southern side of the Ohio river. He was Government Surveyor, and aided in running of Columbiana, Stark and Wayne and other counties in the State and was prominent in laying out the county seats of the aforementioned counties.
In this way he was enabled to get possession of property that became valuable on his hands, so that at his death, his wealth was estimated at two hundred thousand dollars.
He shared in an ? degree the confidence of Generals Putman and Mansfield, both of whom were unspairing in eulogizing his energy and abilities.
As before intimated the lady whose death we have chronicled was the wife of the nephew of this man who stands out so prominently in the pioneer annals of Wooster and hence we deemed it with in our province to indulge in this somewhat ? sketch.
Source: The Wooster Republican, 15 Apr 1875,” Wooster Digital History Project
Contributor:
waD
Obituary—Reminiscences of the Bever/Beaver Family
The death, on Feb. 24th, A. D., 1875, of Mrs. Susan Beaver, of Smith's Ferry, Pa., wife of John W. Beaver, of Wayne county, O. (OH), breaks another link in the shortening chain of an honored pioneer family.
Her maiden name was Miss Susan Smith, respectably and influentially connected in Beaver county—the Ferry bearing the family name—having been married to John W. Beaver on the fourteenth of August, 1836.
Soon after their marriage they removed to Wayne county, Ohio, and in 1839-40 Mr. Beaver kept the United States Hall, then a very popular resort for the traveling public, and where the obliging, generous and congenial qualities of Mr. and Mrs. Beaver were ever conspicuous.
From Wooster they went to Edinburgh, in this county, where Mr. Beaver engaged in mercantile business, but his experience, in this direction was soon terminated, as he died on the 11th of August, 1843, in the very meridian of his life and at the age of thirty-six years. His remains were deposited in the old Baptist burial ground, South of the Catholic Church, but were subsequently removed from there to the cemetery.
After his death for a number of years his widow continued to live at Edinburgh, but lately had made her home in Beaver Co., Pa., where in February last she died, her body being brought to Wooster and buried beside her husband in the cemetery he having preceded her to the shadow-land over thirty years.
By the marriage of John W. and Susan Beaver, was born three children, Susan J., the oldest of the family dying at the early age of six years, Myrtilla J. B. being the only surviving daughter, resides at this time in the city of Wooster, being the wife of Hon. Owen A. Wilhelm, Mayor of Wooster, to whom she was joined in marriage on the fourteenth of July, 1860. James Beaver, her only brother, is at present making his home with them. Mrs. Wilhelm is the last of the Beaver family in Wayne county and is highly esteemed as an intelligent and accomplished lady.
Her mother, whose death it has been our unpleasant duty to announce was an amiable, sympathizing, modest Christian woman. She was a faithful wife, a devoted mother, and her departure, to her daughter and son, as well as to her large circle of friends, is the occasion of a profound grief.
We have in these lines already written probably exceeded the prescribed limits of an obituary notice but we assume that the facts justify us.
The Beaver family is a venerable and honorable one. Hon. John Beaver, the uncle of John W. and Susan Beaver was, in the early times, with Joseph Larwill and Wm. Henry, one of the proprietors of Wooster. "Beaver Street" in our city was named in honor of him, as was Beaver county, Pa., in honor of his family. (History of Beaver Co would disagree. The county was named for the beaver the trappers came for. )
He was born in Ireland and emigrated to this country at an early age with two brothers and a sister, settling in Georgetown, Beaver county, Pa. His father was a German by birth, and his mother of Irish descent, and she spoke the German language with accuracy and fluency. Religious troubles in Germany caused the original family to remove to Ireland. As there is considerable division of opinion as to the orthography and pronunciation of the name we will add that the Irish spelled and pronounced it Beaver; the Germans Bever, pronouncing the e as in ever.
At the time of his death, and for long years before, he had been a member of the Episcopal Church.
His death occurred May 26th 1836 on his farm which fore the name "Springford" in Columbiana county, Ohio, and he was buried about forty rods from his residence upon the farm.
In the year 18?5 (1855) a slide of the hill-side occurred on which he was buried, wrecking the brick wall inclosing the grave when his son H. V. Beaver, of Paris, Ill., had the remains removed to the burial place of his second wife—the mother of H. V. Beaver, on her farm one mile east of Oneida, Carroll county, Ohio.
He was an enterprising, enthusiastic public spirited man. At an early date he was employed by the Federal Government to furnish provisions to the block houses established for the protection of the white settlers on the southern side of the Ohio river. He was Government Surveyor, and aided in running of Columbiana, Stark and Wayne and other counties in the State and was prominent in laying out the county seats of the aforementioned counties.
In this way he was enabled to get possession of property that became valuable on his hands, so that at his death, his wealth was estimated at two hundred thousand dollars.
He shared in an ? degree the confidence of Generals Putman and Mansfield, both of whom were unspairing in eulogizing his energy and abilities.
As before intimated the lady whose death we have chronicled was the wife of the nephew of this man who stands out so prominently in the pioneer annals of Wooster and hence we deemed it with in our province to indulge in this somewhat ? sketch.
Source: The Wooster Republican, 15 Apr 1875,” Wooster Digital History Project
Contributor:
waD
The death, on Feb. 24th, A. D., 1875, of Mrs. Susan Beaver, of Smith's Ferry, Pa., wife of John W. Beaver, of Wayne county, O. (OH), breaks another link in the shortening chain of an honored pioneer family.
Her maiden name was Miss Susan Smith, respectably and influentially connected in Beaver county—the Ferry bearing the family name—having been married to John W. Beaver on the fourteenth of August, 1836.
Soon after their marriage they removed to Wayne county, Ohio, and in 1839-40 Mr. Beaver kept the United States Hall, then a very popular resort for the traveling public, and where the obliging, generous and congenial qualities of Mr. and Mrs. Beaver were ever conspicuous.
From Wooster they went to Edinburgh, in this county, where Mr. Beaver engaged in mercantile business, but his experience, in this direction was soon terminated, as he died on the 11th of August, 1843, in the very meridian of his life and at the age of thirty-six years. His remains were deposited in the old Baptist burial ground, South of the Catholic Church, but were subsequently removed from there to the cemetery.
After his death for a number of years his widow continued to live at Edinburgh, but lately had made her home in Beaver Co., Pa., where in February last she died, her body being brought to Wooster and buried beside her husband in the cemetery he having preceded her to the shadow-land over thirty years.
By the marriage of John W. and Susan Beaver, was born three children, Susan J., the oldest of the family dying at the early age of six years, Myrtilla J. B. being the only surviving daughter, resides at this time in the city of Wooster, being the wife of Hon. Owen A. Wilhelm, Mayor of Wooster, to whom she was joined in marriage on the fourteenth of July, 1860. James Beaver, her only brother, is at present making his home with them. Mrs. Wilhelm is the last of the Beaver family in Wayne county and is highly esteemed as an intelligent and accomplished lady.
Her mother, whose death it has been our unpleasant duty to announce was an amiable, sympathizing, modest Christian woman. She was a faithful wife, a devoted mother, and her departure, to her daughter and son, as well as to her large circle of friends, is the occasion of a profound grief.
We have in these lines already written probably exceeded the prescribed limits of an obituary notice but we assume that the facts justify us.
The Beaver family is a venerable and honorable one. Hon. John Beaver, the uncle of John W. and Susan Beaver was, in the early times, with Joseph Larwill and Wm. Henry, one of the proprietors of Wooster. "Beaver Street" in our city was named in honor of him, as was Beaver county, Pa., in honor of his family. (History of Beaver Co would disagree. The county was named for the beaver the trappers came for. )
He was born in Ireland and emigrated to this country at an early age with two brothers and a sister, settling in Georgetown, Beaver county, Pa. His father was a German by birth, and his mother of Irish descent, and she spoke the German language with accuracy and fluency. Religious troubles in Germany caused the original family to remove to Ireland. As there is considerable division of opinion as to the orthography and pronunciation of the name we will add that the Irish spelled and pronounced it Beaver; the Germans Bever, pronouncing the e as in ever.
At the time of his death, and for long years before, he had been a member of the Episcopal Church.
His death occurred May 26th 1836 on his farm which fore the name "Springford" in Columbiana county, Ohio, and he was buried about forty rods from his residence upon the farm.
In the year 18?5 (1855) a slide of the hill-side occurred on which he was buried, wrecking the brick wall inclosing the grave when his son H. V. Beaver, of Paris, Ill., had the remains removed to the burial place of his second wife—the mother of H. V. Beaver, on her farm one mile east of Oneida, Carroll county, Ohio.
He was an enterprising, enthusiastic public spirited man. At an early date he was employed by the Federal Government to furnish provisions to the block houses established for the protection of the white settlers on the southern side of the Ohio river. He was Government Surveyor, and aided in running of Columbiana, Stark and Wayne and other counties in the State and was prominent in laying out the county seats of the aforementioned counties.
In this way he was enabled to get possession of property that became valuable on his hands, so that at his death, his wealth was estimated at two hundred thousand dollars.
He shared in an ? degree the confidence of Generals Putman and Mansfield, both of whom were unspairing in eulogizing his energy and abilities.
As before intimated the lady whose death we have chronicled was the wife of the nephew of this man who stands out so prominently in the pioneer annals of Wooster and hence we deemed it with in our province to indulge in this somewhat ? sketch.
Source: The Wooster Republican, 15 Apr 1875,” Wooster Digital History Project
Contributor:
waD
Family Members
Parents
Advertisement
Explore more
Sponsored by Ancestry
Advertisement
