Most likely burial in this cemetery. Death year is unknown but likely to be just after 1850, when many of his family members had just recently died prior to 1850. His wife and father also died in 1850. It was most likely a cholera epidemic that wiped out most of his family. He was born to Truman Bearss and Sabina Roberts in 1803 in Geneseo, (Livingston Co), NY, when all the land west of the Genesee river was part of Genesee County. The family moved to Ohio by 1811 and onto Detroit, Michigan by 1815, and settled in Indiana by 1836. I've found no census info,…. with his last name consistently misspelled. But the history of StJoseph Co, Michigan has a small excerpt. It is mentioned in 1831 several people coming from Livingston Co, NY,… including John Parker and his family suffered a terrible loss while on a steamship bound for Detroit. The boiler exploded and 3 Parker children died. On arrival to Sturgis Michigan, Parker and the rest of his family took refuge at Ephraim Bearss's residence. The Parker family lived in one room until the spring of 1832. Ephraim Bearss is also mentioned as the starter of the first real farming operations in Sturgis along with a George Buck in 1829.
The only other info source would be from the death record of his oldest daughter Esther (Bearss) Johnson. Esther took in her sister Olive Bearss who was listed in the 1850 census in Nottawa, Michigan in the household of Nathan S. Johnson.
Ephraim's brother Daniel R Bearss's obit includes info on being born in Geneseo also and bits of info on residences in different years. The father Truman is found in a couple censuses from 1820 and later. Ephraim's mother Sabina Roberts was most likely born in NY not far from Geneseo, NY. There are no known parents of hers but there were some very early Roberts families arrivals to that area in the town of Sparta, prior to 1800.