He came to the US sometime before 1834 and married a Quaker girl, Sarah Ann Decker, daughter of Alexander Decker and Keziah Adams and they had the 3 children.
My grandmother, Alice VanKirk Travis wrote in the family history that Mr. Beach died before 1850 in PA from a heart attack, he had been sitting on a log talking to a man, fell over and died, there is no record of where he is buried.
Sarah Ann Decker Beach is living with her father, Alexander Decker in the Knowlton, Warren County, NJ 1850 Census. She remarried in Sept. 1854 to James Burns VanKirk and had Thomas Jones VanKirk in April 1855 & Mary VanKirk in 1859 who married William E. Snook.
In 1859 after birth of Mary and before the 1860 Census, the new family moved to Schoolcraft, Kalamazoo County, MI.
This is all I know of PRIESTLY BEACH at this time, but know much about his children's families. I assume he may have had family in Warren County, N.J. or PA.
He came to the US sometime before 1834 and married a Quaker girl, Sarah Ann Decker, daughter of Alexander Decker and Keziah Adams and they had the 3 children.
My grandmother, Alice VanKirk Travis wrote in the family history that Mr. Beach died before 1850 in PA from a heart attack, he had been sitting on a log talking to a man, fell over and died, there is no record of where he is buried.
Sarah Ann Decker Beach is living with her father, Alexander Decker in the Knowlton, Warren County, NJ 1850 Census. She remarried in Sept. 1854 to James Burns VanKirk and had Thomas Jones VanKirk in April 1855 & Mary VanKirk in 1859 who married William E. Snook.
In 1859 after birth of Mary and before the 1860 Census, the new family moved to Schoolcraft, Kalamazoo County, MI.
This is all I know of PRIESTLY BEACH at this time, but know much about his children's families. I assume he may have had family in Warren County, N.J. or PA.
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