BEVERLY-John - Fountain County INGenWeb Project

John Beverly, farmer, Attica, son of Trustum and Elizabeth (Loe) Beverly, was born in Greene county, Ohio, April 18, 1825. (See trustum Beverley's Biography.) He married Elizabeth Van Meter, daughter of William and Luan (Malatt) Van Meter, who came here in the first settlement of the township Their children were six in number: Rosetta, born July 31, 1851, died November 1, 1860; Oliver T., November 2, 1856, died December 29, 1856; Alice Adeline, April 1, 1858; John Fremont, September 10, 1860; Lucy Jane, September 14, 1862; Elizabeth, November 27, 1866, died February 16, 1869. Mrs. Beverly died December 8, 1866, aged thirty-eight years, four month and fourteen days. Mr. Beverly's history is no ordinary instance of what frugality and steady and patient industry can achieve when intelligently united. Twenty-nine years ago he was working as a common laborer; to-day he owns 200 acres of rich and valuable land, forty acres being timber, the rest in a good state of cultivation. This property, the E. BD of N.E., and S.E., Sec. 7, T. 21, R. 6, worth $9,000, has been made exclusively by himself and his family. It is pleasing to observe that this result has not been accomplished at the expense of certain considerations which cannot be ignored except to the discredit of human nature. Mr. Beverly has recognized his responsibility as a man, and the head of the family, by bringing constantly into his house books and papers, the important sources of information, without which in abundance no one need expect to keep abreast of the age. He regularly takes a full supply of newspapers and agricultural papers, and stock journals. Men who read and are students of the times will promptly and unmistakably show it. Mr. Beverly will be found to be such a man. He is a decided republican.