BEVERLY-Trustum - Fountain County INGenWeb Project

Trustum Beverly, farmer, Attica, eldest son of John and Rachel (Turnage) Beverly, was born near Cheraw, South Carolina, November 11, 1800. When he was an infant, Dr. Mendenhall emigrated, with his family in a four-horse wagon and a carriage to Highland county, ohio, and his parents also in the aforesaid four-horse wagon. In 1840 Mr. Beverly moved to this county, bringing his ages parents with him. In the last war with England his father had served in the army a year and a half on the northwest frontier. When he reached here Mr. Beverly had but $100. He rented a farm in the north part of Richland township, the one owned by Samuel Dimmick, and lived on it six years. In the spring of 1850 he moved to his present place, which he had purchased the autumn before, a place of 138 acres, situated in Sec. 13, T. 21, R. 7, to which he has added thirty acres of timber. He was married in 1826, to Elizabeth Lowe, and by her had two children, who are living. John was born April 19, 1826, and Esaac December 13, 1828. She died in September of 1829, and he married again in 1838, this time to Sarah Houver, widow of Jacob Houver. Her maiden name was Waymeyer. She died June 28, 1875, and was the mother of six children by her first husband. They were Elizabeth, whoses husband, Frederick Kinley, of Iowa, was killed at Lookout Mountain; Margaret, who married John S. Lewis, of Vermilion county, Illinois, and died leaving two children, and George E., who was a soldier over three years in the late war, and now lives in iowa; Jacob W., living at Waynetown and Melinda, wife of Clark Downey, of Iowa. Elizabeth lives in Nebraska. At Margaret's death Mr. Beverly took her children, who were then very small, to raise. Both are now living with him on his farm. Their names are Jasper T. and Jocob H.. The former married Miss Emma R. Deeter. They have two small children Mark D. and Allen M. Lewis, who play with childish mirth around their great-grandfather's knee, to delight and soothe his failing years. Mr. Beverly has always derived great pleasure from hunting, and used to make trips to Illinois for this purpose before the prairies were taken up He has been a Mason and an Odd-Fellow twenty-five years. He voted first for Jackson, in 1828, and after that joined the whigs, and next the republicans. This venerable man of eighty looks back on the greatest changes ever witnessed by any generation.