Benjamin BEAVER

5 Mar 1829 - 2 Aug 1865

Father: Martin BEAVER
Mother: Elizabeth ROADS

Family 1 : Rachel Ann PITZER

  1.  Jessie Oliver BEAVER, b. 16 Sep 1851; d. 26 Aug 1865, typhoid fever, Licking Co., OH
  2.  John Martin BEAVER, b. 5 Jun 1852, Marion, IL; d. 15 Sep 1931, Ashland, OR, bur. Licking Cemetery; Minister of Christian Church; m. 1880, Emma HOPKINS of Sunbury, OH, b. 4 May 1856; d. 19 Marc 1933, bur. Hebron, OH; 3 ch.
  3.  Manuel Wilbur BEAVER, b. 26 Oct 1854, Delaware Co. OH; d. 27 Feb 1927, Salem, OR; m. 21 Dec 1875, Susie M. BRIDGE, b. 7 Apr 1855; d. 3 Aug 1934, Salem, OR; 2 ch.
  4.  Asa Milton BEAVER, b. 16 Oct 1856, Sunbury, OH; Real Estate Agent, Ashland, OR; m(1). 28 Feb 1884, near Granville, Licking Co., OH, Myrtie ALDRED, b. 1 Oct 1862; d. 3 Jun 1899, bur. Pataskala, OH; 6 ch.; m(2). 28 Aug 1900, Henrietta C. CALHOUN, b. 5 Nov 1857; d. 11 Feb 1934; no ch.
  5.  Rose Arelett BEAVER, b. 16 Jun 1858; d. 23 Nov 1865, typhoid fever, Licking Co., OH
  6.  Mary Elizabeth BEAVER, b. 21 Dec 1859, Hardin Co., OH; m(1). 1890, Texas, Louis S. STEINAM; 3 ch. d. in infancy; m(2). 4 Nov 1904, Ashland, OR, W. R. YOCKEY, Real Estate Agent; no ch.

Family 2 : Sarah Louise SMITH

  1.  Emilie BEAVER, b. 26 Jan 1866, Licking Co. OH, author of several books, res. Oakland, CA; m. 1888, Watertown, SD, Francis Michael BYRNE; d. 24 Dec 1927, San Francisco, CA; Senator, Lieutenant Governor (1910), Governor (1912) of South Dakota; 7 ch.

 


                                          _Conrad BEAVER ______
                    _Abraham BEAVER _____|
                   |                     |_Mary Jane KNEISSLY _
 _Martin BEAVER ___|
|                  |                      _Martin KAUFFMAN ____+
|                  |_Barbara KAUFFMAN ___|
|                                        |_Mary LIONBERGER ____+
|
|--Benjamin BEAVER 
|
|                                         _Joseph ROADS _______+
|                   _John ROADS _________|
|                  |                     |_Mary STRICKLER _____+
|_Elizabeth ROADS _|
                   |                      _Abraham BRUBAKER ___+
                   |_Catharine BRUBAKER _|
                                         |_Barbara MILLER _____+

Notes:

From the History and Genealogy of the Bieber, Beaver, Biever, Beeber Family, by the Reverend Irvin M. Beaver (Reading, Pennsylvania; 1939), page 553-554:

Benjamin Beaver, b. March 5, 1829, d. Aug. 2, 1865 (typhoid); bur. at Kenton, O.; m. twice; m. first, Jan. 20, 1850, to Rachel Ann Pitzer, b. in 1832, d. Nov. 10, 1861. Bur. at Kenton, O. She was of the Pitzer family who pioneered into Ohio about the same time the first Beavers did. Issue 6 children to this union... Benjamin Beaver m. second, Feb. 24, 1863, to Sarah Louise Smith, of Newark, O., b. about 1838, d. in Kenton, O., Aug ----. Issue one child....

Benjamin Beaver moved the first year of his first marriage (1850) to Marion Co., Ill. Two years later moving back to Ohio, settling on a farm near Sunbury, Delaware Co. In 1858 he moved to Hayden Co., near Kenton, where his first wife died. In 1863 he remarried and in 1865, several months before the birth of the only child by Sarah Louise Smith's marriage, he died of typhoid fever during the epidemic, which also that year took the lives of Benjamin's son Oliver and his daughter, Rosa Arletta, Benjamin's brother Abraham and their mother, Elizabeth Roads Beaver. Martin Beaver, the father, was seriously ill, but survived. The year before June 13, 1864, another brother, Isaac Beaver, also succumbed to typhoid fever.

 

 

 

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