Elizabeth ROADS

4 Jan 1797 - 17 Oct 1865

Father: John ROADS
Mother: Catharine BRUBAKER

Family 1 : Martin BEAVER

  1.  Catherine BEAVER
  2.  Isaac BEAVER
  3.  Abraham BEAVER
  4.  Nancy BEAVER
  5.  Jacob BEAVER
  6.  John BEAVER
  7.  Melissa BEAVER
  8.  Benjamin BEAVER
  9.  David BEAVER
  10.  Manuel BEAVER
  11.  Martin BEAVER
  12.  Joseph BEAVER
  13.  Samuel BEAVER


 


                                           _John ROADS ________
                       _Joseph ROADS _____|
                      |                   |_Eve ALBRIGHT ______
 _John ROADS _________|
|                     |                    _Abraham STRICKLER _
|                     |_Mary STRICKLER ___|
|                                         |_Mary Anna RUFFNER _
|
|--Elizabeth ROADS 
|
|                                          _John BRUBAKER _____
|                      _Abraham BRUBAKER _|
|                     |                   |_Anna (BRUBAKER)_________
|_Catharine BRUBAKER _|
                      |                    _Jacob MILLER ______
                      |_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 533:

She was the daughter of John Roads II, a large land owner in Licking Co., O., and Catharine Brubaker. Elizabeth Roads moved from Virginia to Ohio with her father and family in the fall of 1814. On Dec. 25, 1814, she married Martin Beaver. They settled in Licking twp. on land belonging to John Roads. Most of their married life was spent in this township. After the death of John Roads, his children made deeds to each other, dividing up the land. The date of these deeds was Dec. 16, 1831. Martin and Elizabeth took two tracts in Licking twp., one of 202 acres at $1011 dollars, and one of 333 acres at $1783...

Martin Beaver's wife, Elizabeth was the daughter of John Roads II and Catharine Brubaker. Her great-grandfather was John Roads I, who pioneered into Virginia 1728 from Zurich, Switzerland. He was a Mennonite minister and one of the founders of the Massanuten settlement, Shenandoah Valley. He together with six of his children were massacred by the Indians in 1764. Her grandmother was a Strickler and her mother was Catharine Brubaker. Her grandfather, John Brubaker, came from Berne, Switzerland, in 1710 with three brothers, John, Henry, Abraham and setlled in Lancaster Co., Pa. John Brubaker pioneered into Virginia and bought land in the Massanuten settlement. Catharine's maternal grandmother and grandfather, Jacob Miller, were the founders of Woodstock, Va. the earliest settlement of Shenandoah Co., They were from Zweibruecken, Germany.

Elizabeth Beaver died of typhoid fever during the epidemic of 1865, which took dozens of Licking Co. settlers...

 

 

From page 531:

INSCRIPTIONS FOUND

On the Old Beaver Lot in Licking Cemetery near Hebron, Ohio...

7. Elizabeth Beaver, wife of Martin Beaver, b. Jan. 4, 1797, d. Oct. 17, 1865, aged 68-9-13.

 

 

 

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