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Facts and Events
| Name |
Albert Beem |
| Gender |
Male |
| Birth[1] |
1 Oct 1836 |
Greenwich, Huron Co., OH |
| Emigration[2][10] |
1838 |
New Jerseywith his family |
| Census[3][11] |
25 Sep 1850 |
Greenwich, Huron Co., OH |
| Census[4][12] |
26 Jun 1860 |
Greenwich, Huron Co., OH |
| Marriage |
15 Feb 1862 |
Sullivan, Ashland Co., OHto Aurilla Lane |
| Census[5][13] |
26 Aug 1870 |
Sheridan, Newaygo, Michigan, USA |
| Census[6][14] |
7 Jun 1880 |
Sheridan, Newaygo, Michigan, USA |
| Census[7][15] |
11 Jun 1900 |
Sheridan, Newaygo, Michigan, USA |
| Death[1] |
19 Jul 1903 |
Fremont, Newaygo Co., MI |
| Burial[9] |
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Maple Grove Cemetery, Fremont, Newaygo, Michigan, USA |
| Other[8][16] |
23 Jul 1903 |
Newaygo, Newaygo Co., MINewaygo (MI) Republican Obituary |
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Beem family record.
- ↑ History of the Reed-Beem family,.
- ↑ 1850 Census of Greenwich, Huron Co., OH.
- ↑ 1860 Census of Greenwich, Huron Co., OH.
- ↑ 1870 Census of Sheridan, Newaygo Co., MI.
- ↑ 1880 Census of Sheridan, Newaygo Co., MI.
- ↑ 1900 Census of Sheridan, Newaygo Co., MI.
- ↑ Newaygo Republican
Albert Beem obituary, 23 July 1903, 7 Dec 2003.
- ↑ Cemetery Records of Maple Grove Cemetery, Fremont, Newaygo Co., MI.
- ↑ History of the Reed-Beem Family
Collected and written
by
Maurice L. Reed
The first ancestors of the Beem family of which anything is known lived in New Jersey. This was the family of John Beem, the father of Albert Beem. Later they moved to New York, then to Ohio, settling in Greenwich near Wellington. Albert Beem was born in New York in 1836 and his parents moved to Ohio two years later. John Beem, the father, was an excessive user of tobacco, chewed & smoked, but none of his six sons ever used it. After living about 15 years in Greenwich, the family moved to Camden in the same state. From here Albert went to work for an uncle near Sullivan, Ohio, where he met Aurilla Lane, whom he later married.
Aurilla Lane's ancestors were descended from English stock. James Palmer fought in the Revolutionary War. He and his wife, Meribee Palmer moved to Ohio when they were old people with their son John and his wife Lydia (so homesick after moving never sat at the table for a year without crying) and their granddaughter Achsah (born same year as Queen Victoria), who was then 18 years of age. Ohio was a new country, practically solid woods. They settled near Sullivan. Aurilla Lane, daughter of Achsah Palmer Lane, was born in 1839. Her father died when she was eight years old, and the little girl lived a life of much hardship, working out for her board and going to school until she was qualified to teach. To reach this end cost her much hardship. Her mother Achsah later married again, upon which her name became Schoville. Soon after Aurilla Lane became a teacher she met her husband, and her subsequent history is the same as his. At the time they met, Aurilla's grandmother was still living with her family, a very nice old lady. The family lived on grandma Palmer's farm and rented some additional land, keeping 24 cows and selling milk, butter and cheese. Albert had been saving money and he now got the "Michigan fever." He wanted to have a farm that he could call his own.
In 1870 he took his family and went. The railroad carried them as far north as Grand Rapids, where he left Aurilla and the two little girls, Alice and Mary, aged seven and five respectively. Purchasing a horse and wagon he pushed into the wilderness in February, the very dead of the Michigan winter. Soon the snow became so deep he could go no farther with the wagon, but he rented a sleigh and continued on his way with that. After reaching the place that was to be his home, at Reeman, Michigan, he drove back after his family and took them to live at Mallory's, a family of the neighborhood whom he had formerly known at Camden, Ohio. An old man, the son of this Mallory, is still living in the same place, in 1925, 1 ½ miles north of the old farm. In the spring a log house was built, and a year later the upright to the present frame structure, in 1871. They lived on nothing for a year, their farm nothing but a patch in the deep woods with no road to it. The next year, 1872, the railroad came. There was work for everybody then, rent for stable space and men to be boarded. Some means acquired in this way paid for having a few acres cut over and an orchard planted which has long outlived its first owner and will apparently be highly productive for many generations to come.
Albert Beem's son, John, fell heir to the old farm and lived there until 1925. His health was poor and at that time he had been unable to do farm work for years. He had already served several terms as probate judge of Newaygo County, so that he did not need the farm, in fact found it a continual source of expense. All his friends and local interests, moreover, were in Fremont. He therefore sold the place and bought a house in Fremont where he went to live in the fall of 1925. The old farm where so many of us were born or have died, will always be a sacred landmark to members of the family. It stands right in the edge of the little town, about ten rods west of the creamery on the north side of the road, surrounded by the chestnut, walnut and maple trees which he planted there. The big barn east of the house is nearly opposite the creamery. Originally the farm included the next place to the east, 160 acres in all. The east 80 fell to his wife Aurilla and was sold soon after her death.
Albert Beem was the neighborhood undertaker. He did no embalming but conducted a simple funeral, provided a hearse, coffin, etc. A public spirited man, he worked very hard to get the country settled and developed. He had a good voice, sang by note, and often got up special music for neighborhood affairs.
Alice, their oldest child, was born in Ohio in 1863, Mary in 1865 in the same state. Helen was born at Reeman in 1872 and John in 1877. Aurilla Lane Beem died in 1917 of paralysis and palsy. Her daughter Alice had died of palsy ten days before. Albert Beem died in the Fremont Christian church of heart failure.
Aurilla Lane was better educated than her husband. She was of retiring disposition and had few friends. Albert Beem was a hail fellow, well liked by numerous friends. He had more love of Nature and more artistic tastes than his wife.
- ↑ John Beem; age 40; male; farmer; b.NJ
Betsy; age 39; female; b.NY
Albert; age 12; male; b.NY
Adaline; age 11; female; b.OH
John; age 10; male; b.OH
Mary; age 7; female; b.OH
James; age 6; male; b.OH
George; age 3; male; b.OH
Elisha; age 1; male; b.OH
- ↑ Luther Mead; age 70; male; white; farmer; b.Conn.
Anna; age 68; female; white; b.NY
Anna; age 25; female; white; b.OH
Albert Beam; age 22; male; white; laborer; b.OH
- ↑ Beam, Albert; age 33; male; white; farmer; b.NY
Aurilla, age 31; female; white; keeping house; b.OH
Alice; age 6; female; white; b.OH
Mary; age 4; female; white; b.OH
- ↑ Beem, Albert; white; male; age 43; married; farmer; b.NY; father b.NY; mother b.NY
----- Aurilla; white; female; age 42; wife; married; keeping house;
b.OH; father b.VT; mother b.VT
----- Alice M.; white; female; age 16; daughter; single; at home;
b.OH; father b.NY; mother b.OH
----- Mary A.; white; female; age 14; daughter; single; at home;
b.OH; father b.NY; mother b.OH
----- Hellen A.; white; female; age 7; daughter; single;
b.Mich.; father b.NY; mother b.OH
----- John M.; white; male; age 3; son; single;
b.Mich.; father b.NY; mother b.OH
- ↑ Beem, Albert; head; white; male; b.Oct. 1836; age 63; married 38 years;
b.NY; father b.NY; mother b.NY occupation: farmer
----- Lane; wife; white; female; b.Apr. 1839; age 61; married 38 years;
b.OH; father b.VT; mother b.VT
----- Helen; daughter; white; female; b.Nov. 1872; age 27; single
b.MI; father b.NY; mother b.VT occupation: teacher
----- John; son; white; male; b.May 1877; age 23; single;
b.MI; father b.NY; mother b.OH occupation: farm laborer
- ↑ On Sunday morning last Albert Beem an old and highly respected citizen of Sheridan Township was suddenly seized with illness in church and was removed to the prayer room where he expired in a few moments. Mr. Beem was known to have been a sufferer from disease of the heart but his death was totally unexpected and cast a gloom over the community. He was about 66 years of age.
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