Henry Beamer, eldest child of John (2) and Eve (Butenborger) Reamer, was born at Toneytown, near Hagerstown, Maryland, coming with his father to Westmorehand county, Pennsylvania, at the age of five years. During his youth and early manhood he worked for his father on the farm of the latter, and when he married bought a farm of his own near Murrysville, on which he resided during the remainder of his life. His death occurred in Jannary, 1857. He married, about 1822, Elizabeth Lauffer, who died in 1843. She was the daughter of John and ----- (Kemerer) Lauffer, of Penn township.
(Source: History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Volume ll, Chapter 2, Part 11, by John N. Boucher, New York, The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906, Pages 402, 403, 404. Transcribed by Martha Cross Sargent, for the Westmoreland County History Project.)
Family Members
Parents
John Beamer
unknown–1844
Eve Buttenberger Beamer
unknown–1854
Spouse
Elizabeth Lauffer Beamer
1795–1843
Children
John Beamer
1824–1912
Henry Beamer
1826–1915
Seth Beamer
1828–1874
Jacob Beamer
1830–1907
Michael Beamer
1832–1914
Sarah Beamer Drake
1835–1922
Susan Anne Beamer
1839–1842
