Helen was born at Reeman in 1872 and John in 1877. He had a good voice, sang by note, and often got up special music for neighborhood affairs.Īlice, their oldest child, was born in Ohio in 1863, Mary in 1865 in the same state. A public spirited man, he worked very hard to get the country settled and developed. He did no embalming but conducted a simple funeral, provided a hearse, coffin, etc. The east 80 fell to his wife Aurilla and was sold soon after her death.Īlbert Beem was the neighborhood undertaker. Originally the farm included the next place to the east, 160 acres in all. The big barn east of the house is nearly opposite the creamery. 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 old farm where so many of us were born or have died, will always be a sacred landmark to members of the family. He therefore sold the place and bought a house in Fremont where he went to live in the fall of 1925. All his friends and local interests, moreover, were in Fremont. 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. His health was poor and at that time he had been unable to do farm work for years. 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.Īlbert Beem's son, John, fell heir to the old farm and lived there until 1925. There was work for everybody then, rent for stable space and men to be boarded.
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They lived on nothing for a year, their farm nothing but a patch in the deep woods with no road to it. In the spring a log house was built, and a year later the upright to the present frame structure, in 1871. An old man, the son of this Mallory, is still living in the same place, in 1925, 1 ˝ miles north of the old farm. 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. 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. Purchasing a horse and wagon he pushed into the wilderness in February, the very dead of the Michigan winter. 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. Albert had been saving money and he now got the "Michigan fever." He wanted to have a farm that he could call his own. The family lived on grandma Palmer's farm and rented some additional land, keeping 24 cows and selling milk, butter and cheese. At the time they met, Aurilla's grandmother was still living with her family, a very nice old lady. Soon after Aurilla Lane became a teacher she met her husband, and her subsequent history is the same as his. Her mother Achsah later married again, upon which her name became Schoville. To reach this end cost her much hardship. 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. Aurilla Lane, daughter of Achsah Palmer Lane, was born in 1839. Ohio was a new country, practically solid woods. 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. James Palmer fought in the Revolutionary War.
From here Albert went to work for an uncle near Sullivan, Ohio, where he met Aurilla Lane, whom he later married.Īurilla Lane's ancestors were descended from English stock. After living about 15 years in Greenwich, the family moved to Camden in the same state. John Beem, the father, was an excessive user of tobacco, chewed & smoked, but none of his six sons ever used it. Albert Beem was born in New York in 1836 and his parents moved to Ohio two years later. Later they moved to New York, then to Ohio, settling in Greenwich near Wellington. This was the family of John Beem, the father of Albert Beem. The first ancestors of the Beem family of which anything is known lived in New Jersey. While processing relationships in the gedcom some additional information was found which may be FAMĪbbreviation: History of the Reed-Beem family, Place: Dryden, Tompkins Co., New York, United States The following data was included in the gedcom. This person was created through the import of My Michigan Ancestors.
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