Adam Burrier was born in Frederick County, Md., February 7, 1799. His father was a farmer, and young Adam remained at home assisting his father in his labors until he arrived at his majority. He then started out to fight the battles of life for himself, and, for the next seven years, was engaged in working for others, sometime on a farm, and at times driving a team.
He then concluded to go West, and, after visiting Kentucky, finally settled in Greene County, Ohio. He lived there until the spring of 1843, when he moved to Miami County, in the same State, where he rented a farm on Lost Creek, near Troy. While living in Greene County, on the 4th day of March, 1830 he was united in marriage with Miss Eliza Seipliera (?), who was also a native of Maryland. Her parents were among the very first to settle where the city of Dayton is situated now.
In the spring of 1849, he came to Allen County, Ind., and purchased 240 acres of land in Scipio Township, and settled upon it. It was in a state of nature, covered wtih a dense growth of timber, without a road of any kind within miles of it, and he had to make his way through an almost trackless forest for miles to get to a neighbor's house, or to Fort Wayne, to procure such articles of living as were indispensable. It took a man of iron nerve and resolution to overcome the difficulties that were before him. Het he was not the man to falter in anything he undertook. The forest trees soon grew less before the sturdy blows of his ax and to day he owns a splendid and well-tilled farm. His broad fields, in the season, covered with luxuriant crops, extend over 150 acres, and now, in his declining years, he can look back over a long and well-spent life, and enjoy the fruits of his toil.
The partner of his early struggles for fortune, and of his joys and sorrows departed this life full of years and respected by all who knew her, on the 9th day of October, 1878, leaving her aged companion and five sons and two daughters to morn her departure. Five of their children had gone to the spirit land before her. One, a son, who had enlisted in the Twenty-third Indiana Battery of Light Artillery, served his county faithfully and well for a year and a half, was taken sick, and, after being in a hospital for some time, received a furlough and came home, but scarcely had he reached his father's house when he died. Another son was drowned a few years ago in the Maumee River.
Mr. Burrier, although long past the allotted "three-score and ten", is now a hearty, hale and energetic man, directing the management of his large farm with the energy of the majority of men twenty years his junior.
from"History of Allen County, Indiana"
Published 1880, Chicago; Kingman Brothers.
Written By L. H. NEWMAN
Transcribed by bmt
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FOUR SCORE AND TEN!
Mr. Adam Burrier, at a Ripe Old Age, and Mr. Clement Miller Pass to the Great Beyond.
Mr. Adam Burrier, one of the old and prominent farmers of Scipio township in this county, died at his home at Hall's Corners last Saturday aged ninety-one years and two months. Mr. Burrier has been a resident of the county for forty years and during all of that time has been a subscriber of THE WEEKLY SENTINEL. He leaves a son and four daughters. The funeral took place Monday and was largely attended.
Published in the Fort Wayne Sentinel (Fort Wayne, Indiana) - Thursday, April 24, 1890.
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Although the obituary stated "one son and four daughters", it is incorrect. His survivors included four sons and one daughter.
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The will of Adam Burrier, deceased has been filed. The property, real and personal, is bequeathed to the children, who are, Martha Zeiner, Amanda Rupert, George, Phillip, Adam, Isaac and Wm. Burrier, Isaac Burrier is named as executor.
Published in The Fort Wayne Sentinel (Fort Wayne, Indiana) - Saturday, April 26, 1890.
He then concluded to go West, and, after visiting Kentucky, finally settled in Greene County, Ohio. He lived there until the spring of 1843, when he moved to Miami County, in the same State, where he rented a farm on Lost Creek, near Troy. While living in Greene County, on the 4th day of March, 1830 he was united in marriage with Miss Eliza Seipliera (?), who was also a native of Maryland. Her parents were among the very first to settle where the city of Dayton is situated now.
In the spring of 1849, he came to Allen County, Ind., and purchased 240 acres of land in Scipio Township, and settled upon it. It was in a state of nature, covered wtih a dense growth of timber, without a road of any kind within miles of it, and he had to make his way through an almost trackless forest for miles to get to a neighbor's house, or to Fort Wayne, to procure such articles of living as were indispensable. It took a man of iron nerve and resolution to overcome the difficulties that were before him. Het he was not the man to falter in anything he undertook. The forest trees soon grew less before the sturdy blows of his ax and to day he owns a splendid and well-tilled farm. His broad fields, in the season, covered with luxuriant crops, extend over 150 acres, and now, in his declining years, he can look back over a long and well-spent life, and enjoy the fruits of his toil.
The partner of his early struggles for fortune, and of his joys and sorrows departed this life full of years and respected by all who knew her, on the 9th day of October, 1878, leaving her aged companion and five sons and two daughters to morn her departure. Five of their children had gone to the spirit land before her. One, a son, who had enlisted in the Twenty-third Indiana Battery of Light Artillery, served his county faithfully and well for a year and a half, was taken sick, and, after being in a hospital for some time, received a furlough and came home, but scarcely had he reached his father's house when he died. Another son was drowned a few years ago in the Maumee River.
Mr. Burrier, although long past the allotted "three-score and ten", is now a hearty, hale and energetic man, directing the management of his large farm with the energy of the majority of men twenty years his junior.
from"History of Allen County, Indiana"
Published 1880, Chicago; Kingman Brothers.
Written By L. H. NEWMAN
Transcribed by bmt
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FOUR SCORE AND TEN!
Mr. Adam Burrier, at a Ripe Old Age, and Mr. Clement Miller Pass to the Great Beyond.
Mr. Adam Burrier, one of the old and prominent farmers of Scipio township in this county, died at his home at Hall's Corners last Saturday aged ninety-one years and two months. Mr. Burrier has been a resident of the county for forty years and during all of that time has been a subscriber of THE WEEKLY SENTINEL. He leaves a son and four daughters. The funeral took place Monday and was largely attended.
Published in the Fort Wayne Sentinel (Fort Wayne, Indiana) - Thursday, April 24, 1890.
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Although the obituary stated "one son and four daughters", it is incorrect. His survivors included four sons and one daughter.
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The will of Adam Burrier, deceased has been filed. The property, real and personal, is bequeathed to the children, who are, Martha Zeiner, Amanda Rupert, George, Phillip, Adam, Isaac and Wm. Burrier, Isaac Burrier is named as executor.
Published in The Fort Wayne Sentinel (Fort Wayne, Indiana) - Saturday, April 26, 1890.
Adam Burrier was born in Frederick County, Md., February 7, 1799. His father was a farmer, and young Adam remained at home assisting his father in his labors until he arrived at his majority. He then started out to fight the battles of life for himself, and, for the next seven years, was engaged in working for others, sometime on a farm, and at times driving a team.
He then concluded to go West, and, after visiting Kentucky, finally settled in Greene County, Ohio. He lived there until the spring of 1843, when he moved to Miami County, in the same State, where he rented a farm on Lost Creek, near Troy. While living in Greene County, on the 4th day of March, 1830 he was united in marriage with Miss Eliza Seipliera (?), who was also a native of Maryland. Her parents were among the very first to settle where the city of Dayton is situated now.
In the spring of 1849, he came to Allen County, Ind., and purchased 240 acres of land in Scipio Township, and settled upon it. It was in a state of nature, covered wtih a dense growth of timber, without a road of any kind within miles of it, and he had to make his way through an almost trackless forest for miles to get to a neighbor's house, or to Fort Wayne, to procure such articles of living as were indispensable. It took a man of iron nerve and resolution to overcome the difficulties that were before him. Het he was not the man to falter in anything he undertook. The forest trees soon grew less before the sturdy blows of his ax and to day he owns a splendid and well-tilled farm. His broad fields, in the season, covered with luxuriant crops, extend over 150 acres, and now, in his declining years, he can look back over a long and well-spent life, and enjoy the fruits of his toil.
The partner of his early struggles for fortune, and of his joys and sorrows departed this life full of years and respected by all who knew her, on the 9th day of October, 1878, leaving her aged companion and five sons and two daughters to morn her departure. Five of their children had gone to the spirit land before her. One, a son, who had enlisted in the Twenty-third Indiana Battery of Light Artillery, served his county faithfully and well for a year and a half, was taken sick, and, after being in a hospital for some time, received a furlough and came home, but scarcely had he reached his father's house when he died. Another son was drowned a few years ago in the Maumee River.
Mr. Burrier, although long past the allotted "three-score and ten", is now a hearty, hale and energetic man, directing the management of his large farm with the energy of the majority of men twenty years his junior.
from"History of Allen County, Indiana"
Published 1880, Chicago; Kingman Brothers.
Written By L. H. NEWMAN
Transcribed by bmt
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FOUR SCORE AND TEN!
Mr. Adam Burrier, at a Ripe Old Age, and Mr. Clement Miller Pass to the Great Beyond.
Mr. Adam Burrier, one of the old and prominent farmers of Scipio township in this county, died at his home at Hall's Corners last Saturday aged ninety-one years and two months. Mr. Burrier has been a resident of the county for forty years and during all of that time has been a subscriber of THE WEEKLY SENTINEL. He leaves a son and four daughters. The funeral took place Monday and was largely attended.
Published in the Fort Wayne Sentinel (Fort Wayne, Indiana) - Thursday, April 24, 1890.
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Although the obituary stated "one son and four daughters", it is incorrect. His survivors included four sons and one daughter.
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The will of Adam Burrier, deceased has been filed. The property, real and personal, is bequeathed to the children, who are, Martha Zeiner, Amanda Rupert, George, Phillip, Adam, Isaac and Wm. Burrier, Isaac Burrier is named as executor.
Published in The Fort Wayne Sentinel (Fort Wayne, Indiana) - Saturday, April 26, 1890.
He then concluded to go West, and, after visiting Kentucky, finally settled in Greene County, Ohio. He lived there until the spring of 1843, when he moved to Miami County, in the same State, where he rented a farm on Lost Creek, near Troy. While living in Greene County, on the 4th day of March, 1830 he was united in marriage with Miss Eliza Seipliera (?), who was also a native of Maryland. Her parents were among the very first to settle where the city of Dayton is situated now.
In the spring of 1849, he came to Allen County, Ind., and purchased 240 acres of land in Scipio Township, and settled upon it. It was in a state of nature, covered wtih a dense growth of timber, without a road of any kind within miles of it, and he had to make his way through an almost trackless forest for miles to get to a neighbor's house, or to Fort Wayne, to procure such articles of living as were indispensable. It took a man of iron nerve and resolution to overcome the difficulties that were before him. Het he was not the man to falter in anything he undertook. The forest trees soon grew less before the sturdy blows of his ax and to day he owns a splendid and well-tilled farm. His broad fields, in the season, covered with luxuriant crops, extend over 150 acres, and now, in his declining years, he can look back over a long and well-spent life, and enjoy the fruits of his toil.
The partner of his early struggles for fortune, and of his joys and sorrows departed this life full of years and respected by all who knew her, on the 9th day of October, 1878, leaving her aged companion and five sons and two daughters to morn her departure. Five of their children had gone to the spirit land before her. One, a son, who had enlisted in the Twenty-third Indiana Battery of Light Artillery, served his county faithfully and well for a year and a half, was taken sick, and, after being in a hospital for some time, received a furlough and came home, but scarcely had he reached his father's house when he died. Another son was drowned a few years ago in the Maumee River.
Mr. Burrier, although long past the allotted "three-score and ten", is now a hearty, hale and energetic man, directing the management of his large farm with the energy of the majority of men twenty years his junior.
from"History of Allen County, Indiana"
Published 1880, Chicago; Kingman Brothers.
Written By L. H. NEWMAN
Transcribed by bmt
***********************************************************************************
FOUR SCORE AND TEN!
Mr. Adam Burrier, at a Ripe Old Age, and Mr. Clement Miller Pass to the Great Beyond.
Mr. Adam Burrier, one of the old and prominent farmers of Scipio township in this county, died at his home at Hall's Corners last Saturday aged ninety-one years and two months. Mr. Burrier has been a resident of the county for forty years and during all of that time has been a subscriber of THE WEEKLY SENTINEL. He leaves a son and four daughters. The funeral took place Monday and was largely attended.
Published in the Fort Wayne Sentinel (Fort Wayne, Indiana) - Thursday, April 24, 1890.
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Although the obituary stated "one son and four daughters", it is incorrect. His survivors included four sons and one daughter.
*****************************************************************************
The will of Adam Burrier, deceased has been filed. The property, real and personal, is bequeathed to the children, who are, Martha Zeiner, Amanda Rupert, George, Phillip, Adam, Isaac and Wm. Burrier, Isaac Burrier is named as executor.
Published in The Fort Wayne Sentinel (Fort Wayne, Indiana) - Saturday, April 26, 1890.
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