Evaline Avery (1851)

Born 5 Nov 1851 in Wood County, Ohio

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Biography

This biography was auto-generated by a GEDCOM import.^[1] It's a rough draft and needs to be edited.

Name

Name: Evaline /AVERY/^{[2][3][4][5][6]}

Birth

Birth:

Date: 5 NOV 1851

Place: Wood County, Ohio^[7][8]

User ID

User ID: B6D74C45384F4B84B30718C001EEAE58FBD4

Data Changed

Data Changed:

Date: 27 DEC 2005

Prior to import, this record was last changed 27 DEC 2005.

Marriage

Husband: @I1335@

Wife: Evaline Avery

Marriage:

Date: 4 OCT 1870

Place: Wood County, Ohio^[9]

User ID: 3C442EED7A8440349C52C943D26C9D50323A

Child: Willis Or Willard Barr

Child: Mirritt R. Barr

Child: @I1798@

Child: @I1338@

Child: @I1799@

Child: @I1800@

Child: @I1801@

Child: @I1802@

Child: @I1804@

Child: @I1805@

Husband: Washington Gage Montgomery Avery

Wife: Narcissa Ann Meeker

Marriage:

Date: 16 NOV 1844

Place: Wood County, Ohio^{[10][11][12][13]}

User ID: E17D9AA545594CABB761D42F5968633EAF1C

Child: Alice Augusta Avery

Child: Albert M. Avery

Child: Evaline Avery

Child: Martha Adelaide Avery

Child: Betsey Ann Avery

Child: Ella J. Avery

Child: Washington G. Avery

Child: Margret B. Reed

Child Status: @C89@

Sources

1. ↑ Avery-1829 was created by Cari Miller through the import of Cari's Family Tree 10.ged on May 27, 2014. This comment and citation can be deleted after the biography has been edited and primary sources are included.
2. ↑ Source: #S311
3. ↑ Source: #S380
4. ↑ Source: #S382
5. ↑ Source: #S488
6. ↑ Source: #S493
7. ↑ Source: #S572
8. ↑ Source: #S311
9. ↑ Source: #S539
10. ↑ Source: #S574
11. ↑ Source: #S430
12. ↑ Source: #S572
13. ↑ Source: #S619

• Source: S311 Text: Book Text: Kathleen K. Saffell Text: The Descendants of Timothy Meeker (1708 - 1798) Text: 2nd edtion Text: Ridgecrest, CA: Kathleen K. Saffell
• Source: S380 Text: Census Text: Washington Avery Household Text: 1860 Census Text: Wood County, Ohio population schedule, Center township, Bowling Green post office Text: page 379, dwelling 693, family 694 Text: National Archives micropublication M653, roll 1053
• Source: S382 Text: Census Text: Washington Avery Household Text: 1870 Census Text: Wood County, Ohio population schedule, Center township, Bowling Green post office Text: page 19, dwelling 137, family 140 Text: National Archives micropublication M593, roll 1283
• Source: S488 Text: Newspaper Text: Washington G. Avery obituary Text: Wood County Sentinel Text: Bowling Green, Ohio Text: 6 April 1905 Text: page 1 Text: AVERY KILLED IN EXPLOSION OF DYNAMITE CONT CONT His Body Was Blown to Pieces by the Blast CONT CONT It Was Scattered Over Five-Acre Lot and Remains Were Unrecognizable CONT CONT CAUSE OF FATALITY WILL NEVER BE KNOWN CONT CONT Man Had Gone Out to Blast Stumps and Was Killed in First Explosion – Conducted Meat Market Here CONT CONT Washington G. Avery was blown to pieces in a dynamite explosion on his from at Sugar Ridge at 9 o’clock Wednesday. The cause of the fatal accident is not known. CONT CONT Pieces of bone and flesh from the unfortunate man’s body were scattered over a plot of ground five acres in extent and there was not enough left to be recognizable. In one place was found the skull almost stripped of flesh and many feet away lay the lower limbs which were almost intact except that the feet had been cut off. CONT CONT Avery had left his house on the farm, about three-quarters of a mile southwest of Sugar Ridge, to blast stumps in a field about forty rods away. About 9 o’clock his wife heard the explosion, which resulted so fatally, but only thought that her husband had set off a charge to blow out a stump. CONT CONT A few minutes later, Gilbert Avery, a cousin of the dead man, came to the house to see him and was told by Mrs. Avery to go to the field where her husband was thought to be working. CONT CONT There a most gruesome sight met his eyes. Pieces of flesh and bone were scattered about everywhere and in the place where Mr. Avery had been standing, but little was left of a stump to tell the tale of the explosion. CONT CONT The man returned to the house with news of the fatal accident and Mrs. Avery was almost prostrated. Neighbors were notified and several assisted in gathering up the remains which were carried to the house in baskets. CONT CONT Undertaker Witzler, from Perrysburg, was summoned. Coroner C. P. Jones, of North Baltimore, was also notified of the accident and went to the scene this afternoon. CONT CONT The cause of the explosion will never be known it is believed, as there was no one else near at the time. There are two theories, however, and that the dynamite had exploded while Avery was thawing it out is the one most accepted by the neighbors who visited the scene. CONT CONT Owing to the position of a can, which had contained the explosive, and the place where the explosion occurred, the famers generally are of the opinion that Avery was engaged in thawing out the explosive, preparatory to blasting the stumps. CONT CONT The opinion is also held by some that Avery had inserted a blast under the stump and that upon it failing to explode, he had returned to the stump to examine and that the explosive went off then. CONT CONT Avery formerly conducted a meat market in the Cooley building on North Main street, but was burned out several weeks ago. Since that time he has devoted himself to farming the land on which he lived. CONT CONT He was 44 years of age, having been born near this city in February, 1861, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Washington Avery, who were pioneers of Wood county. Avery spent all his life in this vicinity and was well known all over Wood county. CONT CONT He was married to Viola Snyder, of this city about twenty years ago and they were later divorced. Mrs. Avery and her two children, Claude and Ethel Avery reside on North Prospect street. CONT CONT Mr. Avery remarried and four children, the oldest eight years of age, was born to him and his second wife. They lived with him on the farm. CONT CONT One brother and three sisters, Albert Avery of West Wooster street; Mrs. Morgan Withrow and Mrs. Daniel Barr, residing in the country near this city, and Mrs. George Barr, of Paulding county, also survive. CONT CONT No funeral arrangements have been made pending the arrival of several members of the family. Data Changed: Date: 9 DEC 2007
• Source: S493 Text: Newspaper Text: W. G. Avery obituary Text: The Daily Sentinel-Tribune Text: Bowling Green, Ohio Text: 3 August 1903 Text: p 1, col 6 Text: W. G. AVERY DIED CONT CONT Pioneer of 84 Departs This Life at Union Hill CONT CONT Had Resided In Wood County Ever Since 1838 and Was Widely Known CONT CONT Washington G. Avery, one of Wood county’s pioneer settlers, died at his home near Union Hill, in Plain township, at eleven o’clock Sunday morning, after a ten weeks’ illness. His disease was dropsy. Mr. Avery first came to Wood county in 1838, when a young man of 19 years, and resided in Plain until the time of his death. He was 84 years old. CONT CONT A widow and five children survive this grandsire among the pioneers. The two sons are Albert and Washington, Jr., and his daughters are Martha Withrow, Eviline Barr, and Ella Barr, all of whom but the latter, who lives in Paulding, are residents of this county. Three brothers, Gibson, Thomas and William, also live in Wood, and Mrs. Martha Harding, a sister, lives in Medina. CONT CONT The funeral will be held from Union Hill church Tuesday afternoon and interment will be made in Union Hill Cemetery.
• Source: S572 Text: Book Text: W. G. M. Avery biography Text: J. H. Beers Text: Commemorative, Historical and Biographical Record of Wood County, Ohio Text: (Chicago, Illinois: J.H. Beers and Co, 1897) Text: p. 1007-1008 Text: W. G. M. Avery, one of the honored pioneers of this county, now residing in Bowling Green, was born in Ellisburg, N. Y., February 10, 1820. He is of Welsh descent, and his ancestors were early settlers in New York State, where his father, W. R. H. Avery, spent the greater part of his life. He married Miss Polly Towsler, also a native of New York, and came to Medina county, Ohio, in 1833, where he died in 1880, at the age of eighty-four. He was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, and drew a pension during his later years. An active, intelligent thinker, even in old age, he took great interest in public affairs and was an ardent believer in the principles of the Democratic party. His wife died in Medina county in 1853, at fifty-seven years of age. They had twelve children: Betsey, who married A. Selkirk of Wood County–both are deceased; Gilbert, a resident of Plain township, Wood county; Sallie, deceased, formerly Mrs. Shubal Stevens, or Orleans county, N. Y.; W. G. M., our subject; Eleanor, the wife of Daniel Noyce, of Bowling Green, both deceased; Lucy, who married John Hardin, of Medina county, and died there; Melissa, the wife of John Shaw, of Medina county, both of whom died in Wood county; William and Thomas, now residents of Plain township, Wood county; Marry, deceased, formerly the wife of John Meeker, of this county; and John who died at two years of age. CONT CONT Our subject was thirteen years old when his parents moved to Medina county, where he grew to manhood. In 1841, he began to make hunting trips to Wood county during the autumn and winter, and on one of these excursions he met Miss Narcissa Meeker, who was born in Hamilton county, March 5, 1826. They were married November 16, 1844, and for two years following lived in Medina county. In 1846 they came to Center township, Wood county, and settled in the woods, far from any road, where Mr. Avery cleared over 200 acres of land. For a number of years he was engaged in stock raising upon a farm of 140 acres, but he retired from active business in 1892. He still owns two small farms. Mr. and Mrs. Avery’s descendants number seven children and forty grandchildren, namely: (1) Alice A., born October 17, 1846, married Johyn Dalley, and had seven children: Owen, Alena, Mina, Gertrude, Jennie, Cora and George. (2)Albert, born November 22, 1848, lives in Plain township, and is married to Miss Rosa Hughes, by whom he had three sons: Harley, Homer and Allen. (3) Evaline, born November 5, 1851, married Daniel Barr, of Center township, and had ten children: Narcissus, Arnold, Libbie, May, Jennie, Nannie, Willis, Clarence, June, and Merrit. (4) Martha Adelaide, born February 9, 1854, married M. Witherow, of Plain township, and had nine children: Earnest Walter, Mary, Lura, Washington, Sadie, Owen, Orlie, and John. (5) Betsey Ann, born November 18, 1857, married James Franklin, and died March 18, 1886. Two children of this union are living – Lovenia and Charles – a third, Howard, died in infancy. (6) Ella, born July 29, 1859; married George Barr, of Center township, and had six children: Arthur, Allen, Alic, Ethel, Robert and Rolly. (7) Washington G., born February 4, 1861, married Viola Snyder, of Bowling Green, and lives in Center township; they have three children: Claud, Ethel, and Sylva. There are also six great-grandchildren. CONT CONT Mr. and Mrs. Avery have brought up more than twenty children in their hom, at different times. They are interested in all religious and philanthropical movements, and have been for many years leading members of the United Bretheren Church. Mr. Avery is a Democrat politically, and at one time elected director of the county infirmary.