James Madison Beer (1837 - 1911)

Born 13 Jan 1837 in Belleville, St. Clair, Illinois, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Nancy Jemima (Gibson) Beer — married 26 Jun 1858 in Keosauqua, Van Buren, Iowa, United States

Descendants

Died 17 Mar 1911 at age 74 in Iowa, United States

Biography

JAMES MADISON BEER was born in 1837. He was the son of THOMAS BEER and ELIZABETH BADGLEY. He passed away in 1911.

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Text contributed by Joachim Hawn

Following Abstract forward citation: Find A Grave - text cited to Van Buren, Iowa Genealogy.

JAMES MADISON BEER

- Born January 13, 1837 and died March 17, 1911 near Keosauqua where parents located over 74 years ago when he was only a few months old.

Mrs. Beer died several years ago.

Four children survive: Harry of Mt. Zion; Charlie of Keokuk; Mrs. Carrie Bell and husband, and Walter Bell of Keosauqua. One son, Frank, born October 21, 1859, died November 21, 1901.

F-Fellows Cemetery, Keosauqua.

Source: Redhead Collection of Obituary Extractions, Donnellson Public Library, Donnellson, IA.

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JAMES MADISON BEER, Died: 1911

Surnames Referenced: BEER, GIBSON, BELL

Posted By: Volunteer: Sherri

Posted Date/Time: 8/24/2016 at 18:21:38

(**Handwritten): St. Line Dem. Thurs. 23 March 1911

DEATH OF MADISON BEER

An Honored and Respected Citizen Has Passed Away

Mr. J. Madison Beer, whose critical condition was mentioned in our last issue, died Friday night, March 17, at 11 o'clock.

He had been ill about two weeks, after the last attack of paralysis. The funeral was held at the Christian church at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon, the attendance filling the church to its full capacity.

The funeral services were conducted by Rev. Chas. E. Perkins, assisted by Rev. C.A. Field. The choir consisted of Messrs. C.R. McCrary and S.B. DeHart and Mesdames E.E. Sherman and Anderson Patten, with Arthur Clark as organist. The pall bearers were his Odd Fellow brothers, H.E. Duckworth, Geo. H. Craig, John Wright, J.C. Calhoun, E.C. Coombs and B.F. Truax. There was a profusion of beautiful flowers on the casket. The burial rites were performed by the Odd Fellows and Rebekahs.

Mr. Beer was a kindly, upright, good man and had a large circle of personal friends, as well as relative, whose hearts are saddened by his death.

Rev. Mr. Perkins' discourse was in part as follows:

James Madison Beer, son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Beer, who were persons of English birth, was born in Belleville, St. Clair county, Ill., Jan. 13, 1837.

When an infant of three months, he was brought by his parents to Keosauqua, who settled on land with in two miles of town down the river. :::And on that very spot, as boy and man his home remained to the day of his death.

He was one of seven brothers of whom Mr. JAMES MONROE BEER, is the last survivor. There of that band of brothers served their country as soldiers in the Federal army during the civil war.

Mr. Beer was married June 26, 1858, to NANCY JEMIMA GIBSON.

The two were happy partners in life for near 37 years, until the wife's death, about 16 years ago. They were blessed with a family of six children, viz., Frank, Charley, Henry S., Carrie V. (Mrs. James Bell), Thomas Walter and Van Curtis. Of these, four survive; those called by death, being Frank and Van Curtis.

Mr. Beer united with the M.E. church at Mt. Zion 32 years ago. Some (25 years) ago, he transferred his membership to the Christian church in Keosauqua. He was a member of the order of Odd Fellows.

For three or four years, Mr. Beer's health has been gradually failing. The end came very peacefully Friday, the 17th of March. His age at the time of his death was 74 years, two months and four days.

There are older people in Keosauqua and vicinity, than Mr. Madison Beer; a good many of them; but the number of those who have spent as many years here as he had spent, must be very few.

In the spring of 1837, when he was brought here a baby, there were very few white families. His earnest experiences were of frontier life, and his memories covered almost the entire development of the country from a wilderness to a civilization that might be centuries old, so far as appearances go. As a boy, the sight of Red men going up and down the Des Moines in their canoes, or traversing the forest trails was a not infrequent spectacle. The woods and prairies abandoned with game and the wirers teemed with fish. Looking back to that time, one thinks of the elements of charm and adventure in the life of a boy growing up amid such surroundings. But we must not forget that as the lives of the pioneer fathers and mothers were perforce given over to heavy toil, so the lives of the children in the families of the first comers, must have had close acquaintance with the serious side of existence. There were many deprivations, among them the entire absence of school opportunities.

The little boy grew up with the schooling of the woods and the rivers; woodcraft and watercraft, of the field and garden; best of all, the schooling of a true home; but of school-room teaching he had none at all. This does not mean that he was an uneducated man. Education is learning; the accumulation of facts, progressive knowledge of the world as one has to do with the world. And the ways of obtaining this learning are more than one. Many a man and woman have been clearly entitled to be considered educated, who have never known class work and school drill. Madison Beer was an intelligent, enlightened man, in spite of the fact that in his boyhood he never went to school.

I have no doubt in that frontier country home the boy early learned to work, and that long here he came of age he was bearing a man's share in labor with his father and brothers. A country boy is not very liable to grow up in idleness, unless he has a positive talent in that direction, and in the case of Madison Beer, I judge by the outcome. He has lived in this community 74 years, or practically all his life. By honest industry he has added to his first little patrimony until he was possessor of a noble farm of several hundred acres. Our community is poorer by the passing of this good man.

His life's labors are done, but the influence of his life of sturdy industry and moral excellence, have not perished, will not perish. There is an earthly futurity for the good man, the good woman, if not an earthly immortality.

"The (good) men do lives after them:" Mark Antony to the contrary, notwithstanding. The descendants of the excellent, inherit their parents' virtues and noble qualities, carry these forward into the coming years.

"The memory of the just Smells sweet and blossoms in the dust."

As for our departed brother and friend, we do not think of his life as having undergone extinction. As the sacred hymnist says. -

"We cannot think of them as dead,

Who walk with us no more;

Along the path of life we tread

They have but gone before."

Source: Van Buren Co. Genealogical Society Obituary Book G, Page 179, :Keosauqua Public Library, Keosauqua, IA

Van Buren Obituaries maintained by Rich Lowe.

WebBBS 4.33 Genealogy Modification Package by WebJourneymen

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From FamilySearch Family Tree

Spouse and Children of JAMES MADISON BEER (1837-1911)

Marriage: 26 June 1858, Keosauqua, Van Buren County, Iowa

NANCY J. GIBSON (1833–1895)

The Children of Nancy J. Gibson and James Madison Beer (6)

• 1. FRANKLIN L. BEER (1859–1901)​
  2. CHARLES M. BEER (1859–1938)​​
  3. HENRY HERMAN BEER (1862–1934)
  4. CARRIE V. BEER BELL (1867–1949)​
  5. WALTER THOMAS BEERS (1869–1954)
  6. VAN CURTIS BEER (1875–1882)

RECORD ABSTRACTS ~

UNITED STATES FEDERAL CENSUS, 1870

IOWA

Name:----JAMES M. BEER

Gender:----------------Male

Age:------------------------33

Race:------------------White

Birth Year (Estimated):/1836-1837

Birthplace:---------Illinois

Page Number:---------33

Household/Name----Sex---Age---Birthplace

James M Beer--------Male----33---------Illinois

Nancy Beer--------Female----35-----------Ohio

Frank Beer------------Male----10-----------Iowa

Charles Beer---------Male----10-----------Iowa

Harry Beer------------Male----7------------Iowa

Carrie Beer--------Female----3------------Iowa

Walter Beer----------Male-----1------------Iowa

IOWA STATE CENSUS, 1895

Van Buren, Iowa

Name:-------JAMES M. BEER

Gender: ---------------------Male

Birth Year (Estimated):-1838

Household/Name---Sex---Age---Birthplace

James M Beer--------Male---57

Nancy Beer--------Female---61

Sherman Beer-------Male---32

Van Beer--------------Male-----7

IOWA DEATH RECORDS, 1904-1951

Event Place: Keosauqua, Van Buren, Iowa

Name:--------JAMES MADISON BERN

Event Type:---------------Death

Event Date:---17 March 1911

Gender:----------------------Male

Age:------------------------------74

Birth Year (Estimated):---1837

Father's Name:------THOMAS BERN

Father's Birthplace-----Pennsylvania

Mother's Name:------------BADGLEY

Mother's Birthplace------------Illinois

Sources

1. ↑ Source will be added by Skip Magyar by 11 Aug 2018.

• "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MDLK-T23 : 14 August 2017), J M Beers, 1880; citing enumeration district ED 29, sheet 421B, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d), roll 0367; FHL microfilm 1,254,367.
• "Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XJ4R-1JH : 4 November 2017), James M. Beer and Nancy Gibson, 26 Jun 1858, Keosauqua, Van Buren, Iowa, United States; citing reference , county courthouses, Iowa; FHL microfilm 967,640.
• "Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XJX8-T8S : 10 February 2018), J. M. Beer for Henry Sherman Beer and Hattie F. Bell, 26 Jan 1885, Mt. Zion, Van Buren, Iowa, United States; citing reference 44, county courthouses, Iowa; FHL microfilm 967,645.
• "Iowa Marriages, 1809-1992," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XJLR-P1M : 10 February 2018), J. M. Beer for Frank L. Beer and Phoebe V. Fenton, 22 Oct 1885; citing Mt Pleasant, Henry, Ia, reference 2:3DGRPLV; FHL microfilm 965,932.
• "Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XJ4B-5PF : 4 November 2017), J. M. Beer for Frank L. Beer and Phoebe V. Fenton, 22 Oct 1885, Mt. Pleasant, Henry, Iowa, United States; citing reference , county courthouses, Iowa; FHL microfilm 965,932.
• "Iowa, Death Records, 1904-1951," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q24D-3HTB : 8 November 2017), James M Beer for Henry Sherman Beer, 11 Nov 1934, Keosauqua, Van Buren, Iowa, United States; citing certificate #89129, State Historical Society of Iowa, Des Moines; FamilySearch digital folder 101821050.
• "Florida Deaths, 1877-1939," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FP4X-2F7 : 9 March 2018), James Beer for Charles Beer, 21 Nov 1938; citing Miami, Dade, Florida, reference cn 18812; FHL microfilm 2,115,254.
• "Iowa, Death Records, 1904-1951," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPFQ-1JB1 : 25 September 2018), James Madison Bern, 17 Mar 1911, Keosauqua, Van Buren, Iowa, United States; citing certificate #, State Historical Society of Iowa, Des Moines; FamilySearch digital folder 102903002.
• "Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XJXD-QR4 : 10 February 2018), J. M. Burs for Frank C. Burs and Flora F. Holiday, 02 Dec 1891, Van Buren, Iowa, United States; citing reference p 116, county courthouses, Iowa; FHL microfilm 967,645.
• "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MG9J-F9R : accessed 2 April 2019), James M Burs, Van Buren, Van Buren, Iowa, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 114, sheet 16A, family 221, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 425; FHL microfilm 1,374,438.
• "Iowa State Census, 1885," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:H4V2-6T2 : 10 March 2018), J M Beers, Union, Van Buren, Iowa; citing p. 30, 1885, State Historical Society, Des Moines; FHL microfilm 1,020,187.
• "Iowa State Census, 1895," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VTQ5-ZFQ : 11 March 2018), James M Beer, Van Buren, Iowa, United States; citing p. 555, 1895, State Historical Society, Des Moines; FHL microfilm 1,022,187.
• Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 07 March 2019), memorial page for James Madison Beer (13 Jan 1837–17 Mar 1911), Find A Grave Memorial no. 40438069, citing Fellows Cemetery, Keosauqua, Van Buren County, Iowa, USA ; Maintained by Debbie Smith (contributor 46974389).
• "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M82B-XMX : 13 December 2017), Matthew Beers, 1860.
• "Iowa, County Death Records, 1880-1992," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVJP-5TS9 : 17 March 2018), James Madison Beer, 17 Mar 1911; citing Death, Van Buren Township, Van Buren, Iowa, United States, page 14, offices of county clerk from various counties; FHL microfilm 1,870,993.
• "Iowa Deaths and Burials, 1850-1990," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XV4Z-SMX : 11 March 2018), James Madison Beer, 17 Mar 1911; citing Van Buren Twp., Van Buren Co., Iowa, reference 14; FHL microfilm 967,648.
• "Iowa, County Death Records, 1880-1992," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVMF-1KWT : 17 March 2018), James Madison Beer, 17 Mar 1911; citing Death, Keosauqua, Van Buren, Iowa, United States, page 9, offices of county clerk from various counties; FHL microfilm 1,871,072.
• "Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XJX8-PBR : 10 February 2018), J. M. Beer for Charles Beer and Mary E. Stephens, 03 Jul 1883, Keosauqua, Van Buren, Iowa, United States; citing reference 27, county courthouses, Iowa; FHL microfilm 967,645.
• "Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XJXD-XSJ : 10 February 2018), J. M. Beer for H. S. Beer and Mary O. Randolph, 05 Apr 1899, Keosauqua, Van Buren, Iowa, United States; citing reference 13, county courthouses, Iowa; FHL microfilm 967,645.
• "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M9LP-K2T : accessed 2 April 2019), James M Beers in the household of Shinnyhouse, Van Buren Township Keosauqua town (left bank), Van Buren, Iowa, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 101, sheet 6B, family 112, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,240,462.
• "United States Census, 1870," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MDK9-DW9 : 12 April 2016), James M Beer, Iowa, United States; citing p. 33, family 234, NARA microfilm publication M593 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 545,920.