Mary Elizabeth (Travis) Yerex (1796 - 1864)

Born 18 Oct 1796 in Picton, Hallowell, Prince Edward, Upper Canada, British Colonial America [uncertain]

Wife of Isaac Frank Yerex — married 10 May 1815 in Picton, Hallowell, Upper Canada, British Colonial America

Descendants

Died 13 Feb 1864 at age 67 in Little Britain, Mariposa, Victoria, Canada West, British Colonial America

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This profile is part of the Little Britain, Ontario One Place Study.

Biography

Mary Elizabeth Travis was born in 1796. She passed away in 1864. ^[1]

She married Issac Yerex in 1815, at age 19, they settled first in Prince Edward Co., and this is where their first two children were born. They moved to Trafalgar Twp, Halton Co. about 1817, where they raised their family of eleven children.

In 1838 the family moved to Little Britain in Victoria County.

Elizabeth died in 1864 and is buried at the Little Britain Bible Christian Cemetery, shares a monument with husband Issac (d.1886).

Research Notes

children of Issac E Yerex and Elizabeth Travis (from FamilySearch):

• Harriett Yerex b 1816 Hallowell – d 1816 Hallowell
• Elizabeth Yerex b 1817 Hallowell – d ?
• Nancy Yerex b 1818 Trafalgar Twp – d 1842 Trafalgar Twp
• Jerusha Dawson Yerex b 1820 Lorne Park – d 1895 California
• Harriet Ann Yerex b 1822 Lorne Park – d 1904 ?
• Seth Howard Yerex b 1824 Lorne Park – d 1899 Grand Rapids MI
• Henry Travis Yerex b 1826 Lorne Park – d 1914 Little Britain
• Nathaniel Henry Yerex (1828-1902)
• Diadema Yerex b 1830 Lorne Park – d 1899 ?
• William Eleazer Yerex b 1833 Trafalgar Twp – d 1905 Little Britain
• Isaac Yerex b 1835 Lorne Park – d 1852 ?

Reported marriage May 1815 undocumented, but fits birth of first child.

Yerex entry in 1939 Little Britain Centennial booklet:

MR. YEREX, Sr., apparently of Pennsylvania Dutch extraction, came with his family to Canada from U.S.A. He lived for many years at Lorne Park, and for 20 years sailed on Lake Ontario. A son, Isaac, was born at Lorne Park and he too became a sailor and served for four years. In 1838 he moved to Little Britain, exchanging 50 acres at Lorne Park for 200 acres in Mariposa, because as he said, he must have more room to raise his family of nine children. His numerous descendants are now scattered over Canada and the United States. Many members of the Yerex families are inseparably connected with the business, social and church life of Little Britain. E. Z. Yerex and family will be long remembered for the part they took in all activities, always ready and willing to render practical assistance whenever possible. The summer home at Port Hoover has been retained, and some church societies will recall delightful picnics spent there.

entry notes:

• Mr. Yerex refers to William Yerex 1769-1834 (d Picton 1834), Issac Yerex's father.
• unclear who "EZ Yerex" refers to.
• Elizabeth is not specifically mentioned
• claims family of nine (Family Search claims eleven)
• all facts are suspect as gathered by editors in 1939 from community stories.

Sources

1. ↑ First-hand information as remembered by George Bagnall, Wednesday, December 31, 2014. Replace this citation if there is another source.

• Ancestry.com. Manchester, England, Church of England Deaths and Burials, 1813-1985 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013. [1]
• FamilySearch profile: Elizabeth Travis K2FG-93D
• Book - "Church Centennial - Little Britain - 1839-1939" , Issac Yerex family, page 44, (Archive.org); https://archive.org/details/little-britain-centenary-1839-1939/page/44/mode/2up];
• 1851 Canada West Census - the census records for Mariposa and Ops townships, Victoria County, have not survived. See also: Library & Archives Canada 1851 census, and Familysearch 1851 census wiki page
• 1861 Census of Canada - Ontario, Victoria (37), Mariposa (17); page 19, Line 2; E. Yerex 66, wife; in household with I. Yerex 68, head, farmer; I. Travis 57, widower; M. Took 26, servant; Roll: T-6486; Library & Archives Canada: https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/census/1861/Pages/item.aspx?itemid=1184274;
• 1864 burial - Find a Grave (has image)
  Find A Grave: Memorial #209026940 (accessed 6 April 2023)
  Memorial page for Elizabeth Travis Yerex (1796-13 Feb 1864), citing Little Britain Bible Christian Cemetery, Little Britain, Kawartha Lakes Municipality, Ontario, Canada (plot: Section N, Row 8);