John Beveridge in Claude Bowers-Beveridge and ....
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John Beveridge - Loudoun Co., VA Noble Beveridge
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From "Beveridge and the Progressive Era" a biography of Albert Jeremiah Beveridge U.S. Senator (R-Indiana)
Chapter I
Section II
Thomas Henry Beveridge, the father - [of Albert Jeremiah Beveridge], a Virginian of Scotch descent, had gone to battle some time before as the captain of a company he had helped to organize.He came of a family of small planters and slave-owners.His grandfather, John [Beveridge], the founder of the [Beveridge] family in America, was a hearty, blithesome spirit, who had died jauntily at an advanced age from an accident in the hunting-field.His father [Thomas Beveridge - Prince William Co., VA] had owned slaves and lands, but, financially unfortunate, he had lost both; and, dying soon afterwards [4 Feb 1827], left a widow and eleven chidren in straitened circumstances.Unwilling to face the humiliation of comparative poverty in the community where she had been more happily situated, the widow had moved to Ohio [Perry County] with most of her children.Thomas Henry [Beveridge], at the age of nine, was left in Virginia to the none too tender mercies of his uncle Noble Beveridge.this guardian of the boy was one of the large landowners of Loudoun County, and lived in a pretentious brick house at Middleburg, which he had built and patterned after the home of James Monroe near by.This [Beveridge] house is still standing and doing service as an inn.The uncle was unmarried, morose, exacting, and one day the boy [Thomas Henry] followed a man driving a drove of cattle to OHio, and joined his mother.
At the age of 20, he [Thomas Henry Beveridge] was married to Elizabeth Lamb at Zanesville, and there were six children by this marriage.Later he moved to Highland Co., [OHIO], where he axquired a farm on the West Fork of Ohio Brush Creek, three mils from the village of Sugar Tree Ridge, and immediately became one of the solid men of the community.He was in comvrotable circumstances and of high standing, when, after the death of his frist wife, he married Frances Eleanor Parkinson [DOYLE] in 1861 (sic) actually 2 Jan 1862.