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Phillis,
Your story about your husband's Yearry line is a very interesting one. If his family is descended from the Yeary family of Lee County, VA, I have an explanation for the basis of the story. In the early 18th century, Protestants from Germany were persecuted by the king and many fled to America seeking freedom to worship God as they chose. Most of those German/Dutch refugees landed at Philadelphia and settled in Pennsylvania. Benedict Jury married Maria Haarten in Pennsylvania and their children were baptised at the Low Dutch Reformed Church at Conewego, PA ca. 1765-1778.
Many of the German settlers in PA moved south into the Shenandoah Valley of Virgina. When they established homes in the colony of Virginia that had been largely settled by settlers from Great Britain, the spelling of their names evolved from the German spelling to the phonetic English spelling. Hence Jury (with a J pronounced like a Y in the German language) became Yury, Yeary, Yearry.
I have heard the two brother story in my family into which a Jury married. Christian Plank married Margaret Jury who throughout her life spoke German although she was born in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia and died in the State of Tennessee. Her husband, the grandson of an immigrant from Switzerland or Germany who arrived in PA in 1733, served as her translator throughout her life.
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