Research Notes:
1793 On 7 September, John Beery and Barbara Kagy were married in Shenandoah County, Virginia. Names 4 sons and no daughters. [1]
Brothers John and Nicholas Beery reportedly married cousins named Barbara Kagey, or perhaps Daniel Beery was one of the brothers. We do not know if we have reconciled this potential confusion correctly in these notes.
A Beery biosketch reports [2]:
John Beery, born in Adams county, Pa., 1767, died near Edom, Rockingham Co., Va., June 25, 1834. Barbara Kagy, born in Shenandoah county, Va., June 12, 1768, died near Edom, Va., Sept. 25, 1835. She is supposed to be a first cousin to his brother Nicholas' wife (see No. 3). The subject of this sketch came from Pennsylvania to Virginia when a young man. As his parents afterwards came from Adams county. Pa., to Virginia, this is some evidence that he was born in that county. Then, sometime between 1792 and 1794, he married Barbara Kagy (my grandmother) of Shenandoah county, Va., and, during the first few years of their married life, they lived in New Market, Shenandoah Co., Va., near the line between Shenandoah and Rockingham counties, where their first child (Barbara, my mother) was born March 12, 1795. Soon afterwards, about 1796, they purchased a large tract of land, mostly timber, about three-fourths of a mile south of Edom, Rockingham Co., Va. Here they made a fine home and raised a large family of industrious and intelligent children. The homestead portion of this farm fell to his eighth son, Henry Beery, and later to Henry's son, Henry C. Beery. Then, in 1898 or 1900, it was purchased by Mr. Perry Swank. A part of the present Noah W. Beery farm and a portion of the Isaac N. Beery farm were taken from the foregoing original purchase. Grandfather John Beery erected a fulling mill and carding machine upon his premises. This building was burned about 1810 or 1812, but soon after was replaced by a brick building, enlarged and improved. This was about a hundred yards northwest of the homestead buildings. Here he died of old age June 25, 1834, and his wife died Sept. 25, 1835, from injuries received by being thrown from her formerly gentle horse, while returning, after services, from the Brennemen Mennonite church. The accident occurred by a hog jumping out frojTl the old-fashioned fence corner, and frightening her horse. However she lingered for a time in a crippled condition. She and her husband are buried in the Lindale Mennonite church cemetery, just north of Edom,...".
A Kagy genealogy reports [3]:
Barbara Kagey, the second daughter of Henry from Pennsylvania, was born Feb. 27,1770, on the old Kagey homestead, on Smith's creek, Shenandoah Co., Va. She married Daniel Beery, one of two brothers, who were millwrights, and who walked from Pennsylvania to the Valley of Virginia. They stopped to build the "Old Kagey Mill" (which is still standing, 1899), when Daniel Beery fell in love with and married Barbara. They lived and died in Rockingham Co., Va. Beery owned a farm on Linville creek. They raised five sons and five daughters
[1] Robert Lewis Brock, Forty-seven Pioneer Families of Rockingham County, Virginia (1997), 41, [GoogleBooks].
[2] Joseph H. Wenger, History of the descendants of Abraham Beery: Born in 1718 (1905), 14-15, [InternetArchive], [GoogleBooks].
[3] Franklin Keagy, A History of the Kägy Relationship in America (1899), 427, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks].