BILLMEYER, Martin

1777 - 1855  (78 years)

• Name	BILLMEYER, Martin
  Birth	9 Aug 1777	Montour, Pennsylvania, United States
  Gender	Male
  Biography	FROM Amy Golder-Cooper: This biography entry was from memory of a descendant. See second biography entry. MARTIN BILLMEYER, son of Andrew, was born in 1777 in Montour county and there passed his entire life, dying Dec. 6, 1855, aged seventy-eight years, three months, twenty-eight days. He was a farmer and distiller of rye, apples and peaches, and was a prosperous and well known man of his time. His wife, Margaret (Himerich), born in 1790, died March 4, 1870, aged eighty years, twenty days, and they too are buried in the family plot before mentioned. Their children were as follows : Jacob; Polly, who married John Hower; Catharine, who married Isaac Blue; John, who died unmarried; Daniel, born in 1817, died in 1884, who married Christianna Cumings, born in 1822, died 1893 (they left no children); Peter, who married Hailey Roat; Sarah, who married John Gouger; Martin, who married Maria Kramm; Fanny, who married Benjamin Gresh; Andrew J., born in 1831, died in 1906, who married Malinda Bowers; and Harriet, who married Jackson Moss.
  Biography	FROM Amy Golder-Cooper: Martin was born in Manheim Twp., Lancaster County, PA. The family moved to Buffalo Twp., now Union County, before 1788 where his father kept a tavern at the intersection of Furnace Road and Dreisbach Church Road (see 1788 taxation rolls and 1790 Census for Andrew Billmeyer there, as well as Annals of Buffalo Valley, 1755-1855 by James Blair Linn). In 1810 Martin is found in Lewisburg, PA, with his young family and by 1821 he is a farmer in Liberty Twp., Columbia Co., now Montour.
  _UID	5B6163D961A27F43B39CE084E5CF075F8ABF
  Death	6 Dec 1855	Montour, Pennsylvania, United States
  Burial	Washingtonville, Montour, Pennsylvania, United States
  	Address: Billmeyer Cemetery
  Person ID	I892	Milton Families
  Last Modified	1 Jul 2018

  
  

  Father	BILLMEYER, Andrew,   b. 22 Sep 1756   d. 2 Feb 1825, Liberty Township, Montour, Pennsylvania, United States (Age 68 years)
  Mother	BRUNER, Veronica,   b. 8 Aug 1758   d. 8 Feb 1823, Liberty Township, Montour, Pennsylvania, United States (Age 64 years)
  Family ID	F268	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	HIMMELREICH, Margaret,   b. 14 Feb 1790   d. 4 Mar 1870 (Age 80 years)
  Children	+ 1. BILLMEYER, Jacob,   b. 13 Nov 1808, Montour, Pennsylvania, United States d. 30 May 1881, Montour, Pennsylvania, United States (Age 72 years)   2. BILLMEYER, Polly   d. Yes, date unknown + 3. BILLMEYER, Catherine,   b. 1813   d. Yes, date unknown   4. BILLMEYER, John,   b. 14 Mar 1814   d. 5 Jun 1888 (Age 74 years)   5. BILLMEYER, Daniel,   b. 6 May 1817   d. 18 Jun 1884 (Age 67 years) + 6. BILLMEYER, Peter   d. Yes, date unknown   7. BILLMEYER, Sarah   d. Yes, date unknown + 8. BILLMEYER, Martin II,   b. 1821   d. 1863, Liberty Township, Montour, Pennsylvania, United States (Age 42 years)   9. BILLMEYER, Fanny   d. Yes, date unknown + 10. BILLMEYER, Andrew Jackson,   b. 27 Feb 1831   d. 14 Dec 1906 (Age 75 years)   11. BILLMEYER, Harriet   d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F272	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	16 Apr 2024

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 9 Aug 1777 - Montour, Pennsylvania, United States Death - 6 Dec 1855 - Montour, Pennsylvania, United States Burial - Address: Billmeyer Cemetery - - Washingtonville, Montour, Pennsylvania, United States  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S14] Floyd's History of Northumberland County, PA 1911, Page 482.