John George Yearick

Male 1788 - 1864  (75 years)


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  • Name John George Yearick  [1
    Born 12 Apr 1788  Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Gender Male 
    Died 11 Jan 1864  Madisonburg, Centre County, PA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Buried Madisonburg Lutheran & Reformed Cemetery, Madisonburg, Centre County, PA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I3048  Kreider Moyer
    Last Modified 2 Apr 2022 

    Family Sarah Saloma Rishel,   b. 24 Sep 1795, Aaronsburg, Centre County, PA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 12 Mar 1870, Madisonburg, Centre County, PA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 74 years) 
    Children 
    +1. Jacob Yearick,   b. 11 Nov 1820, Gregg Township, Centre County, PA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 31 Aug 1903, Marion Township, Centre County, PA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 82 years)
    Last Modified 2 Apr 2022 
    Family ID F1294  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBorn - 12 Apr 1788 - Pennsylvania Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDied - 11 Jan 1864 - Madisonburg, Centre County, PA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBuried - - Madisonburg Lutheran & Reformed Cemetery, Madisonburg, Centre County, PA Link to Google Earth
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  • Notes 
    • "John George was a son of Adam George. His wife was a Miss Salome Rishell and her people lived, . . . in the vicinity
      of Salona in Nittany Valley. . . . [John] Yearick was in many ways a remarkable man. He was physically tall and well built. . . . ."

      ". . . [John]had little means and had shouldered a large debt by the purchase of the farm. He could not hire mechanics to construct the barn, which was the first building needed and to be erected there on. He therefore himself planned the kind of a barn that he wanted. When it was completed, it contained three threshing floors, three large mows, and in addition three overhead mows, . . . When the plan was completed, the lumber was cut on the farm according to lengths required and taken to the sawmill and converted into various forms of lumber necessary for building purposes. When the lumber was seasoned and ready, he undoubtedly had the assistance of a few carpenters.
      Every piece of timber that went into the structure was fashioned according to the place it was to occupy in the building, as to length, width, thickness, and mortice or countermortice, so that when the "raising day" came there was but one piece of timber in which there was a mistake
      made. . . . as the first bank-barn in that part of the country, it was the wonder of all people. It was not long until in all directions such barns were desired, and Grandfather Yearick was called to build them."

      (History of the Georg-Yearick Family in America, Zwingli A. Yearick, 1936, pg. 34, 23-24) [2]

  • Sources 
    1. [S5] Commemorative biographical record of central Pennsylvania, J.H. Beers & Co., (Name: Beers & Co, 1898;), page 516, see entry for N.H. Yearick.

    2. [S38] Find A Grave database.