Found in the 1850 Census of Stephenson Co., Silver Creek, Ill. was taken Nov. 8th. The family of Simon (Per Census) is Simon age 60, Clara age 31, Jerome age 21, Hiram age 12, Obadiah age 6 and John age 4.
Beardslee, Walter 4 Jan 1804 - 10 Nov 1870 and Selina 4 Jul 1811 - 1 Feb
1875. Woodlawn Cem., Ogle Co., Ill.
Killed by a run-away team of horses in June 1880.
Clara lived with son John according to the 1870 census, in Northern Iowa.
In the 1880 census found John and his family and children and his mother and his brother Jerome in the same household.
D/o David J. Chandler and Marguret Alexander Finney.
Never married.
1900 Fall City, Richardson Co., Neb. Census
#15 Birdsley, Charles D. Oct 1863 36 marr 2 yrs. Ill. F N.Y. M Penn
Lorena Oct 1871 28 Ind. Ohio Ohio
James Jul 1886 13 Neb Ill. Neb.
Josie June 1891 8 Neb. Ill. Neb.
Price Jan 1900 4/12 Neb. Ill. Ind.
Derr, Jacob Boarder (bro. to Lorena) Aug 1877 22 Ind. Ohio Ohio
Barber Fisher, Ada Servant Aug 1879 20 Ohio Ohio Ohio
1900 Fall City, Richardson Co., Neb. Census
#15 Birdsley, Charles D. Oct 1863 36 marr 2 yrs. Ill. F N.Y. M Penn
Lorena Oct 1871 28 Ind. Ohio Ohio
James Jul 1886 13 Neb Ill. Neb.
Josie June 1891 8 Neb. Ill. Neb.
Price Jan 1900 4/12 Neb. Ill. Ind.
Derr, Jacob Boarder (bro. to Lorena) Aug 1877 22 Ind. Ohio Ohio
Barber Fisher, Ada Servant Aug 1879 20 Ohio Ohio Ohio
Of Verdon, NE by History of SE Neb. 1902, page 392.
390 SOUTHEASTERN NEBRASKA.
GEORGE H. FALLSTEAD.George H
Fallstead, until recently of the firm of Powell and Fall-stead, leading real estate men of Falls City, is a native son of Richardson county and has passed all his life within its boundaries, making his best successes within call of the place of his nativity. Farming and business transactions have occupied his attention since he left school, and his career has been one of steadily increasing success and prosperity from the first.Mr. Fallstead was born on a farm not far from Falls City, December 12, 1867. His paternal ancestry is altogether German. His grandfather, John Fallstead, was a German farmer and freeholder, born about 1766, and died in his fatherland when about eighty-four years old. He reared three sons and three daughters. The son John is the father of Mr. G. H. Fallstead, and was born in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, August 28, 1827. He was reared in his native land and well educated in the German schools. He entered the German army and took part in several battles, and after coming to this country also had some military experience in fighting with the Indians. He left Bremen in 1853, and after fifty-two days of sailing arrived in New York, having spent forty dollars for his passage, and being worth only twelve dollars in money as he stood on the streets of the foreign and unfamiliar city and country where he was to carve out his destiny and fortune. He first went to Monroe, Michigan, and thence to Toledo, Ohio, where he worked in a brick yard, and later came to near Fort Wayne, Indiana, where he worked as a farm hand and also in a mill. He came to Nebraska in the pioneer times of the sixties, bringing about five hundred dollars which he had managed by his industry- to accumulate, and soon purchased the eighty acres which forms part of his present farmstead. He was married in February, 1867, to Miss Elizabeth Pollard, who was
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born in Tennessee in 1847, a daughter of George 1V. Pollard, a Tennessee farmer. She lost her mother in infancy and was reared by strangers.Mr. and Mrs. John Fallstead began their domestic life in a most primitive fashion in Nebraska. He had built on his eighty acres a frame house sixteen by eighteen feet, and this was the home until fortune smiled more genially on his diligent efforts. He improved his land and added forty acres thereto and there reared his family and has since made a good property, having been able to equip well all his children for life's duties and still retain a comfortable home for his and his good wife's age. Their three children are: George H.; John W., who lives on the home farm and has one daughter; and Mabel, who is also on the home place.
Mr. George H. Fallstead was reared to farm life, and engaged in that pursuit until about nine years ago, when he moved to Falls City, where he owns a nice home in Chase street. He was in the real estate business for about three years, and he and his partner made a reputation as hustling business men, carrying on a very large business in city and farm property. He sold his real estate interest to his partner in June, 1904, and is now engaged in fire and life insurance exclusively.
Mr. Fallstead lived at home until his marriage, on Christmas day, 1889. His wife's maiden name is Annie M. Birdsley. She was born in Iowa, and was two weeks old when brought across the Missouri into Nebraska, in April, 1870. Her parents are Simon Quincy and Ellen (Teeter) Birdsley, who were married in Illinois about 1862, and the former of whom is now about seventy-five years old and the latter some eighteen years younger. Mr. and Mrs. Birdsley lost two children, and the following are living: Charles D., in Falls City, has three children; Hiram, in Washington county, Kansas, has two sons and three daughters; Viola Chapman lives in Falls City; Fanny, the wife of W. N. Corder, in Kansas, has two children; Mrs. Fallstead is next of the iamily; Lucy Billips, at Verdou, Nebraska, has one son; Jacob Birds-ley is a farmer of this county. These seven living children are all worthy men and women. The two deceased are John, who died at the age of twenty-two, and Asa, who died at the age of sixteen.
Mr. and Mrs. Fallstead have had five children: Naomi, a bright girl of thirteen, in the seventh grade and also taking piano instruction; a son that died in infancy; Coral Clyde, aged six, has entered school; Dale Deloss, aged three; and Floyd Francis. Mr. Fallstead is a Democrat; but without political aspirations or longings. He is a prominent Knight of Pythias, and in his lodge is master of finance and keeper of records and seals.
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Mr. and Mrs. Fallstead have had five children: Naomi, a bright girl of thirteen, in the seventh grade and also taking piano instruction;
Coral Clyde, aged six, has entered school;
Dale Deloss, aged three;
and Floyd Francis.