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Avery / Every DNA Project

I received the following email from another Avery / Every researcher who needs help with a DNA project.

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I'm Dick Allen, a descendant of Uriah Every and Miriam Hill. I am looking for a living male Avery/Every who is descended from Old Uriah. I am the co-administrator of the Avery/Every family Group Project at Family Tree DNA. We have several Avery's and one Every in our family group project. We do not yet have a descendant of Uriah Every in the project. If we could get one or more, we could determine if Uriah was an Avery or an Every.
We have several Avery's in the project who have paper back to Christopher Avery who came from England in the 1600's. The one Every we have does not match their DNA. This Every may be of the same line as Old Uriah, DNA will tell.
Thanks for your help.
Dick Allen, 4th Gr. Grandson of Uriah Every.
oldbones1@comcast.net

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Members of this family intermarried with several of my other lines (Barringer, Kerr, Van Kleeck, etc.). Most of this information came from my grandmother's book "Tangled Roots and Twisted Branches". If you would like to make corrections or additions, please feel free to contact me.

Uriah Avery (died before 1855) served in the 2nd Regiment of the Dutchess County Militia during the Revolutionary War. He married Miriam Hill (1771 - 1855), the daughter of Major Andrew Hill and Catherine Horton. They moved to the Shokan area of Ulster County after the Revolutionary War. They lived at some point in Delaware County - at least one of their children was born there. Uriah and Miriam had nine children. Grandma's book says the following:

Uriah and his wife came to the Shokan area of Ulster County after the Revolutionary War with the HILL family. They were early settlers of the Shokan and West Shokan area. Uriah lived at some time in Delaware County, at least one of their children was born there. They had ten children (I only find nine - RT). Many of his descendants used the spelling EVERY.
1. Andrew Perry Every, Sr. (1794 - 1883) served in the New York Militia in the War of 1812. He married Judah Bell (died in 1850), the daughter of Peter and Maria Bell. Andrew and Judah lived in West Shokan. After Judah died, Andrew married Mary Countryman. Andrew is buried in Bushkill Cemetery in in West Shokan, Olive Township, Ulster County, New York. His stone reads:
  
  ANDREW EVERY
  131 N.Y. Malitia (sic.)
  War of 1812
  Born March 26, 1794
  Died August 11, 1883
  
  Andrew's thirteen children are as follows:
  1. David "Herman" Every (1817 - 1897) married Catherine Bell.
  2. Uriah U. Every (born between 1818 and 1823).
  3. Peter Every (1820 - 1902) married Elizabeth Bell.
  4. Andrew Perry Every, Jr. (1823 - 1918) married Jane Edith Barringer in 1846. The portrait photo on the right of Andrew by himself is a scan of the original photo that was generously submitted by a correspondent. The location of the corresponding photo of his wife is not known at this time. The photo on the left of both of them is scanned from a photocopy in "Tangled Roots and Twisted Branches" and is the only currently available version of the portrait of Jane. If you know of the whereabouts of the original of Jane's photograph, I would love to have a copy to put up here with her husband's portrait. The caption on the photocopy reads as follows:
    
    Jane Edith BARRINGER, Dau of Peter and Cath. HAUVER BARRINGER and her husband Andrew Perry AVERY. He in Civil War listed 'gray eyes - hair mixed - 5' 10" son of Andrew P AVERY and Judah BELL
    Andrew enlisted during the Civil War and served in Company E, 15th Engineers Regiment, New York. There is a Distinguished Service notation on the records I found at Ancestry.com - no details on this yet.
    Andrew and Jane are buried in Bushkill Cemetery. Their children are listed as follows:
    1. David Herman Every (born 1847) married Jane Ann Kerr (1854 - 1893). They had nine children.
      1. David Every married a Bonesteel
      2. Frank Every died sometime after 1968
      3. Melvin "Mallie" Every (1872 - 1958) married Nettie Bonesteel. They had two children
      4. Libbie Every married a Mr. Marsh
      5. Minnie Every married a Mr. Jones
      6. Cassie Every married Otis Bogart. They had two children.
      7. Addie Every married Mr. Hendrickson.
      8. Anna Every married Mr. Carter. They had a daughter.
      9. Lucinda "Cindy" Every married Hewitt Van Kleeck. They had a son who lived to adulthood and two daughters who died in infancy. My grandmother remembers a family story about Cindy.
    2. Juda C. Every (born 1849)
    3. Frederick William Every (born 1852 - died young) is buried in Bushkill Cemetery in Ulster County.
    4. Sarah A. Every (born 1853)
    5. Mary E. Every (born 1854)
    6. Andrew Perry Every (born 1856)
    7. Jane E. Every (born 1859)
  5. Robert "Uncle Bub" Every - no further information.
  6. Mary Anne "Polly" Every - no further information.
  7. Judah or Judith "Lib" Every (1831 - 1897) married Frederick William Barringer (1829 - 1908). These are my great great great grandparents. For more information on their descendants, see my Barringer page.
  8. Katherine Every - no further information.
  9. Henry "Jack" Every (1830 - 1897) was in the Civil War. He was in Company E., 15th Engineers Regiment, New York - the same unit as his brother Andrew (see above) and there is also a Distinguished Service notation on Henry's record (again - no details yet). Henry married Mary Catherine Winchell (b. 1832). He is buried in Bushkill Cemetery and his stone reads as follows:
    
    HENRY EVERY
    Co. E. 15 Regt.
    N.Y. Eng. Vols.
    Died Sept. 15, 1899
    Aged 60 Years
    (might also say "69" years - hard to see second digit)
  10. Julia Every (born 1833) married George Bell.
  11. Mariam (or Miriam) Every (1836 - 1922) married in 1854 to Charles Eckert (1833 - 1907). According to a descendant they had seven children, including Grenville Eckert (born 1856). Mariam and Charles are buried in Bushkill Cemetery in Ulster County, New York.
  12. Isaac "Ike" Every (born 1837) - no further information.
  13. John Every. Grandma's book says he was born in 1831. A correspondent says he was born in 1840. - no further information.
2. Judah Every (1797 - 1847) - no further information.
3. Mary Every (1801 - 1871) married Lemuel Brown.
4. Isaac U. Every (1804 - 1885) married a woman named Rosetta (maiden name unknown).
5. Jacob U. Every (1806 - 1891) married Sally Davis. They had eight children.
6. Samuel U. Every (1806 - 1832) married Sally Batey. They had three children.
7. Catherine Every. - no further information.
8. Sally Every (1809 - 1872) married Jeremiah Van Kleeck (1805 - 1885). These are my great great great grandparents. For more information on their descendants, see my Van Kleeck page.
9. Uriah U. Every (1815 - 1899) married Arminda Barringer (1817 - 1899), an older sister of Frederick William Barringer who married Uriah's niece Judah/Judith Avery (gets confusing doesn't it?).
  At some point they lived in Wyoming County, Pennsylvania. They were living in the Moon Haw area in Olive Twp. (I think), Ulster County, NY when, in her 80s, Arminda dropped a lighted lantern. She died from the resulting burns and Uriah died two weeks later. This photo, contributed by a relative, is of the chimney from that house. The chimney is still there. I took a photo of it when I was in the area in May 2002, but have not scanned it yet. It may not come out well as the nearby creek was quite high and I didn't want to try to cross it to get closer with my heavy camera bag.
  Grandma's book mentions the following about this family:
  
  Uriah and Arminda had thirteen children, moved about 1850 to Michigan. Their descendants are widely scattered in Wyoming, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Idaho, and New York State.
  
  Uriah and Arminda had fourteen children.
  1. Miriam Avery (1838 - 1882) married Charles Bell. They had four children: Minnie, Anice, Orval, and Vina.
  2. Mary Jane Avery (b. 1839) married Lance Matthews. UPDATE: A correspondent says that Mary Jane's husband was named Alanson A. Matthews, "Lance" may have been a nickname.
  3. Gilbert Avery (b. 1840) married first to Jane Vaughn and they had two children: Anna Augusta and Nellie. Gilbert married second to Sarah Jeanette "Nettie" Wilson and they had ten children: Orrin, Frank, Floyd, Alice, Emma, Jennie, Gilbert "Bert", Julia, Maud Inez, and Georgia Elise.
  4. Rosetta Avery (b. 1844) married Abel North. UPDATE: A correspondent says that Rosetta's husband was named Abram North. Abel was married to a Judah Catherine Every according to the Census Rolls.
  5. Isaac Avery (b. 1845).
  6. Jacob Avery (b. 1845) married a woman surnamed Welch. They had two sons, Edward and Stuart. Jacob then married Caroline Bakon. Jacob and Caroline had seven children.
    1. Merrile Avery married Bethel Brown.
    2. Belle Avery married to Charles Wood and James Burgher.
    3. Edna Avery.
    4. Edith Avery. Edith and Edna were twins.
    5. Mitchell Avery (b. 1902) married Leona Beesmer.
    6. Bessie Avery (died at age 5).
    7. Cecile Avery married John Wightman. They had two children.
  7. Frederick William Avery (b. 1847).
  8. Jeremiah Avery (b. 1850)
  9. Angelina Avery (b. 1851) married Ed Keator or Keaton.
  10. Sarah or Ella Avery (b. 1855) married Romer or Homer Hinkley. They had five children: Simon, Rosetta, Alice, Minnie, and Jennie.
  11. Charles Avery (b. 1857).
  12. Andrew Perry Avery (1858 - 1928) married Sarah Barnes. They and three of their children are buried in Bushkill Cemetery.
  13. Julia Avery (b. 1860).
  14. Freeman Avery (b. 1862) married Cornelia Silkworth. I have had more information on this Silkworth family sent to me by Janice Miller, a Silkworth researcher (name and email posted by permission) and have added it to my Worldconnect database.

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