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John George Yearick

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John George Yearick

Birth
Pennsylvania, USA
Death
11 Jan 1864 (aged 75)
Madisonburg, Centre County, Pennsylvania, USA
Burial
Madisonburg, Centre County, Pennsylvania, USA Add to Map
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Section 1, Row 5, #1
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"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)
"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)

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OUR FATHER
JOHN YEARICK:
DIED Jan 11th 1864
Aged 75Y. 8M. 29D.

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