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Andrew (Andréas) S. Birky b. 3 Mar 1830 Bavaria, GR d. 11 Sep 1895 Fisher, Champaign Co., IL: The Schrock-Birkey Connection

1830 - 1895 (65 years)

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Name	Andrew (Andréas) S. Birky [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
Birth	3 Mar 1830	Bavaria, GR
	Perhaps Arzbach. Birthdate on gravestone is 31 Mar 1830
Gender	Male
DESC	At Time Of Death Owned Land As Follows: The SE 1/4 Of The NE 1/4 Of Section 19 Town 22N, R8E Of 3rdPM (40 Acres At $70 Per Acre =$2800)
DESC	At Time Of Death Owned Land As Follows: The W 1/2 Of The NE 1/4 Of Section 19 Town 22N, R8E Of 3rdPM (Excet One Acre In NE Corner Thereof, Deeded For Cemetery Purposes (79 Acres At $80 Per Acre=$6320)
DESC	At Time Of Death Owned Land As Follows: The W 35 1/2 Acres Of The SW 1/4 Of The NW 1/4 Of Section 20, Town 22N, R8E Of The 3rdPM (35 1/2 Acres At $70 Per Acre = $2485) Purchased From Cora Baker
Residence	1872	Morton Twp., Tazewell Co., IL
	Daughter Mary lived in Morton as a child
Naturalization	16 Feb 1888	Tazewell Co., IL [6]
	Intent to become a citizen
Naturalization	3 Mar 1890	Tazewell Co., IL [6]
	Final certificate signed
Occupation	Farmer
PURC	Champaign Co., IL
	Section 19 portion purchased from George W. Mathews, who had himself derived title by patent from the United States.
PURC	Champaign Co., IL
	35 1/2 acres in Section 20 purchased from Cora A. Baker, who had derived title indirectly from the United States by patent.
Religion	Amish Mennonite
Residence	1892	Fisher, Champaign Co., IL
	Moved from Tazewell Co., IL
Death	11 Sep 1895	Fisher, Champaign Co., IL [7]
Burial	Fisher, Champaign Co., IL
	East Bend Mennonite Cemetery (First burial)
Person ID	I493	Schrock-Birkey Connection
Last Modified	26 Jan 2021

Father	Christian Birki, b. 14 Mar 1788-1789, Rimsdorf, Lower Alsace, FR d. 14 Feb 1866, Groveland, Tazewell Co., IL (Age 76 years)
Mother	Maria Anna Gascho, b. 1798, Nancy, Meurthe-et-Moselle, FR d. Between 1840-1841, Bavaria, GR (Age 43 years)
Marriage	Abt 1815	Pellheim, Bavaria, GR [8]
	Arzbach was the name of an estate outlying the village of Pellheim (about 1.7 miles north of the center of Pellheim. It was the site of Schloss Pellheim, the house or palace of a count. The house is now a restaurant. Pellheim was administratively incorporated into Dachau in 1972.
Family ID	F219	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family Veronica (Fannie) Sutter, b. 11 Nov 1838, Neuberg-an-Donau, Bavaria, GR d. 16 Apr 1927, Fisher, Champaign Co., IL (Age 88 years)

Marriage 25 Mar 1858 Morton, Tazewell Co., IL

Children

	1. Infant Birky, b. Bef 1863
	2. Infant Birky, b. Bef 1863
	3. Mary Birky, b. 19 Sep 1862, Morton, Tazewell Co., IL d. 24 Mar 1954, Fisher, Champaign Co., IL (Age 91 years)
	4. Andrew F. (Lame) Birky, b. 19 Jun 1864, Morton, Tazewell Co., IL d. 31 May 1928, Fisher, Champaign Co., IL (Age 63 years)
	5. Peter Samuel Birky (Birkey), b. 25 Apr 1867 d. 26 Jul 1946 (Age 79 years)
	6. John W. Birky, b. 21 Nov 1871, Morton, Tazewell Co., IL d. 29 Jun 1941, Peoria, Tazewell Co., IL (Age 69 years)
	7. Amos E. Birky, b. 15 Feb 1880 d. 20 Jan 1914, Champaign Co., IL (Age 33 years)

Family ID F215 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Last Modified 22 Jul 2007

Event Map

	Birth - 3 Mar 1830 - Bavaria, GR
	Marriage - 25 Mar 1858 - Morton, Tazewell Co., IL
	Residence - 1872 - Morton Twp., Tazewell Co., IL
	Naturalization - 16 Feb 1888 - Tazewell Co., IL
	Naturalization - 3 Mar 1890 - Tazewell Co., IL
	PURC - - Champaign Co., IL
	PURC - - Champaign Co., IL
	Residence - 1892 - Fisher, Champaign Co., IL
	Death - 11 Sep 1895 - Fisher, Champaign Co., IL
	Burial - - Fisher, Champaign Co., IL

Notes

“After Andrew and Veronica married, they probably soon moved into the [Johannes] Sutter home, after the elder Sutters moved into the smaller house just across the garden. Their home was about eighteen feet long and sixteen feet wide. Its one room was divided into a kitchen and bedroom by a curtain. The hired man had to climb a ladder to his bed in the loft. Later an addition was built to the house for use as a kitchen in the summer. It could not be used during the winter because it was not built very warm and was floorless. The pole barn was eight feet high, sixteen feet wide, and eighteen feet long. In the wall in front of the horses was a flap door, which was opened at feeding time. The haystacks were just outside. Oats was kept in a rail pen nearby.”

Andrew and Veronica bought 80 acres of the Sutter land in 1882 for $50 an acre. In 1891 they sold the land for $95 an acre and moved to Fisher. He bought some land in the same section where daughter Mary and her husband had purchased land and built a house. [4, 9, 10, 11, 12]