Greene County IN Archives Biographies.....Bullermen, John H. 1819 - 
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Author: Goodspeed (1884)

   JOHN H. BULLERMEN was born in the year 1819 at Moers, Prussia, where his
parents were influential citizens and possessed of considerable means. He was
early sent to school and by continuous application succeeded in gaining an
academic education, after which, he engaged in farming until his twentieth year,
when, he served three years as a member of the Eighth Hussars, subsequently
serving for a time in the provisional army. A dissatisfaction engendered by the
Revolution of 1848, and other causes, resulted in the banding together of a
large number of relatives, with the avowed purpose of seeking homes in the
freedom of the United States; and accordingly on the 18th of April of that year,
they bade farewell to friends, relatives and fatherland, took passage on board
the ship Libra, of Rotterdam, for the El Dorado of their anticipations whither
Mr. Bullermen's father-in-law, Mr. Shryer, had preceded them the year previous,
to locate a place where the little colony might settle, live and prosper
together. Mr. Shryer performed his mission faithfully, but died soon afterward
from the effects of cholera, as did many others of the party. The colony of
relatives were fifty-six days upon the ocean, during which time they endured
twenty-six days of stormy weather, and to add to their sufferings, cholera
visited them, carrying away nearly one-half their number, among them, being a
child of the subject of this sketch. Mr. Bullermen and Matilda Shryer, the fifth
child of J. B and Matilda (Konen) Shryer, were united in marriage in 1845, and
to them fourteen children have been born, only two—Henry and Elizabeth—yet
living, and these reside with their parents.

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Fairplay Township Biographies

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HISTORY OF GREENE AND SULLIVAN COUNTIES,
STATE OF INDIANA,
FROM THE EARLIEST TIME TO THE PRESENT; TOGETHER WITH INTERESTING BIOGRAPHICAL
SKETCHES, REMINISCENCES, NOTES, ETC.

ILLUSTRATED.

CHICAGO: GOODSPEED BROS. & CO., PUBLISHERS.
1884.

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