Frederick County MD Archives Obituaries.....Birely, Adam D. September 1, 1900
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The Daily News, Frederick, Maryland, Friday, January 7, 1916
Page 5, column 3

Adam D. Birely

  Ill for over a week with pneumonia, Adam D. Birely, a retired business man 
of Ladiesburg, this county, died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. P. D. 
Koons, of Detour, where he had gone, when he was first attacked with grip.  
Mr. Birely was aged 76 years, 1 month and 16 days and was well known in the 
upper section of the county, where he had lived his entire life.
  The funeral will be held on Saturday, leaving the house at 12 o’clock with 
services in Haugh’s church conducted by Rev. Poffenbarger.  Interment in the 
cemetery adjoining.  M. L. Creager and Son, of Thurmont, are the funeral 
directors.
  Mr. Birely was born in Woodsboro district, the son of Frederick and Savilla 
Birely, deceased.  He attended the public schools of that section.  At the age 
of 17 years he began the milling trade at the William Annan mill, Detour.  Mr. 
Birely later operated different mills on Big and Little Pipe creeks, and in 
1861 he turned his attention to agriculture, going to live on one of his 
father’s farm where he remained for six years.  He then rented the White Hill 
mill property for one year.  The following two years he spent at Buckey mill 
on Little Pipe creek.  In 1869 Mr. Birely purchased the home farm.
  After 17 years on the farm, he removed to Ladiesburg, where he engaged in 
the merchandise business.  After building Mr. Birely took into partnership his 
two sons, changing the name of the firm to A. D. Birely & Sons.  Mr. Birely 
was at one time president of the Board of Directors of the Woodsboro and 
Double Pipe Creek Turnpike  Company.  In politics Mr. Birely was a Democrat.  
He was a member of A. F. and A. Masons and I. O. O. F. 
  Besides his wife, the following children survive:  Mrs. Peter D. Koons, 
Detour; Elmer B., Finkle H., and William F. Birely, of Ladisburg; Jesse C. 
Birely, New Oxford, Pa.; Merton Adam Birely, Thurmont; Clarence E. Birely, 
Philadelphia.  He also leaves two brothers, John R. of Illinois, and Thomas 
Birely, of New Midway.


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