Zebulon Avery

Zebulon Avery, brother of Colonel Miles Avery, was born May 12, 1793; came to this county about 1835, and located on the north-east quarter of section 32, Osceola township, which he entered as shown in the history of that township. Prior to this he built a flatboat at Tunkhannock, Pa., with deck and roof, which he brought down the Susquehanna to the Juniata, thence up the Juniata canal, across the mountains to Pittsburg, thence down the Ohio, up the Mississippi and Illinois rivers to Henry, Marshall county, bringing with him the family of John T. Phenix, together with his own family, all numbering about a dozen persons. He died on his original farm July 1, 1854.