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1803 Jacob Meals was born on October 27, son of Samuel Meals and Maria. He was baptized on 4th Dec with sponsor Jacob Mihl and wife Elizabeth (Samuel's parents, perhaps) at Benders Church, Biglerville, Adams County, Pennsylvania. [1]

1824-26 Jacob Meals was taxed as a single man in Menallen Twp, Adams County, Pennsylvania. [2] [3] [4] There was no record for Jacob as single man in 1823. [5]

1828 Jacob B Meals, teacher, was taxed as a single man with 12 acres. [6]

1830 Jacob was not on the tax list. [7]

1830 A marriage of Jacob B. Meals and Elizabeth Jones has been reported on March 25 in Adams County, Pennsylvania. However, newspaper notices name the husband as John Meals: "Married: On Thursday the 25th ultimo, by the Rev. L. L. Hinsch, Mr. John Meals, to Miss Elizabeth Jones, both of Menallen township." [8] A marriage notice was published in the Adams Sentinel for John Meals and Elizabeth Jones on 25 March. [Photocopy, John Meals marriage notice from Adams Sentinel Newspaper, 1830.] A biosketch of son Barnhart Meals reports his parents as Jacob B Meals and Elizabeth Jones. [9]

… The subject of this biography [Barnhart Meals], a native of Adams County, Pa., was born pear Bendersville, November 15, 1830, and is a son of Jacob B. and Elizabeth (Jones) Meals, the former of whom is still living, is a resident of Pennsylvania, and has attained to the advanced age of eighty-seven years. The mother departed this life about 1864. The parental household included six children. …

1830 Jacob B Meals (age 20-30) and family lived in Menallen Twp, Adams County, Pennsylvania. Father Samuel Meals was in the adjacent listing. [10] [11]

1831-33 Jacob B Meals, farmer, was taxed with 12 acres in Menallen Twp, Adams County, Pennsylvania. [12] [13] [14]

1836 "The Lutheran Society of Wenksville was organized March 5, 1836, at Pisel's schoolhouse (afterward known as Wenks' School, near the site of the present brick Union building), with thirty-one members. Rev. Daniel Gottwalt, David Melas, John Weigle, George Black and Jacob B. Meals may be named among its founders." [15]

1836-37 Jacob B Meals served on the grand jury for Menallen Twp. [16] [17]

1837 Henry Meals, child of Jacob Meals and Elisabeth Meals, was baptized on October 27, 1838, in St James Evangelical Lutheran, Gettysburg, Adams County, Pennsylvania. Henry Meals was born on October 24, 1837, in Pennsylvania. [18]

1838 A survey of land showed a partition of a tract in Menallen Twp, Adams County originally warranted to John Mickle which was partitioned between Samuel Mickle and Jacob Meals [Mails], perhaps this Jacob. [19] [Photocopy, Survey Map D63-186 with Jacob Meals tract.]

1840 Jacob B Meals lived in Menallen Twp, Adams County, Pennsylvania in a household with males: 2 (under 5), 2 (5 thru 9), 1 (15 thru 19), 1 (20 thru 29), and 1 (30 thru 39); and females: 1 (under 5), 1 (15 thru 19), 1 (20 thru 29), and 1 (50 thru 59). [20]

1842 "To the friends of Equal Rights ...Support James Russell for Register and recorder of Adams County ...(signed by) Jacob B Meals". [21]

1849 Jacob B Meals petitioned to support the license for the tavern of Charles Myers of Menallen Twp, Adams County, Pennsylvania.

1849 Jacob B Meals was on the general jury for Menallen Twp, Adams County, Pennsylvania. [22]

1850 Jacob B Meals (age 47, born in Pennsylvania) lived in Menallen Twp, Adams County, Pennsylvania, in a household with Elizabeth Meals (age 38), Samuel Meals (age 16), Mary Meals (age 14), Henry Meals (age 13), Lucy Meals (age 3), and Mary Witheson (age 68). [23] [24] Mother Mary Meals was listed adjacent.

1851 Lucy Ann Elizabeth Meals (perhaps daughter Lucy), daughter of John and Elizabeth Meals, died in Menallen Twp.

1854 Jacob B Meals was listed 16 Jan as a delegate from Adams County to a mass temperance convention at Harrisburg. [25]

1858 Jacob B Meals was an inspector for Menallen Twp. [26] [27]

1859 Jacob B Meals was on the jury for Menallen Twp, Adams County, Pennsylvania. [28]

1860 Jacob Meals (age 56, born in Pennsylvania) lived in Menallen Twp, Adams County, Pennsylvania, in a household with Elizabeth Meals (age 48), Samuel Meals (age 26), and Henry Meals (age 22). [29] [30] Mother Mary Meals (age 76) was listed adjacent.

1870 Jacob B Meals (age 66, born in Pennsylvania) lived in Menallen MM, Adams County, Pennsylvania, in a household with Elizabeth Meals (age 58), Mary Meals (age 85), and Frederick Showers (age 14). [31] [32] [33]

1873 Elizabeth Meals, wife of Jacob B Meals, was buried at Wenksville Cemetery, Menallen Township, Adams County, Pennsylvania. [34] [35]

1894 Jacob B. Meals, married, died on January 26, at age 90, in Bendersville, Adams County, Pennsylvania. Jacob B. Meals was born in Menallen Twp, Adams County, Pennsylvania. Jacob B. Meals was a Farmer. [36]

1894 Jacob B. Meals, married, died on January 26 at age 90y 4m 4d at Bendersville and was buried at Wenksville Cemetery, Menallen Township, Adams County, Pennsylvania. Jacob B. Meals was born on October 22, 1803. [37] [38] [39] [40]


1894 Henry R Weigle was the administrator for the estate of Jacob B. Meals.
Gettysburg Compiler, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, March 27, 1894. [41]

1897 Henry B Weigle [son-in-law] made the account for the estate of Jacob B. Meals, late of Bendersville. [42]

1926 Henry J Meals, widowed, died on August 14 in Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan. He was born on October 24, 1837, in Bendersville, Penn, son of Jacob Meals. [43]

Research Notes:

Jacob's wife was named Elizabeth in the documents above. Jacob Meals and Eleanora Harman were married in 1832 [two years after the birth of the first child] by Rev. Gottwald, who officiated at several marriages of children of Samuel Weigle. Perhaps this was a different Jacob Meals.

1832 "[Married] Same day [On 4th] by Rev. Gottwald, Jacob Meals to Eleanora Harman." [44]


Footnotes:

[1] Church records, 1780-1902 [Bender's Church], Adams County, Pennsylvania (Viewable only at FamilySearch libraries), image 111, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].

[2] Adams County, Pennsylvania Tax List, 1824, [FamilySearchImage].

[3] Adams County, Pennsylvania Tax List, 1825, [FamilySearchImage].

[4] Adams County, Pennsylvania Tax List, 1826, [FamilySearchImage].

[5] Adams County, Pennsylvania Tax List, 1823, [FamilySearchImage].

[6] Adams County, Pennsylvania Tax List, [FamilySearchImage].

[7] Adams County, Pennsylvania Tax List, 1830 No Jacob, [FamilySearchImage].

[8] Citing Republican Compiler, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, April 20, 1830, [URL].

[9] John Carroll Power, Portrait and Biographical Album of Peoria County, Illinois, Volume 1, 396, [GoogleBooks].

[10] US census, 1830, Reel 0143, Image 167, line 1, [InternetArchive].

[11] United States Federal Census, 1830, [AncestryRecord].

[12] Adams County, Pennsylvania Tax List, 1831, [FamilySearchImage].

[13] Adams County, Pennsylvania Tax List, 1832, [FamilySearchImage].

[14] Adams County, Pennsylvania Tax List, 1833, [FamilySearchImage].

[15] H. C. Bradsby, Aaron Sheely, M. A. Leeson, History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania [Adams] (Warner, Beers:1886), 312, [GoogleBooks].

[16] Newspaper, Republican Compiler (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania), February 28, 1837.

[17] Newspaper, Adams Sentinel (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania), 11 January 1836.

[18] Pennsylvania and New Jersey, Church and Town Records, 1708-1985, [AncestryRecord].

[19] Pennsylvania Archives Land Office Survey, D63-186, [PASurveyBookLinks].

[20] United States Federal Census, 1840, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].

[21] Newspaper, Republican Compiler (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania), Aug 22 1842.

[22] Newspaper, Adams Sentinel (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania), 2 April 1849.

[23] United States Federal Census, 1850, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].

[24] United States Federal Census, 1850, [AncestryRecord].

[25] Newspaper, Adams Sentinel.

[26] Newspaper, Gettysburg Compiler (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania), 29 March 1858.

[27] Newspaper, The Compiler (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania), column 6, [AncestryImage].

[28] Newspaper, Gettysburg Compiler (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania), 26 September 1859.

[29] United States Federal Census, 1860, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].

[30] United States Federal Census, 1860, [AncestryRecord].

[31] United States Federal Census, 1870, [FamilySearchImage], [FamilySearchRecord].

[32] United States Federal Census, 1870, [AncestryRecord].

[33] United States Federal Census, 1870, [AncestryRecord].

[34] Find A Grave Memorial 9362865, [FindAGrave].

[35] Find A Grave Memorial at Ancestry.com, [AncestryRecord].

[36] Pennsylvania Deaths and Burials, 1720-1999, [FamilySearchImage], [FamilySearchRecord].

[37] Find A Grave Memorial 33884795, [FindAGrave].

[38] Find A Grave Memorial at Ancestry.com, [AncestryRecord].

[39] Pennsylvania, Deaths, 1852-1854, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

[40] Pennsylvania Cemetery Records, ca. 1700-ca. 1950, [FamilySearchRecord].

[41] Gettysburg Compiler, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, March 27, 1894, page 3, [NewspapersClip].

[42] Newspaper, Gettysburg Compiler (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania), column 5 Court Business, [AncestryImage].

[43] Michigan, Death Records, 1867-1950, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].

[44] Citing The Centinel, Gettysburg, Adams County, Pennsylvania, October 15, 1832, [URL].