1834 Louisa Herbst, daughter of Jacob Herbst and Cathrine Froeth, was born on August 14, in Gettysburg, Adams County, Pennsylvania. [1] [2]
1850 Gabriel Meals (age 56), Nancy (age 53), Henry (age 26, stone cutter), William (age 24), Frederick (age 16), Joseph (age 15), George (age 10), Lydia (age 7) Meals and Elizabeth Baughman (age 84, born Germany) lived in Gettysburg, Adams County, Pennsylvania. [3]
1860 Nancy A Meals (age 63) lived in Gettysburg, Adams County, Pennsylvania with Henry Meals (age 37), Joseph Meals (age 23), George W Meals (age 19), and Lydia A Meals (age 17). No spouse was listed. Elizabeth Baughman (age 98) lived with them. This census entry suggests that Gabriel had already died. [4]
1861 "Died, on Sunday morning last at the residence of Henry Meals of this place, Mrs. Backman, aged 98 years, 6(?) months and 11 days." [5]
1863 Henry Meals and Louisa Herbst were married on April 19, at Saint James Evangelical Lutheran Church, Gettysburg, Adams County, Pennsylvania. [6] "Married, on the 19th inst., by the same, Henry Meals to Louisa Herbst, both of Gettysburg." [7]
1870 Henry Meal (age 48, born in Pennsylvania) lived in Cumberland Twp, Adams County, Pennsylvania, in a household with Louisa Meal (age 36), Lydia A E Meal (age 6), and Henry N Meal (age 4). Henry Meal's occupation was mable cutter & farmer. [8]
1877 The estate of Henry Meals was administered. [9]
1880 Louisa Meals (age 45, born in Pennsylvania, widowed) lived in Gettysburg, Adams County, Pennsylvania, in a household with Lillie A.E Meals (age 16), and Harry H Meals (age 14). [10]
1889 William F. Rowe, age 26, and Lillie A. Meals, age 24, were married on March 14 in Gettysburg, Adams County, Pennsylvania. William F. Rowe was a child of J.M. and M.C. Rowe. Lillie A. Meals was a child of Henry and Louisa Meals. [11]
1877-1918 Henry Meals (1820-1877) and Louisa Herbst (1834-1918) were buried at Evergreen Cemetery, Gettysburg, Adams County, Pennsylvania. [12]
1907 Harry Herbst Meals died on January 27 and was buried at Crystal Lake Cemetery, Gardner, Worcester County, Massachusetts. Harry Herbst Meals was born in 1865. [13]
1910 Lousia Meals (age 75, born in Pennsylvania, single), mother, lived in Gettysburg Ward 2, Adams County, Pennsylvania, in a household with Lillie A Rowe (age 46), Mary L Rowe (age 19), and Lillian N Rowe (age 16). Lousia Meals's father was born in Germany and her mother was born in Pennsylvania. Lousia Meals could read and write. [14]
1919 Mrs Louisa Meals, daughter of Jacob Herbst and Cathrine Froeth, died, at age 84 on April 17, 1919, in Gettysburg, Adams County, Pennsylvania. Mrs Louisa Meals was born on August 14, 1834, in Pennsylvania. (Death certificate: 47017). [15]
1949 Mrs Lillie A Rowe, daughter of Henry Meals and Louisa Herbst, spouse of Wm F Rowe, died, at age 85 on July 17, 1949, in Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Mrs Lillie A Rowe was born on January 28, 1864, in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. (Death certificate: 61112). [16]
[1] Pennsylvania and New Jersey, U.S., Church and Town Records, 1669-2013, [AncestryRecord].
[2] Pennsylvania Death Certificates, Certificate 47017, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[3] United States Federal Census, 1850, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[4] United States Federal Census, 1860, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[5] USGenWeb Archives, Feb. 13, 1861, Adams Sentinel, [USGenWeb].
[6] Pennsylvania Marriages, 1709-1940, [FamilySearchRecord].
[7] USGenWeb Archives, April 28, 1863, Adams Sentinel, [USGenWeb].
[8] United States Federal Census, 1870, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[9] Adams County Orphans Court index, [FamilySearchImage].
[10] United States Federal Census, 1880, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[11] Pennsylvania, County Marriages, 1885-1950, [FamilySearchImage], [FamilySearchRecord].
[12] Find A Grave Memorial 29466673, [FindAGrave].
[13] Find A Grave Memorial 49447035, [FindAGrave].
[14] United States Federal Census, 1910, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[15] Pennsylvania Death Certificates, Certificate 47017, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[16] Pennsylvania Death Certificates, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].