Daniel Meals married Catherine Studabaker. [1]
1820 Danl Males lived in Parker Twp, Butler County, Pennsylvania in a household with males: 1 (under 10) and 1 (26 thru 44); and females: 1 (under 10) and 1 (26 thru 44). [2]
1830 Daniel Meals (age 40-50) and female (age 40-50) lived in Parker Twp, Butler County, Pennsylvania with 3 male children, ages 0-5 (David?), 5-10 (Joseph?), and 10-15 (Samuel?) and with 3 females, ages 0-5 (Mary?), 5-10 (Margaret?), and 10-15 (Molly?). [3]
1840 Daniel Meals [Mailes] (age 50-60) and female (age 50-60) lived in Parker Twp, Butler County, Pennsylvania with 3 males ages 10-15 (David?), 15-20 (Joseph?), 20-30 (Samuel?) and with 2 females ages 15-20 (Mary) and 20-30 (Molly?). [4]
1850 Daniel Males (age 62, born in Pennsylvania) lived in Washington, Butler County, Pennsylvania with Catharine Males (age 65), Mary Males (age 32), and Joseph Males (age 24). Adjacent listings were for the families of Samuel Males (age 35) and Joseph Males (age 37). [5]
1860 Daniel Males (age 71) and Catherine Meals (age 74) lived in Washington Twp, Butler County, Pennsylvania with Mary Meals (age 33, sic). Adjacent listings were for the families of Samuel Males (age 35) and Joseph Males (age 37). [6]
1862 On October 26, Catharine Meals died, in her 78th year, and was buried at North Washington Union Cemetery, North Washington, Butler County, Pennsylvania. [7]
1865 On February 13, Daniel Meals, of Washington Twp, Butler County, dated his will. The will named sons Joseph and Samuel, daughters Molly and Peggy. Son Samuel and son-in-law Jacob Daubenspeck were named executors. The will was proved on April 6, 1865. The final account, dated February 24, 1866, named Molly Meals and Peggy Daubenspeck, and others. [8] [9] An account was filed at the Orphans Court. [10]
1865 On March 31, Daniel Meals died and was buried at North Washington Union Cemetery, North Washington, Butler County, Pennsylvania. [11]
1865 On May 5, Molly Meals received property valued at $250 from the estate of Daniel Meals. [12]
Research Notes:
Oral tradition and other researchers have named David Meals as a son of Daniel Meals and Catherine Studebaker. We seek documentation to support this assumption. David Meals was not named in the will or estate records of Daniel Meals.
We are uncertain about the identities of the daughters of this couple and have made guesses about their names and birthdates, based on the various sources available. Is Molly, named in the will, the same person as Mary, who married Turney? We seek further documentation about this family.
A biosketch reports [13]:
Daniel, youngest child of Samuel and (Richardt) Meals, was born in eastern Pennsylvania. He accompanied his father to Butler county prior to 1801. He became a successful farmer and at one time owned a well improved estate of one hundred and six acres. He died during the period of the civil war of typhoid fever. In politics he was a Republican, and both he and his wife were devout Lutherans in their religious faith. He married Catherine Studabaker; children: Samuel, of whom further; Mary M., married Michael Turney, of Clarion, both deceased; Margaret, married (first) James Campbell, and (second) Jacob Daubenspike; David, died in the '60s of typhoid fever; Joseph, married Mary Pettigrew, he froze to death near Milliards, Butler county, Pennsylvania.
A biosketch reports [14]:
Daniel Meals, the Doctor's grandfather, became a successful farmer of Butler county, where. he died, and he willed the old homestead to the Doctor's father. He had married Catherine Studabaker, of Pennsylvania, who was of German descent, and whose people were mostly agriculturists. "Five children blessed this union: Samuel; Mary M., wife of M. Turney; Margaret, who first married a Mr. Campbell and after his death Daubenspike; David and Joseph. Mary is the only one now living. All were members of the Lutheran Church, but after coming to Clarion county Dr. Samuel D. Meals, our subject's father. became a Presbyterian.
[1] John Woolf Jordan, Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley Pennsylvania, Vol. 1 (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing, 1913), 277, right column, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].
[2] United States Federal Census, 1820, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[3] United States Federal Census, 1830, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[4] United States Federal Census, 1840, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[5] United States Federal Census, 1850, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[6] United States Federal Census, 1860, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[7] Find A Grave Memorial 117177198, [FindAGrave].
[8] Pennsylvania Probate Records, 1683-1994, Butler County, probate file M-171, [FamilySearchImage].
[9] Pennsylvania, Will and Probate Records, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[10] Pennsylvania Probate Records, 1683-1994, Butler County, Orphans Court 7-412, [FamilySearchImage].
[11] Find A Grave Memorial 117176997, [FindAGrave].
[12] Pennsylvania, Will and Probate Records, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[13] John Woolf Jordan, Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley Pennsylvania, Vol. 1 (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing, 1913), 277, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].
[14] Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), 1646, [HathiTrust].