1820 George Males lived in Parker Twp, Butler County, Pennsylvania in a household with males: 2 (under 10) and 1 (26 thru 44); and females: 4 (under 10) and 1 (26 thru 44). [1]
1840 George Mailes lived in Parker Twp, Butler County, Pennsylvania in a household with males: 1 (60 thru 69); and females: 2 (15 thru 19), 2 (20 thru 29), and 1 (50 thru 59). [2]
1849 Samuel Meals, Elizabeth Meals, Jacob Meals, George Meals, and Elizabeth Meals were organizing members of the North Washington church in Butler County, Pennsylvania. [3]
1857 George W Meals died on February 6 and was buried at North Washington Union Cemetery, North Washington, Butler County, Pennsylvania. [4]
1865 Elisabeth, consort of George Meals, died on June 6 and was buried at North Washington Union Cemetery, North Washington, Butler County, Pennsylvania. [5]
A biosketch reports [6]:
George Meals, eldest son of Samuel Meals, Sr., was born in Adams county, Pennsylvania, and there grew to maturity. In 1796 he came to this part of the State and took up the large tract of land referred to in his father's sketch, upon which the family settled the following year. George afterwards went to Westmoreland county and there married Elizabeth Studebaker. About 1811 he returned to Butler county and settled at Mechanicsburg, in Worth township, where he carried on a blacksmith shop. In 1817 he removed to Concord township, and later to Washington township, where he continued to follow his trade in connection with agriculture. To George and Elizabeth Meals were born seven children, as follows: Samuel G., who was born in Westmoreland county, July 4, 1809 and died on his farm in Washington township, September 21, 1877; Lydia, who married John Mahood; Mollie; Joseph G.; Peggy, who married Joseph Pisor; Elizabeth, who married Jacob Pisor, and Susanna, who married Daniel Pisor. The parents and all of the children are deceased.
"The pioneer of this township was George Meals, who made his way into the wilderness in 1796 ... north of Concord ... Early in 1797 he was joined by his father Samuel Meals and other members of his family. [7]
[1] United States Federal Census, 1820, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[2] United States Federal Census, 1840, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[3] Ellis Beaver Burgess, History of the Pittsburgh Synod of the General Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, 1748-1845-1904 (1904), 426, [HathiTrust].
[4] Find A Grave Memorial 117288087, [FindAGrave].
[5] Find A Grave Memorial 117288002, [FindAGrave].
[6] Robert C. Brown, ed., Michael A. Leeson, John Meagher, John Franklin Meginness, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (1895), 1292, [InternetArchive].
[7] Robert C. Brown, ed., Michael A. Leeson, John Meagher, John Franklin Meginness, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (1895), 653, [InternetArchive].