Janet and Robert Wolfe Genealogy --- Go to Genealogy Page for Henry Meals --- Go to Genealogy Page for Anna

Notes for Henry Meals and Anna

1831 Sevila Metilda Miehls was born on April 7. She was baptized on June 5 at Upper Bermudian Church, Huntington Twp, Adams County, Pennsylvania to parents Henry and Anna Miehls. [1]

1833 Emas [Amos] Miehls was born on June 23. He was baptized on September 4 at Upper Bermudian Church, Huntington Twp, Adams County, Pennsylvania to parents Heinrich and Anna Miehls. [2]

1835 Rebecah Meals was born on September 4. She was baptized on October 1 at Upper Bermudian Church, Huntington Twp, Adams County, Pennsylvania to parents Henry and Anna Meals. [3]

1837 Elizabeth Meals was born on March 9. She was baptized on May 24 at Upper Bermudian Church, Huntington Twp, Adams County, Pennsylvania to parents Henry and Anna Meals. [4]

1839 Leah Caroline Meals was born on January 20. She was baptized on April 7 at Upper Bermudian Church, Huntington Twp, Adams County, Pennsylvania to parents Henry and Anna Meals. [5]

1839 Henry Meals, perhaps this one, died on July 5 in Huntington Twp, age 34. [6]

1839 Henry Meals died on July 5, at age 33y 7m 10d, and was buried at the Upper Bermudian Lutheran Cemetery, Huntington Twp, Adams County, Pennsylvania. [7]

1839 William Meals, administrator of the estate of Henry Meals, posted a newspaper notice.


The Adams Sentinel, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, September 16, 1839. [8]

1839 Anna Meals, widow and relict of Henry Meals, late of Huntington Twp, Adams County, petitioned the court, on November 25, to appoint guardians for the five children under the age of fourteen: Sibilla Matilda, Amos, Rebecca, Elizabeth, and Leah Caroline. The court appointed Peter Miler and Adam Weigle. [9]

1843 William Meals Sen'r [perhaps Henry's father] and Nicholas Detwick Jun'r, administrators, produced an account on March 14, of the estate of Henry Meals, late of Huntington Twp, deceased. [10] [11]

1850 Rebecca Meals (age 14) lived in the home of Jacob and Elizabeth Smyer in Huntington Twp, Adams County, Pennsylvania, near the household of Jonas Weigle. [12]

1874 Anna Meals died on March 22, at age 65y 2m 11d and was buried at the Upper Bermudian Lutheran Cemetery, Huntington Twp, Adams County, Pennsylvania. [13]


Footnotes:

[1] Pennsylvania Births and Christenings, 1709-1950, [FamilySearchRecord].

[2] Pennsylvania Births and Christenings, 1709-1950, [FamilySearchRecord].

[3] Pennsylvania Births and Christenings, 1709-1950, [FamilySearchRecord].

[4] Pennsylvania Births and Christenings, 1709-1950, [FamilySearchRecord].

[5] Pennsylvania Births and Christenings, 1709-1950, [FamilySearchRecord].

[6] Newspaper, Republican Compiler (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania), 1839.

[7] Upper Bermudian Lutheran Church Cemetery Photos, [USGenWeb].

[8] The Adams Sentinel, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, September 16, 1839, page 2, [NewspapersClip].

[9] Adams County, Pennsylvania, Orphans Court, E-310, [FamilySearchImage].

[10] Adams County, Pennsylvania, Orphans Court, F-94, [FamilySearchImage].

[11] Adams County, Pennsylvania, Orphans Court, Index, [FamilySearchImage].

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

[13] Upper Bermudian Lutheran Church Cemetery Photos, [USGenWeb].