1860 Amos Meals (age 22, born in Pennsylvania) lived in Menallen, Adams County, Pennsylvania, at post office Bendersville, with Ferdinand Meals (age 51), Catharine Meals (age 40), Henrietta Meals (age 19), David Meals (age 18), Eve Meals (age 14), Adam Meals (age 13), Elizabeth Meals (age 12), Susanna Meals (age 11), John Meals (age 9), George W Meals (age 7), Theodore Meals (age 4), Rosanna J Meals (age 3), and William Meals (age 1). [1]
1862-64 Amos B Meals enlisted on 8/22/1862 as a Private in the Civil War. On 8/22/1862 he mustered into "G" Co. PA 138th Infantry. He was Mustered Out on 6/23/1865 at Washington, DC. He was listed as: Wounded 11/27/1863 Mine Run, Virginia and Wounded 5/5/1864 Wilderness, Virginia. [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] He had a son William H Meals. [7] [8]
1868 Amos B Meals and Susan A Lackey were married on March 31 in Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. [9]
1868 William H Meals was born to Amos Meals and Sue A Meals in Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. [10]
Research Notes:
1880 Amos Meals (age 42, born in Pennsylvania, widower) lived in Osborne Twp, Osborne County, Kansas. Amos Meals's parents were both born in Pennsylvania. Amos Meals was a carpenter. [11]
There was another men named Amos Meals, who died in 1858 in Adams County.
1850 Amos Meals (age 17) lived in Huntingdon Twp, Adams County, Pennsylvania. [12]
1858 On August 1, Amos Meals died from Bil Cholic at age 25 y, 1 month, 8 days at Up[per] Ber[mudian]. [13]
1859 The account of Amos B Meals was recorded at Adams County, Pennsylvania. [14]
[1] United States Federal Census, 1860, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[2] Osceola Lewis, History of the One Hundred and Thirty-Eighth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry (1866), 93, [GoogleBooks].
[3] Osceola Lewis, History of the One Hundred and Thirty-Eighth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry (1866), 58, [GoogleBooks].
[4] Osceola Lewis, History of the One Hundred and Thirty-Eighth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry (1866), 119, [GoogleBooks].
[5] United States Civil War Soldiers Index, 1861-1865, [FamilySearchRecord].
[6] Pennsylvania, Civil War Muster Rolls, 1860-1869, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[7] United States General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934, [FamilySearchImage], [FamilySearchRecord].
[8] Pennsylvania, County Marriages, 1885-1950, [FamilySearchImage], [FamilySearchRecord].
[9] Pennsylvania Marriages, 1709-1940, [FamilySearchRecord].
[10] Pennsylvania, County Marriages, 1885-1950, [FamilySearchImage], [FamilySearchRecord].
[11] United States Federal Census, 1880, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[12] United States Federal Census, 1850, [FamilySearchImage], [FamilySearchRecord].
[13] Pennsylvania and New Jersey, Church and Town Records, 1708-1985, PA, Adams, York Springs, Lutheran, Holy Trinity Lutheran, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[14] Adams County, Pennsylvania, Orphans Court, Index entry, citing Orphan's Court Docket J-473, Account Docket C-121, [FamilySearchImage].