1844 Jacob Benjamin Meals, son of Jacob and Elenorah Meals, was born on August 11, 1844. He was baptized on September 3, 1844 at the Upper Bermudian Church, Huntington Twp, Adams County, Pennsylvania. [1]
1902 Jacob B Meals died on April 13, 1902 and was buried at Mount Holly Springs Cemetery, Mount Holly Springs, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. Jacob B Meals was born on August 11, 1844. [2]
Name: Jacob Benjamin Meals
Born: In Adams County, PA
Died: In Cumberland County, PAThe son of Jacob & Eleanora (Harmon) Meals, in 1860, he was a laborer living in Huntington Township, Adams County. He stood 5' 8" tall and had sandy hair and hazel eyes.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted and mustered into federal service at Chambersburg February 27, 1865, as a private with Co. B, 99th Pennsylvania Infantry, and deserted July 1, 1865.
He married Sally Ann Nailor and fathered Emma (b. c 1871), Mary C. (b. c 1876), and Addie (b. c 1879). After the war, lived in various parts of Cumberland County.
1942 Rose Meals Wolf, daughter of Jacob B Meals and Sarah Nailor, spouse of John I Wolf, died, at age 71 on June 21, 1942, in Mount Holly Springs, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. Rose Meals Wolf was born on January 18, 1871, in Pennsylvania. [3]
[1] Pennsylvania Births and Christenings, 1709-1950, [FamilySearchRecord].
[2] Find A Grave Memorial 53627807, [FindAGrave].
[3] Pennsylvania Death Certificates, Certificate 55019, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].