1822 Daniel Meals was born on January 8 He was baptized on April 14 at Benders Church, Biglerville, Adams County, Pennsylvania.
1840 Daniel Meals (age 40-50) lived in Menallen Twp, Adams County with family. [1]
1843 Samuel Meals Jr, Daniel Meals, and others signed a petition in support of the George Myers tavern in Bendersville, Menallen Twp, Adams County. [2]
1847 Daniel Meals and Rebecca Bixler were married on June 3, at the Saint James Evangelical Lutheran Church, Gettysburg, Adams County, Pennsylvania. [3] [4] [5]
1850 Daniel B Meals (age 28), a blacksmith, lived in South Middleton Twp, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania with wife Rebecca (age 26) and 2 children Wilhelmina Meals (age 2) and Jeremiah Meals (age 0). Sarah Bixler lived with them. [6] [7]
1855 Daniel Meals lived in Peoria, Illinois. [8]
1860 Daniel Meals (age 37, born in Pennsylvania) lived in Rosefield Twp, Peoria County, Illinois, in a household with Rebecca Meals (age 33), Wilhelmina Meals (age 12), Mary Meals (age 9), Amelia Meals (age 7), and Lucy Meals (age 3). [9] [10]
1870 Danl B Meals (age 49, born in Pennsylvania) lived in Rosefield Twp, Peoria County, Illinois, in a household with Rebecca Meals (age 46), Mary Ann Meals (age 18), Amelia Meals (age 16), and Lucy Allice Meals (age 14). Danl B Meals's occupation was farmer. [11] [12]
1880 D. B. Meals (age 58, born in Pennsylvania, married) lived in Indian Point, Knox County, Illinois, in a household with Rebbecca Meals (age 56), and Amelia Meals (age 26). D. B. Meals's parents were both born in Pennsylvania. D. B. Meals's occupation was farmer. [13] [14]
1884 Daughter Mary A. Young and U. A. Rucks were married on May 7 in Nebraska. Mary A. Young, daughter of Daniel B. Meals and Rebecca J Meals, was born on abt 1852 in Illinois. [15]
1889? Rebecca J. Bixler Meals died on October 17, 1889?, and was buried at Springdale Cemetery and Mausoleum, Peoria, Peoria County, Illinois. [16] [17]
1900 Daniel B Meals (age 78) lived with Barnhard Meals (age 70), Marie C Meals (age 58) and Lucy P Woodruff (age 48) in Peoria City, Peoria County, Illinois. [18] [19]
1907 Daniel B Meals died on March 26, in Peoria, Illinois and was buried at Springdale Cemetery and Mausoleum, Peoria, Peoria County, Illinois. [20] [21] [22]
1932 Wilhemina Sickels, w, daughter of Daniel Seals (Meals?), spouse of Johnathan Sickels, died, at age 84 on November 29, 1932, in Peoria County, Illinois. Wilhemina Sickels was buried on December 2, 1932, in Peoria County, Illinois. Wilhemina Sickels was born on February 18, 1848, in Carralile (Carlisle?), Pennsylvania. [23]
[1] US census, 1840, Reel 0435, Image 153, line 18, [InternetArchive].
[2] Newspaper, Republican Compiler (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania), 3 April 1843.
[3] Pennsylvania Marriages, 1709-1940, [FamilySearchRecord].
[4] Robert Stover, Abstracts of the Republican Compiler, 1831-1851, Vol. 2 (1976), 315, [GoogleBooks].
[5] Pennsylvania and New Jersey, Church and Town Records, 1708-1985, PA, Adams, Gettysburg, Lutheran, St James Evangelical Lutheran, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[6] United States Federal Census, 1850, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[7] United States Federal Census, 1850, [FamilySearchImage], [FamilySearchRecord].
[8] Illinois State Census, 1855, [FamilySearchRecord].
[9] United States Federal Census, 1860, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[10] United States Federal Census, 1860, [FamilySearchImage], [FamilySearchRecord].
[11] United States Federal Census, 1870, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[12] United States Federal Census, 1870, [FamilySearchImage], [FamilySearchRecord].
[13] United States Federal Census, 1880, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[14] United States Federal Census, 1880, [FamilySearchImage], [FamilySearchRecord].
[15] Nebraska, Marriage Records, 1855-1908, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[16] Find A Grave Memorial 103154189, [FindAGrave].
[17] Find A Grave Memorial at Ancestry.com, [AncestryRecord].
[18] United States Federal Census, 1900, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[19] United States Federal Census, 1900, [FamilySearchImage], [FamilySearchRecord].
[20] Find A Grave Memorial 103154171, [FindAGrave].
[21] Find A Grave Memorial at Ancestry.com, [AncestryRecord].
[22] Peoria County, Illinois, U.S., Deaths 1878-1915, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[23] Illinois, U.S., Deaths and Stillbirths Index, 1916-1947, [AncestryRecord].