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1815 Samuel, son of Samuel and Mary Meel, was born on February 19. [1] He was baptized on May 21 at the Lutheran and Reformed Church, Arendtsville, Adams County, Pennsylvania. [2] [3] [4]

Samuel Meals received his education in the subscription schools of ... Menallen. [5]

In early life Samuel Meals learned the trade of blacksmith near Idaville. [6]

Samuel Meals moved to Petersburgh then to Stroughstown, Cumberland County. [7]

1839 On the 19th inst (March 19, 1839), Samuel Meals married Miss Elizabeth Rice, daughter of Mr. Christian Rice, both of Menallen township. [8] [9] [10] [11]

1840 The Methodist church in Bendersville was built. Samuel Meals (perhaps Samuel Sr, since Samuel Jr settled in Bendersville in 1844) and Charles Delap, Esqs broke the first ground. [12]

1840 Samuel Meals Jr was a member of the standing Democratic republican Committee in Bendersville, Menallen Twp, Adams County. [13]

1843 Samuel Meals Jr, Daniel Meals, and others signed a petition in support of the George Myers tavern in Bendersville, Menallen Twp, Adams County. [14]

1844 Samuel Meals settled in Bendersville, built a shop. [15]

1847 Samuel Meals petitioned to support the licensing of the temperant tavern of Charles Myers in Menallen Twp on March 15. [16] [17]

1848 Samuel Meals, perhaps this one, served on the April term of the grand jury for Menallen Twp. [18] [19]


1848 Samuel Meals served on the grand jury in Menallen township, Adams County, Pennsylvania.
Gettysburg Compiler, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, April 24, 1848. [20]

1848 Samuel Meals represented Menallen Twp at the Democratic County convention. [21]

1850 Samuel Meals (age 35) and Elizabeth Meals (age 30) lived in Bendersville Twp, Adams County, Pennsylvania with Isaiah (age 4), Mary (age 2), and Lucy (age 1). Barnhart Meals, Amos Weigle, and Jacob Peters also lived with them. [22]

1850 Samuel Meals was elected treasurer in Menallen. [23]

1851 Samuel Meals of Menallen was a member of the Democratic standing committee of Adams County. [24]

1851 Ezra, son of Samuel Meals and Mary E Rice, was born on July 28 in Pennsylvania. [25] [26]

1854 Samuel Meals served on the jury for Menallen. [27]

1855 A notice was published warning trespassers against hunting on premises in Menallen Twp, Adams County. Signed by Samuel Meals, William Wallay, Henry Bender, Jacob B Bender, and several Rice's. [28]

1855 [Son] William W Meals was born on November 17. [29] [30]

1858 The shop of Mr. Samuel Meals in Bendersville was used by a blacksmith and a wood chopper to make 90 horse shoes in the record short time of 4 hours and 5 minutes. This shop was later sold to Ezra Carson. [31]

1858 Samuel Meals was a judge in Menallen Twp. [32]

1858 Ira, son of Samuel Meals and Elizabeth Rice, was born on November 21. [33]

1860 Samuel Meals (age 44, born in Pennsylvania, M(aster?) blacksmith) lived in Menallen Twp, Adams County, Pennsylvania, in a household with Elizabeth Meals (age 42), Isaiah Meals (age 15), Mary C Meals (age 13), Lucy Meals (age 11), Ezra Meals (age 9), William Meals (age 5), Ira S Meals (age 2), and blacksmith apprentice Louis Smith (age 19). [34]

1861 Samuel Meals was treasurer of the Adams County Agricultural Society. [35]

1863 The diary of a coal and oil propsector reported "In February 1863, I made a prospecting tour through Armstrong, Clarion, and Butler Counties, Pa. I made some leases at the latter place, near Martinsburg; also purchased the Samuel Meals farm, 200 acres, for $6,000." [36]

c 1864-65 Samuel Meals was a captain and provost marshal in Company G, 138th regiment of the Pennsylvania Volunteers during the Civil War, but did not go out due to age. He was active in recruiting volunteers. (See 1909 obituary)

1865 Samuel Meals was a delegate from Menallen Twp for a convention of the Union Party to support the Union candidates of Adams County. (Monday last before 29 Aug). [37]

1866 The new brick M.E. church in Bendersville was built. Samuel Meals, S. Bender, and A.J. Bender were on the building committee. [38] [39]

1868 The application of John Baltzley, perhaps an uncle, for a War of 1812 pension was found meritorious by Isaac Robenson and Samuel Meals, Justice of the Peace of Adams County, Pennsylvania.

1870 Samuel Meals (age 55) and Elizabeth Meals (age 52) lived in Menallen Twp, Adams County, Pennsylvania with Ezra (age 18), William (age 14), and Ira (age 11). Ezra Carson also lived with them. [40] [41]

1877 Elizabeth Meals died. A gravemarker at Bendersville Cemetery, Bendersville, Adams County, Pennsylvania with death date 28 Dec and age at death 58, might be for this Elizabeth. [42] [43]

1880 Samuel Meals (age 65, born in Pennsylvania, married) lived in Menallen Twp, Adams County, Pennsylvania, in a household with wife Sarah Meals (age 30) and Willis Meals (age 39). Samuel Meals's parents were both born in Pennsylvania. Samuel Meals was a farmer. [44]

1894 Samuel Meals engaged in farming and the nursery business and retired in 1894. [45]

1909 Samuel Meals, Civil War veteran, died on July 1 at age 94y 4 or 1m 12d. He was buried at Bendersville Cemetery, Bendersville, Adams County, Pennsylvania. [46] [47] [48]

1909 Obituary: "Littlestown, PA. July 7. Samuel Meals, believed to be the oldest Odd Fellow in the state and said to be the oldest resident in the county, is dead at his home in Bendersville. Mr. Meals was aged 94 years and 4 months. He was a justice of the peace for many years and was active in recruiting volunteers during the Civil War. Mr. Meals is survived by his widow and four children, one of whom is Ezra Meals, mayor of Harrisburg." [49]

1909 "Samuel Meals, Esq., the oldest Odd Fellow in Pennsylvania, and said to be the oldest resident in Adams County, died at his home in Bendersville at 11 p.m. July 1st, aged 94 years and 4 months. Mr. Meals had been helpless for a long time from the infirmities of old age. He was an active Republican and a charter member of the I. O. O. F. in Bendersville, a very useful citizen in the past. He was Justice of the Peace for many years and active in recruiting volunteers during the Civil War. He is survived by his widow and the following children; Hon. Ezra Meals, Mayor of Harrisburg; Ira Meals, of Roanoke, Va., William Meals, of Centre Mills and Mrs. Alice Yeatts, of Gettysburg. Funeral Monday, July 5th at 10 a.m. in Bendersville. [50]

1917 Ezra S Meals died on April 18 in Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. He was born on July 28, 1851, in Penna USA, son of Samuel Meals and Mary E Rice. [51] [52]

1930 [Son] William W Meals died on April 21 in Lower Swatara, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. He was born on November 17, 1855, in Benderville, Pennsylvania. [53] [54]

1932 Ira Jacob Meals died on August 8 and was buried at Evergreen Burial Park, Roanoke, Roanoke City, Virginia. Ira Jacob Meals was born on November 21, 1858. [55] [56]


Footnotes:

[1] Trinity Lutheran Church (Arendtsville, Pennsylvania); Zion Reformed Church (Arendtsville, Pennsylvania), Adams County, Pennsylvania, 1785-1874: Lutheran and Reformed Congregations, citing FHL film 20702, [AncestryRecord].

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

[3] Trinity Lutheran Church (Arendtsville, Pennsylvania); Zion Reformed Church (Arendtsville, Pennsylvania), Adams County, Pennsylvania, 1785-1874: Lutheran and Reformed Congregations, citing FHL film 20702, [AncestryRecord].

[4] Pennsylvania Death Certificates, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

[5] Luther Reily Kelker, History of Dauphin County, Vol. 3 (1907), 109, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].

[6] Luther Reily Kelker, History of Dauphin County, Vol. 3 (1907), 109, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].

[7] Luther Reily Kelker, History of Dauphin County, Vol. 3 (1907), 109, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].

[8] [NewspaperArchive].

[9] Newspaper, Adams Sentinel (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania), March 25, 1839, page 6, column 4.

[10] Luther Reily Kelker, History of Dauphin County, Vol. 3 (1907), 109, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].

[11] Robert Stover, Abstracts of the Republican Compiler, 1831-1851, Vol. 2 (1976), 158, [GoogleBooks].

[12] John Timon Reily, History and Directory of the Boroughs of Gettysburg, Oxford, Littlestown, York Springs, Berwick, and East Berlin, Adams County, PA (Gettysburg: J. E. Wible Printer, 1880), 158, [GoogleBooks].

[13] Newspaper, Republican Compiler (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania), July 28, 1840.

[14] Newspaper, Republican Compiler (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania), April 3, 1843.

[15] Luther Reily Kelker, History of Dauphin County, Vol. 3 (1907), 109, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].

[16] Newspaper, Adams Sentinel (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania), March 22, 1847, page 4, column 6.

[17] [NewspaperArchive].

[18] Newspaper, Star and Banner (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania), 14 April, 1848, page 2, column 1.

[19] Newspaper, Republican Compiler (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania), April 24, 1848.

[20] Gettysburg Compiler, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, April 24, 1848, page 2, [NewspapersClip].

[21] Newspaper, Republican Compiler (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania), August 14, 1848.

[22] United States Federal Census, 1850, [FamilySearchImage], [FamilySearchRecord].

[23] Newspaper, Republican Compiler (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania), 8 April, 1850.

[24] Newspaper, Republican Compiler (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania), 3 March, 1851.

[25] Pennsylvania Death Certificates, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

[26] Find A Grave Memorial at Ancestry.com, [AncestryRecord].

[27] Newspaper, Republican Compiler (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania), 13 March, 1854.

[28] Newspaper, Republican Compiler (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania), 14 May, 1855.

[29] Pennsylvania Death Certificates, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

[30] Find A Grave Memorial at Ancestry.com, [AncestryRecord].

[31] Newspaper, Gettysburg Compiler (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania), March 8, 1858.

[32] Newspaper, Gettysburg Compiler (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania), March 29, 1858.

[33] Find A Grave Memorial at Ancestry.com, [AncestryRecord].

[34] United States Federal Census, 1860, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].

[35] Transactions of the Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society for the years 1861 - '62 - '63, Volume VI (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Singerly & Myers, 1863), 615, [GoogleBooks].

[36] M.P. Sargent, Pioneer sketches : scenes and incidents of former days (1891), 216, [HathiTrust].

[37] Newspaper, Adams Sentinel (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania), 1865, Aug 29, page 4.

[38] H. C. Bradsby, Aaron Sheely, M. A. Leeson, History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania [Adams] (Warner, Beers:1886), 311, [GoogleBooks].

[39] John Timon Reily, History and Directory of the Boroughs of Gettysburg, Oxford, Littlestown, York Springs, Berwick, and East Berlin, Adams County, PA (Gettysburg: J. E. Wible Printer, 1880), 158, [GoogleBooks].

[40] United States Federal Census, 1870, [FamilySearchImage], [FamilySearchRecord].

[41] United States Federal Census, 1870, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].

[42] Find A Grave Memorial 32917160, [FindAGrave].

[43] Find A Grave Memorial at Ancestry.com, [AncestryRecord].

[44] United States Federal Census, 1880, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].

[45] Luther Reily Kelker, History of Dauphin County, Vol. 3 (1907), 110, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].

[46] Find A Grave Memorial 32917147, [FindAGrave].

[47] Find A Grave Memorial at Ancestry.com, [AncestryRecord].

[48] Pennsylvania Death Certificates, Certificate 61821, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

[49] Newspaper, Philadelphia Inquirer, 8 July, 1909, page 3.

[50] USGenWeb Archives, The Hanover Herald – Saturday, July 10, 1909, [USGenWeb].

[51] Pennsylvania Death Certificates, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

[52] Find A Grave Memorial at Ancestry.com, [AncestryRecord].

[53] Pennsylvania Death Certificates, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

[54] Find A Grave Memorial at Ancestry.com, [AncestryRecord].

[55] Find A Grave Memorial 79676234, [FindAGrave].

[56] Find A Grave Memorial at Ancestry.com, [AncestryRecord].