Samuel Meals, Sr. and [Unk] Richardt

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Husband Samuel Meals, Sr. ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: Abt 1750 - York Co, PA
     Christened: 
           Died:  - ? Butler Co, PA
         Buried: 

       Marriage: 

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Wife [Unk] Richardt ^{3 4}

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           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died:  - ? Butler Co, PA
         Buried: 

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         Father: 
         Mother: [Unk] Shoupt (      -      ) 4

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Children

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1 M George Meals ^{2 3 5}

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           Born:  - Adams Co, PA
     Christened: 
           Died: Bef 1895
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Elizabeth Studebaker (      -Bef 1895) 2 6
           Marr: Westmoreland Co, PA

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2 F Ann Margaret "Peggy" Meals ^{3 8 9 10}

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            AKA: [Unk] Meales 7
           Born: 1787
     Christened: 
           Died: 1873
         Buried:  - North Washington Union Cemetery, Washington Twp, Butler Co, PA

         Spouse: George Daubenspeck, Sr. (Abt 1776-1857/1858) 10 11 12 13
           Marr: Butler Co, PA

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3 M William Meals ^{2 3 14}

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           Born: 
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4 M Samuel Meals, Jr. ^{2 3 14}

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           Born: 
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           Died:  - Butler Co, PA
         Buried: 

         Spouse: [Unk] Hoover (      -      ) 2 14

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5 M Jacob Meals ^{2 3 14 15}

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           Born:  - Butler Co, PA
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           Died: 
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         Spouse: Catherine Varnum (      -      ) 2 14 15

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6 M Daniel Meals ^{2 3 14}

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           Born:  - eastern Pennsylvania
     Christened: 
           Died: Abt 1861-1865 - Butler Co, PA
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Catharine Studebaker (      -      ) 2 14

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General Notes: Husband - Samuel Meals, Sr.

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His parents were natives of Germany. He grew to manhood, married, and raised his family in York County, Pennsylvania. But before any of his children had married, in the spring of 1796, his oldest son George went to Butler County and began improvements upon a tract of 500 acres (situated partly in Washington and partly in Concord Townships as they were finally formed). The following summer (1797) he (Samuel, Sr.) and the remainder of his family slowly made their way westward over the Alleghany Mountains, and settled on the premises described. His mother, who was born in Germany, also came to Butler County and remained there until her death.
As a rather remarkable incident, it is related that while Samuel Meals, Sr., was en route to his Butler County home, in 1797, he cut by the way-side a small water-willow sapling which he fashioned into a walking-stick. Upon his arrival he stood it upright in the ground, where it flourished, and grew to be a tree of great dimensions. Cut down in 1881, its trunk measured over four feet in diameter. [HBC 1883, 437]

He was a native of York County, Pennsylvania, whither his parents immigrated from Germany prior to the Revolution. He grew to manhood in his native county, whence he removed to Adams County, there married and reared his family.
He was a blacksmith, as were also his sons George and Samuel, and built the first shop in the township, which he carried on in connection with farming. He was quite a prominent man in his neighborhood and filled many of the township offices at different periods. He and all his children attained a ripe old age.

This is an old and honored family of Pennsylvania, which was founded here by Samuel Meal, who was born on the River Rhine, in Baden, Germany, and came to America during Colonial days. Three of his brothers remained in the Fatherland and one went to South America. He located in York County, Pennsylvania, whence he removed to Westmoreland county, in 1796, and previous to 1801 took up his residence in Butler County. He was a blacksmith by occupation, but also traded to some extent with the Indians, who were always his friends.

The Meals family of Pennsylvania is of staunch German extraction, the original progenitor of the name in America having been Samuel Meals, who was born in Baden Baden, on the river Rhine, in Germany, and who came to America in the early colonial days. He located first in York, Pennsylvania, and in 1796 settled in Westmoreland County. Still later he removed to Butler County, where he plied his trade as a blacksmith and where he was likewise a prominent Indian trader. [GPHAV, 277]

1 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883), Pg 437, 444.

2 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 1292.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 277.

4 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 1646.

5 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883), Pg 437, 445.

6 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883), Pg 445.

7 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. III (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 165.

8 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883), Pg 405, 410, 444.

9 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 1292, 1327.

10 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 465.

11 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883), Pg 405, 444.

12 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 1327.

13 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 1303.

14 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883), Pg 437.

15 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 714.