Robert Woolf Jordan's "Biographical and Genealogical History of Northern Pennsylvania, Vol II" gives the following account of Benjamin O. Peeling: "son of Robert E. Peeling was born in the town of Hollowell, 'a village in Canada lying on the bay of Quinty across Lake Ontario from Oswego,' September 15, 1799. His boyhood was spent in Canada, but soon after the war of 1812 he came to New York state, living in the vicinity of Oswego. About 1838 he settled at Owego, Tioga county, New York, where he resided until 1879, when he wandered from home and was never again heard from. He was a Democrat in politics and both he and his wife members of the Methodist Episcopal church. He married Clarinda Bishop, born in January 1809, at Ithaca, New York, died in Litchfield, Pennsylvania, in June 1870."
The problem with this account of his leaving in 1879 is that he turns up in the 1880 census living with his daughter Mary Peling Randolph. She is buried here, so I am presuming that Benjamin is somewhere in the Tioga Point Cemetery.
A guess about the "O" of his middle name is that it is for "O'Neill" which was his maternal grandmother's last name. His mother was Elizabeth "Betsy" Carnahan.
The problem with this account of his leaving in 1879 is that he turns up in the 1880 census living with his daughter Mary Peling Randolph. She is buried here, so I am presuming that Benjamin is somewhere in the Tioga Point Cemetery.
A guess about the "O" of his middle name is that it is for "O'Neill" which was his maternal grandmother's last name. His mother was Elizabeth "Betsy" Carnahan.
Robert Woolf Jordan's "Biographical and Genealogical History of Northern Pennsylvania, Vol II" gives the following account of Benjamin O. Peeling: "son of Robert E. Peeling was born in the town of Hollowell, 'a village in Canada lying on the bay of Quinty across Lake Ontario from Oswego,' September 15, 1799. His boyhood was spent in Canada, but soon after the war of 1812 he came to New York state, living in the vicinity of Oswego. About 1838 he settled at Owego, Tioga county, New York, where he resided until 1879, when he wandered from home and was never again heard from. He was a Democrat in politics and both he and his wife members of the Methodist Episcopal church. He married Clarinda Bishop, born in January 1809, at Ithaca, New York, died in Litchfield, Pennsylvania, in June 1870."
The problem with this account of his leaving in 1879 is that he turns up in the 1880 census living with his daughter Mary Peling Randolph. She is buried here, so I am presuming that Benjamin is somewhere in the Tioga Point Cemetery.
A guess about the "O" of his middle name is that it is for "O'Neill" which was his maternal grandmother's last name. His mother was Elizabeth "Betsy" Carnahan.
The problem with this account of his leaving in 1879 is that he turns up in the 1880 census living with his daughter Mary Peling Randolph. She is buried here, so I am presuming that Benjamin is somewhere in the Tioga Point Cemetery.
A guess about the "O" of his middle name is that it is for "O'Neill" which was his maternal grandmother's last name. His mother was Elizabeth "Betsy" Carnahan.
Family Members
Parents
Siblings
Advertisement
Records on Ancestry
Advertisement
