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Peter Sheeley

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Peter Sheeley

Birth
Tioga Junction, Tioga County, Pennsylvania, USA
Death
15 Jan 1881 (aged 42)
Shenandoah, Page County, Iowa, USA
Burial
Shenandoah, Page County, Iowa, USA Add to Map
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Peter Sheeley (Scheli) was born on Feb. 5, 1838 in Tioga, Tioga, Pennsylvania to Johann Jacob and Maria Luisa Augusta Lautenschlager Sheeley. He was baptized in the Lutheran Church in Gettysburg, Adams Co., Pennsylvania on May 27, 1838. His sponsors were Johann and Katharina Lang. Peter was in the Civil War, he was a voluteer Union soldier from Missouri in 1863. His unit was the Fifth State Militia, Calvary. S-Z. He married Hannah Elizabeth Boyd in 1874 in Shenandoah, Iowa. They had one son, Harland Boyd Sheeley. In 1880, Peter was a stock shipper in Shenandoah. Peter died January 15, 1881 in Shenandoah, Iowa. He is buried at the Rose Hill Cemetery, where Hannah is also buried.
Other family members were his sister, Margaretha Magdelena; five half-sisters, Susan Katherine, Harriet Adeline, Louisa Isabelle, and Emma Margarett; four half-brothers, John G., Charles Francis, George W. and Jacob Ryman; he also had a step-mother, Harriet Mitschele Sheeley.
Peter Sheeley (Scheli) was born on Feb. 5, 1838 in Tioga, Tioga, Pennsylvania to Johann Jacob and Maria Luisa Augusta Lautenschlager Sheeley. He was baptized in the Lutheran Church in Gettysburg, Adams Co., Pennsylvania on May 27, 1838. His sponsors were Johann and Katharina Lang. Peter was in the Civil War, he was a voluteer Union soldier from Missouri in 1863. His unit was the Fifth State Militia, Calvary. S-Z. He married Hannah Elizabeth Boyd in 1874 in Shenandoah, Iowa. They had one son, Harland Boyd Sheeley. In 1880, Peter was a stock shipper in Shenandoah. Peter died January 15, 1881 in Shenandoah, Iowa. He is buried at the Rose Hill Cemetery, where Hannah is also buried.
Other family members were his sister, Margaretha Magdelena; five half-sisters, Susan Katherine, Harriet Adeline, Louisa Isabelle, and Emma Margarett; four half-brothers, John G., Charles Francis, George W. and Jacob Ryman; he also had a step-mother, Harriet Mitschele Sheeley.


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