Peter
P.
Ehle
Jr.
aka Ehl
Born in Montgomery, New York, United States
Ancestors 
Son of Peter P. (Ehl) Ehle
and Delia J. (Nellis) Ehle
Husband of
Elizabeth (Dygert) Ehle
— married
1818 in New York
Descendants 
Father of
Catherine (Ehle) Lipe, Maria Ehle, Eleanor Ehle, Elizabeth (Ehle) Chuse, Adelia Ehle, Harriet (Ehle) Shaul and Peter P. Ehle
Died
at about age 72
in Nelliston, Montgomery, New York, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 23 Apr 2020
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Biography
War of 1812 at Sacketts Harbor.
Succeeded his father on the old homestead. Educated at Cherry Valley Academy and served as a soldier in the Sacketts Harbor campaign of the 1812 war with the rank of lieutant. After the war he was captain in the 19th New York militia in training. During the Sacketts Harbor campaign, he and his company endured severe hardships in which they were exposed in winter. Lieutant Ehl and others suffered severely in after life from rheumatism that often incapaciated them for farm work.
On his return from the war, he took up farm work, with little success due to his health. In 1818 he married Elizabeth Dygert, her great grandparents were the pioneers Johan Pieter and Anna Elizabeth Fox Dygert.
Children of Peter Ehl Jr., and Elizabeth Dygert
6 daughters and 1 son:
- Catherine (b. Mar 2, 1819)
- Harriet (1831-1868)
- Maria (1820-1907)
- Elizabeth
- Eleanor (1823-1907)
- Delia
- Peter (1834-1917)
Sources
- Nellis–Nelles, Immigrants From the Palatinate, 1710, Vol. 1, published in 1997 by The Nellis and Nelles Family Associations and the Herkimer County Historical Society #306, p. 82
- Find A Grave: Memorial #39034930
- Ehle E.E., Boyd (1930). Three Rivers. Hudson~Mohawk~Schoharie History from America's Most Famous Valleys. Dominie John Jacob Ehle and his descendants. Published by Enterprise and News, St. Johnsonville, NY.
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Peter by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Peter:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Peter by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Peter:
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~0.78%
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