Peter Lemley (1771 - 1850)

Born 1771 in Greene Co., Pennsylvania

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Died 25 Sep 1850 at about age 79 in York, Belmont, Ohio, USA

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Peter was born in Pennsylvania 1771. He was on the 1795 Greene twp. tax list and in 1796 had 2 horses and 2 cows valued at $56.00. He married Mary Ann, a neighbor – b. Pa 1772 dau of William and Elizabeth (Ingram) Cather. On the 1800 Whiteley twp. census they had a son and four daughters from 0 to 9 years old. They moved to York twp. Belmont Co., Ohio, shortly after. Probably at the same time his brother, George Jr., migrated there. They continued to live there until their death – Mary Ann 9/11/1850 and Peter 9/25/1850. They are buried on the McGrew-Caldwell farm sec. 14, twp 4, R 3, York twp. Their children were:

1. Robert , 11/12/1794
2. Catherine 1796
3. Elizabeth 1794
4. Peter 2/20/1802
5. Barbara Nancy 1805
6. George 1806
7. Sarah 1808
8. Eleanor 1812

The 1800 census says 4 daughters were born before 1800 and only one between 1800 and 1810, none thereafter. Five daughters are listed below, but their birth dates don’t fit the census schedules. There may have been two more daughters died young.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ Headlee, Alvah, George Lemley and wife Catherine Yoho and their Descendants for Two Centuries, Morgantown, West Virginia, 1975, page 91.

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• 1850 US Census Ohio, Belmont, York [1]

This person was created through the import of Roberts-Bischoff Family Tree.ged on 31 August 2010.