Harriet (Paul) Peck (1820 - 1878)

Born 18 Oct 1820 in Masonville, Delaware Co., New York, USA

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Died 8 Jan 1878 at age 57 in Coudersport, Potter Co., Pennsylvania, USA

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Biography

Harriet Paul, daughter of Joseph Paul and Lois (Baxter) Paul, was born 18 Oct. 1820 at Masonville, Delaware Co., New York, USA.^[1][2]

She married William Peck^[2] circa 1839.^[3][4]

She and William appeared on the census of 3 Sep. 1850 at Farmington Township, Tioga Co., Pennsylvania.^[5] She and William appeared on the census of 21 Aug. 1860 at Farmington, Tioga Co., Pennsylvania.^[6] She and William appeared on the census of 12 Aug. 1870 at Elkland, Farmington Township, Tioga Co., Pennsylvania.^[7]

Harriet died on 8 Jan. 1878 at Coudersport, Potter Co., Pennsylvania and was buried at Nelson Cemetery, Nelson Township. Her memorial has her date of birth and death and notes: "Inscription: Wife of Wm Peck."^[8]

Obituary

Wellsboro Gazette

15 Jan. 1878

Coudersport, Potter Co., Pennsylvania, USA

Died —in Coudersport, Potter Co., Pa., at the residence of son, C.L. Peck, Esq., formerly of this County, on the 8th of Jan., Mrs. Harriet Peck, for many years resident of Farmington. Mrs. Peck was born in Masonville, Delaware Co., N.Y., in 1820, and was 58 years old at the time of her death. She married at the age of 18 to William Peck, of Delaware Co., and moved with her husband and parents to what was then the town of Elkland, Tioga Co., Pa., where her father continued to reside up to the time of his death - - about 2 years ago. Mr. Peck purchased a tract of land in Farmington Township of the Bingham Trustees; and Mrs. Peck (lived there) for more than 35 years. The remains of Mrs. Peck were brought to this place for interment and deposited beside her Father'’s in the Cemetery on the hill. Rev. H.C. Moyer conducted the ceremonies. Nelson, Pa.^[1]

Census

3 Sep. 1850

Farmington, Tioga Co., Pennsylvania, USA.

• William Peck age 37 b. NY.
• Harriett age 29 b. NY.
• Charlie age 5 b. PA.^[5]

21 Aug. 1860

Farmington, Tioga Co., Pennsylvania, USA.

• Peck, Wm age 46 b. NY farmer.
• Harriet age 39 b. NY.
• Charles age 15 b. PA.
• Eudine female age 9 b. PA.
• George age 7 b. PA.
• Wm. age 3 b. PA.
• Charles Arnold age 22 laborer b. NY.^[6]

12 Aug. 1870

Elkland, Farmington, Tioga Co., Pennsylvania, USA.

• William Peck age 56 born NY.
• Harriet age 48 born NY.
• Charlie age 25 a law student born PA.
• Eva age 19 school teacher born PA.
• George 17 born PA.
• Willie 13 born PA.^[7]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Mrs. Harriet Peck. Wellsboro Gazette. 15 Jan. 1878.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} The Connecticut Baxters - Part I. Author: Gerald Cahill.
3. ↑ Kate (Northrop) Shive to Herman Willis Smith 19 Sep. 1950. Collection of Phil Smith.
   • "Will Peck married Harriet Paul , daughter of still another sister of Great-grandmother Polly's sister Lois who married Joseph Paul and lived in the vicinity of Nelson from about 1840 on. The Peck farm joined Grandpa Charles Weeks' farm on the east, lying between his farm and the old Weeks place where Uncle John R. Weeks lived. Charlie Peck owned the place all the years he lived in Coudersport....His daughter May and her husband..Evans was their family name...Charlie .. dying between 1915 and 1920.
4. ↑ William Peck in History of Tioga County, Pennsylvania, (W. W. Munsell & Co., New York : 1883) PP. 169-171 at Tri-Counties Genealogy & History by Joyce M. Tice.
   • "REV. WILLIAM PECK united with the M. E. church in boyhood, and about the year 1831 became an exhorter, and subsequently a minister. He has performed the duties of the sacred office to some extent to this time, although carrying on a farm. He was born in Delaware county, N.Y., in 1814. His first wife was Harriet Paul, of Nelson, and his second, Sarah J. Judd, of Potter county.
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1} Year: 1850; Census Place: Farmington, Tioga, Pennsylvania; Roll: M432_830; Page: 134A; Image: 271. 1850 US Census. Wm Peck.
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1} Year: 1860; Census Place: Farmington, Tioga, Pennsylvania; Roll: M653_1187; Page: 307; Image: 311; Family History Library Film: 805187. 1860 US Census. Wm Peck.
7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1} Year: 1870; Census Place: Farmington, Tioga, Pennsylvania; Roll: M593_1456; Page: 218A; Image: 440; Family History Library Film: 552955. 1870 US Census. William Peck.
8. ↑ Harriet Peck memorial at FInd A Grave.

Acknowledgments

Thank you to Phil Smith for creating WikiTree profile Paul-1286 .