Levi Elias Pealer

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GEDCOM Note

ELIAS BEALER was a farmer and shoe maker by occupation, therefore a man of versatility. By conviction he was a member of the Reformed Church and a democrat. He was active in the affairs of the Township. And from a later chapter on the Fishing Creek Confederacy, he must have been extremely active as his farm at Stillwater was in the very center of the troubled area.

the following is from http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~pasulliv/sullivancountyfolk/scf2/...
a discussion of Sullivan County Histroy published in 1899 by Thomas J. Ingham
Elias Pealer also was born in Fishing Creek township, having been ushered into existence in 1819. He grew to manhood in his childhood home, and received an education in the common schools, similar to that of other boys of his time. He was joined in marriage to Miss Susanna Weimer, daughter of Jacob Weimer, for many years a resident of Columbia county, where she was born in 1821. Soon after marriage Elias Pealer purchased an improved farm of ninety-nine acres in his home township, where he lived until his death, on September 12, 1863.His wife died May 15, 1875. They are sleeping in the St. James Church cemetery in their native township. They were earnest workers in the German Reformed church, of which they were members.He was a strong Democrat. Their children were Sarah, residing near Huntington Mills, Luzerne county, Pennsylvania; Jacob, who died at Dushore, in 1877; Melinda, deceased wife of John Menick, of Shock, this state; Frank, living on the old homestead; Elizabeth, wife of Frank Praut, of Williamsport, Pennsylvania; Rachel, deceased wife of William Wolfe, also of Williamsport; D. W., subject of this sketch; Susanna, who died at the age of twenty-one; We. G., a huckster and drover of Wilkes-Barre; W. W., a blacksmith of Emporium, Pennsylvania; and E. O., a fish-hook manufacturer of Sayre, this state.