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Immigrated from Ireland at the age of 18.
Destination: USA. Arrived on 11/13/1849
Transit and travel compartment: .
Manifest#: Houghton 004 11131849 293
Mary Ann Peal was born on July 4, 1823 in Botetourt County, VA to Joseph Andrew Peal and Martha Wilson, and had siblings Harvey Peal, John Luther Peal, Margaret Lee Peal, George A. Peal, William C. Reaves Peal, Marietta Peal, Louisa Peal, Roy/Howard Peal, Lucinda Peal, and Parthenia Johnson Peal. Mary Peal married Gibson Pancake, and died at age 73 years old circa 1896. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Mary Ann Peal.
John Luther Peal was born on July 4, 1823 in Botetourt County, VA, and died at age 85 years old on January 9, 1909 in Kanawha County, WV. John Peal was buried at Marmet Cemetery in Marmet. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember John Luther Peal.
Margaret Lee Peal was born on December 5, 1834 in Augusta County, VA, and died at age 23 years old on September 4, 1858 in Kanawha County, WV. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Margaret Lee Peal.
At the Greenbrier Resort, Greenbrier Co, WV, a marker located near Hilltop Tennis Courts, indicates the burial of 16 unknown Confederate soldiers who died of wounds received at the Battle of Dry Creek on Aug 26-27, 1863. This may be the burial place of George Peal.
William C. Reaves Peal was born on August 8, 1837 in Rockbridge County, VA, and died at age 71 years old on October 29, 1908 in Kanawha County, WV. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember William C. Reaves Peal.
Marietta Peal was born circa 1838 in VA. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Marietta Peal.
Louisa Peal was born circa 1838 in VA, and died at age 89 years old on December 17, 1928 in Marmet, Kanawha County, WV. Louisa Peal was buried at Marmet Cemetery in Marmet. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Louisa Peal.
Roy/howard Peal was born circa 1840 in VA. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Roy/Howard Peal.
Harvey Peal was the son of Joseph Andrew Peal and Martha Wilson. He was born in Roanoke, Virginia about 1842 and later located to Kanawha County Virginia (now West Virginia) sometime between 1850 and 1860. At the age of 19, Harvey enlisted in the 22nd Virginia Infantry Regiment of the Confederate Army on June 2, 1861. He was later transferred along with his brother George A. Peal, to Company K, 59th Virginia Infantry Regiment on 25 July 1861. While serving in K Company, 59th Virginia Infantry Harvey was captured and was held as a POW at Fort Delaware. He died there after he was shot and killed by a negro guard. My great grandfather, Harvey Jennings Peal, was named after him.
Excerpts From Swann's "Prison Life At Fort Delaware"
Edited by Elizabeth Cometti
Volume 2, Number 2 (January 1941), pp. 120-141 and Number 3(April 1941), pp. 217-230
PRISONERS COOKING
I got the pan, went where they were cooking and found several hundred prisoners, many of them cooking. They had made little holes in the ground, or set up bricks, over which they set their pots and pans. The cut pieces of plank, shingles etc. into shavings with which they kept up a blaze and I was surprised to see how much cooking was done in this way with a very small piece of plank. Some of them were making a sort of soup, by boiling their bread as I had come to do, some who had money or tobacco were making coffee or tea, frying fish, beef etc. or boiling vegetables, some were waiting like myself to get a chance to boil their bread. Some were standing by looking on,tantalized no doubt, but I never knew a prisoner to beg of another, while the great body of them, over 3,000 were in their quarters. I boiled my bread but found it only temporarily allaid(sic) the cravings of hunger. So after a few trials I stopped(sic) it. I will remark that many who had money often gave their rations to others, as well as their old clothes which was a great help to them. I one day enquired of my lieutenants for --Peal from Rush Creek Kanawha, a brave soldier who was captured with them. They said he was shot on the wharf, I forget where, by a negro soldier. That when the prisoners were landed he went aside a step or too (sic), suffering very much with dysentary (sic),that the guard, a negro, ordered him back into the line, but not rising up promptly he was shot and fell over dead. I said poor Peal was a brave soldier. He has left a widowed mother, his brother George was killed at the battle at the White Sulpher(sic). He was the only man, when a volunteer was called for,that would go for a box of cartridges through the storm of bullets. He was returning with a box of cartridges, and in sight of our lines, when he fell and no one dared go to him. I will remark I happened not long since to be talking about the way the Col: was killed, as above stated, and some one in the company said, "I know that man, his name is ---?---- and he lives in a town in Ohio and every body shuns him."
Lucinda Peal was born circa 1845. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Lucinda Peal.
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Updated Peal Biographies
Franklin P Peal of Georgia was born on April 15, 1919, and died at age 66 years old in November 1985.
George F Peal of Portland, Multnomah County, OR was born on November 15, 1910, and died at age 79 years old on January 13, 1990.
Kristi Liane Peal of Carrollton, Denton County, Texas was born on July 23, 1954, and died at age 56 years old on January 23, 2011.
Leroy Peal of Baltimore, Baltimore City County, Maryland was born on January 11, 1911, and died at age 69 years old in December 1980.
William H Peal of Princeton, Johnston County, NC was born on May 23, 1911, and died at age 83 years old on January 11, 1995.
William Jr Peal of Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA was born on September 3, 1928, and died at age 69 years old on April 14, 1998.
Carolyn Peal of Crosby, Harris County, Texas was born on February 1, 1952, and died at age 54 years old on June 30, 2006.
Paul F Peal of Charleston, Kanawha County, West Virginia was born on April 28, 1921, and died at age 66 years old in August 1987.
John S Peal of Warwick, Kent County, RI was born on June 9, 1920, and died at age 52 years old in February 1973.
Francis A Peal of Hacienda Heights, Los Angeles County, California was born on April 24, 1916, and died at age 67 years old in November 1983.
Loma E Peal of Plymouth, Washington County, NC was born on December 5, 1926, and died at age 73 years old on January 20, 2000.
Robert W Peal of Rossville, Walker County, GA was born on June 27, 1916, and died at age 92 years old on September 12, 2008.
Johnnie I Peal of Charleston, Kanawha County, WV was born on July 3, 1918, and died at age 72 years old on October 15, 1990.
Ralph E Peal of Austin, Travis County, TX was born on February 9, 1916, and died at age 74 years old on January 26, 1991.
Eura M Peal of Sedalia, Graves County, KY was born on October 19, 1922, and died at age 84 years old on October 2, 2007.
Harry E Peal of La Center, Ballard County, Kentucky was born on May 5, 1918, and died at age 65 years old in December 1983.
Clarence E Peal of Columbus, Franklin County, OH was born on July 6, 1926, and died at age 77 years old on June 5, 2004.
Calvin C Peal of Prichard, Wayne County, West Virginia was born on December 23, 1911, and died at age 71 years old in October 1983.
David L Peal of Collin County, TX was born circa 1959. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember David L. Peal.
Popular Peal Biographies
Wilbert Peal of Detroit, Wayne County, MI was born on August 30, 1939, and died at age 69 years old on March 15, 2009.
Immigrated from Ireland at the age of 18.
Destination: USA. Arrived on 11/13/1849
Transit and travel compartment: .
Manifest#: Houghton 004 11131849 293
At the Greenbrier Resort, Greenbrier Co, WV, a marker located near Hilltop Tennis Courts, indicates the burial of 16 unknown Confederate soldiers who died of wounds received at the Battle of Dry Creek on Aug 26-27, 1863. This may be the burial place of George Peal.
Parthenia Johnson Peal was born on July 6, 1851 in Roanoke, VA, and died at age 81 years old on May 8, 1933 in Marmet, Kanawha County, WV. Parthenia Peal was buried at Marmet Cemetery in Marmet. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Parthenia Johnson Peal.
The Charleston Gazette Thursday, July 8. 1948
Man Providing Poles Describes First Electric Lights of City
By William H. Maginnis
The only man living who had part in furnishing poles for electric lights in Charleston when they were first installed in 1887 is H. J. Peal of Ruth, the little village in Washington district on RFD 7 out of South Charleston. Otto H. Michaelson is credited with being Charleston's first citizen to be convinced that a central electric light plant would add much to the city's institutions. It was Philip Frankenberger, however, who financed the project, according to R. G. Skinner, manager of the residential sales department of the Appalachian Electric Power Co, who said the town council in October, 1886 granted Michaelson and Frankenberger permission to furnish Charleston with lights and to supply electric illumination to residents and business establishments.
Generator Erected -- The Kanawha Electric Light Co, he said, erected on Alderson St, a 100 kilowatt generator belted to a steam engine. Electric service was available only during the dark hours before midnight. By 1888 the company was supplying electric, service to 150 customers. Service was supplied on a flat rate basis and all bills were payable at Frankenberger's store, which was then on Kanawha St. "J. A. Wells, James Peal, my cousin, and I," said H. J. Peal a few days ago, "contracted with O, H. Michaelson to cut and deliver the poles at the wharf at Charleston. "We cut them on Rush creek one mile below Marmet, brought them to the river and floated them to town. "I remember that Wells and I shoved off a raft of 50 one morning at 4 a. m. The river was very high and when we hit the current it threw us across the river against a
rock bar. We found a boat and shoved off.
Poles Scattered In River-- "Near the site of the present state capital, we met the big Kanawha packetboat running from Pittsburgh, Pa., and when it had passed there were no two poles still together. But we did not lose a pole. There were 150, 30-foot poles and one 40-foot pole, called the main pole. We were invited by Michaelson to be around his music store at 7 p. m. and were present when the first lights came on on Kanawha St, now the boulevard. Mr. Peal said he worked later in coal mines for 37 years, and in that period weighed many thousands of tons of coal for the Marmet Coal Co. "I helped to organize the mines at Hernshaw," he said, "and had charge of supplies in a strike about 1902." Later he was engaged in painting
and construction work. He was hoeing his garden when interviewed. Mr. Peal has been married 52 years. His wife, the former Miss Mary Susan Wells, is a niece of J. A. Wells, one of the three who supplied the poles for Charleston's first lights. Mr. and Mrs. Peal have four daughters and two sons. One son, Russell, is a Nazarene preacher at St. Albans.
Mary Susan (Wells) Peal was born on August 28, 1878 in Marmet, Kanawha County, WV, and died at age 75 years old on November 27, 1953 in Marmet. Mary Peal was buried at Graceland Cemetery in South Charleston. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Mary Susan (Wells) Peal.
Harvey Peal was the son of Joseph Andrew Peal and Martha Wilson. He was born in Roanoke, Virginia about 1842 and later located to Kanawha County Virginia (now West Virginia) sometime between 1850 and 1860. At the age of 19, Harvey enlisted in the 22nd Virginia Infantry Regiment of the Confederate Army on June 2, 1861. He was later transferred along with his brother George A. Peal, to Company K, 59th Virginia Infantry Regiment on 25 July 1861. While serving in K Company, 59th Virginia Infantry Harvey was captured and was held as a POW at Fort Delaware. He died there after he was shot and killed by a negro guard. My great grandfather, Harvey Jennings Peal, was named after him.
Excerpts From Swann's "Prison Life At Fort Delaware"
Edited by Elizabeth Cometti
Volume 2, Number 2 (January 1941), pp. 120-141 and Number 3(April 1941), pp. 217-230
PRISONERS COOKING
I got the pan, went where they were cooking and found several hundred prisoners, many of them cooking. They had made little holes in the ground, or set up bricks, over which they set their pots and pans. The cut pieces of plank, shingles etc. into shavings with which they kept up a blaze and I was surprised to see how much cooking was done in this way with a very small piece of plank. Some of them were making a sort of soup, by boiling their bread as I had come to do, some who had money or tobacco were making coffee or tea, frying fish, beef etc. or boiling vegetables, some were waiting like myself to get a chance to boil their bread. Some were standing by looking on,tantalized no doubt, but I never knew a prisoner to beg of another, while the great body of them, over 3,000 were in their quarters. I boiled my bread but found it only temporarily allaid(sic) the cravings of hunger. So after a few trials I stopped(sic) it. I will remark that many who had money often gave their rations to others, as well as their old clothes which was a great help to them. I one day enquired of my lieutenants for --Peal from Rush Creek Kanawha, a brave soldier who was captured with them. They said he was shot on the wharf, I forget where, by a negro soldier. That when the prisoners were landed he went aside a step or too (sic), suffering very much with dysentary (sic),that the guard, a negro, ordered him back into the line, but not rising up promptly he was shot and fell over dead. I said poor Peal was a brave soldier. He has left a widowed mother, his brother George was killed at the battle at the White Sulpher(sic). He was the only man, when a volunteer was called for,that would go for a box of cartridges through the storm of bullets. He was returning with a box of cartridges, and in sight of our lines, when he fell and no one dared go to him. I will remark I happened not long since to be talking about the way the Col: was killed, as above stated, and some one in the company said, "I know that man, his name is ---?---- and he lives in a town in Ohio and every body shuns him."
Marietta Peal was born circa 1838 in VA. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Marietta Peal.
William C. Reaves Peal was born on August 8, 1837 in Rockbridge County, VA, and died at age 71 years old on October 29, 1908 in Kanawha County, WV. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember William C. Reaves Peal.
Roy/howard Peal was born circa 1840 in VA. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Roy/Howard Peal.
John Luther Peal was born on July 4, 1823 in Botetourt County, VA, and died at age 85 years old on January 9, 1909 in Kanawha County, WV. John Peal was buried at Marmet Cemetery in Marmet. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember John Luther Peal.
Mary Ann Peal was born on July 4, 1823 in Botetourt County, VA to Joseph Andrew Peal and Martha Wilson, and had siblings Harvey Peal, John Luther Peal, Margaret Lee Peal, George A. Peal, William C. Reaves Peal, Marietta Peal, Louisa Peal, Roy/Howard Peal, Lucinda Peal, and Parthenia Johnson Peal. Mary Peal married Gibson Pancake, and died at age 73 years old circa 1896. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Mary Ann Peal.
Louisa Peal was born circa 1838 in VA, and died at age 89 years old on December 17, 1928 in Marmet, Kanawha County, WV. Louisa Peal was buried at Marmet Cemetery in Marmet. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Louisa Peal.
Seybert R. Peal was born to Harvey Jennings Peal and Mary Susan (Wells) Peal, and has siblings Freda Gladys (Peal) Williams, Howard Peal, Hazel Dell Peal, Goldie E. Peal, Russell Edgar Peal, and Clara G. Peal. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Seybert R. Peal.
Lucinda Peal was born circa 1845. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Lucinda Peal.
Peal Death Records & Life Expectancy
The average age of a Peal family member is 73.0 years old according to our database of 535 people with the last name Peal that have a birth and death date listed.
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Oldest Peals
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Mary M Peal of Davidsonville, Anne Arundel County, MD was born on February 3, 1904, and died at age 102 years old on April 1, 2006.
Lewis E Peal of Green Bay, Brown County, WI was born on April 19, 1894, and died at age 99 years old on April 7, 1994.
Tessie Peal of Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California was born on January 10, 1877, and died at age 99 years old in December 1976.
Alta N Peal of Ontario, San Bernardino County, CA was born on August 16, 1899, and died at age 99 years old in November 1998.
Rose L Peal of Midlothian, Cook County, IL was born on May 31, 1908, and died at age 99 years old on October 5, 2007.
Annie M Peal of Union City, Obion County, TN was born on June 15, 1897, and died at age 99 years old on September 29, 1996.
Bruce Peal of Tempe, Maricopa County, AZ was born on November 14, 1901, and died at age 98 years old on June 19, 2000.
Angie Peal of Enterprise, Wallowa County, OR was born on January 20, 1891, and died at age 97 years old on April 22, 1988.
Ida E Peal of Grand Rivers, Livingston County, KY was born on March 16, 1905, and died at age 97 years old on November 4, 2002.
95 years
Edward W Peal was born on August 19, 1896, and died at age 95 years old on January 30, 1992. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Edward W Peal.
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