Pennsylvania Family Group Sheet for George W. MEILY-2 Family *********************************************** Copyright Sharon Pinkerton Wayland. All rights reserved. http://www.fgs-project.com/copyright.html *********************************************** Submitted by: Sharon Pinkerton Wayland Email address: spwpcw@verizon.net Husband: George W. MEILY (1)(2)(3)(4)(5)(7)(8)(9)(10)(11)(12)(13) Birthdate: January 16, 1846 Birthplace: Mechanicsburg, Cumberland Co., PA Death date: August 18, 1931 Place of death: Harrisburg, Dauphin Co., PA Buried: Harrisburg Cemetery Section N-2, Lot 70, Harrisburg, PA Father: Samuel MEILY (1813-1893) Mother: Catherine BOYER (1817-1897) Marriage date: February 10, 1898 Marriage place: Huntingdon, PA Wife: Lillian Alfonsa (BOWERS) GREATHEAD (1)(2)(8)(9)(10)(12) Birthdate: July 1862 Birthplace: PA Death date: March 8, 1945 Place of death: Harrisburg, PA Buried: Harrisburg Cemetery Section N-2, Lot 70, Harrisburg, PA Father: Frederick N. BOWERS (2) Mother: Adalaine SHELLEY (2) 1st Husband: Thomas W. GREATHEAD (2) Daughter: Adalaine "Addie" GREATHEAD (9)(10) CHILDREN - None ================================================================================= Documentation: 1. Tombstone Inscription: Harrisburg Cemetery, 13th Street, Harrisburg, PA 2. Harrisburg Cemetery Association Surname File Cards: George W. MEILY cause of death "Myocarditis"; "Lillian Alfonsa Meily, 82 cause of death: Broncho Pneumonia Harrisburg, PA Widow of Thomas W. Greathead and George W. Meily, daughter of Frederick N. and Adalaine Shelley BOWERS" 3. Boyd's Harrisburg City Directory: "George W. MEILY" 1874-"Boots & Shoes, 216 Market St, Home: 11 South Third Street; 1876 - Business Ad "Geo. W. Meily, 214 & 216 Market St. Boots, Shoe, Gaiters Rubbers and Slippers" 1889- George Meily Home: Philadelphia Street; 1898- George Meily Home: 409 North Second Street 4. 1880 Federal Census 4th Ward Harrisburg, "Locust Street- George W. MEILY,36 Shoe Merchant, Emma 34, Albert 12, Mary 11, Charles 6, George 1" 5. George W. MEILY Obit, Dauphin County Historical Society Obituaries Scrapbook Book 3, p.83, Harrisburg, PA "...He had been ill for seven weeks..., "Mr. Meily helped to build the ramparts at Fort Washington when the southern army threatened the Capital during the Civil War...He was one of the ten original subscribers to the Telephone Company, the oldest active member of the Chamber of Commerce .. charter member of the Y.M.C.A. Mr MEILY was also a member of the Grace Methodist Church... Survived by his widow Mrs. Lillian Bowers Meily: two sons, Albert E. Meily, of York and George P. Meily of this city and six grandchildren." 6. "Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin Co., PA", 1896, J. Runk & Co, Chambersburg, Pa, P571 - George W. MEILY "...1861 he united with Jeremiah Horner and formed the firm of Horner & Meily, which conducted the auctioneer business for two years...Mr. Meily is a stockholder in the East Harrisburg Railway Company..." 7. Federal Census: 1880 4th Ward, Harrisburg "George W. Meily, 36 Shoe Merchant, Emma 34, Albert 12, Charles 6, George 1, Mary 11" 8. Federal Census Harrisburg: 1900 1st Precinct, George W. Meily, 54 January 1846, Lillian B., July 1862, 37... 409 Second Street, Harrisburg, Dauphin Co., PA 9. Federal Census Harrisburg: 1910 4th Ward, "George W. MEILY, 64, Lily, 47" + 9 boarders, "132 Locust Street, Harrisburg, Dauphin Co., PA 10. Federal Census Harrisburg: 1920 4th Ward, "George W. MEILY, 74, Real Estate, Lillian B., 52, Addie GREATHEAD, 36" +9 boarders 11 "History of Harrisburg Cemetery Association with It's Charter, By-laws and Regulations, together with a list of the Owners of Lots", prepared by John A. SMULL, Secretary; Harrisburg, Telegraph Printing House, 1876, p54 "George W. Meily Section I lot 43" 12. Huntington Co., PA Marriage License Documents V 10-11, 1897-1901: "Lillian B. Greathead, 36 to G.W. Meily, 52, former wife died 6 years ago, License #3629, Married 2/10/1989 in Huntingdon, PA" 13. Will of George Pinkerton, Schuylkill County Will Book 4, p216-217, Schuylkill County Courthouse, Pottsville, PA: "Emma Meily wife of George W. Meily, North West Corner of 3rd and Locust Streets, Harrisburg, Dauphin County, PA" (March 1882) Notes: *There is a discrepancy with the age at death for George W. MEILY. Obit heading reads "George W. Meily Dies At Age of Ninety-one Years" August 18, 1931. (Computation from birthdate - 85 yrs) Harold L. PINKERTON Genealogy Source Notebook "MEILY/PINKERTON". Harold is the great- great grandson of George PINKERTON The inspiration for Pinkerton Genealogy by Harold L. PINKERTON and his daughter, Sharon P.WAYLAND came from communication with Paul W. PINKERTON a distant cousin (now deceased), and his daughter Helen P. RYDELL, who in 1984-1990 worked on mapping the various branches of Pinkerton cousins.