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Potter County Pennsylvania
Obituaries and Death Notices
PEET
Eliza Taylor Peet
In Homer, Dec. 4th, of diptheria, after an illness of three days, Eliza Taylor, adopted daughter of Jacob and Eliza Peet, aged 12 years, 2 months and 3 days...(The Potter journal. (Coudersport, Pa.) December 17, 1862) - Transcribed by Donald Buncie
John Peet
The Potter Journal, Coudersport, Pa., October 20, 1859
Death of John Peet - This veteran Pioneer is no more. Being one of the first settlers in this county, and a remarkable man in many respects; it is due to his memory and it will be profitable for his neighbors, to note briefly his life and labors among us.
John Peet was born in the city of New York, on the 4th of April, 1772. Four years afterwards was taken to Elizabethtown, New Jersey. Was married to his first wife on the 18th of Sept., 1803; lived with her ten days when she died of yellow fever. Was married to the widow who now survives him on the 2d of Aug. 1806. He emigrated from Elizabethtown, New Jersey to Potter County, and arrived at the place where he died, on the 23d of May 1811. He had two children at that time, and seven others were in due time presented to him. These nine children the youngest thirty-six years old - are all living, eight of them in this county - and these have forty-three children, thirty-seven of whom are in this county.
When the deceased moved here in 1811, there were but four other families in the county. As a consequence of this, there were no roads, no mills, no stores, no school-houses, nor none of the comforts of civilization.
He was a small sized, slender built, feeble looking man. But he was temperate in his habits, industrious, economical, persevering, upright and determined; and so was enabled to endure all the hardships which followed; and to support a large family under difficulties that would have made as impossible to an ordinary man.
The first grist-mill he went to after moving here, was at Jersey Shore, Lycoming County, a distance of 72 miles. The trip was made with two yoke of oxen, and took eighteen days. He went by the way of Pine Creek, which stream he crossed eighty-two times. The only house on the route, where he could find shelter and refreshment after leaving Lymansville, was at the Big Meadows. After this for nine years, the nearest grist-mill was that of Francis King, at Ceres, McKean Co., a distance of 25 miles. The road to this being very bad, and the trip having to be made with oxen, it took four days to go to mill and return. There was no house on the road, so that one night, going and returning, had to be passed in the woods. In the winter time he necessarily suffered very much on these trips.
Notwithstanding these difficulties, the great amount of time consumed without producing anything, he and his equally faithful wife, continued to support and educate their large family of children, and not only this, he found time, and had the inclination to supply the place of minister at all the funerals in the county for more than twenty years, and to minister to such other congregations as desired his presence.
We must not omit to say, that his farm, his sole dependence, consisted of seventeen acres of cleared land, not naturally of the best. He prospered on this small farm, simply because he did thoroughly all his work, and spent no money for intoxicating drinks, or other useless thing, had no lawsuits and attended to his own business. He never held either county or township office but once, and said at the end of his term, "he did not see the use of offices of any kind if people would only live right."
Let us all profit by his example; honor him for his virtues, and hold him in grateful remembrance for what he has done for our county.
Lydia Ann Peet
In Homer township on the 17th inst., of quick consumption, Lydia Ann, daughter of Jacob and Eliza A. Peet, aged 6 years, 5 months and 17 days. (The Potter journal. (Coudersport, Pa.) February 18, 1863) - Transcribed by Donald Buncie
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1856 - 1863 (6 years)
