BIO:  Amos SHEELEY, Germany Township, Adams County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania
Chicago:  Warner, Beers & Co., 1886
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Part III, History of Adams County, Page 432

AMOS SHEELEY, shoemaker, Littlestown, was born in September, 1828, in 
Mountpleasant Township, this county, and is of German extraction.  His 
grandfather, Nicholas Sheeley, a farmer of Mountpleasant Township, married 
Elizabeth Rife, and both died in that township.  Of their four children, John, a 
farmer by occupation, married Sarah Blank; he died at the age of seventy-five 
and his wife when seventy-three.  They had twelve children, all of whom but two 
are living.  Of these Amos was educated in the common schools, in early life 
learning shoe-making, which he has followed ever since.  He had lived for 
nineteen years in Littlestown.  Mr. Sheeley was united in marriage with Miss 
Abigail, daughter of Daniel Geiselman, and by this union has four children:  
Alice Lydia (wife of A. Degroft), Hamilton, Mrs. Isabella Shriner, Mrs. Emma A. 
Randall.  Mr. and Mrs. Sheeley are members of the United Bretheren Church.  
Politically he is identified with the Democratic party.  He has been a good 
citizen, and has served as a member of the town council.