Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Shull, Elias
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Tinicum Township


   ELIAS SHULL farmer, P.O. Point Pleasant, is a son of 
Peter and Catherine (Strouse) Shull. The former was born in 
Lower Mount Bethel, Northampton county, in 1789, and died in 
1861. His wife was born in 1797 and died July, 1859. He came 
to this county when a boy and lived with Philip Gruver. In 
1828 he built and removed to the house in which he died and 
in which his sons, Elias and Joseph, now live. He was a 
deacon of the Tinicum Reformed church. His children were:  
Sarah (deceased), Elizabeth, Catherine, Peter, Tobias, 
Jacob, Elias and Joseph. Elias was born September 23, 1822, 
in the old house which formerly stood on the farm and has 
all his life been a farmer. His brother Joseph, who also 
lives in the old house, was born December 31, 1829. He is 
also a farmer. They live together, their sister Catherine 
keeping house for them. The family are highly respectable, 
industrious and upright people and are respected 
accordingly.