Daniel Beels

NOT A DIRECT ANCESTOR Daniel Beels is not in my direct ancestry. He is of the Beels family of Salem Twp., Clarion County, relationship unknown to our direct line Beals family. His farm, on the county border, lay adjacent to that of James Francis Beals of Richland Twp., Venango Co. PA

	Date	Location	Notes	Sources
Birth	~1792	Berks Co. PA
Marriage	1819		To Elizabeth Bender/Painter
Death	21 Feb 1878	Salem Twp., Clarion Co. PA
Burial

Ancestry chart segment

     Generation 3      Generation 4    Generation 5    Generation 6
 
                                                      +--David Beels
                                                      |  (~1765-????)
                                      +--Daniel Beels +
                                      |  (~1792-1878) |
                       +--David Beels +               +--Unknown
                       |  (1827-1908) |                            
     John Howard Beels +              +--Elizabeth Painter/Bender 
      (1856-1935)      |                 (1797-1869)
                       +--(Unknown)
                         (possibly Laura Jane Rossman)

Children

(children with Elizabeth Painter/Bender)

Name	Gender	Date of Birth	Birthplace	Spouse	Notes	Sources
Mary Beels	F	~1820 -~1890's	expect Clarion Co. PA	Peter Exline
Jane Beels	F	~1825	expect Clarion Co. PA	Unknown Campbell	see 1880 census
David Beels	M	~1827 - 1908	expect Clarion Co. PA	Margaret Unknown
Elizabeth Beels	F	~1829 - 1880's	expect Clarion Co. PA	Unknown Coulter

Sources

Ref. Num.	Description	Image of original
1	Beels Tax Assessment for Daniel and David Beels, 1842 - 1880, Clarion Co. PA	(Click here for tax record)
2	History of Clarion County, 1887,by A.J. Davis, p. 608 "Mr. David Beels settled on the farm now called the Herman Snyder place, in 1806. Mr. Beels was a German who smuggled his way on to a ship coming to America, and was not discovered for several cays. When the ship arrived at Baltimore the captain sold him for his passage; after serving out his time, he took up a home in Penn's Valley, where he was married. In 1806 he and his family, for they now had two children, emigrated to these parts on a wagon. The family stopped at Sligo, while Mr. Beels sought a location. Finding a fine lay of land, and finding no deed or article to cover it, he soon landed his family upon it, and began improving it. He afterwards was forced to abandon it. He then commenced improving the northwestern corner of the tract now comprising Salem township."
3	Clarion News, May 5, 1994 Beels genealogy and history in article about the barn fire on the Beels homestead.
4	Correspondence of Sally Painter Prior, ggg-granddau. of Johannes Bender whose daughter Elizabeth Painter (Bender in German) married Daniel Beels).
5	History of Venango County, Pennsylvania, Vol. 1, 1890, Brown Runk & Co.,Chicago, p. 585. Richland church organized in 1823 included the Presbyterian element that organized Academia Presbyterian church in 1856 (Nickleville Presbyterian). Members in 1856 included Elizabeth Beels and Mary Beels.

Conjecture

• Emanuel Lutheran Cemetery lies adjacent to a Beels property in Beaver Twp., Clarion Co. PA (according to Charles Walls of Emlenton PA, 2007).