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Note: Daisy Hagley's given name is not recorded in the Northampton County Register of Births (Book No. 2, p. 105, 24 May 1900). She is called "(infant) Hagley," the daughter of Palmer Hagley (occupation: laborer) and Sallie Flick, who were living in Lower Mount Bethel Township. Since the maiden name of the mother is not usually recorded in the birth registers and since there is no record of the marriage of Palmer Hagley and Sallie Flick, it can be presumed that they were not married. Further, Palmer Hagley stated on his application of a marriage license to Lizzie Miller in 1902 that he had been married once before and divorced in February 1902.
Daisy M. Haigley (sic) is found in the 1900 census of Tatamy Borough, Palmer Twp., Northampton Co., PA, age 1, born June 1898 (sic), the adopted daughter of Jacob P. Haigley and his wife Katie A. (______) Haigley, Palmer Hagley's parents.
The Daisy Bealer, age 31, enumerated on 23 April 1930 on the Easton Highway in Williams Twp., Northampton Co., PA, is certainly Daisy Hagley. She is said to be married (and having married first at age 21) and living with her is her daughter Shirley Bealer, age 1 8/12, in the household of Arthur Sheats, age 39, called single, but with a "D" indicating "divorced" in the same box and preceding the "S." Shirley's surname is indicated on the census form (after the entry for her mother) with an underscore, which can be seen elsewhere on the form to be used as a ditto mark.
It seems likely that this Shirley Bealer, later Shirley Bella Sheats, was in fact the natural child of Arthur Sheets and Daisy Bealer, based on physical similarities to Arthur Sheats' other children, sons William, born in 1931, and Richard, born in 1935, rather than the daughter of Thomas Behler and Daisy Hagley.
A further confirmation of the identity of Daisy as Daisy Hagley is that she and Thomas D. Behler named a son Palmer C. Behler, after her father Palmer C. Hagley.
I find no entries in the 1920 census index for Daisy Hagley or any 19 year old named Daisy (or Daisey) who seems to be this woman, although she seems to have been living in Easton with Thomas Behler in 1918, if not in 1920, when a Thomas Bealer (sic) is found in the city directory, living at Centre and Zane, with a woman named Daisy.
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