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Name: Josiah Sheets
Sex: M
Birth: 22 MAR 1831 in Halifax Twp., Dauphin Co., PA
Death: 26 JUN 1907 in Wayne Twp., Dauphin Co., PA
Burial: Enterline, Wayne Twp., Dauphin Co., PA.
Person Id: I11
Tree Id: 617537

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Parents

Father:

William J. Sheets: Birth: 20 NOV 1805 in Susquehanna Twp., Dauphin Co., PA. Death: 09 APR 1879 in Powells Valley, Wayne Twp., Dauphin Co., PA

Mother:

Barbara Zimmerman: Birth: 03 JUN 1811 in Armstrong Valley, Halifax Twp., Dauphin Co., PA. Death: 27 DEC 1880 in Jackson Twp., Dauphin Co., PA

Family
Marriage:

Married: Salome Lenker on ABT 1853 at Jefferson Twp., Dauphin Co., PA.
Salome Lenker: Birth: 01 SEP 1835 in Dauphin Co., PA. Death: 12 MAY 1885 in Wayne Twp., Dauphin Co., PA

Children:

William H. Sheets: Birth: 18 APR 1854 in Jefferson Twp., Dauphin Co., PA. Death: 25 JAN 1933 in Matamorous, Dauphin Co., PA
John Edwin Sheets: Birth: 06 MAR 1864 in Jefferson Twp., Dauphin Co., PA. Death: AFT 1933
Mary Jane Sheets: Birth: ABT 1865 in Jefferson Twp., Dauphin Co., PA.
Margaret Sheets: Birth: ABT 1867 in Jefferson Twp., Dauphin Co., PA.
Elizabeth "Eliza" A. Sheets: Birth: 1868 in Jefferson Twp., Dauphin Co., PA. Death: 1869 in Jefferson Twp., Dauphin Co., PA
Salome Sheets: Birth: ABT 1869 in Jefferson Twp., Dauphin Co., PA.
Fernando Sheets: Birth: ABT 1871 in Jefferson Twp., Dauphin Co., PA.
Clara I. Sheets: Birth: 1872 in Jefferson Twp., Dauphin Co., PA. Death: 1873 in Jefferson Twp., Dauphin Co., PA
Cora Sheets: Birth: 1873 in Jefferson Twp., Dauphin Co., PA.
Harvey Sheets: Birth: ABT 1875 in Jefferson Twp., Dauphin Co., PA. Death: AFT 1933
Monroe Sheets: Birth: 1876 in Jefferson Twp., Dauphin Co., PA. Death: 1876 in Jefferson Twp., Dauphin Co., PA
Josiah "Jesse" Sheets: Birth: 19 MAR 1878 in Jefferson Twp., Dauphin Co., PA. Death: 1947 in Northumberland, Northumberland Co., PA

Notes

Note: Birth and death dates are taken from his tombstone inscriptions. Josiah is buried at Bowerman s St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran and German Reformed
Church, located in Enterline, Wayne Twp., Dauphin county. He is named as a child of William a nd Barbara Sheetz in the Biographical Enclyclopedia of Dauphin Co., PA, 1896, by Runk an d Company, pg. 757. Josiah is listed as a farmer in the 1870 US PA census records for Jeffers on Township, Dauphin county, along with his wife. In a map of Jefferson Township land owner s for the year 1875, it lists a J. Sheetz having 66 acres (near George Sheetz's property). I n this particular census his realistate property is valued at $3,500, and his personal proper ty at $600.00.

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