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David Porter Peary

Male 1822 - 1901  (79 years)


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Generation: 1

  1. 1.  David Porter Peary was born on 4 Sep 1822 in Denmark, Oxford Co, Maine, USA (son of Moses Peary and Huldah Kimball); died on 19 Sep 1901 in .

    Notes:

    David Porter Peary (also spelled Peavey) was the son of War of 1812 veteran Moses Peary, and was born in 1822 in Denmark, Oxford County. In September, 1850, he was a Sandy River farmer who owned $50 in real estate and lived with the family of David and Betsy Hoar. He married their daughter Deborah later that year and in 1860 was a farm laborer in Rangeley with two daughters. Peary enlisted from Rangeley in Company E, 13th Maine Infantry, on December 10, 1861. He re-enlisted on February 29, 1864, and was transferred to Company B, 30th Maine Infantry, on January 5, 1865, when the 13th was mustered out. He was mustered out with the 30th Maine on August 20, 1865, at Savannah, Georgia.. In 1870, Peary was a farmer in Rangeley with three children, real estate worth $600, and other assets valued at $160. He and his wife lived in Rangeley in 1880 with their four daughters and an infant grandson, David. Peary applied for a pension in 1883. In 1900, he and his wife, who had been married for 50 years, were living in Greenvale Plantation, which soon became part of Sandy River. He died on September 19, 1901. His widow applied for a pension that year and died in 1916. They are buried in Evergreen Cemetery; stones for them and their daughter Florence are at the Schoolhouse Cemetery.

    David married Deborah Hoar. Deborah (daughter of David Hoar, Sr. and Elizabeth Toothaker) was born on 23 May 1831 in ; died on 11 Feb 1923 in ; was buried in Rangeley, Franklin Co, Maine, USA (Evergreen Cemetery). [Group Sheet]

    Children:
    1. Earnest David Peary was born on 8 Sep 1880 in Rangeley, Franklin Co, Maine, USA.

Generation: 2

  1. 2.  Moses Peary

    Moses married Huldah Kimball. [Group Sheet]


  2. 3.  Huldah Kimball
    Children:
    1. 1. David Porter Peary was born on 4 Sep 1822 in Denmark, Oxford Co, Maine, USA; died on 19 Sep 1901 in .