Re: Pisel in IA 1800s
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In reply to:
Pisel in IA 1800s
Sandra Cooper 5/28/01
My great, great grandmother was Anna Eliza/ Elizabeth Pizel. She was born around Gettysburg, which I think is Adams Co., PA, November 16, 1834 and died September 24, 1896. She got to Linn Co. Iowa and married Orris /Orice Hoadley Smith, November, 1853. She had maybe five of her twelve children while living in Linn Co. They moved to Madison County, Iowa and is buried at Pleasantview cemetery, Madison Co., Iowa. I have a photo of her tombstone and information about her descendants. I have a tintype photo of her son Thomas E. Smith born in 1863 with a young man of similar age identified as Charlie Pizel. He was apparently a relative of her, but no one knows how.
Maybe your Pisel and our Pizel are connected. Spelling changes were not uncommon.