_Robert Headley _+
_Joseph Headley _|
| |_Phebe Baldwin __
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|--Peter Headley
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| _________________
|_Martha Riker ___|
|_________________
[2000]
BIRTH: Fretz book of genealogy and Licking County, Ohio Cemetery
Records.
DEATH: Tombstone inscription reads: "Peter, died May 17, 1857, aged 75
years, 1 month, 23 days." Lists also wife Hannah, son William,
daughter Mary J., Lewis, and Samuel.
Additional information given about Peter at Cemetery: "In the month
of
February, 1815, Joseph and Peter Headley, with a colored man, settled
in Jersey
township. They split puncheons and built a structure in which they
lived;
they tapped maple trees and made sugar. Peter Headley soon went to
the land
office at Chillicothe, entered or purchased the southeast quarter of
section
24, for himself, the southwest quarter for Lewis Martin, and the
northwest
quarter for Richard Osborn. In November, 1816, William, son of Peter
Headley,
was born, being the first birth within the township. Peter Headley
was, in
1820, one of the township's first trustees."