(NOTE: The portrait here of Peter and his second wife Eliza Blackmore has been copied from here and incorrectly shared on other sites as Peter with his second wife. PLEASE note this is Eliza Blackmore in the photo.)
Peter was born in Minden, New York. He was the son of Peter and Sarah Houk Reasner. He was a wagon maker by trade when he married Sally Shoemaker on April 14, 1833. By the next year they were living in Royalton, Niagra, New York where Peter gained a son, Abram, but lost his 23 year old wife. It was her birthday.
Sometime between 1835 and 1842, he moved to Newstead, Erie, New York with his widowed mother, Sarah Houck Reasner. Most likely she was taking care of her grandson, Abram. She died in July of 1842 and Peter married Eliza Blackmore four months later on November 14th.
Two years into marriage, Peter suffered loss again when their firstborn son, Charles (1844), died as a toddler. Baby Charles was buried with Grandma Sarah in Maple Lawn Cemetery in Newstead.
Peter and Eliza's next child, Richard (1845) became deaf at the age of nine after a bout of Scarlet Fever. Since there was no education for the deaf, the Reasner family had to create their own way of helping their son live in a world without sound.
Peter and Eliza's family expanded with Edward (1847), Catherine (1849), Walter (1853) and finally Philippa Ann (1856). They moved to Groveland, Oakland, Michigan sometime between 1850 and 1853. Peter had a house full of children between seven and fourteen when grief struck again with the death of Eliza in 1863. She was forty-one.
Within a matter of months, Peter remarried and moved to where Mary Marquette lived, Fenton, Genesee, Michigan. She understood and accepted her immediate role as stepmother to four grieving children and husband. Seven years later, she would have to companion Peter and the family through another loss, the death of her step-daughter Catherine, age twenty-two.
Peter and Mary had been married twenty-eight years when he left her a widow.
Peter was born in Minden, New York. He was the son of Peter and Sarah Houk Reasner. He was a wagon maker by trade when he married Sally Shoemaker on April 14, 1833. By the next year they were living in Royalton, Niagra, New York where Peter gained a son, Abram, but lost his 23 year old wife. It was her birthday.
Sometime between 1835 and 1842, he moved to Newstead, Erie, New York with his widowed mother, Sarah Houck Reasner. Most likely she was taking care of her grandson, Abram. She died in July of 1842 and Peter married Eliza Blackmore four months later on November 14th.
Two years into marriage, Peter suffered loss again when their firstborn son, Charles (1844), died as a toddler. Baby Charles was buried with Grandma Sarah in Maple Lawn Cemetery in Newstead.
Peter and Eliza's next child, Richard (1845) became deaf at the age of nine after a bout of Scarlet Fever. Since there was no education for the deaf, the Reasner family had to create their own way of helping their son live in a world without sound.
Peter and Eliza's family expanded with Edward (1847), Catherine (1849), Walter (1853) and finally Philippa Ann (1856). They moved to Groveland, Oakland, Michigan sometime between 1850 and 1853. Peter had a house full of children between seven and fourteen when grief struck again with the death of Eliza in 1863. She was forty-one.
Within a matter of months, Peter remarried and moved to where Mary Marquette lived, Fenton, Genesee, Michigan. She understood and accepted her immediate role as stepmother to four grieving children and husband. Seven years later, she would have to companion Peter and the family through another loss, the death of her step-daughter Catherine, age twenty-two.
Peter and Mary had been married twenty-eight years when he left her a widow.
(NOTE: The portrait here of Peter and his second wife Eliza Blackmore has been copied from here and incorrectly shared on other sites as Peter with his second wife. PLEASE note this is Eliza Blackmore in the photo.)
Peter was born in Minden, New York. He was the son of Peter and Sarah Houk Reasner. He was a wagon maker by trade when he married Sally Shoemaker on April 14, 1833. By the next year they were living in Royalton, Niagra, New York where Peter gained a son, Abram, but lost his 23 year old wife. It was her birthday.
Sometime between 1835 and 1842, he moved to Newstead, Erie, New York with his widowed mother, Sarah Houck Reasner. Most likely she was taking care of her grandson, Abram. She died in July of 1842 and Peter married Eliza Blackmore four months later on November 14th.
Two years into marriage, Peter suffered loss again when their firstborn son, Charles (1844), died as a toddler. Baby Charles was buried with Grandma Sarah in Maple Lawn Cemetery in Newstead.
Peter and Eliza's next child, Richard (1845) became deaf at the age of nine after a bout of Scarlet Fever. Since there was no education for the deaf, the Reasner family had to create their own way of helping their son live in a world without sound.
Peter and Eliza's family expanded with Edward (1847), Catherine (1849), Walter (1853) and finally Philippa Ann (1856). They moved to Groveland, Oakland, Michigan sometime between 1850 and 1853. Peter had a house full of children between seven and fourteen when grief struck again with the death of Eliza in 1863. She was forty-one.
Within a matter of months, Peter remarried and moved to where Mary Marquette lived, Fenton, Genesee, Michigan. She understood and accepted her immediate role as stepmother to four grieving children and husband. Seven years later, she would have to companion Peter and the family through another loss, the death of her step-daughter Catherine, age twenty-two.
Peter and Mary had been married twenty-eight years when he left her a widow.
Peter was born in Minden, New York. He was the son of Peter and Sarah Houk Reasner. He was a wagon maker by trade when he married Sally Shoemaker on April 14, 1833. By the next year they were living in Royalton, Niagra, New York where Peter gained a son, Abram, but lost his 23 year old wife. It was her birthday.
Sometime between 1835 and 1842, he moved to Newstead, Erie, New York with his widowed mother, Sarah Houck Reasner. Most likely she was taking care of her grandson, Abram. She died in July of 1842 and Peter married Eliza Blackmore four months later on November 14th.
Two years into marriage, Peter suffered loss again when their firstborn son, Charles (1844), died as a toddler. Baby Charles was buried with Grandma Sarah in Maple Lawn Cemetery in Newstead.
Peter and Eliza's next child, Richard (1845) became deaf at the age of nine after a bout of Scarlet Fever. Since there was no education for the deaf, the Reasner family had to create their own way of helping their son live in a world without sound.
Peter and Eliza's family expanded with Edward (1847), Catherine (1849), Walter (1853) and finally Philippa Ann (1856). They moved to Groveland, Oakland, Michigan sometime between 1850 and 1853. Peter had a house full of children between seven and fourteen when grief struck again with the death of Eliza in 1863. She was forty-one.
Within a matter of months, Peter remarried and moved to where Mary Marquette lived, Fenton, Genesee, Michigan. She understood and accepted her immediate role as stepmother to four grieving children and husband. Seven years later, she would have to companion Peter and the family through another loss, the death of her step-daughter Catherine, age twenty-two.
Peter and Mary had been married twenty-eight years when he left her a widow.
Gravesite Details
Peter's grave is unmarked. Cemetery records have him buried with his son and daughter-in-law, Abram and Mary Blackmore Reasner.
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