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- This name spelled both Piersol and Peirsel was borne by an ancient Protestant family of France who fled from that country to escape religious persecution and found asylum in the mountains of Wales .. From thence in 1717 a branch came to Chester county, Pennsylvania, where William Piersol was born in 1748, died in Perry township, Fayette county, Pennsylvania, 1848, a centenarian. William with his wife, Grace (Cope) Piersol, then a bride, settled in Fayette county and in 1784 made his first purchase of land in Perry township. They at first lived in a hastily built cabin and there passed through all the experiences incident to pioneer life. He prospered and as the forest gave way to cultivated fields built a very handsome log house that is yet standing. The old farm at Washington Bottom is yet owned in the family. Tradition says William Piersol served in the revolutionary war. William and Grace Piersol both attained a great length of days, he dying at one hundred and she at ninety-four years of age. Their children, eight in number, attained an average age of eighty years, one of them, Jeremiah, dying at the age of ninety-three years. Children of William and Grace (Cope) Piersol : 1. John, born July 4, 1782; married Anne Morrison, of Fayette county, and moved to Stark county, Ohio, thence to Trumbull county, Ohio, thence to Mercer county, Pennsylvania; twelve children. 2. Sarah, born February 24, 1785; married, May 3, 1803, Richard Osborn, of Fayette county, and moved to Trumbull county, Ohio; six children. 3. Jeremiah, born March 4, 1787; married Mary Beal. 4. Samuel, born July 24, 1789; married, 1819, Sarah, daughter of Micajah and Esther Smith, of Redstone township, Fayette county; four children. 5. Mary, born December 17, 1792; married Nicholas Beal and moved to Guernsey county, Ohio, in 1821; he died in Union county, Ohio; eleven children. 6. Elizabeth, married, 1818, Samuel, son of Jonathan and Edith Sharpless, of Jefferson township, Fayette county; six children. 7. William, born May 4, 1797; married, 1826, Edith, daughter of Jonathan and Edith Sharpless, of Jefferson township .. 8. James, of whom further information is not known.
Source: Genealogical and Personal History of Fayette County Pennsylvania, Volumes I-II. New York, Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1912.
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William Piersol
Revolutionary War - Pennsylvania
Rank: Private
Service Description:
1) CAPT. JOHN GRAHAM, 1ST CO, 1ST BATT
2) CHESTER CO, MIL.
Source: http://services.dar.org/public/dar_research/search_adb
Note: Listed in records as William Pearsall, but birth & death dates match as well as spouse name
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Joan Lyons, Curator of the Old State Bank Museum, Perryopolis, PA
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1749 - 1848 (99 years)
