George Heisler was born on June 16, 1784, in Germantown, Pennsylvania, the son of George Jacob and Anna Kinninda Heisler, and died on December 28, 1848, in Pottsville, Pennsylvania.
George Heisler was a surveyor.
He lived in Orwigsburg, Pennsylvania, then to Schuylkill Haven, Pennsylvania and then to Pottsville, Pennsylvania, where the family had a house on North Center Street.
He served as a Justice of the Peace in Pottsville, Pennsylvania.
He married Anna Maria Yost, the daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth Barbara (Hillegas) Yost, on March 8, 1807, in Brunswick Township, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania.
He is buried in the Presbyterian Cemetery in Pottsville, Pennsylvania.
1820 U.S. Census, Brunswick, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, pop. sch. 38.
1830 U.S. Census, Schuylkill, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, pop .sch. 47 (handwritten).
1840 U.S. Census, Pottsville, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, pop. sch. 196.
Ancestry.com. Pennsylvania and New Jersey, U.S., Church and Town Records, 1669-2013 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011 (citing Historic Pennsylvania Church and Town Records. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Methodist Church Records. Valley Forge, Pennsylvania: Eastern Pennsylvania United Methodist Church Commission on Archives and History).
Ancestry.com. Pennsylvania, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1683-1993 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015 (citing Pennsylvania County, District and Probate Courts).
Adolf W. Schalck and Hon. D.C. Henning (ed), History of Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania (State Historical Association; 1907), vol. II, p. 239.
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