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Howard J. DeEsch, son of Jessie W. and Anna C. (Shipe) DeEsch, was born Aug. 7, 1862, at Emaus, Pa. He was educated in the public schools and at an early age learned the trade of cigar-making, with Hanan Brothers, continuing with them four years. He then en- tered the employ of the P. & R. R. R. Co., as a trainman and on March 4, 1884, he was ap- pointed a conductor to run between Harrisburg and Allentown. He built a home in Emaus, but at present resides in Allentown. He is a member of the K. of P., of Emaus; of Barger Lodge No. 333, of Allentown; I. O. O. F .; Mystic Shrine, R. R. Relief Association, Conductors' Mutual Association and of Salem Reformed church.
Howard J. De Esch married Sept. 26, 1885, Laura J. Schmoyer, daughter of Thomas L. and Sallie ( Kocher) Schmoyer. Issue: Bessie G., a graduate of Allentown High School and Ermia L., a student.
FRANKLIN P. DE GROOT.
William H. De Groot, father of Franklin P. De Groot, of Catasauqua, was born in Pough- keepsie, N. Y. He died in 1880, aged about
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40 and is buried at Bath, Steuben county, N. Y. Philip Gross, and Mary Barbara, wife of George For some time he followed boating and later be- Henry. came an engineer on the Pennsylvania railroad. His son, George Deily, was born June 27, 1781, and died Nov. 21, 1870. During the Civil War he rendered valuable serv- ice to his country as a soldier. He was a mem- Joseph Deily, son of Christian, was born in Salisbury township, March 24, 1823. Early in life he was a carpenter and worked in Salisbury, in Hanover, and in Northampton county. Later he was a contractor and employed a number of men. He was a deacon, elder, and trustee of the Lutheran Church for many years and is buried at Rittersville. He was a prominent man and served in the capacity of school director and assessor. He died Aug. 16, 1900, aged 77 years. His wife was Sallie Keiper, daughter of Daniel Keiper. She was born in the spring of 1822, and resides with her daughter, Emma Horlacher, at Noxon, Pa. The following children were born to them: Edwin; Eli G., who died in 1903, aged 57 years; Jesse; Hiram; Oliver; Emma, wife of Frank Horlacher; Mary, wife of Jerome Christman, who resides in the Twelfth ward, and William. ber of the Methodist church. Caroline Stout, his wife, was also from Poughkeepsie, N. Y. She died May 2, 1911, aged 63 years, and is buried at Brooklyn, N. Y. They had an only son, Franklin P. De Groot, who resides at Cata- sauqua, Pa., where he is superintendent of the press department, in the Bryden Horse Shoe Works, for the past 25 years. He also has charge of the inspection of rolled iron. Mr. De Groot was born at Newberg, N. Y., May 2, 1865. At an early age he learned the machinist trade and in 1890 came to Catasauqua and has been in continuous service with the largest horse shoe manufacturing concern in the world. Mr. and Mrs. De Groot are members of the Presby- terian church. He is a member of Porter Lodge, No. 284, F. & A. M., and Catasauqua Chapter No. 278, Royal Arch Masons. On May 4, 1893, he was married to Lizzie Clugston, daughter of James and Elizabeth (McHenry) Clugston, a native of Ireland. For nine years Mrs. De Groot was a very successful teacher in the schools of Catasauqua. This family has been blessed with four children: Jarvis, who graduated from the Catasauqua High School in 1910 with first honor and from the Bethlehem Preparatory School in 1911, also with first honor, and is now taking the mechanical engineering course in Le- high University; James C., a student in the Catasauqua High school; Jennie, and Franklin P., Jr.
DEILY FAMILY.
Frederick Deily, the first of the name in this vicinity, lived in Bethlehem township, but later moved to Salisbury township, where he died Sept. II, 1790, aged 81 years. His sons were Philip, born April 12, 1754, died June 22, 1843, Daniel and George.
Daniel Deily was born in 1755. In the Revo- lutionary War, he enlisted Jan. 25, 1776, in the service of the United States, in the company of Capt. Thomas Craig, attached to the second bat- talion of the Penna. Line, ard marched with his battalion to Canada. He served over a year, when he was honorably discharged. He after- wards served as militiaman for two terms of three months each. In 1790 he lived in Sal- isbury township, and about 1815 moved to Allen- town, where he died, Feb. 12, 1825. He and his wife, Catharine, had six children: George, Christian, Henry, Jacob, Catharine, wife of
OLIVER DEILY, a son of Joseph and Sallie Deily, and a citizen of the Fourteenth ward, for- merly East Allentown, was born in Hanover township, Sept. 6, 1854. He learned the trade of a carpenter from his father at the age of seventeen years and followed it until 1882. Later he was a pattern-maker and had charge of the carpenters for the Allentown Iron Com- pany for twenty-eight years. In 1905, he en- gaged in the contracting business in East Al- lentown, where he has resided the greater part of his life. He erected twenty-five houses, aside from his other work, and employs from three to seven men. He served as a trustee in St. Joseph's Lutheran church for six years. He is connected with the P. O. S. of A., J. O. U. A. M., and Senior Mechanics.
He married, in 1874, Emma Kline, daughter of Enos and his wife, nee Rinker, Kline, and their children are: George G., of East Allen- town Charles F., of East Allentown, and Bertha, single, who was a public school teacher.
Jacob Deily was born Sept. 15, 1789, and died May 14, 1881, aged 91 years. He married, March 17, 1813, Mary Magdalena, daughter of George Geissinger, of Salisbury township. She was born Oct. 9, 1794, and died March 26, 1883, aged 88 years. They lived for a time on Lehigh street, Allentown. On June 23, 1821, his father-in-law bought a 159-acre farm south of Catasauqua, and they later removed to the farm. Mr. Geissinger died in 1823, and by de- cree of the orphans' court, the farm was awarded to Jacob Deily. They had six children :
Sarah Deily, born June 11, 1813, died Oct.
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3, 1840. She married, in September, 1830, Ru- dolphus Kent, born July 4, 1803, son of Rudol- phus and Mary Kent, of Morristown, N. J. They resided at Jenkintown. Mr. Kent was a general in the Mexican War. Mrs. Kent died Oct. 3, 1840. They had sons, Ellis, of Bethle- hem, and Brigadier General Jacob F. Kent, U. S. A., retired, of West Troy, N. Y.
George Deily, born Sept. 2, 1815, at Al- lentown. He attended the Allentown schools and in 1825 removed to the Deily farm with his parents. In 1849 he bought the canal store, lo- cated in the stone house at Race and Canal streets, Catasauqua, which he conducted until the flood of 1862, after which he retired. At the time of his death he owned two farms in Hanover, two in Allen, and one in South White- hall township. He died Nov. 17, 1902, aged 87 years, and was buried at Shoenersville. He married Eliza, youngest daughter of General Benjamin Fogel, and his wife, Anna Trexler. She was born Oct. 4, 1831, and died June 18. 1905. They had two children: George B. F. Deily, merchant, and coal dealer, and Mary, wife of Peter J. Laubach, both of Slatington.
Francis J. Deily was born at Allentown, July 31, 1824, and died at Catasauqua, Oct. IO, 1897. For many years he farmed the homestead and lived in the fine old colonial home built by George Taylor, signer of the Declaration of Independence. He married, in 1858, Sarah, daughter of Rudolph and Sabina Dech, of Bath, and had one daughter, Camilla E., wife of Dr. Charles E. Milson, who has three children, Ger- trude, Helen, and Ruth.
Solomon Deily, born Feb. 9, 1828, died July 24, 1872.
Matilda Deily, married, June 6, 1854, Rob- ert J. Yeager.
Clara, born 1835, died March 19, 1902, married Frank Medlar, and had two sons, Hen- ry and Albert, and one daughter, Mrs. Walter, of Bethlehem.
George Deily, third son of Frederick, was born in Philipsburg, N. J., in 1760. In the War of the Revolution he served two terms of two months each in 1777, when he marched to Whitemarsh. In 1778 he served on the frontiers for two months, and in 1781 he again entered the army as a volunteer and marched to Peekskill, N. Y. He lived in Salisbury township in 1790, but died in South Whitehall, April 17, 1847, aged 87, and is buried at Jordan Lutheran church. He was married, in 1787, by Rev. Goetz, to Maria Elizabeth Diehl, born about 1767.
DEIBERT FAMILY.
The name of the family was originally Tauber, signifying a dealer in doves. The name is still retained by a tributary of the main in Germany, whence the ancestors of the American stock emigrated. A peculiarity of some dialects in Germany, as well as of the Pennsylvania Ger- man vernacular, is the change of the initial "t" to "d," and the addition of the letter "t" to the suffix "er." Examples of the former change are the transition from Truckenmiller to Drucken- miller, Tiefenwifer to Diefenderfer, Taubler to Deibler ; the latter transition will be noticed in the change of Boger to Bogert, Herber to Herbert. Schiffer to Schiffert. Both of these changes appear in this family name. The first transition was made to Taubert, subsequently changed to Teubert. Other recent forms of the name are Deuber, Deuver, Deiber, Deubert, and Deibert. Thus these various forms appear in the names of Catharin Tauber (Mrs. John Adam Roeder) who came to America in 1724; Rev. R. Tauber, Hosmer, S. Dak .; Wilhelm Taubert (1811-1891), a prominent musician in Berlin, and composer of "Kinderlieder ;" Emil Taubert ( 1844-1895), teacher in Frederick Wil- helm's Gymnasium, dramatist and poet; Michael Teubert, later Michael Deiber, the first of the family in Lowhill; Michael Deiver, the first to settler in Berks county; Rev. S. Deuber, Man- kato, Minn .; Rev. G. Deiber, Elma, Ia.
The first member of this family known to have emigrated to America was Michael Deiver (Deiber), "b" being changed to "v," a pecu- liarity occurring in Evert, Gruver and many other names. He was the ancestor of the Dei- berts in Schuylkill county. He settled in Rich- mond township, Berks county, near Michael's church between the years 1714 and 1720. He emigrated from Wurtemberg, and brought with him three sons, Michael, Christopher, and Wil- helm, the oldest being three years of age. Chris- topher settled in Virginia. In 1744, Michael, married Miss Renschler, and Wilhelm, mar- ried Elizabeth Waver, obtained a tract of 300 acres in North Manheim township, Schuylkill county, Pa., along the road leading from Schuylkill Haven to Landingville. Their descendants located principally at Pottsville, Schuylkill Haven, and Orwigsburg, and consti- tute a numerous and notable branch of the Deibert family.
It was about the middle of the eighteenth century that Michael Deiber and Jacob Deiber (Teubert in the record) obtained from Johann Ulrich a tract of 400 acres in North Whitehall in what is known as Deibert's Valley. They
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were the ancestors of the Lehigh county branch of the Deibert family. In habits, religion, and distinctive family characteristics, there is so re- markable a similarity between the Lehigh county and Schuylkill county branches that their de- scent from a common ancestry is very obvious.
This tract was subsequently divided between Tobias and Jacob Deibert, sons of Michael Dei- ber, the former retaining the old log house in the southern section, which later became the pos- session of his son Tobias. He purchased an ad- joining farm from Peter Kuntz, which he occu- pied after selling the old homestead to Tilghman Klotz. Jacob built himself a new house in the northern section which successively became the property of his son Henry, his grandson Stephen and Tilghman, and his great grandson, Milton.
Little is known of the descendants of Jacob Deiber, one of the original settlers. In the latter part of the eighteenth century three Dei- bert brothers emigrated west.
George Adam Deibert, believed to be another brother, remained in Deibert Valley. These four brothers were contemporaries of the chil- dren of Jacob's brother, Michael, and can only be accounted for by assuming that they were children of Jacob.
Peter Deibert was a son of one of the brothers who emigrated. He was a blacksmith and plied his trade in Lowhill, assuming charge of the shop of Michael Deibert, after his death in 1825. He was unmarried, and in old age he joined his brothers in the West.
George Adam Deibert had these children; Jacob (1794-1859), blind; Daniel (1801-) ; Michael, blind; Joseph (1857-1870), blind ; George, almost blind; Mrs. Arndt, mother of blind children; Mrs. Moyer, mother of blind children.
Michael Deiber left his home in Deibert's Valley and settled in Lowhill, his name appear- ing on the tax list of that township in 1762. In 1774, he purchased a tract of 25 acres from the heirs of Nicholas Sieger. This tract was con- veyed to Nicholas Sieger in 1759 by John Shade, who obtained it by proprietary warrant in 1754. In 1774, Michael Deiber also acquired another tract of 97 acres adjoining the first tract, from Jacob Wolf for one hundred pounds, and one penny. These latter tracts were sold to Lewis Ruschel in 1778 for one hundred and seventy- eight pounds. On the deed appear the names of Col. Stephen Balliet and Martin Groff as wit- nesses. These tracts formed the nucleus of Col. Harry Trexler's vast animal reserve. This tract was known as the Geiger farm, and is at present tenanted by James Snyder. He was a black- smith by trade. He was married to Maria Bar-
bara, and had these children: „Michael ( 1756- 1825), John (1766-), Tobias, Jacob, and Mar- garitha (1761-).
Michael Deibert, Sr., son of Michael Deiber, took an extensive section of land lying on both sides of the Jordan, and lived in the house lately occupied by the family if Solomon Klotz. He was a blacksmith and his shop was located op- posite his house across the road. He was a mem- ber of the building committee that superintended the erection of the Union Church in 1797, and was also a member of the committee formed to conduct a lottery, authorized by act of Assembly, to defray the expense incurred in erecting a new school building at Unionville in 1808. It is now used as a dwelling house of the organist of Union church. He was married to Barbara Gross (1764-1840), and had these children: Michael (1785-1858), John (1790-1862), Jonas, Dan- iel (1787-1861), and Catharine ( 1792-1850).
Michael Deiber, Jr., and his brothers took the old tract and divided it. Michael took the section south of the Jordan constituting at pres- ent the farms of Henry Shoemaker and Charles George. John kept the old homestead, and later built himself a new brick house upon that part of his tract now owned by Frank Ult. Daniel took the part that was later owned by Moses Wehr, and is at present a part of Col. Harry C. Trexler's tract. Jonas who moved to Weisen- berg township, received the rest of the tract. Michael and his son Dennis took charge of a store and hotel in Schencksville in 1833, but they returned to the Lowhill homestead in 1840. Later Michael erected a new home which was occupied by his son Reuben, with whom he lived until his death in 1858. He was a member of the building committee that erected the Morgen- land church. He was married to Salome New- hard (1790-1870) and had these children: James (1809-1826), Joseph (1815-1828), Mary, Dennis (1812-1872) ; Reuben (1825- 1898) and Solomon ( 1827-1904).
Dennis was married to Rachel Jacob (1811- 1859), and had two children, Michael and Sarah Anna. Michael was inarried to Jane Newhard, and had these children: Dennis A., married to Jennie Buchecker; William, married to Emma Groman; Magdalena, married to William L. Rau; Ida M .; Annie R. ( -1889) and Clara E. ( -1880). He has nine grand children. Sarah Anna was married to Benjamin Dornblaser, and has these children: Theodore Dennis, married to Edna Mertzler; Annie Rachel, married to Llwellyn Allender (first husband) and Francis Clauser (second husband) ; Magdalena (died) ; George William (died). She has seven grand- children and two great-grandchildren.
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Reuben Deiber lived on the farm which he received from his father until several years prior to his death when he moved to Ruhtown. He was successful as a veterinary surgeon, and was a school director in Lowhill for twenty-one years. He was married to Caroline Schneck ( 1831-1908) and had these children : Mary, Martha (Mrs. Owen Werley), Fietta (MIrs. Irwin Ackey), Alice blind ( 1857-1867), Re- becca, blind, James, blind. There are six grand- children and one great grand child.
Solomon Deibert was a shoemaker by trade. He made shoes in Philadelphia for a short time and then conducted the business in Schencks- ville for many years. He was married to Fi- anna Sell (1833-1890). He had five sons: Jo- seph P., married to Flora A. Kern; Milton, mar- ried to Jane Hausman; Charles, married to Maude Slotterback; George and Franklin. There were five daughters: Maggie (Mrs. Au- gustus Steckler) ; Emma married to Rev. J. S. Miller, who has four children and two grand children; Sarah (Mrs. A. J. Baer) ; who has two children; and Carrie (Mrs. Q. A. Kueh- ner), who died Jan. 21, 1914.
Joseph Deibert has three sons: Rev. Willis E. Deibert, Birdsboro, Pa .; Edward J. Deibert, M. D., Hellertown, Pa .; Arthur S., a student at Muhlenberg College.
Milton Deibert lives on a farm near South Boardman, Mich. He has these children: Wil- liam, Harry, Artie, Glen, Roy, and Blanche.
Charles M. Deiber, M. D., practices in Mill- bury, Ohio. He has two children, Lisle and Austin.
George S. Deibert, M. D., is a successful practitioner in Allentown.
John Deibert was married to Maria Krause (1797-1829), later to Miss Moyer ( 1799-1878). He had these children: Jonathan, Reuben, Nath- an, Lewis, Elizabeth, Simon, Abigail, Jeremiah, Mary and Amy. All these children were born in the old Deibert homestead, later the home of Solomon Klotz.
Amy was married to Mr. Kleckner, and later to Henry Anderson. She had eight children. She died in Ohio.
Nathan was married to Kate Landis, and later to Lovina Landis. Four children were born to him. He moved to Indiana.
Elizabeth was married to James Mickley. She had three children and seven grandchildren.
Lewis was married to Eliza Moll, and had one child.
Reuben was a blacksmith. He had these chil- dren: Sarah (Mrs. Fink) ; who had nine chil- dren and six grandchildren; Jane (Mrs. Dill- man), who had nine children and seven grand-
children; Louisa (\Irs. Samuel Shafer), who had eight children and one grandchild; Emma (Mrs. Moyer), who had five children and five grandchildren; Thomas; John Thompson, who had twelve children, viz: Harvey, Ida, William, Laura, Harry, Paul, Elda, Dora, Florence, Oram, Earl, and Emily, and five grandchildren; Susan (MIrs. Pennington) who has one son ; Alice (Mrs. Dillman), who has five children and two grandchildren; Milton went to the West, where he was a cowboy; Frank has four chil- dren, Carrie, Hattie, Clarke (dead), and Reu- ben.
Jonathan followed the trade of blacksmith. Though past four score years, he is as active and spry as many far younger. He lives at Weiss- port and works regularly at the Packerton car shops. His children are Agnes (Mrs. Irwin), Ella (Mrs. Brown), Carrie (Mrs. Nusbaum) and Mary.
Mary (Mrs. Henry Peter), sister of Jona- than, had these children: James, married to Jen- nie Lees; Alexander, married to Nellie Christ; Charles, married to Emma Keller, living in Col- orado; Laura, married to Charles Moyer ; Mary, married to Tilghman Frederick; Minnie. She has thirteen grandchildren and eight great-grand- children.
Abigail is married to John Scheidy, and is living on the old Scheidy homestead near Rising Sun. Her children are: James, married to Katie Hess; Lizzie, married to Osville Snyder ; Ella, married to William Fritzinger. She has eleven grandchildren and two great grandchil- dren.
Jeremiah died in 1912.
Simon lives in Indiana. He is married to Miss Landis.
Jonas, brother of John, lived in Northamp- ton county.
Daniel Deibert was married to Elizabeth Buchman ( 1790-1852). He had six children : Thomas, Maria, William, Tamer, Caroline, and Elizabeth.
Thomas had these children: Seth, killed in war, Benjamin, Jeremiah, Helena, married to Mr. Moyer, later to Mr. Albright, and Rosa, married to Mr. Frey.
Maria was married to Fred Young, and had one child, Oscar.
William was born in Weisenberg, July 3, 1825. He was a director of the Lehigh county Almshouse, and a school director of North Whitehall from 1873 to 1879. He is a shoe- · maker by trade which occupation he followed for many years at Kernsville, and is still actively engaged in at Siegersville. He married Mary Semler in 1857, and had these children: Jus-
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tina (Mrs. Henry Druckenmiller), who had one son, Harry, married to Stella Koch; Ellen (Mrs. Oscar Sechler), who had two children, Robert and Mabel; Frank, married to Ellen Haines, whose children were William, Jennie, Bessie and Alice married to Dallas Frankenfield.
Caroline (Mrs. Thomas Fenstermaker) had three children: Henry, married to Miss Xander ; William, married to Alice Fatzinger; Caroline; and Sarah, married to Ed. Gaumer.
Elizabeth, married to Daniel Acker, had three children: Elizabeth (Mrs. Sterner), Jemima (Mrs. Charles Schaefer), and Ada (Mrs. The- odore Keiser ).
Catharine Deibert (Mrs. Philip Peter) had the following children: Maria, married to Samuel Dreisbach; Eliza, married to Samuel Kressler, had five children,-Thomas, married to Amelia Hoffman, John, married to Elmira Zellner, Elizabeth (Mrs. Thomas Everitt), Amandas, killed in war, and Alvin, and ten grandchildren, sixteen great grandchildren, and two great great grand-children; Leah, married to Jacob Wotring; Moses, married to Leanda Hausman, whose children were Marsena (Mrs. Amos Trach), Kate ( Mrs. Andrew Haas), Os- ville, married to Jane Sensinger, Magdalena (Mrs. Henry Hollenbach), Ellen Jane (Mrs. Wilson Coffin), Elmira (Mrs. Frank Seibert), Emma (Mrs. Peter Conochie) ; Santee, married to Clarissa Hausman, had these children,-Richard Erasmus, Wilson, Howard, Fianna, Clara, Ida; Susanna (Mrs. Thomas Engler) ; Aaron; Ed- ward; Lewis P., married to Amanda Knerr, had four children,-Ambrose, married to Lena Pav- ey, has seven children, Charles has two children, Sallie (Mrs. Al Fritz) has two children and two grand children, Hilda and Lewis.
Jacob Deibert, son of Michael Deiber, had possession of the northern section of the original Deiber tract in Deibert's Dale, and remained there until death. He was married to Salome Helfrich, and had two sons, Henry and Daniel, and two daughters,-Sallie (1799-), married to John Miller, and Catharine (1801-), married to Jacob Solt.
Henry Deibert (1804-1859) was married to Christina Miller (1807-1887), He had these children : Stephen (1836-1901), Tilghman (1833-1888) ; Matilda, married to Stephen Zellner, and Sarah A. ( 1842-1895.
Stephen Deibert was married to Fianna Dei- bert (1841-1906). He had four children: Peter W., Benjamin, Cora (Mrs. Walter Hoff- man), who has two children, Percy and Leslie, -and Maggie (Mrs. Charles Dieter). Peter W. Deibert was married to Stella Haaf and later to Rosa Ringer. His children are Edna
(Mrs. Edward Johnson), who has one child, Florence and Helen, Minnie, Florence, and Mar- ian. Benjamin Deibert, married to Ada Hoff- man, has two children, Homer and Warren.
Tilghman Deibert was married to Julia Sem- mel. They had one child. Milton married to Alice Kressler, who had one daughter, Carrie, (Mrs. Edward Rabert).
Daniel Deibert had these children: Messina (Mrs. David Huff) had nine children,-Eugene, Oscar, Edward, married to Susan Remaley, Anna (Mrs. Zachary T. Wink), Clara (Mrs. E. F. Schertzinger), Calvin, married to Amanda Kern, Almer, married to Annie Rosser, William, married to Carrie Willmore, and Daisy, married to Abram Behm, and has sixteen grandchildren, and three great grandchildren; Elmina (Mrs. Wm. F. Hecker) has three children, Isola (Mrs. J. Y. Schelly), Annie (Mrs. H. O. Ritter), Julia (Mrs. Ralph Rhoda), and six grand chil- dren: Amelia (Mrs. Wm. Metzgar) has five children,-Fred, married to Miss Snyder, Anna (Mrs. Henry Harter), Jane (Mrs. O. E. Mank), Ida (Mrs. Julius German), Nora (Mrs. Clinton Schaeffer), and seventeen grandchildren, and one great grand child; Elias (1840-1863) married Catharine Handwerk. Clement has two children, Fred and Hollie.
Tobias Deibert, Sr., son of Michael Deibert, came into possession of his father's home, situ- ated in the southern section of the original tract. He was married to Catharine Helfrich and had the following children: Tobias (1805-1882), William (1814-1890), married to Margaret Helfrich (1818-1856), Peter (1812-1857), married to Susanna Newhard (1814-1884), Catharine (Mrs. John Roth), Salome (1811- 1890), married to J. Yehl, Christiana ( 1809- 1881), married to Daniel Zerfass ( 1804-1881).
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