Adam Diehl
(Bet 1756/1764-)
Marie
Peter Siegfried
(1756/1774-)
Susanna
Solomon Diehl Sr.
(1782-1865)
Anna Elisabeth Siegfried
(1807-1857)
Uriah Solomon Diehl
(1832-1897)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. Catherine Kneitz

Uriah Solomon Diehl 1 2 3 4 5

  • Born: 2 Mar 1832, Lowhill Twp., Lehigh, PA 2 3 6
  • Marriage (1): Catherine Kneitz
  • Died: 2 Nov 1897, Cetronia, Lehigh, PA, USA at age 65 4 6
  • Buried: 5 Nov 1897, Leather Corner Post: Morgenland Church Cemetery, Lehigh, PA 4

   FamilySearch ID: 273J-BFZ.

  Noted events in his life were:

1. He has conflicting birth information of Uriah's obituary states he live 65 yrs 8 days wich is a birth on 25 Oct 1832, 25 Oct 1832 and Lowhill Twp., Lehigh, PA. 4

2. Census in 1850 in Lowhill Twp., Lehigh, PA. 3 The 1850 census recorded several Diehl families as neighors, everyone born in Pennsylvania...

Solomon Diehle, farmer, 68, was living with Ann, 44; Jesse, farmer, 30; Eli, mason, 25; Solomon, mason, 23; Uriah, laborer, 18; Syllasty, 13; and Matilda, 6.

Next door is Jonathan Diehl, farmer, 40; Prisylla, 30; Mazetta, 9; Griff E P, 7; Elmira, 3.

Next door is Jonas Diehl, shoemaker, 28; Deborah, 28; son Bennville, 7; Benjamin, 6; Carolina, 4; Thomas, 2; John Diehl, laborer, 63; Catharina, 56.

3. Census in 1880 in Lowhill Twp., Lehigh, PA. 7 The 1880 census recorded Solomon Diehl, stone mason, 52, living with wife Sarah, 53; Daniel, 11; and Charles, 9. Next door is Henry Diehl, 11, working as a servant in the home of farmer George Klotz, 31, and his wife Mary, 32. Everyone and their parents were born in Pennsylvania.

On the same page is Solomon's brother, Uriah Diehl, laborer, 48, living with his mother, Anna, 73; and Uriah's sons Harris, 14; and Franklin, 7.

Also on this page is Rosa Diehl, 15, servant in the home of farmer Owen Werley, 33, and his wife Martha, 29.

4. Obituary: Allentown Democrat: obituary of Uriah Diehl on 10 Nov 1897 in Allentown, Lehigh, PA. 4 Uriah Diehl, who lived with his son Horace near Cetronia, died on Tuesday of last week, and was buried in the cemetery attached to the Morgenland Church last Friday afternoon, Rev. Dr. E. J. Fogel officiating. The cause of death was disentery, after an illness of ten days. He brought his age to 65 years and 8 days. He was a widower, and is survived by two sons -- Horace, of Cetronia, and Frank, or Allentown. He was a member of the Lowhill Mutual Aid Association, four of the members of which acted as pall bearers, viz., Benjamin F. Heilman, Phaon Baer, Willoughby Buchman and Jonathan Haaf.


Uriah married Catherine Kneitz. (Catherine Kneitz was born about 1840 in Macungie Twp., Lehigh, PA 2 and died in Jun 1873.)


Sources


1 Roberts, Charles Rhodes, History Of Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, Volume II (Allentown, Pa., Lehigh Valley Pub. Co., 1914. 3 volumes, illustrated, maps. Prepared by a committee appointed by the Lehigh County Historical Society; chapters contributed by various writers.).

2 1870 United States Census, Pennsylvania, Lehigh County, Lowhill Township, Page 380a.

3 1850 United States Census, Year: 1850; Census Place: Lowhill, Lehigh, Pennsylvania; Roll: M432_792; Page: 394B; Image: 786.

4 Allentown Democrat (Allentown, PA), 10 Nov 1897, page 2. Obituary of Uriah Diehl.

5 FamilySearch.org, Pennsylvania, County Marriages, 1885 - 1950, https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/VFWM-VPZ Uriah Diehl in entry for Horace U Diehl and Mary A Rabenold, 26 Oct 1926; citing Marriage, Pennsylvania, county courthouses, Pennsylvania; FHL microfilm 2,080,293.

6 LeVan, Russell George, Early Immigrants from Germany and Switzerland to Eastern Pennsylvania (Gateway Press Inc, Baltimore, 1990), Page 261.

7 1880 United States Census, Year: 1880; Census Place: Lowhill, Lehigh, Pennsylvania; Roll: 1147; Family History Film: 1255147; Page: 606C; Enumeration District: 206; Image: 0675.



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