Tuscola County MI Archives Photo Tombstone.....Deitz, Melvina 
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Cemetery:           Ellington Township Cemetery
Name:               Melvina Deitz

Date Of Photograph: August 3, 2009
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This headstone in Block 1, Lot 41 of Ellington Cemetery is inscribed “MELVINA” 
and marks the resting place of Melvina (Mallory) Deitz (October 4, 1848 – 
April 24, 1868), the first wife of John Deitz (December 11, 1838 – 1908). She 
was a daughter of Vanranseler Nelson “Nelson” Mallory and Mary (May) Mallory.  
John and Melvina had one child, Damon S. Deitz (April 4, 1868 – August 5, 
1930). 

On May 1, 1869, John married Melvina’s sister, Elizabeth (Mallory) Deitz 
(January 10, 1852 – August 21, 1877).  John and Elizabeth had five children:

James Bradley Deitz (1870 – May 1941), who married Maude Edith Lazelle;
Lucy E. Deitz (December 7, 1871 - ?);
John H. Deitz (December 23, 1873 - ?), who married Helen Gertrude “Gertrude” 
Hooper;
Tinnie Deitz (April 1, 1876 – February 14, 1877); and
Fannie Deitz (January 27, 1877 – February 14, 1877).

In February 1880 John Deitz married his third wife Mary L. (Davis) Deitz.  
John and Mary had no children.

There is also a John Deitz family monument on this lot.  The top of the 
monument has fallen from its base and is lying on one of its sides so any 
inscription that may be on that side is not visible.  Each of the other three 
sides contains an inscription; one for John’s first wife Melvina (Mallory) 
Deitz, one for his wife Elizabeth (Mallory) Deitz, and one for his daughter 
Tinnie Deitz.

Note:  Excerpt from The New Era (Caro, Michigan newspaper), May 15, 1891, Page 
5, col. 1:
“Another nice monument was placed in the Ellington Cemetery by John Deitz to 
mark the resting place of his first and second wives and little daughter.” 


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