BIO:  Peter DIETZ, Sr., York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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Part II, Biographical Sketches, Wrightsville Borough and Hellam Township, Pg 76

PETER DIETZ, SR., was born in Hellam Township July 14, 1812.  His parents were 
Peter and Susannah (Lieppart) Dietz, of York County, and of German descent.  
They had a family of seven sons and two daughters, of whom Peter, Sr., was the 
third son.  He was brought up on a farm, and educated at the German schools of 
his native township.  His whole life was devoted to farming, from which he 
retired in 1872, residing nearly all the time in the township in which he was 
born.  In 1836 he was married in lower Windsor Township to Mary Luppert, who 
died in 1873, aged about sixty-two years, leaving a family of eleven children:  
Rebecca, Susan, Jacob, Mary, Elizabeth, Peter, Rachel, Michael, Daniel, Levi 
(deceased) and Sarah (deceased).  The family belong to the German Reformed 
Church.  David Newcomer was born in Hellam Township in 1841.  His parents were 
John and Lena (Lehman) Newcomer, of York County, and of English and German 
descent, respectively.  He was brought up on the farm and educated in the public 
schools.  Learning the shoe-making trade, he has followed it ever since.  He was 
married, in May, 1870, to Elizabeth Dietz, and had two children:  Annie and 
Sadie, deceased.  Mr. Newcomer was a school director one year.