Magdalena Dreisbach

Life

1. 1743Born · Pennsylvania, United States
2. 1763Married George William Dieter
3. 1813Died · Zion Stone Church Cemetery, Northamapton, PA, USA

Their story

Magdalena Dreisbach. In the 1774 will of Georg Wilhelm Diethard (George William Dieter), a farmer of Lehigh Township, Northampton Co., Jost Dreisbach is termed his brother-in-law. This indicates that Jost was the brother of Dieter's wife, Magdalena. No baptismal record of a Magdalena Dreisbach has been found in the reliable Feudingen church records, but she might have been born either during the journey to Pennsylvania in 1743, or after the family's arrival. If she was born in 1743 or later, she would have been too young to be the mother of the older Dieter children mentioned in her husband's will. (Only one was young enough, in 1774, to be assigned a guardian.) After her husband's death in about 1775, Magdalena Dieter appears in a Lehigh Township tax list covering the period 1774-1806, and is taxed on 150 acres. The record maintained by Rev. Frederic W. Mendson speaks of the December 1811 burial of an unspecified "widow Dieter" at Indianland Church in northern Northampton County, and says this widow was born in 1724. (This cannot be Magdalena, since Maria Catharina was born to Simon Dreisbach and his wife in 1724 and was buried in Feudingen the following year.) In any event, Magdalena Dieter is mentioned as deeased in a petition of the Dieter heirs made in November 1813.

Family