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March 2007
(generations 1,2,3,4,5 etc. are numbered 1,3,5,7,9 etc. Additional spouses are 2,4,6,8 etc.)
Compiled by Gordon Speer, 3304 Woodlawn Road, Sterling, IL 61081
1,1 George DIHEL (1750-2/11/1822) m. 5/25/1773 Rosina HOFFMAN (1753- ) Philadelphia,PA
They were married in St. Michael’s and Zion Church in Philadelphia, and lived in
Northampton County. In the Revolutionary War George was 2nd Corporal in the 1st
Company, 3rd Battalion, in the Northampton County Militia (probably under James
R. Thorne). The DAR Index has his name spelled 'Diehl', and that he was born
and died in Pennsylvania.
3,11 George DIHEL II (A SUPPOSITION based on the 1850 Census of Rockbridge Co. VA) married
a Susan, who was born in Ireland about 1783, widowed before 1850, and still cared
for a family of five children: James, Samuel, Franklin, John McHenry, and Elizabeth.
3,12 Samuel DIHEL (1782-1840) m. about 1810 Nancy Jane McDONALD (1788-1820) Bristol, PA
He was born in Bristol, Bucks Co. PA. She came from the Highlands of Scotland.
5,121 Katherine DIHEL (1810-5/8/1875) m.OH 9/15/1829 William Gilmore PAXTON (1800-1873)
They were both born in Rockbridge Co. VA and died in Mercer Co. IL.
Katherine and William had at least two sons who accompanied their Uncle
Samuel M. Dihel from Indiana to Sunbeam, Illinois to homestead a farm.
David could only have been about six years old. They had come from
Indiana where typhoid fever had wiped out the rest of their families,
and they wanted a new start. When they reached the shores of Lake Michigan
(Chicago or Fort Ross) they were offered some lakefront property in exchange
for their oxen, but needing them for travel and farm work, they refused.
7,1211 Samuel Dihel PAXTON (1839?- ) was living with Uncle Sam and Aunt
Margaret Dihel in Ukiah, CA at age 41 when the 1880 census was taken.
7,1212 David PAXTON (1850?- )
5,122 John Wesley DIHEL (3/14/1813-9/13/1885) m.11/25/1835 Nancy Bell Miller (5/28/1819-
9/6/1881) and raised 11 of their 14 children to adulthood. John was born in
Rockbridge County, VA. When he was a young man he moved, presumably with his
parents, to Clinton County, Indiana, and later to Fountain County, Indiana.
Nancy was born in Israel Township, Preble County, OH, a daughter of Robert M. and
Nancy Bell (BROWN) MILLER. They were married in Clinton County, Indiana and moved
to Sunbeam, IL in October 1846. (Nancy's sister Margaret Catherine married John's
brother Samuel after both of their spouses died.) In 1875 they bought 80 acres and
in 1880 they moved to English River Township in Washington County, Iowa, presumably
to be near their children and grandchildren. Their graves were moved from a country
roadside plot to the Elm Grove Cemetery in Washington, Iowa. Their stone marker
is ten inches square and about two feet tall, and reads:
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JOHN W.DIHEL / Died Sep 13,1885 / AGED / 72Ys, 5Ms, / 29Ds.
NANCY B. / Wife of / J.W.DIHEL / Died Sep 6,1881 / AGED / 62Ys, 3Ms, / 8Ds.
Loved in life / in death not divided.
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7,1221 Robert Miller DIHEL (11/10/1836-7/8/1905) m. 3/8/1860
Catherine "Kate" Rachel CABEEN ( -3/6/1926) Washington County, Iowa
Robert was born in Clinton County, Indiana, and was about nine years old when his
family moved to Mercer County, Illinois. Kate was from Muskingum County, Ohio.
Shortly after they were married, Robert served in the Civil War for three years.
He was wounded at Britton's Lane, Tennessee, but later participated at the seige
of Vicksburg.
9,12211 (adopted) Minnie Adelle DIHEL (3/23/1866- ) m. 12/30/1885 Thomas REID
( -1/8/1928) Farmington, WA
Children: Curtis,Catherine, Charles, Leslie, Floyd, Elathine, Clarence, Adella
9,12212 (adopted) Charles DIHEL(1873?) m.Eva PAUL aka Charles ANDERSON, Wichita, KS
7,1222 Nancy Jane DIHEL (3/8/1838-2/10/1912) m. 2/27/1855 Ambrose Orr McCREIGHT
( -12/20/1862) who died in the Civil War.
9,12221 Frances Belle McCREIGHT (12/2/1856-12/10/1862) died at age 6
9,12222 Clara B. McCREIGHT (9/13/1858-10/8/1928) m. 10/27/1884 Harry E. WINGER
(12/24/1855-12/9/1928) an Aledo, IL mailman
11, Mary Orr WINGER (10/14/1885-12/28/1891) aged 6
11, Richard Eugene "Gene" WINGER (1/10/1888-1/10/1970) m. 6/28/1911 Lillian S.
FREW PARR (11/19/1884-9/20/1973) Aledo, IL Gene was a hardware merchant
13, A son who died at birth (6/4/1923)
13, Robert Eugene WINGER (4/16/1925-5/21/2001) m. Phyllis Ann HAMELMANN
(2/15/1932-7/13/2000) maintenance supervisor, Ozark Airlines, St Louis
11, Eva Lucille WINGER (6/18/1890-4/14/1892) age 21 months
11, Arthur Blair WINGER (9/2/1892-9/24/1923) m. 12/12/1917 Florence FEENEY
11, Helen WINGER (11/30/1894-3/4/1984) Dixon, IL
11, Lena Margaret WINGER (4/3/1899-4/11/1930) m. 9/29/1929 Raymond ECKHART
Franklin Grove, IL
13, John Raymond ECKHART (4/3/1930- ) m. Virginia ...Dixon, IL electrician
9,12223 Alfred B. McCREIGHT (1/9/1861-1/18/1931) m. 12/28/1882 Alice REASONER Omaha
Children: Florence, Ethel
9,12224 Mary Orr "Minnie" McCREIGHT (1/10/1863-7/21/1940) spinster Aledo, IL
8, Nancy Jane DIHEL McCREIGHT then married 10/14/1869 Robert Duncan SPEER, a widower,
Sunbeam (Aledo), IL farmer (The Speer children by Robert's first wife, Martha Jane
BELL, were: Mary, Emma, Walter, Bell, and Robert D.)
9,12223 May SPEER (5/17/1872-12/12/1949) m. 3/12/1902 Robert James SPEER
(8/5/1870-3/25/1953) Hanover, IL dairy farmer
11, Harland Russell "H.R." SPEER (11/4/1903-7/23/97) m. 8/3/1927 Frances May FRENCH
(4/4/1903-10/22/86) University City, MO teacher and junior HS asst. principal
13, Roberta Ann SPEER (1/25/1930- ) m. 6/17/1952 Rev. Donald PARKINSON,
Santa Ana, CA, Wauwatosa, WI, & West Bend, WI Presbyterian minister
13, Gordon Eugene SPEER (12/25/1933- ) m. 9/3/1955 Elizabeth Lucille GLENN
(9/10/1933- ) Sterling, IL high school science teacher
11, James Alfred SPEER (2/5/1910-2/15/1910) died at the age of ten days
11, Raymond Dick SPEER (9/29/1913-2/17/2004) m. Hazel WHITTINGTON
Hanover, IL dairy farmer - seven children
9,12226 Thomas Dihel SPEER (8/28/1874- ) m. 3/15/1900 Pearl CROSS Sunbeam, IL
9,12227 Ann SPEER
7,1223 Samuel Duncan DIHEL (2/14/1840-3/31/1885) m. 10/14/1869 Elizabeth Lueska EVANS
9,12231 Millie Belle DIHEL (7/23/1870- ) m. 12/24/1894 Calvin S. McNEW Hawthorne, CA
Children: Clyde, Elizabeth, Robert, Emily
9,12232 Nona Dorleska DIHEL (2/26/1872-1/8/1908) age 35
9,12233 Otis Evans DIHEL (4/21/1874-9/8/1874) age 4 months
9,12234 Robert Perry DIHEL (10/24/1877-9/30/1884) age 6
9,12235 Cynthia Eldora DIHEL (8/16/1879-3/10/1910) m. 6/3/1904 Louis DUMONT
Children: William, Elsie
9,12236 John Wesley DIHEL (9/27/1881-) m. 7/2/1904 Ellen Virginia BATES Dinuba, CA
11, Lawrence Donald DIHEL (7/12/1905-5/22/1936) age 30
11, Carmen DIHEL (5/20/1909- ) m. 7/12/1935 Guy Leroy WARD Dinuba, CA
11, Virginia DIHEL (1/4/1914-1/10/1914) age 6 days
11, Beverly Bates DIHEL (5/7/1919- ) Dinuba, CA
7,1224 John "Jasper" DIHEL (11/26/1841-6/22/1927) m.1/10/1867 Mary Jemima UNANGST
(11/30/1842-3/6/1906). Born in Clinton County, IN and educated in Sunbeam, IL,
Jasper enlisted in the infantry in the Civil War in 1861 at the age of 19.
He participated in the battles of Belmont, Fort Donelson, Fort Henry,
and Rome Georgia. He marched with General Sherman to the sea.
He was with the regiment at Durham Station when Johnston surrendered,
and in the Grand Review at Washington, DC. He mustered out at
Louisville July, 17, 1865 and returned to Mercer County, Illinois
where he was then married and farmed for about seven years.
In 1872 Jasper and his wife Mary and their first two children moved
to Washington County, Iowa where he farmed, and later was a liveryman.
9,12241 George Elmer DIHEL (12/2/1867-1932) m. 1890 Minnie Bell STYLES Chicago, IL
When George was 13 (1880 census) he was living with his grandparents.
11, Mabel DIHEL (3/1891- )
11, Elizabeth DIHEL (6/1894- )
11, John Elmer DIHEL (1899- )
11, George Wesley DIHEL (1902- )
9,12242 Frances Lillian DIHEL (7/13/1870-12/21/1912) b. IL, m. 12/25/1893
Joseph Milo WILLIAMS (1864-1953) homesteaded near Tucumcari, NM
Children: Winogene(1895-1983), May, Joseph
9,12243 Effie Irene DIHEL(7/21/1878- )b. IA, m.6/12/1905 Harry TIBBLES Three Oaks, MI
Children: Harold, Mary
9,12244 Alice Eura (Allie) DIHEL (11/22/1883-) m. 3/31/1909 J. Earl STONE Santa Fe, NM
7,1225 William Lawrence DIHEL (12/16/1843-9/26/1917) m. 10/22/1872
Mary Hannah "Mollie" CRABTREE ( -3/1/1882) Mead, Nebraska
Mollie was born in England.
9,12251 Bertha Jane DIHEL (11/24/1877- ) m. 12/28/1905
Rufus Harlan CONNERLY Dade City, FL
Children: Ruth, Fern, Gladys, Harlan
7,1226 Mary Catherine DIHEL (1/26/1845-4/6/1916) m. 2/1/1876
John Wilson ASHENHURST Cass County, Missouri
Children: Curtis, Anna, Wilson
----(The family moved to Illinois in October 1846)----
7,1227 Margaret Ellen DIHEL (6/3/1847-9/9/1920) m. 1/6/1870
Curtis Mershan LeMAR (7/18/1847-3/9/1933) Columbus, Nebraska
Children: Lura, Fred
7,1228 Susannah Virginia DIHEL (10/6/1849-1/26/1850) age 3 months Aledo, Illinois
7,1229 Sarah Elizabeth DIHEL (1/27/1851-4/15/1927)m.12/27/1871
Irvin Brush LeMAR(9/9/1851-5/25/1920) Columbus, Nebraska
Children: Clair, Glenn, Ivan, Lillian, Harold Dihel LeMAR
Harold was the genealogist of this family, Omaha, NE April 25, 1941
7,122a Harriett Beecher DIHEL (7/22/1853-3/12/1854) age 7 months Aledo, IL
7,122b Harvey Oscar DIHEL (1/22/1855-5/9/1856) age 15 months Aledo, IL
7,122c Dorleska Ann "Dolly" DIHEL(4/21/1857-12/28/1924) m.10/26/1976 Albert VANCE
(11/8/1854- ) Wahoo, Platte Co, Nebraska
Children: Lorena, Paul, Ernest, Guy, Marion, Leone
7,122d Lella Bellzora "Lillie" DIHEL (4/7/1859- ) m. 12/24/1884 Robert Meek GEORGE
Washington, IA
Children: Nellie, Cherrie, Olive, Clarence, Mary
7,122e Thomas Elmer Kirkpatrick DIHEL (4/15/1862-11/24/1929) m. 12/29/1887
Sarah Anne STEPHENS (1/27/1865- ) Washington, IA
9,122e1 Clair DIHEL (12/21/1889- ) m. Ethel ROSELLE Chicago, IL
9,122e2 Cosette DIHEL (2/10/1891- ) m. 5/11/1911 Ralph E. ALLEN Lincoln, NE
Children: Robert, Lois, Ruth
9,122e3 Donald DIHEL (11/21/1892- ) m. 2/2/1922 Elsie COTTINGHAM Jerseyville, IL
11, Floyd DIHEL (8/3/1923- )
11, Wayne DIHEL (10/22/1927- )
9,122e4 Fred DIHEL (12/15/1894- ) m. Charlotte WILDE Riverside, IL
11, Shirley DIHEL (1/30/1926- )
11, Herbert DIHEL (adopted)
5,123 Daniel DIHEL
5,124 Jane DIHEL ( -1861) m. 5/31/1827 Henry MILLER (8/7/1793-1858)
Henry was a son of Samuel and Margaret (Lackey) MILLER of Rockbridge, VA.
Henry served in the War of 1812, enlisting in Rockbridge County, VA.
After they were married they moved to Clinton County, Indiana.
Children: Samuel and Margaret (2/19/1830 twins) and 5 other children.
5,125 Samuel McDonald DIHEL (2/2/1818- ) b. VA, m. 1852? (she was b. OH)
Nancy Jane BROWN (1828?-1/1877) Sunbeam, IL farmer They lived near Sunbeam,
south of Aledo for about 20 years. In 1872 Samuel and Nancy took their two
daughters (they had already lost four sons to illness) to California and
Washington to look for a better situation, and they decided to move to Ukiah,
California. They returned to Illinois in the spring of 1876 to settle up
their affairs before moving and left for the west coast on Christmas
Day 1876. He was 58 and she was 48. These trips took 13 or 14 days each.
Nancy was very ill and the weather was very cold. Nancy died just five
days after arriving in Ukiah. Nancy, who was born in Ohio, is buried
in the Paxton cemetery lot in Ukiah, California. (Samuel M. DIHEL's sister,
Katherine, married a Paxton, and the two Paxton sons, aged 37 and 26,
accompanied Samuel and Nancy on the 1876 trip to Ukiah.)
7,1251 John Norris DIHEL (1853-1855) age two years
7,1252 Francis Sumner "F.S." DIHEL (1856-1866) age 10 Sunbeam, IL
(named after Francis Sumner who was an anti-slavery US Senator)
7,1253 James Porter DIHEL (1859-1860) age one year
(named after James Porter who was the preacher who married Samuel and Nancy)
7,1254 Samuel Alexander DIHEL (1861-1863) age two years
7,1255 Elizabeth Porter "Aunt Lizzie" DIHEL (1865?- )B. IL, m...... ROACH Sunbeam, IL
7,1256 Mary Lois DIHEL (1867?- )B. IL, m. George Washington RAY Sunbeam, IL
Children: Samuel, George
6, Samuel McDonald DIHEL married 2nd 4/23/1879 Margaret Catherine MILLER VORIS (1832-)
after the death of Nancy Jane BROWN DIHEL. She was his oldest brother's sister-in-law.
Samuel returned to Illinois to marry Margaret. They lived in Ukiah California.
5,126 William Frank DIHEL (7/7/1822-10/17/1881) m. 5/25/1846 Sarah Jane LONGMIRE (3/17/1828-
2/16/1911) He was born in Virginia, she was from Fountain County, Indiana.
They lived for a time at Sunbeam, IL. Both died at Mead, NE (20 miles W of Omaha)
He is buried in Parmenter Cemetery, 5m south of Yutan in Saunders Co. Nebraska
7,1261 Norris L. DIHEL, twin (6//1850-1900) m. 10/2/1872 Belinda C. SMITH (7//1851-1910)
Her name was spelled Melinda in the Census.
9,12611 Sumner DIHEL (1874-1880) died at age six
9,12612 Mamia DIHEL (1876-1973) m. ca.1897-8 Earl MARTIN he died from a fall from a wagon
Children: Vera m. Clifford RUBY, m.. GUY, Duane, Edith m. Fred SMITH and m. Payne PIERCE
10, m. 1916 Charles Floyd MARTIN (1879-1949)(second cousin of Earl) Hidalgo Co. TX surveyer
Charles already had a son, Ralph MARTIN USN
Child: Lydia Caroline (1917- ) was the first child born in San Juan, TX m. 1939
Fred W. RINKS Pearl Harbor carpenter, m. BANDY, m. WATSBY, m. HILLIS, m. BROWN
9,12613 Paul DIHEL (1877-4/3/1940) died at Yakima, WA
9,12614 Otis O. DIHEL (1879-1937) m. Nannie .....
9,12615 Garfield DIEHL (10/2/1881-8/9/1937) m. in Surprise, NE 12/8/1909 Thessie Maude DOTY
(5//1891-1/26/1958) Yakima, WA
11, Harold Charles DIHEL (10/1/1910-8/19/1993) m. 3/21/1933 Ruby Viola McELRAVY
(2/9/1912-11/4/1986) Tacoma, WA
13, Merle Dean DIHEL (10/19/1933-) m. 6/8/1957 Darlene Mae PAWLAK (2/11/1936-) Gig Harbor, WA
15, Dana Lynn DIHEL (5/17/1961- ) m. 6/1980 Michael LAU (6/10/1956- )
Children: Anthony, Melia
15, Stephen DIHEL (6/24/1966- )
13, Robert Harold DIHEL (2/15/1935- ) m. 4/25/1964 Mary Ellen LYNCH (2/21/1941- )
15, Jennifer DIHEL (12/5/1966- ) Tooele, UT
15, Matthew Robert DIHEL (6/1/1968- ) Tooele, UT
13, Wayne Eugene DIHEL (8/29/1939- )
11, Leonard Edwin DIHEL (10/25/1912-12/11/1991) m. 8/16/1933 Myrtle Lucille McELRAVY
Yakima WA
13, Ronald Ray DIHEL (1/13/1934-5/9/1977) m. 5/24/1959 Janice Lillian BARTRUM (8/25/1938-)
15, Thomas Jay DIHEL (10//1960-12//1960)
15, Loy Ann DIHEL (3/9/1962- ) Ephrata, WA
14, Ronald Ray DIHEL then married 7/31/1971 Janette F. KRAEMER (4/11/1937- )
11, Merle Norris DIHEL (3/1/1915-3/23/1998) m. 7/23/1936 Phyllis Freda VOSS (8/4/1917- )
Kirkland, WA
13, Deborah Ann'Debbie'DIHEL (7/12/1952- ) m.12/29/1973 Timothy Reed KIRSTEIN (7/27/1951- )
Children: Matthew, Amy
11, Mildred Mae DIHEL (8/6/1918-8/2/2001) m. Howard TREADWAY (6/11/1911-2/16/1985) Tooele, UT
Children: Linda, Gary, Denny
11, Orville LeRoy DIHEL (8/25/1923- ) m. 1/18/1947 Betty Ann STRIKER (7/20/1928-4/23/1975)
13, Donald Dwayne DIHEL (10/1/1947- ) m. 6/13/1970 Linda Lucille ROSS (1950- )
15, Phillip Michael DIHEL (4/21/1975- )
13, JoAnn DIHEL (10/16/1950-10/16/1950)
13, Gregory Allen DIHEL (7/2/1952-7/2/1952)
13, Victoria Rae DIHEL (10/27/1954- ) m. 8/7/1976 Douglas Collin ROCK (12/21/1954- )
15, Child ROCK
9,12616 Mabel H. DIHEL (1883- )
9,12616 Minerva "Minnie" DIHEL(10//1885-1/9/1968)m. Martin H. ADEN(1879-1932) Seattle, WA
Children: Dean, Merrill, Glen
9,12617 Elva "Elvie" Vira DIHEL (9/8/1888-7//1984) m. Warren McNair HENDERSON ( -1915)
Child: Marjorie
10, Elva married 2nd Walter Norman CHANNELL (1928-1983)
Children: Virgil, Murietta, Belinda Geraldine, Garfield 'Sonny'
7,1262 Margaret L. DIHEL, twin (1850- )
7,1263 Wallace B. DIHEL (6/5/1858-3/3/1886) g. Parmenter Cemetery, 5m south of Yutan, NE
5,127 George W. DIHEL (ca.1824- )(A SUPPOSITION based on the 1850 Census of Rockbridge County)
married Ann ..... (ca.1830- )
Children: Susan (ca.1846- ), Catherine (ca.1848- )
5,128 Nancy DIHEL m. Joseph OGDEN (they were cousins)
5,129 Susannah DIHEL a spinster
4, Samuel DIHEL married Margaret WILSON after the death of Nancy Jane McDONALD DIHEL