Peter Diehl was born abt. 1707 in Rheinlan-Pfalz, Germany and died abt. 1769 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. He married Eva Barbara Rebbert. She was born on February 2, 1708 in Germany and died November 5, 1774 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. They had six children. Descendants lived mainly in Pennsylvania, Ohio, California, and Oregon.

David Deal was born 12 May 1791 in Shippensburg, Cumberland, Pennsylvania. His parents were Felix Diehl and Dorothea Elizabeth Steinle. He married Nancy Anne Grove in 1812 in Pennsylvania. She was born 12 April 1793 in Adams County, Pennsylvania and died 7 February 1883 in Shippensburg, Cumberland, Pennsylvania. David died 3 August 1861 in Shippensburg, Cumberland, Pennsylvania. They had 12 children. Ancestors and descendants lived mainly in Germany,...

George Deal (1826-1887), son of Joseph Diehl of German descent, moved in 1851 from Pennsylvania (via the Isthmus of Panama) to San Francisco, and settled in Siskiyou County, California. Descendants and relatives lived in California, Oregon, Nevada and elsewhere.

Family history and genealogical information about the descendants of Elijah Dodson who was born ca. 1790 in Hawkins Co., Tennessee. He married Mary (surname unknown) 12 March 1807 in Claiborne Co., Tennessee. Mary had six children and died 1 May 1848. Elijah married a widow named Elizabeth Fulkerson Garret Hines. They lived in Yamhill Co., Oregon. Elijah was the father of eight children and died 9 January 1860. Descendants lived in Oregon, Missouri,...