George Simeon Deatsch was born May 21, 1913 in Riverside, Iowa. Alice May Thompson was born November 27, 1916 in Washington County, Iowa. Her parents were Francis Clifford Thompson and Margaret Winifred Quinn. George and Alice were married August 16, 1935. They had four children. Ancestors and relatives lived in Iowa, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Tennessee and elsewhere.

The Gier/Geyer/Gyer/Geiger/Gyger and related families of Pennsylvania, Maryland, Kansas, Illinois, Iowa, etc. The immigrant ancestor, George, was born 1722 in Germany. He married 1745/7 (Anna) Maria Margaret Wingertman in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He was the son of Jacob Gier and his wife Mary Magdalena of Germany. Variant spellings include Gyger/Geiger/Geyer/Gyer/Gier. Includes Glassbrenner/Glassburner/Glasburn, and others.

George Keller, son of Johann and Kunigunda Adler Keller, was born in 1816 at Preussling, Bavaria, Germany. He married Barbara Küffner of Gottsfeld in 1840 at Ceussen. They had four children, 1839-1846, the first three born in Germany. They family immigrated to the United States in 1845 and settled in Spencer County, Indiana. He was killed in an accident in 1847. His widow married 2) John George Engelbrecht and had five more children. Keller descendants...

Garrett Reasoner and Peter Froman, Huguenots, immigrated from France to Germany and married there. Christian Speers, a Protestant born in Ireland, went to London to wait for passage to America, but instead was impressed into the British Army. He deserted while the army was in France, and lost himself among the persecuted Huguenots. Garrett, Peter, and Christian remained in Germany. At least four sons of Garrett Reasoner immigrated to America: Christopher...

Hans Milde (b.1692) married Magarethe Berens in 1721, and was the harbour master of Hamburg, Germany; between 1724 and 1726 he was held captive by Algerian pirates, and was released upon payment of ransom. Wilhelm Milde (1799-1884), a direct descendant in the fourth generation, married Catharina Elisabeth Steffens in 1836, and in 1837 they immigrated to Adelaide, South Australia. Descendants and relatives lived in South Australia, Northern Territory,...

The immigrant ancestor, Philip Mathias (Johan Philip Mattes) (1744-1834), was born in the area of Rhine Palatine. He came to Philadelphia in 1764. In 1769 he married Anna Catherine Kinzel in Cleona/Annville, Lebanon Twp., Lancaster Co., Pa. A chapter is devoted to each of his seven children and descendants. A long chapter is also devoted to the Wrights, who are multiply related to the Mathiases. These Wrights stem from an early Wright family of Baltimore...

Johann Augustus Schwefel (1722-1791) was born at Obernhausen, near Lichtenberg, Hessia, the son of Johann Dietrich and Maria Liebig Schwefel. He migrated with the Pfeiffer family to Prussia in 1748 and married Julianna Maria Pfeiffer at Kausburg, Prussia, the same year. They had three sons. He received a grant of land at Kurtschlag, near Zehdenick on Havel. All of the Schwefel, all of the Dornfeld, and many of the Schoenike kin listed in this book...

Ancestral lines of Joseph Thomas Conrath and the Frisz families. Joseph Thomas Conrath, Jr. was born 1 March 1916 in Terre Haute, Vigo County, Indiana. His parents were Joseph Thomas Conrath and Christine Mary Frisz. His grandparents were Antoine Conrath, Kathryn Kapps, Pierre (Peter) Fris (Frisz) of France and Catherine Rolles of Prussia. He married Marian Evelyn Gibbons (Higgins) on 26 Oct. 1946.