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Submitted: 5/6/10 • Approved: 5/7/10 • Last Updated: 4/3/18 • R32022-G32022-S3
Frank W Dreibelbis
1850-1922
Elizabeth (Lizzie Phillips)
His Wife
1852-1934
Mary Dreibelbis
1886-1886
Susan B Dreibelbis
1873-1875
Frank W Dreibelbis, son of Jacob and Catharine (Wert) Dreibelbis was born in Dalmatia (Georgetown), Northumberland County, PA, on 28 Feb 1850. At the age of 71, he died in 1922. Frank is buried in the family plot with large a Dreibelbis monument.
In 1877 when Frank W was 26, he married Elizabeth [Lizzie] PHILLIPS, daughter of Jacob PHILLIPS (1807-1862) & Susanna PHILLIPS (1810-1892), in Dalmatia (Georgetown), Northumberland County, PA.
Elizabeth [Lizzie] was born in 1852. At the age of 82, she died in 1934.
“Frank W. Dreibelbis, son of Jacob, was born in 1850 at Georgetown, in Lower Mahanoy Township, and is engaged at present in farming in that township. When less than nineteen years old he learned the milling business, which he followed for six years. In 1884 he began farming at his present location, having a tract of 115 acres, some of which is woodland. There is some limestone on this land. Mr. Dreibelbis is a Republican in politics, and since 1899 has been overseer of the poor in his district. He is a reformed member of the Dalmatia church, of which he was a deacon seven years and elder four years.
In 1874 Mr. Dreibelbis married Lizzie Phillips, daughter of Jacob and Susanna Phillips, and they have had these children: Jacob F., who lives in Little Mahanoy township; Malinda, wife of John H. Bohner, of Elizabethville, Pa., Katie, wife of William Koppenhaver, of Malta, Pa.; and Lubin L., who is a butcher at Dalmatia.” [op. cit., Floyd, p.761f]
They had the following children:
. Jacob F DREIBELBIS (1875-1924)
Malinda DREIBELBIS
Catharine V [Katie] DREIBELBIS (1880-1930)
Lubin L DREIBELBIS (1883-1943)
Susan B DREIBELBIS (1873-1875)
Mary E DREIBELBIS (1886-1886
Gravestone inscription photographed at the Trinity United Church of Christ, Lower
Mahanoy Township, Dalmatia, PA 3 Oct 2000.
Contributed on 5/6/10 by stonyacres3
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