Priscilla B. Diller was the fifth of seven children born to Jacob and Anna (Burkholder) Diller while the family was still residing in Franklin County, Pennsylvania. She was born on June 15, 1872, just seven years after the conclusion of the Civil War. When she was only two or three years old, the family began their westward migration, landing first in Illinois, where Priscilla's last two siblings were born—Sylvanna in 1876 and Arba in 1878. It is not known when the family continued its migration on through Illinois and into Nebraska for a brief stay.
By the mid 1880s, however, the family had moved south into Kansas through Smith County, where Priscilla's oldest sister, Mary, was married to John Wilkinson on October 31, 1886, in Smith Center. Priscilla was fourteen years old at that time.
During the late 1880s or early 1890s the family moved as furthermost south in Kansas as possible—into Harper County—from where they made the historic "Run" into the Cherokee Strip of Oklahoma Territory on September 16, 1893, claiming land for every child older than eighteen years of age. Priscilla was twenty-one years old at the time of the Run, and her oldest daughter, Aunt Anna (Frickel) Astley, strongly asserted in a 1977 interview, "It was my mother that made the Run; my dad didn't!" Research of Oklahoma land records, however, has thus far not revealed where exactly Priscilla filed a claim.
Priscilla B. Diller and Michael Frickel were married on July 1, 1894, in Wellington, Kansas—nearly ten months after the Run. Their official marriage license states that M. Frickel (age 34) was from Belle Plaine, Kansas, and Priscilla Diller (age 22) was from Harper, Kansas. If indeed Priscilla had made the Run and staked a claim west of Nash like all of her older siblings—John Diller, Mary (Diller) Wilkinson, Leah Diller, and Aaron Diller—then it remains a bit of a puzzle as to why her place of origin was still being considered as "Harper, Kansas," nearly a year later, rather than Oklahoma Territory? We may never know for sure, but we will do well to accept Anna's word for it. Perhaps she made the Run with her family but did not claim land for some reason.
Further evidence of Priscilla's participation in the Run has indeed been carved in stone—the name of "Mrs. Mike Frickle" [sic] appears on the granite stone monument on the outskirts of Helena, Oklahoma, at the intersection of State Highways 45 and 58. This memorial was dedicated to the sixtieth anniversary of the opening of the Cherokee Strip to settlement and the 1893 pioneers, sponsored by the members of the "93ers Association" which organized on September 18, 1943.
In March 1895, when the Kansas State Census was taken, M. Frickel (age 35) and his wife Priscilla (age 22) were residing in Belle Plaine, Kansas, where Michael owned and operated his Boot and Shoe Shop. This record also notes that he had come from Bavaria to Kansas, and that Priscilla had come from Illinois to Kansas. Interestingly enough, Priscilla's younger sister, Sylvanna, was residing with them and working as their housekeeper.
Within a couple of years, Priscilla and Michael moved south into the Cherokee Strip and began shoring up their homestead situated on the NW 1/4 of §32, Twp 23N, Range 10W of IM. Priscilla began raising a family of seven children, six daughters and one son on their 160 acre homestead west and north of Ringwood and endured many of the hardships of pioneer life. She died at the age of 92 on July 10, 1964, in Ringwood, OK.
Her funeral was held in the Methodist Church of Helena, Oklahoma, with Rev. Howard L. Speas, pastor of First Wesleyan Methodist Church of Enid, and Rev. Omer Tittle, pastor of the Methodist Church of Helena, as the officiating clergymen. She was preceded in death by her husband, Michael Frickel, twenty-four years prior.
PATERNAL GRANDPARENTS:
Rev. Francis Diller
Mary (Detweiler) Diller
MATERNAL GRANDPARENTS:
Rev. Joseph Burkholder
Maria/Mary (Whisler) Burkholder
By the mid 1880s, however, the family had moved south into Kansas through Smith County, where Priscilla's oldest sister, Mary, was married to John Wilkinson on October 31, 1886, in Smith Center. Priscilla was fourteen years old at that time.
During the late 1880s or early 1890s the family moved as furthermost south in Kansas as possible—into Harper County—from where they made the historic "Run" into the Cherokee Strip of Oklahoma Territory on September 16, 1893, claiming land for every child older than eighteen years of age. Priscilla was twenty-one years old at the time of the Run, and her oldest daughter, Aunt Anna (Frickel) Astley, strongly asserted in a 1977 interview, "It was my mother that made the Run; my dad didn't!" Research of Oklahoma land records, however, has thus far not revealed where exactly Priscilla filed a claim.
Priscilla B. Diller and Michael Frickel were married on July 1, 1894, in Wellington, Kansas—nearly ten months after the Run. Their official marriage license states that M. Frickel (age 34) was from Belle Plaine, Kansas, and Priscilla Diller (age 22) was from Harper, Kansas. If indeed Priscilla had made the Run and staked a claim west of Nash like all of her older siblings—John Diller, Mary (Diller) Wilkinson, Leah Diller, and Aaron Diller—then it remains a bit of a puzzle as to why her place of origin was still being considered as "Harper, Kansas," nearly a year later, rather than Oklahoma Territory? We may never know for sure, but we will do well to accept Anna's word for it. Perhaps she made the Run with her family but did not claim land for some reason.
Further evidence of Priscilla's participation in the Run has indeed been carved in stone—the name of "Mrs. Mike Frickle" [sic] appears on the granite stone monument on the outskirts of Helena, Oklahoma, at the intersection of State Highways 45 and 58. This memorial was dedicated to the sixtieth anniversary of the opening of the Cherokee Strip to settlement and the 1893 pioneers, sponsored by the members of the "93ers Association" which organized on September 18, 1943.
In March 1895, when the Kansas State Census was taken, M. Frickel (age 35) and his wife Priscilla (age 22) were residing in Belle Plaine, Kansas, where Michael owned and operated his Boot and Shoe Shop. This record also notes that he had come from Bavaria to Kansas, and that Priscilla had come from Illinois to Kansas. Interestingly enough, Priscilla's younger sister, Sylvanna, was residing with them and working as their housekeeper.
Within a couple of years, Priscilla and Michael moved south into the Cherokee Strip and began shoring up their homestead situated on the NW 1/4 of §32, Twp 23N, Range 10W of IM. Priscilla began raising a family of seven children, six daughters and one son on their 160 acre homestead west and north of Ringwood and endured many of the hardships of pioneer life. She died at the age of 92 on July 10, 1964, in Ringwood, OK.
Her funeral was held in the Methodist Church of Helena, Oklahoma, with Rev. Howard L. Speas, pastor of First Wesleyan Methodist Church of Enid, and Rev. Omer Tittle, pastor of the Methodist Church of Helena, as the officiating clergymen. She was preceded in death by her husband, Michael Frickel, twenty-four years prior.
PATERNAL GRANDPARENTS:
Rev. Francis Diller
Mary (Detweiler) Diller
MATERNAL GRANDPARENTS:
Rev. Joseph Burkholder
Maria/Mary (Whisler) Burkholder
Priscilla B. Diller was the fifth of seven children born to Jacob and Anna (Burkholder) Diller while the family was still residing in Franklin County, Pennsylvania. She was born on June 15, 1872, just seven years after the conclusion of the Civil War. When she was only two or three years old, the family began their westward migration, landing first in Illinois, where Priscilla's last two siblings were born—Sylvanna in 1876 and Arba in 1878. It is not known when the family continued its migration on through Illinois and into Nebraska for a brief stay.
By the mid 1880s, however, the family had moved south into Kansas through Smith County, where Priscilla's oldest sister, Mary, was married to John Wilkinson on October 31, 1886, in Smith Center. Priscilla was fourteen years old at that time.
During the late 1880s or early 1890s the family moved as furthermost south in Kansas as possible—into Harper County—from where they made the historic "Run" into the Cherokee Strip of Oklahoma Territory on September 16, 1893, claiming land for every child older than eighteen years of age. Priscilla was twenty-one years old at the time of the Run, and her oldest daughter, Aunt Anna (Frickel) Astley, strongly asserted in a 1977 interview, "It was my mother that made the Run; my dad didn't!" Research of Oklahoma land records, however, has thus far not revealed where exactly Priscilla filed a claim.
Priscilla B. Diller and Michael Frickel were married on July 1, 1894, in Wellington, Kansas—nearly ten months after the Run. Their official marriage license states that M. Frickel (age 34) was from Belle Plaine, Kansas, and Priscilla Diller (age 22) was from Harper, Kansas. If indeed Priscilla had made the Run and staked a claim west of Nash like all of her older siblings—John Diller, Mary (Diller) Wilkinson, Leah Diller, and Aaron Diller—then it remains a bit of a puzzle as to why her place of origin was still being considered as "Harper, Kansas," nearly a year later, rather than Oklahoma Territory? We may never know for sure, but we will do well to accept Anna's word for it. Perhaps she made the Run with her family but did not claim land for some reason.
Further evidence of Priscilla's participation in the Run has indeed been carved in stone—the name of "Mrs. Mike Frickle" [sic] appears on the granite stone monument on the outskirts of Helena, Oklahoma, at the intersection of State Highways 45 and 58. This memorial was dedicated to the sixtieth anniversary of the opening of the Cherokee Strip to settlement and the 1893 pioneers, sponsored by the members of the "93ers Association" which organized on September 18, 1943.
In March 1895, when the Kansas State Census was taken, M. Frickel (age 35) and his wife Priscilla (age 22) were residing in Belle Plaine, Kansas, where Michael owned and operated his Boot and Shoe Shop. This record also notes that he had come from Bavaria to Kansas, and that Priscilla had come from Illinois to Kansas. Interestingly enough, Priscilla's younger sister, Sylvanna, was residing with them and working as their housekeeper.
Within a couple of years, Priscilla and Michael moved south into the Cherokee Strip and began shoring up their homestead situated on the NW 1/4 of §32, Twp 23N, Range 10W of IM. Priscilla began raising a family of seven children, six daughters and one son on their 160 acre homestead west and north of Ringwood and endured many of the hardships of pioneer life. She died at the age of 92 on July 10, 1964, in Ringwood, OK.
Her funeral was held in the Methodist Church of Helena, Oklahoma, with Rev. Howard L. Speas, pastor of First Wesleyan Methodist Church of Enid, and Rev. Omer Tittle, pastor of the Methodist Church of Helena, as the officiating clergymen. She was preceded in death by her husband, Michael Frickel, twenty-four years prior.
PATERNAL GRANDPARENTS:
Rev. Francis Diller
Mary (Detweiler) Diller
MATERNAL GRANDPARENTS:
Rev. Joseph Burkholder
Maria/Mary (Whisler) Burkholder
By the mid 1880s, however, the family had moved south into Kansas through Smith County, where Priscilla's oldest sister, Mary, was married to John Wilkinson on October 31, 1886, in Smith Center. Priscilla was fourteen years old at that time.
During the late 1880s or early 1890s the family moved as furthermost south in Kansas as possible—into Harper County—from where they made the historic "Run" into the Cherokee Strip of Oklahoma Territory on September 16, 1893, claiming land for every child older than eighteen years of age. Priscilla was twenty-one years old at the time of the Run, and her oldest daughter, Aunt Anna (Frickel) Astley, strongly asserted in a 1977 interview, "It was my mother that made the Run; my dad didn't!" Research of Oklahoma land records, however, has thus far not revealed where exactly Priscilla filed a claim.
Priscilla B. Diller and Michael Frickel were married on July 1, 1894, in Wellington, Kansas—nearly ten months after the Run. Their official marriage license states that M. Frickel (age 34) was from Belle Plaine, Kansas, and Priscilla Diller (age 22) was from Harper, Kansas. If indeed Priscilla had made the Run and staked a claim west of Nash like all of her older siblings—John Diller, Mary (Diller) Wilkinson, Leah Diller, and Aaron Diller—then it remains a bit of a puzzle as to why her place of origin was still being considered as "Harper, Kansas," nearly a year later, rather than Oklahoma Territory? We may never know for sure, but we will do well to accept Anna's word for it. Perhaps she made the Run with her family but did not claim land for some reason.
Further evidence of Priscilla's participation in the Run has indeed been carved in stone—the name of "Mrs. Mike Frickle" [sic] appears on the granite stone monument on the outskirts of Helena, Oklahoma, at the intersection of State Highways 45 and 58. This memorial was dedicated to the sixtieth anniversary of the opening of the Cherokee Strip to settlement and the 1893 pioneers, sponsored by the members of the "93ers Association" which organized on September 18, 1943.
In March 1895, when the Kansas State Census was taken, M. Frickel (age 35) and his wife Priscilla (age 22) were residing in Belle Plaine, Kansas, where Michael owned and operated his Boot and Shoe Shop. This record also notes that he had come from Bavaria to Kansas, and that Priscilla had come from Illinois to Kansas. Interestingly enough, Priscilla's younger sister, Sylvanna, was residing with them and working as their housekeeper.
Within a couple of years, Priscilla and Michael moved south into the Cherokee Strip and began shoring up their homestead situated on the NW 1/4 of §32, Twp 23N, Range 10W of IM. Priscilla began raising a family of seven children, six daughters and one son on their 160 acre homestead west and north of Ringwood and endured many of the hardships of pioneer life. She died at the age of 92 on July 10, 1964, in Ringwood, OK.
Her funeral was held in the Methodist Church of Helena, Oklahoma, with Rev. Howard L. Speas, pastor of First Wesleyan Methodist Church of Enid, and Rev. Omer Tittle, pastor of the Methodist Church of Helena, as the officiating clergymen. She was preceded in death by her husband, Michael Frickel, twenty-four years prior.
PATERNAL GRANDPARENTS:
Rev. Francis Diller
Mary (Detweiler) Diller
MATERNAL GRANDPARENTS:
Rev. Joseph Burkholder
Maria/Mary (Whisler) Burkholder
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