My great-great grandmother was born Mary E. Glaser in March 1874 to William M. Glaser and his first wife, the former Margaret Bittner, in Southampton Township, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. She was the youngest of her parents' five children; her half-brother William Garfield Glaser was born in 1883, a year after their father's remarriage following her mother's death.
Mary grew up fast, marrying my great-great-grandfather William Watson Diehl in 1892 at eighteen, and giving birth to their first child on January 12 of the following year. Their children were: William Russell Diehl (1893-1985), my great-grandmother Ruth Elizabeth Diehl (1894-1990), and Robert Earl Diehl (1896-1978). Despite marrying and having children at a rather young age, Mary was a very vivacious and outgoing woman, and she and William enjoyed an exceptionally blissful marriage, and became quite wealthy from their business ventures. They were both actively involved in the upper-class social life in Philadelphia, attending numerous balls, plays, and hosting lavish parties. However, William and Mary never forgot their modest roots, and taught their children the values of hard work and perseverance.
Mary Diehl lived to see all of her children graduate college and kick-start their careers, but she never got the chance to meet her and William's five grandchildren. Her work as a private tutor for local children resulted in her contracting tuberculosis from one of her students. The boy survived, but Mary passed away on January 18, 1920.
Her obituary from the Philadelphia Inquirer, January 20, 1920:
"DIEHL - Jan 18, MARY DIEHL (nee Glasser), wife of William W. Diehl, aged 45. Relatives and friends, also Ladies' Aid Society of the Phil. Turners, are invited to attend funeral services, Thurs., 2 P. M., at her late residence, 2537 N. 31st st. Int. Mt. Peace Cem. Friends may call Wed. from 8 to 10 P. M."
Note: Her birth year is one year off on the gravestone, and as many as three years off in census records. I am going by the age stated in her obituary.
Mary grew up fast, marrying my great-great-grandfather William Watson Diehl in 1892 at eighteen, and giving birth to their first child on January 12 of the following year. Their children were: William Russell Diehl (1893-1985), my great-grandmother Ruth Elizabeth Diehl (1894-1990), and Robert Earl Diehl (1896-1978). Despite marrying and having children at a rather young age, Mary was a very vivacious and outgoing woman, and she and William enjoyed an exceptionally blissful marriage, and became quite wealthy from their business ventures. They were both actively involved in the upper-class social life in Philadelphia, attending numerous balls, plays, and hosting lavish parties. However, William and Mary never forgot their modest roots, and taught their children the values of hard work and perseverance.
Mary Diehl lived to see all of her children graduate college and kick-start their careers, but she never got the chance to meet her and William's five grandchildren. Her work as a private tutor for local children resulted in her contracting tuberculosis from one of her students. The boy survived, but Mary passed away on January 18, 1920.
Her obituary from the Philadelphia Inquirer, January 20, 1920:
"DIEHL - Jan 18, MARY DIEHL (nee Glasser), wife of William W. Diehl, aged 45. Relatives and friends, also Ladies' Aid Society of the Phil. Turners, are invited to attend funeral services, Thurs., 2 P. M., at her late residence, 2537 N. 31st st. Int. Mt. Peace Cem. Friends may call Wed. from 8 to 10 P. M."
Note: Her birth year is one year off on the gravestone, and as many as three years off in census records. I am going by the age stated in her obituary.
My great-great grandmother was born Mary E. Glaser in March 1874 to William M. Glaser and his first wife, the former Margaret Bittner, in Southampton Township, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. She was the youngest of her parents' five children; her half-brother William Garfield Glaser was born in 1883, a year after their father's remarriage following her mother's death.
Mary grew up fast, marrying my great-great-grandfather William Watson Diehl in 1892 at eighteen, and giving birth to their first child on January 12 of the following year. Their children were: William Russell Diehl (1893-1985), my great-grandmother Ruth Elizabeth Diehl (1894-1990), and Robert Earl Diehl (1896-1978). Despite marrying and having children at a rather young age, Mary was a very vivacious and outgoing woman, and she and William enjoyed an exceptionally blissful marriage, and became quite wealthy from their business ventures. They were both actively involved in the upper-class social life in Philadelphia, attending numerous balls, plays, and hosting lavish parties. However, William and Mary never forgot their modest roots, and taught their children the values of hard work and perseverance.
Mary Diehl lived to see all of her children graduate college and kick-start their careers, but she never got the chance to meet her and William's five grandchildren. Her work as a private tutor for local children resulted in her contracting tuberculosis from one of her students. The boy survived, but Mary passed away on January 18, 1920.
Her obituary from the Philadelphia Inquirer, January 20, 1920:
"DIEHL - Jan 18, MARY DIEHL (nee Glasser), wife of William W. Diehl, aged 45. Relatives and friends, also Ladies' Aid Society of the Phil. Turners, are invited to attend funeral services, Thurs., 2 P. M., at her late residence, 2537 N. 31st st. Int. Mt. Peace Cem. Friends may call Wed. from 8 to 10 P. M."
Note: Her birth year is one year off on the gravestone, and as many as three years off in census records. I am going by the age stated in her obituary.
Mary grew up fast, marrying my great-great-grandfather William Watson Diehl in 1892 at eighteen, and giving birth to their first child on January 12 of the following year. Their children were: William Russell Diehl (1893-1985), my great-grandmother Ruth Elizabeth Diehl (1894-1990), and Robert Earl Diehl (1896-1978). Despite marrying and having children at a rather young age, Mary was a very vivacious and outgoing woman, and she and William enjoyed an exceptionally blissful marriage, and became quite wealthy from their business ventures. They were both actively involved in the upper-class social life in Philadelphia, attending numerous balls, plays, and hosting lavish parties. However, William and Mary never forgot their modest roots, and taught their children the values of hard work and perseverance.
Mary Diehl lived to see all of her children graduate college and kick-start their careers, but she never got the chance to meet her and William's five grandchildren. Her work as a private tutor for local children resulted in her contracting tuberculosis from one of her students. The boy survived, but Mary passed away on January 18, 1920.
Her obituary from the Philadelphia Inquirer, January 20, 1920:
"DIEHL - Jan 18, MARY DIEHL (nee Glasser), wife of William W. Diehl, aged 45. Relatives and friends, also Ladies' Aid Society of the Phil. Turners, are invited to attend funeral services, Thurs., 2 P. M., at her late residence, 2537 N. 31st st. Int. Mt. Peace Cem. Friends may call Wed. from 8 to 10 P. M."
Note: Her birth year is one year off on the gravestone, and as many as three years off in census records. I am going by the age stated in her obituary.
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