George Michael Dellefeld was the son of George Michael Dellefeld / Dellefield and Anna Maria Schmitkons.

He married Eliza M. Ernst on 27 Nov 1888 in Lorain Co., OH.

George was buried 2 Jan 1923.

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Biography, J.H. Beers, 1894, "Commemorative Biographical Record of the Counties of Huron and Lorain, Ohio", (), pps. 1814-1815

History of the Western Reserve
GEORGE M. DELLEFELD

Elyria Township is fortunate in having been settled by a remarkably enterprising, industrious and intelligent class of people, among those that assisted in developing its agricultural resources having been George Dellefeld, father of the subject of this sketch.

Henry Dellefield, grandfather of George M. was a life-long resident of Germany, where his birth occurred about 1776. Serving under that brilliant soldier, Napoleon Bonaparte, he was with him in his Russian campaign, spending the winter near Moscow. He was twice married. His second wife, whose maiden name was Dute, was the mother of his son George. She survived him, and with her three sons, Henry, George and Anton, came to the United States, locating in Ohio, where she died in 1872 [sic: 1879], aged seventy-seven years. Henry, the eldest son, died in Amherst, Lorain county, in 1863 [sic: 1866]. Anton, the younger son, now resides in Birmingham township, Erie county, Ohio.

Born in Germany, June 20, 1833, George Dellefeld came to Lorain county, Ohio in 1847, going first to Amherst, where he secured employment with Judge Harris, grandfather of the present postmaster general of the United States. A few years later he bought fifty acres of the Brace tract land in Elyria township, and continued buying sixty, forty, sixty, twenty and ten acres, until he had two hundred and forty acres, and was there busily and successfully engaged in tilling the soil until his death, April 14, 1901.

His first wife, whose maiden name was Mary [sic: Anna Maria] Schmitkons, died Feb 17, 1873. She bore him seven children, namely: John, deceased; Anton, deceased; John H., of Elyria; George M., the subject of this sketch; Anton A., of Amherst township; Annie died at the age of two years; and a child that died in infancy. He married second Margaret [sic: Anna Margarathe] Schmitkons, a cousin of his first wife, and to them ten children were born. She still occupies the old homested on the town line road. The family are all members of the Amherst Evangelical church.

George M. Dellefeld was born on the parental farm, in Elyria township, August 30, 1866, and received his early education in the schools of his district. Working with his father until attaining his majority, he was well trained in many branches of agriculture, and in 1892 bought from his father the old Ab Ely place, consisting of sixty acres of swamp land, and twenty acres of the old Wilford farm. Here Mr. Dellefeld has made various and substantial improvements, having in 1895 erected his fine residence, while in 1898 he repaired and remodeled his large barn.

Mr. Dellefeld, on November 27, 1888, married Eliza Ernst, a daughter of Henry Ernst, of Amherst township, and they are the parents of five children, namely; Mayme, Elmer, Pearl, Earl and Irvin. Mr. Dellefeld is interested in local affairs, and has served as a member of the Elyria Township School Board. He belongs to the Grange and is a member of Saint Paul's Evangelical church of Elyria.

George's brother Antony (81-4) and step-sister Christena Dellefeld Baus (103-7) are buried here at North Murray Ridge Cemetery.