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Stephen A. Dienstell

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Stephen A. Dienstell

Birth
Noxen, Wyoming County, Pennsylvania, USA
Death
unknown
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Stephen A. Dienstell was born in Noxen, Wyoming County, PA, to August John and Diana Serfass Dienstel. After he left home, he changed the spelling of his name to Dienstell. He married Sarah Gladys Freer in Luzerne County, PA and they lived in Wilkes Barre, PA, Scranton, PA, Belmont, OH, and Wheeling, WV. They had six children during their marriage, Mary Elizabeth, Gladys Caroline, Lloyd (died as a child), Edythe Katherine (stillborn twin, Ethyl Kathleen), and Stephen Thomas Dienstell.
On census records he is listed as a laborer and janitor. After a separation from his wife, in about 1923 or 1924, nothing is known of his life or death. His daughter Edythe described him as a good man who loved his children. She doesn't know why he disappeared, but as an adult, her Uncle Amandus told her he had said he was going to be gone a while, but he never returned. She remembered that he dressed nicely and the sound of his oxblood shoes on the sidewalk when he was returning home. Nightly he would study books at a desk with an oil lamp. Later in life, her Uncle Amandus told her Stephen had wanted to be a minister.
Family research revealed he may have lived in Binghampton, NY.

Daughter not in Find a Grave Mary Elizabeth Dienstell Slater, 1912-1945. She lived in Millville, Cumberland, New Jersey and was married to John Norman Slater.
Stephen A. Dienstell was born in Noxen, Wyoming County, PA, to August John and Diana Serfass Dienstel. After he left home, he changed the spelling of his name to Dienstell. He married Sarah Gladys Freer in Luzerne County, PA and they lived in Wilkes Barre, PA, Scranton, PA, Belmont, OH, and Wheeling, WV. They had six children during their marriage, Mary Elizabeth, Gladys Caroline, Lloyd (died as a child), Edythe Katherine (stillborn twin, Ethyl Kathleen), and Stephen Thomas Dienstell.
On census records he is listed as a laborer and janitor. After a separation from his wife, in about 1923 or 1924, nothing is known of his life or death. His daughter Edythe described him as a good man who loved his children. She doesn't know why he disappeared, but as an adult, her Uncle Amandus told her he had said he was going to be gone a while, but he never returned. She remembered that he dressed nicely and the sound of his oxblood shoes on the sidewalk when he was returning home. Nightly he would study books at a desk with an oil lamp. Later in life, her Uncle Amandus told her Stephen had wanted to be a minister.
Family research revealed he may have lived in Binghampton, NY.

Daughter not in Find a Grave Mary Elizabeth Dienstell Slater, 1912-1945. She lived in Millville, Cumberland, New Jersey and was married to John Norman Slater.

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Family records have year of birth as 1889, but draft records have 1888. It complicates his brother John's year of birth. Since he disappeared, family does not have any good information

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