Maria Elizabeth Strack was the daughter of Caroline Catharine Funk and Charles A. Strack, who emigrated from Gittelde in Saxony, Germany to Baltimore, Maryland in 1838. Charles founded a successful furniture business at the corner of George and Princess Streets in York, Pennsylvania around 1840.* Census, church, and York directory records list Maria Elizabeth's first name variously as "Eliza," "Lizzie," "Elizabeth," and "Maria," with the latter more common in her later years. "Lizzie Strack" married Henry J. Deitch, a cabinetmaker, on 2 Sept 1860, at the German Reformed Trinity United Church of Christ in York.** The couple lived at 4 W Princess Street, near the C.A. Strack and Son's furniture store and workshops, and had three children, William C. Deitch, George B. Deitch, and Ella Deitch Ropp Allen. Maria Elizabeth Deitch's 29 Jun 1906 Pennsylvania death certificate, completed by her daughter Ella and attached to this page, confirms her birthdate as 29 Jan 1840, her birthplace as Baltimore, and her parents as Charles Strack and Caroline Funk.
*"Strack and Son To Dissolve," The (York) Gazette and Daily, 18 Nov 1940, p. 2, cols. 4-5; image copy, Newspapers.com (newspapers.com: accessed 11 May 2021).
**Trinity United Church of Christ (York, York County, Pennsylvania), "Marriages by Rev. J.C. Miller," unnumbered pages in chronological order, Henry J. Deitch to Lizzie Strack, 2 Sep 1860; "Pennsylvania and New Jersey, U.S., Church and Town Records, 1669-2013," Trinity United Church of Christ, image 304 of 502, Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com: accessed 27 Apr 2021).
*"Strack and Son To Dissolve," The (York) Gazette and Daily, 18 Nov 1940, p. 2, cols. 4-5; image copy, Newspapers.com (newspapers.com: accessed 11 May 2021).
**Trinity United Church of Christ (York, York County, Pennsylvania), "Marriages by Rev. J.C. Miller," unnumbered pages in chronological order, Henry J. Deitch to Lizzie Strack, 2 Sep 1860; "Pennsylvania and New Jersey, U.S., Church and Town Records, 1669-2013," Trinity United Church of Christ, image 304 of 502, Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com: accessed 27 Apr 2021).
Maria Elizabeth Strack was the daughter of Caroline Catharine Funk and Charles A. Strack, who emigrated from Gittelde in Saxony, Germany to Baltimore, Maryland in 1838. Charles founded a successful furniture business at the corner of George and Princess Streets in York, Pennsylvania around 1840.* Census, church, and York directory records list Maria Elizabeth's first name variously as "Eliza," "Lizzie," "Elizabeth," and "Maria," with the latter more common in her later years. "Lizzie Strack" married Henry J. Deitch, a cabinetmaker, on 2 Sept 1860, at the German Reformed Trinity United Church of Christ in York.** The couple lived at 4 W Princess Street, near the C.A. Strack and Son's furniture store and workshops, and had three children, William C. Deitch, George B. Deitch, and Ella Deitch Ropp Allen. Maria Elizabeth Deitch's 29 Jun 1906 Pennsylvania death certificate, completed by her daughter Ella and attached to this page, confirms her birthdate as 29 Jan 1840, her birthplace as Baltimore, and her parents as Charles Strack and Caroline Funk.
*"Strack and Son To Dissolve," The (York) Gazette and Daily, 18 Nov 1940, p. 2, cols. 4-5; image copy, Newspapers.com (newspapers.com: accessed 11 May 2021).
**Trinity United Church of Christ (York, York County, Pennsylvania), "Marriages by Rev. J.C. Miller," unnumbered pages in chronological order, Henry J. Deitch to Lizzie Strack, 2 Sep 1860; "Pennsylvania and New Jersey, U.S., Church and Town Records, 1669-2013," Trinity United Church of Christ, image 304 of 502, Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com: accessed 27 Apr 2021).
*"Strack and Son To Dissolve," The (York) Gazette and Daily, 18 Nov 1940, p. 2, cols. 4-5; image copy, Newspapers.com (newspapers.com: accessed 11 May 2021).
**Trinity United Church of Christ (York, York County, Pennsylvania), "Marriages by Rev. J.C. Miller," unnumbered pages in chronological order, Henry J. Deitch to Lizzie Strack, 2 Sep 1860; "Pennsylvania and New Jersey, U.S., Church and Town Records, 1669-2013," Trinity United Church of Christ, image 304 of 502, Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com: accessed 27 Apr 2021).
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