Francis Stiely ¹

   Another name for Francis was Frantz Stiely.^{2 3}

  Noted events in his life were:

1. Frantz Sitely was a deacon at St. John's (Hain's) Reformed Church in 1828 in Wernersville: St. John's (Hains) Reformed Church, Berks, PA. ⁴

2. He was confirmed on 8 Apr 1837 in Wernersville: St. John's (Hains) Reformed Church, Berks, PA. ⁵

3. Census in 1870 in Wernersville, Berks, PA. ^{1 2} The 1870 census recorded Francis Steely, day laborer, 77, sharing his home with the family of Daniel Strome [sic], "works for carpenter", 43; Daniel's wife Hannah, 23; and Mary R., 5. Also in the home is Catharine Yoh, 9; and Clara Steely, 11.Everyone was born in Pennsylvania.

4. Book: Biography of Adam Stiely, 1894. ⁶
Adam S. Stiely, a well known resident of Fritztown, Spring township, where he is foreman in the hosiery factory of William G. Leininger, was born Sept. 13,1858, at Wernersville, Berks county, son of Elijah and Ellen (Stiely) Stiely.

Dietrich Stiely, great-grandfather of Adam S., was a native of Germany, whence he came to America in, or about. 1735. He was a farmer, owning land where Hain's church cemetery is now located; and Stielytown, a village in Heidelberg township, is named after his grandsons, who were in that vicinity until after 1902, members of the family still residing there at the present time (1909). The burial place of this family is at Hain's Church. Dietrich Stiely's children were: Wilhelm: Daniel: George; Philip, who was the father of Francis, Daniel, John, Mary, Kate and Susan; Mary; Kate; Marguereta; Rev. Isaac; and John, who died in 1823, leaving a daughter under fourteen years old.

Francis Stiely, son of Philip, lived in Lower Heidelberg township, where he died in 1874, aged eighty-one years, the father of Reuben (who had a son Reuben), Anna, Francis, Jr. (who died before 1873), Ellen, Levi and Joel (who had Ellen, Valaria, Riely, Jared, Franklin, William, Charles, Maggie, Clara and Catherine.).

Francis married Maria. (Maria was born on 2 Nov 1799 in , , PA,⁷ died on 14 Feb 1868 in , Berks, PA ⁷ and was buried in Wernersville: St. John's (Hains) Reformed Church, Berks, PA ⁷.)