Joshua Jesse Diehl ^{2 3 4}

   FamilySearch ID: KL12-1RT.

  Noted events in his life were:

1. Census in 1850 in Lowhill Twp., Lehigh, PA. ³ The 1850 census recorded several Diehl families as neighors, everyone born in Pennsylvania...

Solomon Diehle, farmer, 68, was living with Ann, 44; Jesse, farmer, 30; Eli, mason, 25; Solomon, mason, 23; Uriah, laborer, 18; Syllasty, 13; and Matilda, 6.

Next door is Jonathan Diehl, farmer, 40; Prisylla, 30; Mazetta, 9; Griff E P, 7; Elmira, 3.

Next door is Jonas Diehl, shoemaker, 28; Deborah, 28; son Bennville, 7; Benjamin, 6; Carolina, 4; Thomas, 2; John Diehl, laborer, 63; Catharina, 56.

2. Census in 1880 in North Whitehall Twp., Lehigh, PA. ⁵ The 1880 census recorded Jesse Diehl, wood turner, 60, living with wife Lucy A. Diehl, 60. They and their parents were born in Pennsylvania.

3. Census in 1900 in North Whitehall Twp., Lehigh, PA. ¹ The 1900 census recorded Joshua Diehl, landlord, 80, born Sep 1819, living with wife Lucy A., 79, Oct 1820. The census records they were married for 49 years and she had given birth to no children.

Joshua married Lucy A. Fries, daughter of Peter Fries Jr. and Salome Wotring, in 1851 in , Lehigh, PA.¹ (Lucy A. Fries was born on 29 Oct 1829 in Lowhill Twp., Lehigh, PA,^{1 6} died on 22 Oct 1904 in , Lehigh, PA ⁶ and was buried in Neffs: Neffs Union Cemetery, Lehigh, PA ⁶.)