David Dittman

NOT A DIRECT ANCESTOR David Dittman is not in my direct ancestry.His grandson Joseph Henry Dittman was married to Arminta Beals who is 1 step removed in the following ways: Sister of James Elgie Beals Daughter of James Francis Beals and Olive Samantha Bower

	Date	Location	Notes	Sources
Birth	23 Dec 1797	Westmoreland Co. PA; christened 28 Jan 1798
1st Marriage			To Susannah Ashbaugh (margin notes:b. 1799 (b. 1787?) - d.3 July 1861 after long illness)
2nd Marriage			To Magdalena unknown (from Hanover)
Death	21 Apr 1872	Richland Twp., Clarion Co. PA
Burial

Ancestry chart segment

 Generation 3                  Generation 4        Generation 5    
 
                                                                   
                                                                  +--Johann Heinrich "Henry" Detman
                                                                  |  (by 1757- <1815)
                                              +-- David Dittman --+       
                                              |    (1797-1861)    |                
                        +-- Wilhelm Dittman --+                   +-- Elisabetha Horn
                        |   (1825-1896)       | 
                        |                     +-- Magdelina unknown   
                        |                         (????-1872)   
 Joseph Henry Dittman --+                               
 (1867-1952 )           |                          
                        |                     +-- Philip Klein
                        |                     |   (1799-by 1850)  
                        +-- Sarah Ann Kline --+         
                             (1833-1898)      |
                                              +-- Esther Foegele
                                                  (????-????)
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Children

( all children presumably with Susannah Ashbaugh)

Name	Gender	Date of Birth	Birthplace	Spouse	Notes	Sources
Susanna Dittman	F	13 Oct 1823		m. on 5 Apr 1841 to F. William Eddinger (d. * Nov 1928 Clarion Co. PA)	died Beaver T. Clarion C. PA; had 6 children
Wilhelm Dittman	M	9 Sept 1825		m. Sarah Ann Kline (3 May 1833-12 June 1898)	died 13 Mar 1896
Martin Dittman	M	18 May 1828		m. Mary Shirey (1832-19 Jan 1892)	died 29 Sept 1909; had 8 children
David Dittman, Jr.	M	21 Nov 1829		not married	d. 3 Jan 1913
Adam Dittman	M	14 May 1831		m. 16 June 1853 Louisa M. George	d. 3 May 1913; had 11 children
Eva Elizabetha Dittman	F	20 Aug 1833		m. Joseph Foust (d. 8 Mar 1888 age 52 y, m, 24d)	d. 23 Oct 1915; had 3 children
John Dittman	M	25 June 1835		not married	d. 1 Nov 1905
Catherine Dittman	F	27 Feb 1837		m. J.J. Nevil (1844-17 Oct 1887, age 42y9m21d)	d. 1910

Places of Residence

Location	Dates	Notes	Sources
Richland Twp., Venango Co. PA	by1830
Richland Twp., Clarion Co. PA	by1850

Sources

Ref. Num.	Description	Image of original
1	1830 United States Federal Census, Richland Twp, Venango Co, PA, page 3. Census is not dated. Family headed by David Ditman: 3 males 0-5, 1 male 5-10, 1 male 30-40, 1 male 50-60, 1 female 5-10, 1 female 20-30, 1 female 30-40. This agrees with the 1850 census for Davis and Susan Dittman and their three sons born between 1825 and 1830. It is not clear who are the 5-10 male and female or the female in her 20's. The older male may have been a father or a person boarding with the family.
2	1840 United States Federal Census Ancestry.com search engine does not find the family of David Dittman in Venango County.
3	1850 United States Federal Census, Richland Twp., Clarion Co, PA, page 14. Census dated 1 August, 1850. Lines 11-20: David Dittman, 52, farmer, $2500 real property; Susan, 51; William, 24, carpenter; Martin, 22, farmer; David, 18, farmer; Adam, 16; Eva E., 14; Catherine, 13; Susan Eddinger, 8. All b. PA.
4	1860 United States Federal Census Ancestry.com search engine does not find the family of William (or Wilhelm) Dittman in Clarion County. The family of parents David and Susanah Dittman and other relatives are in Richland Twp.
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7	Book of Dittmans, A Researcher's Workbook, Revised 2nd edition 1993, by Betty Dittman Hamet. This manuscript includes descendants of Johann Heinrich Dittman, record of ship "Crawford" arr. Philadelphia 25 Oct 1773 from Rotterdam/Cowes; records in Mt. Pleasant Twp., Bedford Co. (forerunner of this township in Westmoreland Co. PA), in Westmoreland Co. PA, and in Venango/Clarion Co. PA; gravestone transcriptions from Lutheran Cemetery St Petersburg, Salem Lutheran Cemetery, Reformed Church Cemetery Lamartine, these cemeteries in Clarion Co. PA; death registers from Clarion Co. Register of Deaths, and from the St. Petersburg Lutheran congregation.
8	Dittman Documents and Photographs, from the lifetime collection of Joseph Dittman and wife Arminta E. Beals Dittman, now in the keeping of their grandchildren; photographed/copied with permission July 2008 by Nancy Beals Walls & Elizabeth Wilson Williams.
10	Research of Nancy Elizabeth Beals (Walls), 1975-ongoing, in the Venango/Clarion Counties border area, including cemetery inventories, obituary collections, church records and library research, and interviews of community members.

Research

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  Photo of Adam Dittman from "Under the Maltese Cross", a book commemorating the 155th PA Infantry
  . This photo possibly indicates Civil War service by Adam Dittman, son of David Dittman. Further confirmation needed.