CENTRE LINES

The LEITZEL Family

This column is part of a feature series which focuses on a different Centre County family each week. Five new columns will be released each month unless some technical difficulty enters the picture.

This column's focus is on Leitzel. An effort has been made to identify all persons carrying that name in the 1890 U.S. Census, using the Centre County business directory which was formed from a preliminary review of that census before the larger set of 1890 U.S. Census records was destroyed by fire. (Sadly, the postal directory does not typically provide the ages of females, but it's the best record we've got).

There are no books in the Pennsylvania Room of the Centre County Library in Bellefonte that apparently deal in part with the Leitzel family.

There are eight first-name entries for Leitzell/Lytzel in John Blair Linn's History of Centre and Clinton County (1883). In addition, there are several mentions of the name in Beers' Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania (1898).

And, now, your ancestors' Leitzel neighbors in 1890:

GREGG Township:

James Jr., 34, laborer--Spring Mills Amanda C. Charles R. 5 Paul J. 3 Samuel L. 8 James M., 49, carpenter--Spring Mills Catharine Peter W. 15 Kate--Spring Mills Lena D. Samuel, 59, gilder--Spring Mills William 19

HAINES Township:

Joseph, 55, laborer--Fiedler Sarah Noah, 51, laborer--Poe Mills Sarah I. Mary M. Annie J. Forrest E. 13 Lottie E.

HARRIS Township:

Harry H., 15--Linden Hall

MILES Township:

Aaron, 71, retired--Rebersburg Lavinia

MILLHEIM Borough:

Harry H., 28, jeweler Lula Glenn W., 2 Paul A. 9 mos. Ruth L. Philip P., 36, teamster Lydia R. Maggie L. Frederick T. 6

PATTON Township:

Margaret--Buffalo Run Eva Samuel, 19, laborer--Benore William, 45, laborer--Buffalo Run Kate John 12 Anna E. Mary Edna

SPRING Township:

Benjamin F., 37, laborer--Bellefonte Emma P. Esther S. Elwood J. 12 Samuel E. 10 Stuart 8 Miles 4