Maria
Magdalene
(Mary)
Riffle
aka Deffenbaugh
Born before in Whitehall, Lehigh, Pennsylvania
Daughter of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of
Conrad Deffenbaugh
— married
1772 in German, Fayette, Pennsylvania
Descendants 
Mother of
Conrad Deffenbaugh Jun., Jacob Deffenbaugh, Catharine (Deffenbaugh) Reppert, Johan Georg Deffenbaugh, Solomon Deffenbaugh, Daniel Deffenbaugh, Anthony Deffenbaugh, Barbara Rebecca (Deffenbaugh) Rider, George Deffenbaugh and Mary Magdalena (Deffenbaugh) Fox
Died
after age 78
in German, Fayette, Pennsylvania
Profile last modified
| Created 30 Nov 2014
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Biography
Per report of Mike Galasco: Mary's birth year is 1754. He has information on her birth from the family church and their records. Thank you Mike.
Probable daughter of M. Andrew Riffle and Abigail Dieber.
Baptismal record indicates parents are Jacob "Riffel" and his wife Catharina.
She is buried in Jacob's Evangelical Lutheran Cemetery in McClellandtown, Pennsylvania.[1]
Sources
"Pennsylvania Births and Christenings, 1709-1950," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V2JF-2BS : accessed 31 December 2015), Jacob Riffel in entry for Maria Magdalena Riffel, 21 Sep 1754; Christening, citing JORDAN LUTHERAN OR EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH,WHITEHALL TWP,LEHIGH,PENNSYLVANIA; FHL microfilm 940,906.
Fischer, Della R. Jacobs Lutheran Church & Cemetery: Masontown, German Twp., Fayette County, Pa. Pennsylvania: The Author, 1974. Print. p. 10, entry #271 ("Mary Magdalena Deffenbaugh").
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Mary by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Mary:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Mary by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Mary:
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~1.56%
D (Rider) Hutchins
:
23andMe, GEDmatch M175959 [compare]
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~1.56%
Beverly Dillon :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member beverlydillon1
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~0.78%
Brian Deffenbaugh :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch LA8877115 [compare], Ancestry member BDeffenbaugh
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~0.78%
Andrea (Forbes) Traunero :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member Traunero1
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~0.78%
Elizabeth (Cecil) Kelts :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A833988 [compare], Ancestry member Elizabeth_Cecil
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~0.78%
Mick McElhinney :
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch T592740 [compare]
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~0.39%
Jason Cecil :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A307399 [compare]
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~0.39%
Lynn Kelts :
AncestryDNA
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~0.39%
George Kelts :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A427611 [compare], Ancestry member georgekelts
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