My great-great-grandparents, Francis and Elizabeth Baker, were neighbors of Hiram and Sarah Fritz, and similar in age, may have been friends. 1870 (9 AUG), Susquehanna Township, Munster Post Office, Cambria County, Pennsylvania, page 1/335, 5/5; FRITZ, Heilman, age 49, Farmer, property value $1200, personal value $900, cannot read or write; Sarah, age 49, keeping house, cannot read or write; Martha, age 24, house girl, cannot read or write; and Daniel, age 21, farm hand, cannot read or write; all born Pennsylvania 1870 (9 AUG), Susquehanna Township, Munster Post Office, Cambria County, Pennsylvania, p335/1, 6/6; BAKER, Francis, age 46, farmer, property value $2000, personal value $1300, born Germany, unable to read or write, US citizen; Elizabeth, age 34, wife, keeping house, unable to read; John, age 15, farm hand, attended school; Catharine, age 12, at home, attended school; Mary, age 9; Julian, age 3, daughter; all else born Pennsylvania 1880 (14 JUN), Susquehanna Township, Cambria County, Pennsylvania, ED 206, page 447A/17, 113/113; FRITZ, Daniel, age 30, married, Farmer; Matilda, age 27, wife; Ida May, age 6, daughter; Cora M., age 5, daughter; and Sarah J., age 3, daughter; all born Pennsylvania 1880 (15 JUN), Susquehanna Township, Cambria County, Pennsylvania, ED 206, p19/448C, 132/132; BAKER, Francis J., age 51, married, farmer, born Baden; Elizabeth, wife, age 44, keeping house; John A., age 24, son, single, laborer on farm, son; Mary, age 19, daughter, single, at home; Julia Ann, age 12, daughter, at home; and WOODS, George, age 3; all else born Pennsylvania * * 1920 (5 JAN), Hastings, Cambria County, Pennsylvania, ED 167, page 98/7B, Spangler Street, 135/137; FRITZ, Daniel, head, own home, no mortgage, age 70, married; and Matilda, wife, age 65, married; both born Pennsylvania 1930 (8 APR), Hastings, Cambria County, Pennsylvania, ED 47, page 140/ 7B, Spangler Street, 128/129; FRITZ, Daniel, age 81, head, own home, value $1500, no radio, age 81, married age 24; and Matilda, wife, age 77, married age 20; both born Pennsylvania While Daniel and Matilda Fritz show up in Hastings on the 1920 and 1930 census, neither appear in the St. Bernard 1990 Mass for Deceased Parish Members anniversary book. Their daughter, Sara Jane and son-in-law, Sylvester Miller, are in the book and were located during my cemetery reading. Since they weren't in the booklet, assume they weren't members of the church. Possibly St. Boniface Church, only 2-3 miles away, or St. Benedict Church, since the Fritz family previously resided in Carroll Township, and their son Hiram and daughter-in-law Laura are buried at St. Benedict cemetery. > To: pacambri@rootsweb.com > From: marilynkwash@aol.com > Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2013 14:39:03 -0400 > Subject: [PACAMBRI] Matilda [Lute] Fritz, w of Daniel Fritz > > North Cambria News, Thursday, February 9, 1939 > > Mrs. Matilda [Lute] Fritz, 86, died last week at her home. Mrs. Fritz was born in Indiana County January 25, 1853. On January 28, 1873, she married Daniel Fritz, who preceded her in death April 28, 1934. Matilda and Daniel built a house on Spangler Street and turned the farm, known as Fritz's Corner, over to Hiram in 1904. Mr. Fritz sold part of his farm as building lots for the new town of Hastings. > She was the mother of five children, two daughters being deceased. She is survived by her son, Hiram Fritz married to Laura Arble and two daughters, Mrs. Cora Smith Manion, of Ebensburg and Mrs. Sylvester [Sara Jane] Miller of Susquehanna Township. > Mrs. Fritz was the sister of Isaac Lute, a Civil War Soldier. > She was buried at St. Bernard's Cemetery. > > Note: The original Fritz who settled in this area was Hiram: his son was Daniel, and his grandson was Hiram. The original farm was in Carroll Township "near Carrolltown." > Cora Fritz was married first to Albert Smith of Curvensville and they lived in Clymer where they ran a restaurant. Cora had a son George and daughter Eva who lived with her grandparents. Cora married second John Manion, a widowed neighbor of the Fritz's. > Hiram and Laura had two daughters: Gertrude who married Walter Holtz and was the mother of Leonard, Howard and Laura Mae Holtz; and Mary Anna "Mae" who married Ralph Strittmatter, and was the mother of Frederick "Fritz, Boyd and Daniel Strittmatter > > Marilyn Kline Washington