This is from the query page of the Lehigh Co. Pa PAGenWeb page. you will need to reply to the submitter listed below. Not to me please. Judy Listowner Sally Reese wrote: > > Surnames: DIERKES BARTSCHE > Submitter: Sally Reese (darsal@cyberhighway.net) > Date: 07 Mar 1999 > > I am looking for the parents of Elizabeth Dierkes born 1804, in Easton Pensyslvania. Her father is said to be the first elected governor of Pennsylvania. she married Jacob Bartsche, born 1801 in Pennsylvania, in 1823, probaably in Ohio.