An undated portrait of Hannah [Rickert] Riegle of Specktown, Lykens Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania.
Hannah was born in Specktown in 1847, the daughter of Martin Rickert and Elizabeth [Yerges] Rickert. She married Harrison Riegle (1840-1899), a Civil War veteran. After her husband died in 1899, she sold the farm where she raised her older children from the marriage and purchased a six acre farm a short distance away. In that home, where she lived with her sister, Rebecca “Becky” Rickert, and oldest daughter Elizabeth “Lizzie” Riegle, she raised her youngest children. Hannah died in 1919 and when the estate was settled, her granddaughter Helen [Hoffman] Dietrich and husband, William E. Dietrich purchased the property and it was thereafter known as the Riegle-Dietrich Homestead.
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