Sergeant Jacob Dieter

Other Events and Attributes:

• Military Service: 26 Aug 1862, Sparta, Livingston County, New York; American Civil War (North) 136th New York Regiment, Co.I Battles of Gettysburg, Lookout Valley and others Taken prisoner and died at Belle Isle Prison near Richmond,VA

Notes:

Jacob mar. Elizabeth (Betsey) Swarts Aug. 28, 1850, Sparta, Livingston Co, NY. Jacob, son of John George and Barbara Dotterer Dieter and Betsey, daughter of Jacob and Marcia Getts Swarts. Jacob and Betsey had 3 children: Josephine, Exielona and Emmarilla all born before Jacob was in the Civil War.
In their childhood, and a short time before their marriage Jacob and Betsey lived in Sparta but before 1855 they settled on a 40 acre farm on the Swarts Road in Springwater. Jacob was a carpenter by trade and there were many barns still standing in 1933 which he built before 1861. Among them was a large basement barn on his farm, the first ever to be built in that part of the country. with a straw shed to house the straw before it could be used for feed. Farmers came for miles around to see this barn. (Lloyd Moose's Hist. Story Rd.).
Jacob enlisted in Co. B, 136th Reg't of NY Vol. on its original organization at Sparta, NY for a term of 3 years (age 34, 5 ft 11 1/2 inches tall, dark complexion, black eyes, black hair, a farmer). He died in Rebel Prison, Richmond, VA., March 29, 1864. Jacob was captured at Bristow Station on Sept. 11, 1863, confined at Richmond, VA., in Rebel prison (Libby). He was admitted to the hospital Feb. 12, 1864, where he died March 28, 1864 of bronchitis, age 35.
Betsey remained on the farm until her death when it passed to her dau., Exie Dieter Joy. After being passed down several times through the family, the farm was finally sold in 1958 so the old home was in the family more than 100 years. (Ref. Winnie Perkins).
Jacob's widow tried to have his body returned home for burial but it could not be recovered because the graves wre not marked. There is a monument where Betsey is buried with a detailed account of Jacob on it, along with the inscription for Betsey.


Buried:
His wife put a monument in the family lot in the Erwin Cemetery in Springwater,NY

Jacob married Elizabeth Swarts in 1851. Elizabeth (daughter of Jacob Swarts and Marcia Getts) was born in 1830; died on 15 Oct 1908 in Sparta, Livingston County, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: William M. Moose. William (son of Enoch Moose and Sarah Burdick) was born on 17 Feb 1849 in Springwater, Livingston County, New York; died on 28 Oct 1919; was buried in Pleasant Valley West Cemetery, Springwater, Livingston County, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Lloyd lived on the Peter Moose Homestead. In 1984 was the home of Bill Teeter at the top of Moose Hill Road in Springwater. Lloyd was a farmer 10 years in Sparta and Justice of the Peace a few years. About 1920 Lloyd and Nina moved to Florida for his health, he had asthma. They bought and sold land, and settled in Crescent City. He had a 21 acre citrus grove, which he had for many years. Lloyd eventually sold the grove and had a funeral home. He later ran a gas station. Lloyd's hobbies were people and family history. He was the first one in the Moose family to start searching out relatives and statistics. During the first 23 years of the Moose reunion, Lloyd held an office all but one year. He was president 10 years, historian 6 years, and vice-president from 1935 unitl his death in 1948. He was a colorful chacter, wore a stovepipe hat, and a cutaway black suit from his funeral home days, until they wore out. He also had a goatee. Lloyd left a great history of the people Sparta-Springwater Town-Line Road area, sometime called the "Story Road". It was orginally written as installments for the Genesee Country Express and Advertiser from Dec. 1, 1932 to June 29, 1933. In 1981, Alice Oaks, of Hornell,NY re-typed and organized it into a book.

Lloyd married Nina Fronk in 1905 in Sparta, Livingston County, New York. Nina (daughter of Samuel William Fronk and Lizzie M. Hartman) was born on 28 Dec 1884 in Sparta, Livingston County, New York; died on 29 Nov 1967 in Crescent City, Putnam County, Florida; was buried in Pleasant Valley West Cemetery, Springwater, Livingston County, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Josephine was named after her father's mother, he dubbed her 'Betsy'
when she was born and never called her by any other name. She
graduated from Crescent City H.S. in Florida. In 1972 she had been
living 3 years in New York State, mostly around Perkinsville/Wayland
area.

Josephine married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Josephine married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Living married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]