When Anne Maria "Polly" Deck was born on 29 October 1806, in Stouchsburg, Marion Township, Berks, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Johann Heinrich "Henry" Deck, was 24 and her mother, Anna Maria Pfeiffer, was 26. She married George Alfred Long on 9 September 1827, in Stouchsburg, Marion Township, Berks, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Gregg Township, Centre, Pennsylvania, United States for about 10 years and Lower Augusta Township, Northumberland, Pennsylvania, United States in 1860. She died on 30 June 1871, in Centre, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Farmers Mills, Gregg Township, Centre, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Atlantic slave trade abolished.
Harrisburg had important parts with migration, the Civil War, and the Industrial Revolution.
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South German: metonymic occupational name for a roofer, from Middle High German decke ‘covering, roof’. Compare the later form Decker .
Dutch and North German: from the personal name Deck, a local pet form of Dutch Diederik (see Dederick ) or German Dietrich .
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