A Montour County Woman was the Ancestor of a Real Yankee Doodle Dandy

When Danville and the entire country celebrated the bicentennial in 1976, a story written by newspaper reporter Jim Birt in a July Danville news supplement included the proud ancestry of Mrs. Pearl Fitch Diehl. She was the wife of Fred W. Diehl, the man who served as superintendent of Danville schools for decades and authored several local history books. Mrs. Diehl was a direct descendant of Captain Thomas Fitch Junior.