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     Harry Troutman Wiest was born on 24 November 1844. He married Catherine Schmeltz. Harry Troutman Wiest died on 1 April 1917, at age 72.¹ He was buried at Zion (Klinger's) Church, Erdman, Lykens Township, Dauphin County, PA.²

     Catherine Schmeltz was born on 17 March 1845. She was baptized on 13 July 1845, Zion (Klinger's) Lutheran and Reformed Church, Erdman, Dauphin County, PA.¹ She married Harry Troutman Wiest. Her married name was Wiest. Catherine Schmeltz died on 26 December 1918, at age 73. She was buried at Zion (Klinger's) Church, Erdman, Lykens Township, Dauphin County, PA.

     Nathaniel Andrew Wiest was born on 25 June 1868, Klingerstown, Schuylkill County, PA.^1,2,3 He was the son of Harry Troutman Wiest and Catherine Schmeltz. Nathaniel Andrew Wiest married Emma Vesta Schwalm, daughter of Frederick Stein Schwalm and Sarah Ann Rubendall, circa 1894.⁴ At the time of the 1900 Census for Lykens Township, Dauphin County, the household of Nathaniel, 31, and Emma J., 23, included three children: Minnie E., 4; Navin A., 2; and Maze, born May, 1900.⁴ Nathaniel Andrew Wiest owned and operated a farm located about two miles east of Klingerstown. There is a photograph of Emma and Nathaniel's family in the Journal of Johannes Schwalm Historical Association, vol. 2, no. 4, p. 89 (1984) and vol. 18, p. 109 (2015).^5,6 Nathaniel Andrew Wiest died on 17 January 1941, Mahantongo Township, Schuylkill County, PA, at age 72; of influenza and bronchial pneumonia.^5,3,2 He was buried on 22 January 1941, at Zion (Klinger's) Church, Erdman, Lykens Township, Dauphin County, PA.^7,8
Newspaper obituary:
NATHANIEL A. WIEST
Nathaniel A. Wiest, prominent Klingerstown retired farmer died at his home at that place Friday evening at 5 o'clock after an illness of four days caused by pneumonia.
He was a son of Harry and Catherine (Smeltz) Wiest, was born at Klingerstown and was aged 72. He was united in marriage to Emma Schwalm who with the following children survive: Mrs. Gurney Starr, Rebuck; Nevin, Trevorton; Mrs. James Miller and Mrs. Guy Bixler, of Valley View; Mrs. Allen Deibert, Lykens, R. D; Clarence, of Klingerstown. Mrs. Henry Snyder, of Elizabethville, and Mrs. Russel Paul, at home. He is also survived by three brothers and one sister: Charles, of Sacramento; John, of Klingerstown; Morris, of Ashland, and Mrs. Alvin Erdman, of Klingerstown.
Funeral services were held Wednesday at 10 o'clock at the home followed by services at Klinger's Church, near Erdman, of which he was a member. The Rev. Paul C. Scheirer, pastor of the Lykens Reformed Church, officiated and burial was in the Klinger's Church Cemetery.
Lykens Register (Lykens, Pennsylvania), 24 Jan 1941, Fri, Page 4.²