The threads of this story are thin in spots, beginning with the best match for Elizabeth's family while she was still in Lancaster county.  Leonard and Eliza A. Getz were living in Blue Ball in 1850, a small town located east and north of New Holland.

Leonard Getz, 31, male, laborer, born PA
Eliza A, 27, female, born PA
Eliza, 6, female, born PA
Charles, 4, male, born PA
Phianna, 1, female, born PA

Leonard Getz, 43, male, tanner, value of personal estate 25, born PA
Eliza, 38, female, born PA
Charles, 13, male, born PA, attended school within the year
Phianna, 11, female, born PA, attended school within the year
Francis, 6, male, born PA, attended school within the year
Mary Jane, 4, female, born PA

 
Also in East Cocalico Township in 1860 was the family of Jacob Schwedes:

Jacob Sweetzes, 32, male, day laborer, value of personal estate 100, born Baden
Elizabeth, 38, female, born unknown
Daniel, 3, male, born [no entry]
Sarah, 2, female, born [no entry]
Jacob, 2/12, male, born [no entry]

 
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By 1870 Elizabeth Callihan Getz had married Jacob Schwedes and they had joined Elizabeth's extended family in Hancock County, Illinois.  Jacob's children were living with them, but only one Getz child, 24 year old George C. Getz.  We are presuming he was the boy named as Charles in both of the above Getz family listings.

Schwedes, Jacob, 42, male, white, farmer, value of real estate 600, value of personal estate 150, born Baden, both parents foreign born, male citizen of the U.S. aged 21 or more
Elisabeth, 47, female, white, keeping house, born PA
Daniel, 12, male, white, born PA, father foreign born, attended school within the year
Sarah, 11, female, white, born PA, father foreign born, attended school within the year
Jacob, 10, male, white, born PA, father foreign born, attended school within the year
Mary, 8, female, white, born PA, father foreign born, attended school within the year
Getz, George C, 24, male, white, tailor, born PA, male citizen of the U.S. aged 21 or more

 
Elizabeth died on December 17, 1870; seven months later the executor began distributing funds from her father's estate.  Two-thirds of her share was paid out to Jacob Schwedes, the balance was divided between George C. Getz and Andrew C. Getz.  We don't know exactly when Jacob and Elizabeth were married, so we can't determine whether eight year old Mary was the daughter of Jacob and his first wife or Jacob and Elizabeth Getz.  Mary was not listed as a recipient of money from Thomas Callihan's estate, so either she was not Elizabeth's child or Mary, too, died prior to the distribution of the money.  In the latter case one might expect that Mary would have been buried beside her mother, and an inscription for Mary placed on Elizabeth's marker, but we have no evidence of Mary's death or burial location.

We also don't know what happened to Leonard Getz and the other Getz children, we cannot identify Andrew from the 1850 and 1860 censuses, nor are we able to locate an Andrew Getz or a Francis Getz in later years.

(In 1880 there was a Leonard Getz, 63, born in Pennsylvania, living in Darke County, Ohio.  His wife's name was, naturally, Elizabeth; she was 56, born in Pennsylvania.  They had one son, Abraham, born in Pennsylvania about 1864.  We were not able to locate this family in 1870.)

See: Jacob Schwedes and Anna Marie Hoch

On August 29, 1878, he married Mary Salinda Booth, daughter of Edwin C. and Mary Booth, both immigrants from England.  Mary Salinda was born in Ohio about 1857.

George and Mary had four children, all probably born in Keokuk, one of whom apparently did not survive childhood.  Their three daughters were :

By 1910 George and Mary had relocated to Mason City, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa, where George was the proprietor of his own tailor shop.  We've found no record of them after 1910.
Getz and Booth census transcriptions 1850-1910