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Che Moravian Graveyards of Lititz, (pa., 17 44-1905.
BY ABRAHAM REINKE BECK.
The Moravian Graveyards of Lititz, Da.
The first, or "old," graveyard, a small tract a quarter of an acre or so in extent, is situated within the borough limit a short distance west of the junction of Broad and Centre Streets. On its eastern boundary, two hundred feet back from the king's highway, in the woods, stood the log church which had been built by George Klein (on his land), John Bender, Jacob Scherzer, Hartmann Verdriess, Lutherans, supported by a number of adherents of the Reformed and Mennonite denominations, for the Rev. Lawrence Nyberg, a Swedish Lutheran minister of Lancaster, who subsequently united with the Moravians. Con- secrated on St. James' Day, July 25, 1744, it was thenceforth called the St. James' Church. In 1749 the majority of these worshipers, who had been spiritually awakened by the preaching in this vicinity of Count Zinzendorf, in 1742, organized the Warwick (Moravian) Country Congregation, and in 1759 they united with the Lititz congregation. With the completion of the new chapel (second story of the present parsonage,) in 1763, the use of the St. James' Church, except for occasional funeral services, was abandoned; but the graveyard continued to be the burial place of the Warwick members until 1791, when they be- gan to bury in the new graveyard, although some of them were interred in the former plot as late as 1812. Later the remains of some few friendless persons, or vagrants, were buried there.
When, in 1889, the Trustees of that time, actuated by a praise- worthy motive, gave this old graveyard a complete renovation- eradicating a jungle of brambles, repairing the enclosure, and planting trees there-the tombstones, which had been taken up in leveling the ground, were relaid, in exact, straight rows, to be sure, but with such indiscriminate misplacement that their true individual sites are now hopelessly lost; fortunately, the erring stones are covered to a depth of some inches with vegetable mould and grass.
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MEMBERS OF THE WARWICK CONGREGATION INTERRED ON THE FIRST, OR ST. JAMES' GRAVEYARD.
1744 to 1747.
I. Michael Beymüller's child.
2. Christian Weisskoph's child.
3. Gottlieb Veil's child. Two years old.
4. Anna Mary Henrich. Thirty-six years old.
1748.
5. Vincent Stauber. March 4. Fifty-five.
6. Mary Catharine Schmidt. March 25. Forty-seven.
7. Frederick Hayer.
8. Conrad Bassler. June 16.
1749.
9. Philip Plattenberger. April II. Eight years old.
10. Verona Bender. Wife of John Bender. April 17. Forty-two years.
12. Michael Palmer. Sept. 20. Forty years.
13. John Philip Seip. Sept. 24. Eight months old.
14. Andrew Bort. Oct. 5. Fifty years.
15. Henry Possard. Oct. 9. Thirty years.
16. Jacob Johnson. Son of Jacob Johnson, Sr. Ten years old. Exer- cising himself in jumping, at the same time holding an open knife in his hand, he fell upon it, the blade piercing his heart, and death en- suing one minute later. Funeral service by Brother Ronner.
1750.
18. Elizabeth Palmer. Jan. 5. Thirty-eight.
20. Franciscus Seip. March 3. Eight years.
21. John George Kiesel. Infant son of Nicholas Kiesel.
22. Christian Huehter. Infant.
23. Carl Palmer. Infant.
175I.
24. Christina Johnson. Aug. 25. Infant daughter of Jacob and Juliana Johnson.
25. Jacob Palmer. Thirteen years old. Son of Michael Palmer. Funeral service by Brother Nixdorff.
1752.
27. Beatus Heil.
28. Frederick Bort. Three years old.
1753.
29. John Weidman. Infant son of John Henry Weidman.
30. John Sherzer. Son of Stephen Sherzer. Two years.
31. John Michael Eib. Nov. 5. Thirty years. Three children: Mar- garet Barbara, Michael and Jacob.
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32. Elizabeth Bechtel. Widow. Aged seventy-seven years. Funeral service by Brother Christian Henry Rauch.
33. Anna Mary Seip. Infant.
1754.
34. Andrew Koerber. Seven days old. Baptized by the mid-wife.
35. Andrew Frey. Son of Christopher Frey. Two years. Funeral ser- vice by Brother Bader.
1755.
36. Anna Maria Bassler. Widow. Fifty-two.
37. Anna Maria Kiesel. Wife of Frederick Kiesel. Thirty-four. Funeral service by Brother Krogstrup.
38. Peter Heil. Infant son of Jacob Heil.
39. Michael Eib. Son of John Michael Eib. Five years.
1756.
40. Susanna Frey. Wife of Andrew Frey. Mother of Christopher Frey. Sixty years. Funeral service by Brother Lembke.
41. Christian Ludwig Lembke. Son of the Rev. Franz Christian Lembke. Born in Nazareth, July 20, 1755. Six months. Funeral service by Brother Russmeyer.
42. Juliana Margaretha Johnson. Wife of Jacob Johnson. Forty-two.
43. John Michael Blickensderfer. Infant son of Christian and Catharina Blickensderfer.
44. Catharine Weidman. Wife of Henry Weidman. Twenty-two.
45. Andrew Frey. Sept. 16. Sixty-five.
1757.
46. Thomas Williams. March 4. Fifty years. Funeral service by Brother Neisser.
47. Catharine Bender. Infant daughter of John Bender. One year.
48. John William Boehler. Aged five years. Died of small-pox.
49. Carl Frederick Palmer. Ten months.
50. George Blickensderfer. ) Twin sons of Christian and Catharine
51. Daniel Blickensderfer. ) Blickensderfer. Infants.
52. Infant son of Nicholas Jungblut.
53. John Michael Seip. One year.
54. Anna Ramsberg. Born in Norway, Jan. 26, 1706; died in Lititz, Oct. 28. She was the General Superintendent of the Single Sisters in the Pennsylvania Country Congregations.
1758.
55. John Frederick Ricksecker. Son of Peter Ricksecker. Eight months.
56. Barbara Plattenberger. Wife of John Plattenberger. Forty-six.
57. Samuel Frey. Infant son of Christopher Frey.
58. Anna Rosina Plattenberger. Infant daughter of John Plattenberger.
59. Anna Rosina Kling. Infant daughter of Christian Kling.
60. John George Lecron. Died Aug 3. Aged nine years.
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63. Louise Leçon. Died Aug. 9. Wife of Paul Leçon. Sixty-five years of age.
64. John Daniel Lecron. Died Aug. 10. Aged twelve years. Oldest son of Daniel and Mary (Thomas) Lecron. As he and his brother, John George, were pupils of Brother Russmeyer, in the "Warwick School-house," the latter having been one of his brightest boys, they have been included here, although they were buried on their father's farm.
65. Christina Kiesel. Infant daughter of Nicholas Kiesel.
66. Matthew Baumgaertner. Infant.
67. Thomas Jungblut. Infant.
68. Benigna Kiesel. Infant.
69. David Bieler. Eight years.
70. Michael Hilton. Infant son of David Hilton.
71. Catharine Jungblut. Three years.
72. John Haller. Son of Henry Haller. Seven years.
73. Elizabeth Broksch, m.n. Helwig. Born Feb. 24, 1700. Wife of the Rev. Andrew Broksch, pastor of the Warwick congregation. Funeral service by Brother Russmeyer. The Single Sisters paid for her grave-stone.
74. John Christian Kling. Born in the city of Worms, Jan. 14, 1705. Died Nov. 7, 1758.
75. John Frey. Infant.
1759.
76. Anna Maria Blickensderfer. Infant.
1760.
77. Paul Tshudy. Born in Donegal, Pa., 1754. Son of Nicholas Tshudy. Aged six years.
78. John Michael Heil. Aged two years. Drowned in the Lititz creek on his father's farm adjoining the Lititz tract on the east.
78. Christina Veit. Born in Pfaffenhofen, Würtemberg, 1714.
80. Beata Struebig.
81. Elizabeth Westhaeffer. Infant.
1762.
82. John George Kiesel. Born in Igelheim, Palatinate, 1680.
1763.
83. Franz Seip. Aged forty-eight years.
84. Eva Barbara Tshudy. Infant daughter of Nicholas Tshudy.
1764.
85. Andrew Palmer. Infant.
86. Christian Kling. Son of John Christian Kling. Met his death in falling from a tree. Thirteen years.
87. A still-born infant of Peter and Anna Maria Huber.
88. Matthew Ricksecker. Infant son of Peter Ricksecker.
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1766
89. Paul Leçon. Born in Lausanne, May, 1686. He was one of the Huguenot refugees. His daughter, Catharine, married Nicholas Tshudy. His wife and he were of the first members of the Warwick congregation in 1749. The name was usually written "Lesson." Died Oct. 13, aged eighty years.
90. John Hilton. Infant son of David Hilton.
91. Anna Maria Frey. Daughter of Christoph Frey. Aged five years. 1769.
92. Anna Maria Kiesel. March 27. Daughter of Frederick and Verona Kiesel. Aged twelve years.
93. Frederick Kiesel. April 13. Same parents. Died of small-pox, aged six years.
94. Nathaniel Kiesel. April 23. Same parents. Small-pox. Aged four years.
95. Verona Kiesel. April 30. Sister of the foregoing. Small-pox. Aged eleven years.
96. Daniel Lecron. May 3. Born in the Palatinate, near Heidelberg, in 1712. Came to this country in 1741. Lived first in Lancaster and then moved to Warwick. His second wife was a sister of John Thomas, baker, of Lititz. Deeply impressed by hearing his children pray the religious verses they had learned of Brother Russmeyer, in the Warwick school, he was led to unite with the Brethren, first, in 1759, as an associate, and finally in 1765 as a full member of the Lititz congregation. Funeral service by Brother Grube. He was of Huguenot origin.
97. Samuel Struebig. Aged one year. Died of small-pox.
98. Eberhard Palmer. A son of Christian and Barbara Palmer. Died of small-pox, aged eleven years.
99. Susanna Gutjahr. Infant daughter of John Christian and Margaret Gutjahr.
1770.
100. Barbara Ricksecker, m.n. Bechtel. Born 1717 in Bahnbruecken, near Heilbronn. Thrice married; her first husband was Henry Klein, her second, Andrew Bort, and her third, Peter Ricksecker. Died Jan. 27, aged fifty-two years.
10I. Joseph Westhaeffer. Infant son of George Michael Westhaeffer. 102. John Christian Grosh. John Grosh's son, aged three years.
1771.
103. Maria Margaretha Ricksecker, m.n. Thomas. Born April 4, 1723, in Pfullingen, Würtemberg. The widow of Daniel Lecron, she was married in 1770 to Peter Ricksecker. Died April 10, aged forty-eight years.
104. John Philip Sherzer. Infant son of the associate member Jacob Sherzer, a resident of Manheim.
105. Gottfried Grosh. Infant son of John Grosh.
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1772.
106. Elizabeth Heil. Daughter of Jacob and Anna Catharine Heil. Aged twenty-two years. December 6.
107. Anna Catharine Heil, born Ruehl. Born in Schoharie, N. Y., June 5, 1715 Wife of Jacob Heil. They united with the Brethren in 1749. Had sixteen children. Their farm adjoined the Lititz tract on the east. Died Dec. 23, aged fifty-eight years. Funeral service on Christmas Day by Bishop Hehl.
1773.
108. Christina Margaretha Kiesel, m.n. Stein. Born on Christmas Day, 1684, in Boeht, near Speier. Married John George Kiesel in 1712, and in 1762 they celebrated their Golden Wedding. Of her seven children she was survived by her sons Nicholas and Fred- erick. She and her husband were spiritually awakened in 1743 by the preaching of the Brethren, who, before either the St. James' church or the Warwick Gemcinhaus were built, frequently held service in their house; and in 1749 they united with the congrega- tion. As a faithful and experienced wehmutter she assisted at the birth of three hundred children. Died Dec. 3, aged eighty-nine years.
109. Christina Westhaeffer, m.n. Sandritter. Born in the Palatinate, June 21, 1713. In 1732 she came to this country, and in the same year was married to Valentine Westhaeffer. They united with the Brethren at Muddy Creek (Reamstown) in 1746. Moravian minis- ters, traveling from Bethlehem to Lititz, found their home a pleasant resting-place and Sister Westhaeffer always a generous hostess. She died Dec. 6, aged sixty years.
1774.
110. John Christian Huber. Son of Peter and Anna Maria Huber. Died July 26, aged six years.
1775.
III. John Ludwig Westhaeffer. A son of Conrad and Catharine West- haeffer. Aged six years.
112. Daniel Westhaeffer. Infant son of George Michael Westhaeffer. Died May 4.
113. George Michael Westhaeffer, Jr. Died May 4, aged twelve years. Small-pox.
1776.
114. John Henry Frey. A son of Christian and Regina Frey; aged two years.
115. Maria Margaret Grosh. A daughter of Philip Grosh. Died of small-pox, aged six years.
116. Elizabeth Risksecker. A daughter of Jacob Ricksecker. Died of small-pox, aged two years.
117. John Frderick Ricksecker. A son of Jacob Ricksecker. Died of small-pox, aged eight months.
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1777.
118. John Kiesel. Son of Frederick Kiesel. Small-pox. Aged nine years.
119. Maria Margaret Cassler. A daughter of Catharine Cassler, late Bort. Aged two years.
120. Anna Christina Ricksecker. Unmarried Sister. Born in the Earldom of Leiningen-Wüsterburg, May 3, 1734. Came as an orphan to this country with her uncle, Peter Ricksecker, by whom she was brought up. Died May 28, aged forty-three years.
121. John Gutjahr. Infant son of Gottfried Gutjahr.
1778.
122. Jacob Blickensderfer. He was born in the Palatinate, Feb. 13, 1752. Came with his parents, Christian and Catharina (Sherger) Blickensderfer, in his second year, to this country. Lived here until 1766, when he moved to York where he married Elizabeth Ilgenfritz. A year before his death he returned to this neighbor- hood. Died Jan. 20, of the then epidemic "camp-fever," aged twenty-six years.
123. Peter Ricksecker. Born in the Canton of Berne, Switzerland, Oct. 20, 1710. Came to this country in his thirtieth year. In 1743 he married the widow Anna Jung, in Donegal, Pa., and there they were of the first members of that Moravian congregation. They had three sons, Jacob, Peter, and John. His second wife was the widow Bort, and with her he moved from Donegal to the Bort farm in this neighborhood and united with this congregation. Of his six children by this marriage he was survived by Christian, Gertrude, Anna Johanna, and Elizabeth. His third and fourth wives were the widows Margaretha Lecron and Anna Schneider. For many years he was the Steward of the congregation and Superintendent of the children. Died Feb. 9, aged sixty-seven years.
124. Christian Palmer. Born in August, 1703, near Sinsheim, in the Palatinate. Came to this country in 1733, and married the widow Susanna Brunck, with whom he had six children. His second wife, to whom he was married by Pastor Nyberg, was the widow Barbara Pichler; they had seven children. He died March 8, aged seventy-four years.
125. Michael Grosh. Infant son of Philip Grosh.
1780.
126. Joseph Gutjahr. Infant son of Joseph Gutjahr.
1781.
127. Catharine Shoenlein. Infant daughter of Leonhard Shoenlein. 128. Anna Apollonia Sherzer, m.n. Glockenberger. Born Dec. 14, 17II, in the Palatinate. Came to this country with her husband, Jacob Sherzer, in 1738. They were of the first members of the War-
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wick congregation. She had five children; Jacob, Philip, and Leonhard surviving her. Died July 16, aged forty-five years.
129. Barbara Grosh, m.n. Bort. Born July 20, 1741. Wife of John Grosh. Died Dec. 10, of consumption, aged forty years.
130. Barbara Margaret Shoenlein. Infant daughter of Leonhard Shoen- lein.
131. John Bender. Born in Kirchardt, Baden, September, 1701. Came to this country in 1741. United with the Brethren in 1760. Died April IO, aged eighty-one years. Nine children.
132. John Frederick Ricksecker. Infant son of Jacob Ricksecker.
133. Maria Barbara Ricksecker. Infant daughter of John Ricksecker.
1783.
134. Anna Margaret Bender. Born Sept. 27, 1711, in the Palatinate. Second wife of John Bender. She had one child, a son, who sur- vived her.
135. Jacob Heil. Born in Rohrbach, Palatinate, April 1712. Came to this country in 1730. Married Catharina Ruehl, both uniting with the Warwick Brethren in 1749. Nine of his sixteen children survived him. Died Sept. 5, aged seventy-two years.
136. Christian Henry Westhaeffer. Infant son of Conrad Westhaeffer.
1784.
137. Barbara Kiesel, m.n. Boehler. Born in 1716. Wife of John Nicholas Kiesel. Died Sept. 17, aged sixty-eight years.
138. Joseph Shober. Infant son of Andrew Shober.
1785.
139. Christoph Frey. Born May 19, 1721, in Hornbach, Rhenish Bavaria. Came with his parents, Andrew and Susanna Frey, to this country in 1733. Married Margaret Beyer. United with the Warwick Brethren in 1749. Of his eleven children, two sons and four daughters survived him. Died July 30, aged sixty-five years. Funeral service by Bishop Ettwein.
140. Valentine Westhaeffer. Born Jan. 1, 1703, in the village of Hohen- Sachsen, between Weinheim and Heidelberg. In 1731 he embarked for America and, after a dreadful voyage of six months duration during which his wife and child and most of the emigrant passengers perished from hunger or thirst, or other maladies, landed in Phila- delphia, where, after a few years, he married Christina Sandritter. They had five children; two married sons survived him. He and his wife after being spiritually awakened by the brethren in Oley, united with them at Muddy Creek, in 1746, and were of the first members of that congregation; after its abandonment they belonged to the Warwick congregation. He resided in Lititz 1764-'65, and after his wife's death lived with his sons. Died of dropsy May 12, aged eighty-three years. Funeral service by Brother Dencke.
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141. John Koch. Born in September, 1705, in Alsace. Converted in Lan- caster by the preaching of Zinzendorf. He was one of those mem- bers of the Rev. Lawrence Nyberg's congregation who, with their pastor, came over to the Brethren. By trade a wheelwright. He died on his son-in-law John Hoefer's place, five miles from Lititz, July 31, aged eighty-two years.
142. Nicholas Jungblut. Born in 1712 in Bechingen, near Landau, Palat- inate. His first wife and three children died at sea. In 1743 he mar- ried Anna Maria Kappler. Because of a hostile incursion of In- dians they were forced to flee hither from their home in Bethel on the Swatara, and here they remained permanently. Ten children. He died Dec. 30, on his place "above the large spring," aged seventy- five years.
1788.
143. Anna Margaretha Frey, m.n. Bayer. Born in 1727 in Rhenish Ba- varia. Wife of Christoph Frey. Died Sept. 4.
144. Benjamin Hoefer. Infant.
145. Elizabeth Kreiter. Infant daughter of Michael Christian Kreiter.
1791.
146. Elizabeth Westhaeffer, m.n. Kling. Born in Chester County, in 1733; a daughter of Christian and Eva Maria Kling. Died Jan. 18. Wife of George Michael Westhaeffer.
147 John Christian Gutjahr. Born Oct. 15, 1714, in Werseburg, Saxony. Married, in Lancaster, 1746, Margaretha Roesner. Nine of his twelve children survived him. Farmer and hatter. Died on his place near Lititz, Feb. 12, aged seventy-six years. One of his de- scendants was Charles Goodyear, the discoverer of the process for the vulcanization of rubber.
148. John Nicholas Kiesel. Born Sept. 24, 1716, in Igelsheim, Palatinate. A son of John George and Christine Margaret (Stein) Kiesel. Mar- ried Barbara Boehler. Of twelve children, six survived him. Died Nov. 3, aged seventy-five years.
1792.
149. Anna Maria Jungblut, m.n. Kappler. Born Oct. 6, 1718, in Kirchardt, Baden. Wife of Nicholas Jungblut. Died July 28, aged seventy- four years.
1793. 150. Christian Frey. Born in Hempfield Township, 1748; a son of Christoph Frey. Farmer. Died March 4, aged forty-five years.
1794.
151. Jacob Sherzer. Born Aug. 3, 1712, in Michelfelde, Palatinate. Came with his wife Anna Apollonia (Glockenberger) to this country in 1738. Died on his place, near Lititz, Jan. 19, aged eighty-one years. 152. Anna Maria Huber, late Eib. Born at sea, Aug. 10, 1727. Her parents were George and Eva (Hammer) Schwab, from the Palat-
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inate. They settled in Earl Township. By her first marriage to Michael Eib she had three children; and nine by her second mar- riage to Peter Huber. Died Jan. 26, aged sixty-six years.
1795.
153. Philip Koch. Unmarried. Born in Kussel, Rhenish Bavaria, in 1730. A weaver in the Brethren's House. Died Dec. 6, aged sixty-five years.
1798.
154. Rebecca McClelland. Infant daughter of Peter McClelland.
155. George Huber. Oldest son of Peter and Rosina (Gutjahr) Huber. Aged seventeen years.
156. Peter Huber, Sr. Born July 15, 1735, in Berlin. Came to this country in 1741. His first wife was Anna Maria Schwab; his second, the Widow Martin (born Sherzer). Died Aug. I, aged sixty-three years.
157. Anna Regina Frey. Born in 1755; a daughter of Peter Huber, and wife of Christian Frey. Died Aug. 10, aged forty-two years.
158. John Huber. Born in 1765. Having come to Lititz to settle the es- tate of his father, Peter Huber, he died Sept. 22, aged thirty-three years.
1799.
159. Eva Maria Kling, m.n. Zimmer. Born in 1724, in Germany. Wife of Christian Kling. Died April 14, aged seventy-six years.
160. Matthew McClelland. Infant son of Peter McClelland, a Presby- terian neighbor.
161. Magdalena Werner. Infant daughter of Matthew Werner.
1800.
162. Zacharias Heil. Born in 1738; a son of Jacob Heil. Aged sixty-two years.
1801.
163. Elizabeth Bernthaeusel. Child of Michael Bernthaeusel. 164. Joseph Glancy Stoehr. Child of John Stoehr.
1802.
165. Catharina Barbara Grosh. Infant daughter of John Grosh.
166. Andrew Noble. A drover, living fifteen miles above Carlisle, who had come hither with a herd of cattle, was taken sick, could go no farther, and died in the Lititz tavern.
167. Evans. Stillborn child of James and Margaretha Evans.
1804.
168. Elizabeth Rock. Child of George Rock, shoemaker.
169. Hannah Grosh. A daughter of Jacob Grosh, of Hempfield Township. Aged three years.
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1805.
170. Elizabeth Bernthaeusel. Child of Michael Bernthaeusel, saddler. 171. Henry Werner. Infant son of Matthew Werner, day-laborer.
1806.
172. Catharine Rickert. Infant daughter of Daniel and Magdalena (Goepfert) Rickert.
173. Elizabeth Fuhrman, m.n. Rock. Born Aug. I, 1765, in Cocalico Township. Wife of Conrad Fuhrman. Died July 4, aged forty years.
174. James Evans. Born in 1761, in Ireland. Aged forty-four years. Died April 23. He was an ancestor of the Lititz Evans family. By occupation a day-laborer.
1807.
175. Daniel Rickert. Child of Daniel Rickert.
1809.
176. Ephraim Kiesel. Aged three years. A son of Abraham Frederick Kiesel.
177. Catharina Bernthaeusel, m.n. Rock. Born July 26, 1770, in Cocalico Township. Wife of Michael Bernthaeusel. Died Feb. 19, aged forty years. Five sons and two daughters survived her.
18II.
178. John Knox. Born in Donaghkiddie, between Londonderry and Stra- bane, Ireland. For a number of years he was a farm-hand with Christian Blickensderfer, Sr., and later with John Muecke, near Lititz.
1812.
179. George Diehm. Child of Henry and Elizabeth (Geitner) Diehm.
180. Salome Krall. Daughter of Abraham Krall. Aged twenty years. 181. Jacob Huber. Died July 4.
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THE SECOND GRAVEYARD.
The second, present, graveyard is situated on a gentle acclivity to the south of the church. It was laid out after the invariable manner of Moravian burial places-the tombstones to lie flat on the graves, the sexes in segregation-on the seventh of Novem- ber, 1758; and we may safely conjecture that the existent ven- erable cedars bordering the first avenue were planted at about the same time.
The sections to the right (men and boys), and those to the left (women and girls), formed its original extent. Two addi- tional sections increased its size in 1851. Its first enclosure-a low wall of loose stones-was removed in the second decade of the past century, and in its place was then erected a neat fence of pales having a noble entrance gate-its arched top on the side of approach appealing to religious sentiment with these words upon it in finely executed German text :
"Selig sind die Todten die in dem Herrn sterben,"
and on the reverse, "I am the Resurrection and the Life." Great the pity that this gate was removed, about the year 1850, with- out any attempt to restore and retain its beautifully appropriate inscriptions.
The first Easter morning service in point of time was held on the St. James' graveyard on April 14, 1759, and concluded on the new graveyard with the Te Deum; and this order was con- tinued until 1763 when the litany was read for the first time on the present graveyard, and repeated in the St. James' Church at 9 o'clock before the sermon. "April 3, 1763 : Early at 4 o'clock the congregation was awakened by the French-horns. As we left the chapel, in procession, for the graveyard, the 'waldhorn- isten' played 'Allein Gott in der Ho'h' sey Ehr'' It snowed and rained hard."-Congregation Diary.
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