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172. Rebecca Kreiter. 1, 1. xiii, 12. Oct. 13. Daughter of Michael Christian Kreiter. Aged I day.
1799.
173. Anna Maria Bachman. 1, 1. xx, 9. Feb. 6. Born in Nazareth, 1756, a daughter of David Tannenberg, organ-builder. Married John Philip Bachman. Deranged from melancholia, she drowned herself 3
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in the streamlet known to Lititz people as the "Little Spring." No Children.
174. Anna Elizabeth Ricksecker. 1, 1. xiii, 13. April 2. Born, baptized and died on the same day.
175. Beata Tshudy. I, 1. xiv, 12. April 12. Mathias and Catharine Tshudy's daughter.
176. Anton Ronner. I, r. xvii, 3. April 15. Born in Philadelphia, 1744. Tailor. His wife, surviving him, was Christina Michler. Two children died in their infancy.
177. Maria Elizabeth Borroway. 1, 1. xi, II. Aug. 18. Unmarried Sister. Died in the Sisters' House, aged 25 years. Consumption.
178. Catharine Barbara Siess. 1, 1. xii, II. Sept. I. Born in Heidelberg on the Tulpehockon, Dec. 27, 1760. Unmarried Sister. Daughter of John George and Catharine (Lack) Siess. Superintendent of the larger girls. Died in the Sisters' House of consumption.
179. Margaret Gutjahr (Goodyear), m.n. Roesner. 1, 1. xx, 10. Dec. 13. Born 1727, and came in her sixteenth year to this country. Widow of John Christian Gutjahr. They had five sons and seven daughters ; forty-four grand and two great-grandchildren.
180. Anna Maria Tshudy. 1, 1. xiv, 13. Dec. 30. A daughter of Christian Tshudy.
1800.
181. Christian Blickensderfer, Sr. I, r. xvii, 4. April 6. Born near Manheim, Palatinate, March 6, 1724, of Mennonite parentage. In 1748 he married Catharine Sherger, and came with her and two children, 1753, to Pennsylvania, settling on a farm near Lititz; and in 1761 he built a house in the village and moved here. Farmer and teamster. Of seven sons and two daughters two sons and one daughter survived him, namely : Christian, 1753, Matthew, 1764, and Catharine, 1761, who married Matthias Muecke. His second wife, 1779, was the widow Barbara Mueller, m.n. Leuthold, No children. 182. Susanna Catharine Fetter. 1, 1. xx, II. July 28. She was born in Lueneberg, near Halifax, N. S., Oct. 5, 1754. Her maiden name was Fainot. Came with her parents to Lancaster, where, 1775, she married John Jacob Fetter. She had four sons and four daughters. Lived in Warwick.
1801.
183. Barbara Blickensderfer, m.n. Kiehler. 1, 1. xix, II. May I. Born near Mount Joy, Lancaster Co., Aug. 8, 1764. Wife of Matthew Blickensderfer. Their children were Jacob, Benjamin, William and Rosina.
184. Lisetta Lennert. 1, 1. xiii, 14. May 29. Aged 10 weeks.
185. Maria Catharine Sommer. 1, 1. xii, 12. Sept. 13. Unmarried Sister. Born in Hochweisen, Wetteravia, March II, 1737.
186. Juliana Busch. 1, 1. xi, 12. Sept. 24. Unmarried Sister. Born in York, 1765.
187. Caroline Hall Traeger. I, 1. xv, I. Dec. 6. Aged 5 weeks.
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1802.
188. Johanna Salome Lichtenthaler. 1, 1. xv, 2. Jan. 23. Daughter of Adolph Lichtenthaler. Aged two years.
189. Carl Augustus Phillips. 1, r. xiii, 8. Feb. 4. Aged I year, 8 mo.
190. Andrew Albright. I, r. xvii, 5. April 19. He was born at Zella, near Suhl, Thuringia, April 2, 1718. His trade that of gunsmith. A soldier in his youth, he served in the army of Frederick the Great. Came to America, 1750, going to Christianspring to live, and teach- ing music in the Boys' School at Nazareth. Married Elizabeth Orth, 1766, and until 1767 they had charge of the Sun Inn, at Bethlehem. Came, 1771, to Lititz, where he resumed his trade of gunsmith. He had six children : John, Andrew, John Henry, Jacob, Susanna Eliza- beth, wife of Philip Bachman, organ-builder, and Gottfried. He was the tenor singer in the church choir.
191. Peter Kreiter. I, r. xvii, 6. May 10. He was born in Manor Town- ship, near Lancaster, April 12, 1729, a son of Michael (farmer) and Barbara (Grath) Kreiter. Married Maria Hirshy, 1750. Their children were Christian Andrew, 1751; Anna Christina, 1752; Frederick Peter, 1754; Maria Magdalena, 1757; Michael Gottfried, 1759; John Matthew, 1760; Maria Elizabeth, 1763; and Christian David, 1765. His second marriage was to Anna Maria Kohn; their children were Susanna Maria, 1783, and Benjamin, 1786.
192. Henry Rudy. I, r. xvii, 7. June 8. Born in the Black Forest, Würtemberg, Dec. 24, 1708. Farmer, living near Lititz. Married Verona Schnell. Their children were Heinrich Gottlob, John and Christian.
193. Samuel Christ. I, r. xiii, 9. Sept. 5. Son of Daniel Christ, aged two years.
194. Theresa Christ. 1, 1. xv, 3. Sept. 7. Aged 4 years.
1803.
195. Beata Westhaefer. 1, 1. xv, 4. Feb. 20.
196. John Thomas. I, r. xvii, 8. March 8. Born in Pfullingen, Würtem- berg,. Aug. 10, 1727. A baker. Married, in Lancaster, 1749, Maria Salome Gorner. Their children were Rosina, married Andrew Shober, mason; John, Christian, Godfrey, Godfrey (second), Maria Salome, Anna Maria, (married John Renatus Kreiter), and Anna Johanna. His parents were John Peter (farmer) and Margaret (List) Thomas. John Thomas and family came to Lititz, 1759.
197. Maria Catharine Meyer. 1, 1. x, 12. Aug. 25. Born Dec. 8, 1759. Unmarried Sister. Daughter of Dr. Adolph Meyer.
198. Lewis Theophilus Mueller. I, r. xiii, 10. Aug. 25. Son of the Rev. George Godfrey Mueller. Aged one year.
199. Susanna Caroline Lennert. 1, 1. xv, 5. May 17. Aged 9 months.
1804.
200. Anna Elizabeth Frederick, m.n. Freithardt. 1, 1. xviii, II. Jan. 7. Born in Rhenish Bavaria, 1719. Married, first, to Benjamin Nuss-
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baum-two children, both dying at sea; and, secondly, to Abraham Frederick, miller,-twelve children. Her oldest son, Abraham, lost his life in the Revolutionary War.
201. Mary Penry. 1, 1. ix, I. May 17. Unmarried Sister. She was born in Abergavenny, Wales, Nov. 12, 1735, the only daughter of Hugh- gonius and Mary (Stocker) Penry. Her father was a distinguished surgeon, but an improvident man; consequently, his wife, after his death, finding herself in straitened circumstances, gladly accepted an invitation from her married sister to come to Philadelphia and have a home with her. There the rough behavior of Mary's uncle (Atwood, a merchant, an unprincipled man) caused her much un- happiness; so that, after she had been spiritually awakened by the preaching of Brother Rogers, and told about Bethlehem and its Sisters' House by Valentine Haidt, the artist, she went there, in 1756, and joined that Sisterhood. In 1762 she came to live in the Lititz Sisters' House, and here, secure in God's love and the affec- tion of her "choir" and the congregation, she served on the staff of her Pflegerin faithfully to the close of her life as the "Schreiber"- writer of the diary, copyist, book-keeper and secretary. She was also the "Fremden-dienerin" (visitors' guide), making in that ca- pacity likewise many friends-among them those fine gentlemen Drs. Brown and Allison, who were attached to the U. S. Military Hospital, here, in 1778, and who after their removal corresponded with her. She died of bronchitis.
202. John Schetter. I, r. xiii, II. Aug. 27. Aged 7 months.
203. Maria Russmeyer, m.n. Evans. 1, 1. xvii, II. Sept. 21. Born Aug. 15, 1721, in Philadelphia; a daughter of Peter and Mary (Moore) Evans, and wife of Rev. Albrecht Russmeyer (No. 169). She had four children, of whom Maria, wife of Christian Schropp, survived her. Died of an epidemic fever.
204. Anna Christina Meder, m.n. Weber. I, 1. xvi, I. Sept. 29. She was born 1741, in Wittgenstein, Germany. Her first husband was the Rev. Samuel Angerman, a missionary in Barbadoes, W. I., where he died; her second husband the Rev. John Meder, also a missionary in Bar- badoes, but at the time of her death the Principal of the Girls' School in Lititz, (Linden Hall Seminary). In her first marriage she had one son, John Samuel, and in the second, another son, Christian Frederick, both surviving her in England.
205. Conrad Westhaefer. I, r. xx, 9. Oct. 25. Born Nov. 19, 1737, in Muddy Creek (properly Mode Creek), Pa. His parents were Valen- tine Westhaefer, farmer, and Christina, m.n. Sandritter. In 1764 he married Catharine Heil, and had eleven children. His daughter Catharine married Gottfried Sebastian Oppelt, missionary among the Indians; Conrad, Jr., and John Gottfried moved to Ohio; John Leonhard and Jacob to York County. The father was a wheel- wright.
206. Frederick Kreiter. 1, r. xiii, 12. Nov. 5. Infant son of Peter Abraham Kreiter.
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207. John Becker, (his family name was Knecht). I, 1. xix, 9. Dec. 7. Born 1722, in Eberbach, Palatinate. Married Margaret Grosh, and had two sons, one of whom, John Leonhard, in Northampton Co., survived him. By trade a baker, but, as successor to Jasper Payne, he was for a number of years the congregation storekeeper.
208. Anna Maria Schropp, m.n. Russmeyer. I, 1. xvi, 2. Dec. 29. She was born in Bethlehem, July 12, 1757. In 1793 she married Christian Schropp, organist and schoolmaster in Lititz, and one son, Christian Russmeyer Schropp, was born to them.
1805.
209. John Christopher Koenig. I, r. xviii, 9. June 7. A wheelwright, living near Lititz. He was born, 1745, in Koemnitz, Lower Silesia. Married, 1793, the widow Margaret Mueller, m.n. Schuetler.
210. Verona Kiesel, m.n. Leithold. 1, 1. xvi, 3. June 29. She was born 1730, in Switzerland. Wife of George Frederick Kiesel. She had four sons and five daughters; one of the latter married Rev. Paul Weiss, pastor in Schoeneck. Her son, Abraham Frederick, lived near Lititz.
211. John Goepfert. I, r. xvii. 9. Oct. 18. He was born in Mount Joy Township, 1745. A linen-weaver. He married Elizabeth Etter, and had five children; Christina married Christian Frederick, carpenter, and Magdalena married Daniel Rickert, farmer.
212. Susanna Kreiter. 1, 1. xv, 6. Dec. 15. Infant daughter of Michael Christian Kreiter.
1806.
213. Jacob Ricksecker. I, r. xvi, I. Jan. 9. He was born in Donegal, Pa., April 24, 1745, a son of Peter and Anna (Jung) Ricksecker. Father and son were farmers. In 1769 he married Elizabeth Frederick. They had eight children.
214. Elizabeth Eichler, m.n. Kuehl. 1, 1. xvi, 4. March 9. She was born April 4, 1763. Wife of Gottlieb Eichler, tobacconist. Four children survived her : Rachel, John Jacob, Abraham and John David.
215. Anna Rosina Schenk. 1, 1. ix, 2. March 10. Unmarried Sister. Born in Lancaster, 1770.
216. Claus Coelln. I, r. xvi, 2. April 6. Born, 1724, in Neuendorf, Hol- stein. United with the Moravians in Herrnhut, where he learned his trade of carpentry. Came to America in 1754, and after living two years in Nazareth, where he assisted in the building of Nazareth Hall, was sent to Lititz, and here he staid for the remainder of his life. In 1768 he married Elizabeth Lack, with whom he had five children : Anna Bernhardina (Harry), Gottlieb, John (who moved to York), Henry Renatus, a sailor, and Christian David, in the neighborhood. He was the master-carpenter who built the Breth- ren's and Sisters' Houses, the Gemeinhaus (present parsonage), the church, and nearly all of the houses in early Lititz; a fact to which he pointed, in his old age, with pardonable pride. For a few years he had charge of the congregation mill.
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217. Niels Tillofson. I, r. xvi, 3. April 15. He was born Feb. 4, 1745, in Holstein. After serving as a teacher in the Niesky Boys' School, and as the Superintendent of the Single Brethren in Gracehill, Ireland, he came, in 1791, to this country, and was ordained a Deacon of the Church by Bishop Ettwein. He married Hannah Warner; they had no children. Labored in the Gospel in Shoeneck, Gnadenhuetten on the Mahony, and was the Warden at Nazareth. Served also in Hope, N. J., but there he had the misfortune to fall into the drink habit, which, in addition to his self-imposed incompe- tency, gave offence to the congregation; therefore he was sent in retirement to Lititz, where, according to his pastor, Bishop Herbst, he did all he could to atone by repentant prayer and ever ready helpfulness for his past shame; and the same authority tells us that he had the love, or good-will, of every one.
218. Francis Boehler. 1, r. xvi, 4. June 4. He was born in Frankfort- on-the-Main, Sept., 1722. His parents were John Conrad and Eliza- beth Antoinette (Hauf) Boehler. His first wife was Anna Catha- rine Jag, who died at Oldman's Creek, N. J., 1784. A second marriage was with the widow Anna (Rose) Unger. Two children died in their infancy. He was a retired minister, and died here while on a visit from Bethlehem.
219. Maria Barbara Tshudy. 1, 1. xv, 7. Sept. 28. A daughter of Matthias Tshudy, aged 5 years.
220. Catharine Kreiter. 1, 1. xvi, 5. Oct. 19. She was born in Oley, Pa., 1757. Her parents were Frederick and Elizabeth (Frey) Leinbach, and she was the wife of Frederick Peter Kreiter, cooper. Of her five children Samuel, born 1790, Susanna, 1794, and Daniel, 1799, survived her.
221. Maria Paulick, m.n. Bauermann. 1, 1. xvi, 6. Nov. 5. With her is buried her still-born daughter. She was born in 1784, and was the wife of John George Paulick, blacksmith.
222. Mary Magdalena Clewell. 1, 1. ix, 3. Dec. 20. Unmarried Sister. Born in Oley, 1745. She was a daughter of Francis Clewell, a farmer, who lived near Nazareth.
223. Johanna Salome Schober. 1, 1. ix, 4. April 13. Unmarried Sister. She was born in 1772, a daughter of Andrew and Rosina (Thomas) Schober.
1807
224. John Henry Walther. I, r. ix, 2. Sept. I. Unmarried. Born in Wackenheim, Palatinate, 1728.
225. Barbara Blickensderfer, m.n. Leuthold. 1, 1. xvi, 7. Sept. 16. She was born in Switzerland, Aug. 8, 1740. She was the second wife of Christian Blickensderfer, Sr. No children.
226. Henrietta Schoenlein. 1, 1. xv, 8. Dec. I. Aged 2 months. 227. Joseph Kreiter. I, r. xiii, 13. Dec. 5. Aged 3 months.
1808.
228. Mary Rosina Mueller, m.n. Unger. 1, 1. xvi, 8. Feb. 24. She was born in Lancaster, April 27, 1775. Her parents were the Rev.
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Frederick and Anna (Rose) Unger (later the second wife of Rev. Francis Boehler). Her husband was the Rev. John Constantine Mueller. No children. A fine soprano singer.
229. Anna Margaret Kreiter. 1, 1. xvi, 9. March I. She was born near Lancaster in 1736. Her maiden name was Hochstetter. Wife of John Kreiter. Of their ten children, Susanna Elizabeth was the third wife of Henry Van Vleck, hatter; Michael Christian and Peter Abraham lived near Lititz; Susanna Salome married the Rev. John Molther, and Maria Rosina was the wife of Christian Clewell of Shoeneck.
230. Elizabeth Ricksecker, m.n. Frederick. 1, 1. xvi, 10. March 3. Born Nov. 9, 1747. Wife of Jacob Ricksecker, farmer near Lititz.
231. Leonhard Schoenlein. I, r. xvi, 5. April 3. He was born in Lin- nelbach, Earldom of Wertheim, April 17, 1746. Married Margaret Fertig. Of their five children, Anna Regina, born in 1775, married Samuel Grosh, merchant, and John (1783) was, like his father, a weaver in Lititz.
232. Verona Rudy, m.n. Schnell. 1, 1. xvi, 11. April 19. Born in 1722. Wife of Henry Rudy.
233. Margaret Schoenlein, m.n. Fertig. 1, 1. iv, I. June 13. Born March 1752, a daughter of John Christopher Fertig, the congregation's farmer. Wife of Leonhard Schoenlein.
234. Christian Frederick Steinman. 1, r. xvi, 6. June 17. He was born Nov. 8, 1739, in Epstein, near Manheim, in the Palatinate. Of Men- nonite parentage, he united, in his sixteenth year, with the Mora- vians in Ebersdorf. Having come to this country, he was employed at Christianspring on the farm and in the distillery, and after his marriage, in 1785, to Mary Magdalena Peitzel, he served for seven years as the Warden at Gnadenthal. After living for a number of years in Shoeneck, unofficially, but helping that congregation by word and deed, he and his wife came (April 13) to spend the re- mainder of their lives in Lititz. He was not related to the first Christian Frederick Steinman.
235. John Grosh. 1, r. xvi, 7. July I. A son of John Valentine Grosh, born Feb. 2, 1734, in the Palatinate. His first wife was Barbara Bort, who died in 1781; then he married the widow Margaret Schenck (Fried), and after her death in 1795, the widow Mary Jansen (Fisher). By his first marriage he had six children, of whom Mary Magdalena, born 1765, married, first, Michael Kreiter, shoemaker, in Lititz, and secondly the Rev. John Martin Beck; Elizabeth, wife of John Christ, tinker, in Nazareth; Daniel, in Hempfield Township, and John Jacob, in Waterford on the Sus- quehanna.
236. Anna Barbara Rank, (m.n. Stauffer). 1, 1. iv, 2. Aug. I. Born in Warwick, 1738. Wife of Philip Rank, farmer. She had nine children, of whom John Philip, only, lived in this vicinity.
237. Benjamin Lennert. I, r. xv, I. Aug. 5. Aged one month.
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238. Elizabeth Hopson. 1, 1. ix, 5. Oct. 12. Unmarried Sister. She was the daughter of John Hopson, Esq., a merchant and distinguished citizen of Lancaster. Her age was nearly fifty-two years.
239. Henry Van Vleck. I, r. xvi, 8. Oct. 21. Born Jan. 25, 1754, in New York, where his father, Henry Van Vleck, was a merchant. His mother's maiden name was Jane Cargill. In 1779 he married Maria Schmidt; in 1782, Elizabeth Riem, whose children were Abraham, born in 1784, and Sarah, who died in infancy. His third wife was Susanna Elizabeth Kreiter, with whom he had three child- ren; Timotheus (died of small-pox), Isaac Renatus and Maria Henri- etta. He was a hatter by trade, and an accomplished musician. In the afternoon of October 21 he went to the church to play in the Festival Lovefeast of the Larger Boys, and there, while in the act of tuning his violin, he fell from his seat unconscious to the floor- a preliminary of his death two hours later.
240. John Schweishaupt. I, r. xvi, 9. Nov. 15. He was born in Wen- destein, Franconia, Feb. 11, 1721. Left an orphan at an early age, he was cared for by his godfather and taught the stocking-weaving trade. In 1745 he united with the Moravians in Herrnhaag, and when that settlement was abandoned came to Pennsylvania. In 1757 he married Anna Magdalena Rettenberger, and had two sons and a daughter who survived him. He was ordained a Deacon of the Church at Lancaster in 1762. Labored in the Gospel in Emmaus, Bethel, Warwick, Lancaster, York, Graceham, and in Donegal three times, in all 21 years. In his retirement, here, he found much pleasure in frequent visits to our country neighbors.
1809.
241. Anna Elizabeth Weller. 1, 1. ix, 6. Feb. 4. Unmarried Sister. Born near Graceham, Md., 1774. Her parents were John and Barbara (Krieger) Weller.
242. Matthew Blickensderfer. I, r. xx, 10. April 23. Born April 30, 1764, a son of Christian Blickensderfer, Sr. In 1789 he married Barbara Kichler; they had four children: Jacob, born 1790, Benja- min, 1792, William, 1795, and Rosina, 1800. His second marriage to Catharine Romig resulted in three children: Joshua, 1802, Matilda, 1806, and Henry, 1808. A farmer.
243. Levi Phillips. I, r. xv, 2 . Dec. II. Aged 4 weeks.
1810.
244. Ellert Coordsen. 1, r. xix, 10. March 1. Born in Holstein, July 9, 1724. United with the Brethren in Amsterdam and in 1756 came to this country. Married Anna Tanneberger. Served as a teacher in Moravian Boys' Schools abroad, and here, at Nazareth Hall and Emmaus, thirty-seven years. Was pastor at Schoeneck seven years. His final station was Heidelberg, Pa. Ordained a Deacon of the Church in 1792.
245. Anna Magdalena Schweishaupt. 1, 1. iv, 3. May 15. Born 1724 in Bergen, Hanover. Wife of Rev. John Schweishaupt. Her children
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were John, who lived in Bethlehem; Magdalena, in Bethlehem, and Joseph, in Nazareth.
246. Beata Lennert. 1, 1. xv, 9. July 2.
247. Anna Johanna Masslich, m.n. Gutjahr. 1, 1. iv, 4. Sept. I. Born 1755 in Lancaster. Wife of Gottlieb Masslich. Her children were John Ignatius, John Gottfried and Timothy.
248. Emmanuel Kreiter. 1, r. xiii, 14. Nov. 23. Born and died on the same day.
18II.
249. Immanuel Bernhard Grosh. I, r. xv, 3. July 6. Born Dec. 13, 1806, a son of John Daniel and Margaret (Mies) Grosh.
250. Leonhard Schoenlein. I, r. xv. 4. Born and died Aug. 16.
251. Maria Salome Thomas (Gorner). 1, 1. iv, 5. Sept. 26. Born 1730 in Hornbach, Rhenish Bavaria. Wife of John Thomas, baker.
252. Gottlieb Masslich. I, r. xviii, 10. Nov. 8. Born 1752 in Oderwitz, Upper Lusatia. Married Anna Johanna Gutjahr. His second wife was Justina Protzman.
253. Louise Ann Blickensderfer. 1, 1. xv, 10. Dec. 21. Aged one year and seven months. Daughter of John Blickensderfer.
1812.
254. Francis Jacob Ricksecker. I, r. xv, 5. Dec. 21. Infant.
255. Philip Grosh. 1, r. xvii, 10. Feb. 24. Shoemaker and farmer in Hempfield Township. Born 1732 in Eichloch, Palatinate, a son of John Valentine Grosh. Married Anna Margaret Rank. Their children were Matthew, John, Samuel, (born 1768), Maria, Christian, Peter (1774), Rosina, Michael, and George.
256. Theodore Ferdinand Rauch. 1, r. xv, 6. May 27. Infant son of Henry Gottfried Rauch.
257. John George Kapp. I, r. xvi, 10. June 17. Born, 1740, in Upper Heidelberg Township. Married Anna Maria Kortz. No children. 258. Joseph Hall. I, r. xv, 7. July 23. Infant son of Christian Hall.
259. Sybilla Traeger. 1, 1. xv, II. Aug. 24. Daughter of John Gottfried and Elizabeth (Hall) Traeger. Aged 9 years.
260. Anna Maria Kreiter (Kohn). 1, 1. iv, 6. Oct. 30. Born in Bethle- hem, 1745. Second wife of Peter Kreiter.
1813.
261. Mary Magdalena Gladt. 1, 1. ix, 7. Jan. 8. Unmarried Sister. Born in Heidelberg, Pa., 1757. Consumption.
262. Augusta Elizabeth Schoenlein. 1, 1. xv, 12. Feb. 5. Infant.
263. Lewis Henry Benade. I, r. xv, 8. March 4. Aged 15 weeks. Son of the Rev. Andrew Benade.
264. Benjamin Lichtenthaler. I, r. xv, 9. Aged II days.
265. Sarah Westhaeffer. 1, 1. ix, 8. May 24. Unmarried Sister. Born near Lititz, 1788, a daughter of Conrad Westhaefer, wheelwright.
266. John Ricksecker. I, r. iv, I. June 22. Born in Donegal, Pa., Jan. 3, 1749. Shoemaker. A son of Peter Ricksecker. Married Rachel
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Frederick. Of their ten children John Jacob, born in 1779, lived in Shoeneck; John, 1789, and Frederick, 1792, in Lititz.
267. Maria Elizabeth Petersen, m.n. Rudy. 1, 1. iv, 7. July 28. Born in Warwick, Oct. 23, 1779. Daughter of Heinrich Gottlob Rudy, and wife of Hans Petersen, baker. Two children.
268. Elsa Catharine Petersen. 1, 1. xv, 13. Aug. 3. Aged 2 weeks. Daughter of the foregoing.
269. Maria Susanna Levering. 1, 1. ix, 9. Sept. 22. Unmarried Sister. Born in Bethlehem, Feb. 24, 1794, a daughter of Rev. Abraham and Anna Christina (Cassler) Levering.
1814
270. Anna Catharina Westhaeffer, m.n. Heil. 1, 1. iv, 8. Feb. 4. Born in Warwick, Dec. 22, 1744, a daughter of Jacob and Catharine (Ruehl) Heil. Wife of Conrad Westhaeffer.
271. Mary Magdalena Beck, m.n. Grosh. 1, 1. iv, 9. Feb. 16. Born Feb. 27, 1765, in Hempfield Township, a daughter of John Grosh. In1785 she married Michael Gottfried Kreiter, with whom she had five children, one of whom was Jacob Kreiter (Greider), shoemaker, in Lititz. In 1810 she married the Rev. John Martin Beck. Intimately known as a midwife.
272. William Lanius. 1, r. iv, 2. March II. Born in Hallam Township, six miles hitherward from York, Oct. 2, 1748, of parents associated with the Moravians. In his fourteenth year he was at Christian- spring where he learned the tailor's trade, and in 1769 he married Elizabeth Heckedorn. They had no children. In 1789 he was called to Lititz to take charge of the congregation inn and served as its landlord satisfactorily for fourteen years. He was also the "Fremden-diener" (visitors' guide), and as such was missed and thankfully remembered, especially by the Principal of the Girls' School. He was a son of Jacob and Juliana (Kraemer) Lanius.
273. Rosina Shober, m.n. Thomas. 1, 1. iv, 10. March 21. Born in Lancaster, 1750, a daughter of John and Salome (Gorner) Thomas. Came with her parents to Lititz in 1759. Married in 1769 Andrew Shober ; he died in 1805, not at that time connected with the Church. Of her nine children she was survived by three sons and two daughters.
274. John Jeter Miller. 1, r. iv, 3. April 10. Born in Lehigh Township, Northampton Co., 1784. Married Susanna Mentzer, and had five children.
275. Beatus Shoenlein. I, r. xv, 10. June 19.
1815.
276. Anna Maria Christ, m.n. Kleinmann. 1, 1. iv, II. Feb. 3. Born in Graceham, Md., 1759. Wife of Daniel Christ.
277. Edwin Demetrius Bachman. I, r. xv, II. March 31. Aged 10 months.
278. Samuel Rank. 1, r. iv, 4. May 22. He was born in Earl Township, July 30, 1742. Married Maria Salome Wordan, 1765. Of his five
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children by this marriage, Anna Maria, Elizabeth and John survived him. His second wife (m.n. Anna Margaret Kleinmann) bore him two sons, Samuel and Peter.
279. Mary Magdalena Chitty. 1, 1. ix, 10. Oct. 14. Unmarried Sister. Born in Hope, N. C., July 16, 1787, a daughter of Benjamin Chitty.
280. Daniel Christ. 1, r. iv, 5. Nov. 23. Born 1744, near Manheim, in the Palatinate, a son of Christian and Maria Catharine (Berchtol) Christ. By trade a linen-weaver. His first wife was Eva Barbara Grosh. Of their five children, Christian was settled in Lititz; Maria Catharine married Jacob Blum, merchant, Salem, N. C., and Susanna Magdalena married Jacob Rock, tailor, in Lititz. In 1790 he married Anna Maria Kleinmann. Of her five children, Julianna, born 1791, married Jacob Greider, shoemaker ; and Anna Sophia and Matthew also lived, at that time, in Lititz. He played the French-horn and alto-trombone in the church music.
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