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281. Philip Rank. 1, r. iv, 6. Nov. 25. A son of John Michael and Anna Barbara Rank, he was born in Earl Township, Jan. 30, 1734. Mar- ried Anna Barbara Stauffer, and had nine children. John Michael moved to Ohio; Anna Barbara married Jacob Schnall, farmer in Old Nazareth; Anna Maria married the Rev. John Peter Kluge.
282. Christina Frederick, m.n. Goepfert. 1, 1. iv, 12. Dec. 8. Born in Donegal, Pa., 1777. Wife of Christian Frederick. Four children.
283. Maria Elizabeth Rauch, m.n. Kiesel. 1, 1. iv, 13. Dec. 30. Born at Muddy Creek, Pa., 1738. Her first husband was Henry Xander; her second, Henry Romig, with whom she had five sons and two daughters; her third was John Henry Rauch.
1816.
284. Christine Ronner, m.n. Michael. 1, 1. iv, 14. Jan. 19. Born 1741, in the Palatinate. Wife of Anton Ronner, tailor, who died in 1799. Two children; both died in infancy.
285. Christian Goodyear (Gutjahr). I, r. iv, 7. Feb. 29. Born in Lan- caster, 1746, and in 1759 came with his parents John Christian and Margaret (Roesner) Gutjahr to the neighborhood of Lititz. Mar- ried Charlotte Jungblut. They had eight children. In the course of time he moved into Lititz, and here he had charge of the Brethren's House farm.
286. Maria Sophia Reinke. 1, 1. iii, 1. April 19. She was born in Eristfer, Livonia, April 20, 1755. Her parents were the Rev. John Henry Rudolph and Anna, David Schneider's oldest daughter, of Zauchtenthal. In 1783 she was married to the Rev. Carl Gottlieb Reichelt and went with him to St. Thomas, where he died. She had one daughter (posthumous) by this marriage. In 1786 she became the wife of Abraham Reinke, Jr. They had three sons and three daughters.
287. Maria Grosh, m.n. Fischer. 1, 1. iii, 2. June 3. Born in Würtem- berg, 1737. Wife of John Grosh.
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288. Charlotte Goodyear (Gutjahr), m.n. Jungblut. 1, 1. iii, 3. Oct. 12. Born near Lititz, 1759. Wife of Christian Goodyear. Eight children. 289. Peter Regennas. I, r. xv, 12. Oct. 20. Infant.
290. Elizabeth Rank. 1, 1. ix, II. Dec. 22. Unmarried Sister. Born in 1770, a daughter of Samuel and Maria Salome (Worden) Rank.
1817.
291. Charles William Shoenlein. I, r. xv, 13. Jan. 21. Aged 3 months. 292. John David Petersen. I, r. viii, I. March 15. Aged 5 years.
293. Catharine Protzman. 1, 1. viii, I. April 28. Unmarried Sister. Born in Maryland, May 28, 1756.
294. Joseph Sturgis. I, r. iv, 8. June 9. Born in Philadelphia, a son of Joseph Sturgis (English), March 16, 1738, and baptized by White- field. His mother's maiden name was Jane Hatfield; she and her sons Cornelius and Joseph were Moravian church-members. A pupil in the Boys' School at Germantown, he moved with that insti- tution successively to Oley, to Macungie, and to Bethlehem. As a lad of sixteen he was sent to Gnadenhuetten on the Mahony to as- sist there in the household; and on the night of Nov. 24, 1755, when its Mission-house was burned and eleven Brethren and Sisters were massacred, he was one of the few that escaped. He rushed for safety to the roof, found it in flames, and then jumped from a garret window to the ground and fled to the forest; twice, in quick suc- cession, fired upon by the savages-one bullet grazing his chin and another more seriously the top of his head. In 1766 he married Margaret Stoehr, and lived in Lebanon, following his trade-that of potter-until, in 1782, he moved to Lititz. From 1803 to 1811 they lived in York, and then returned to Lititz to the care of his son Samuel. He had seven sons and three daughters; thirty-four grand and three great-grandchildren.
295. Mary Magdalena Steinman, m.n. Peitzel. 1, 1. iii, 4. Nov. I. She was born in York, Dec. 14, 1745. Wife of Christian Frederick Steinman (second).
296. John Phillips. 1, r. iv, 9. Nov. 2. Born in Northampton Co., in 1769. Married Wilhelmina Rosina Gutman; nine children. A tailor. He served many years as Chief-Sacristan; also as Visitors' Guide.
297. Anna Christina Cassler, m.n. Goettel. 1, 1. iii, 5. Nov. 12. Born in Seligen, Rhenish Bavaria, Nov. 14, 1726. Wife of William Cassler ; ten children; four sons and six daughters.
1818.
298. John George Geitner, (second). I, r. iv, 10. Feb. 28. Born in Beth- lehem, July 29, 1760. A tanner. Married Maria Elizabeth Kreiter ; five children; one son, Jacob, and four daughters.
299. Elizabeth Oehme, m.n. Frevel. 1, 1. iii, 6. May 5. Born in the vicinity of Philadelphia, Feb. 22, 1761. Wife of John Erdman Oehme; three sons and three daughters.
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300. Henry Gottlob Rudy. I, r. iv, II. May 8. Born in Warwick, 1750, a son of Henry and Verona (Schnell) Rudy. He married Maria Elizabeth Merck. They had eight children,-two sons and six daughters. In the congregation he was the chief "diener" (sacris- tan), coming faithfully, in rain and shine, from his farm, three miles away, to attend to that duty.
301. Anna Margaretha Grosh (Rank). 1, 1. iii, 7. Born in Earl Town- ship, 1740, a daughter of John Michael Rank. Wife of Philip Grosh. Seven sons and two daughters.
302. John Gottfried Masslich. 1, r. ix, 3. Nov. 21. Unmarried. Born, 1798. Son of Gottlieb Masslich.
1819.
303. Maria Salome Kreiter, m.n. Borroway. 1, 1. iii, 8. Jan. 6. Born in Donegal, 1762. Wife of Christian Andrew Kreiter.
304. Anna Catharine Schnall, m.n. Goepfert. 1, 1. iii, 9. Feb. 2. Born near Mount Joy, 1769. Daughter of John Goepfert, and wife of Thomas Schnall.
305. Carl Uria Oehme. I, r. viii, 2. Feb. 12. Born 1807, a son of John Erdman Oehme.
306. Peter Abraham Kreiter. I, r. iv, 12. Feb. 13. Born March 17, 1771. A son of John and Anna Margaretha (Hochstetter) Kreiter. Mar- ried Maria Elizabeth Ricksecker. Four sons and three daughters.
307. Maria Charlotte Sturgis. 1, 1. vii, I. Feb. 24. Aged 8 years. Daughter of Samuel Sturgis, potter.
308. Samuel Steinke. 1, r. iii, I. March 13. Born in Osterode, Prussia, 1743. Coppersmith. Married Elizabeth Busch. One son and three daughters.
309. Polycarpus Kohn Kreiter. I, r. viii, 3. March 17. Aged 9 months. Son of Benjamin Kreiter, nailsmith.
310. Beata Rock. 1, 1. vii, 2. March 18.
311. Gottfried Heinrich Thumhardt. 1, r. iii, 2. June 13. He was born in Graefenrode, Thuringia, Aug. 27, 1745. Studied medicine in Gotha. United with the Brethren in Gnadau, 1775; and having married Theresa Schneider, 1776, in Herrnhut, they went as mis- sionaries to St. Thomas, suffering direst shipwreck on the voyage thither. There he served, chiefly as a physician, until 1791, when, because of impaired health, he relinquished that calling and came to Pennsylvania, locating in Lititz. Here for twenty-six years, the congregation had the valued benefit of his medical knowledge.
312. Benjamin Rudolphi. 1, r. viii, 4. Aug. 4. Aged one year. Son of Dr. Rudolphi.
1820.
313. Anna Maria Tannenberg, m.n. Fischer. 1, 1. iii, 10. April 19. Born in Heidelberg, Pa., Feb. 2, 1743. She was thrice married : in 1772 to James Hall, in 1785 to Gottlieb Lange, and in 1800 to David Tan- nenberg, organ-builder. In her first marriage she had three sons and one daughter.
314. Orlando Washington Eichler. 1, r. viii, 5. Sept. 6. Aged 10 mos.
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315. Margaretha Sturgis, m.n. Stoehr. 1, 1. iii, II. March I. Born in Lancaster Co., 1740. Wife of Joseph Sturgis.
316. George Gottfried Mueller. I, r. iii, 3. March 19. Presbyter. He was born in Gross Hennersdorf, Upper Lusatia, May 22, 1762. He married Anna Johanna Levering; they had three children. Was pastor of various Moravian congregations. Visited David Zeis- berger on his death-bed, and preached the German sermon at his funeral. Especially proficient as a violinist, he led the orchestra in the Lititz Brethren's House during his stay there as its Pfleger. "Brother Mueller was quickly recalled from Lancaster because a certain Herr (John) Randolph, Ex-Governor of Virginia and now Attorney-General of the United States, who came here yesterday evening, on his way to Philadelphia, to visit us, wished to hear our music." (Brethren's House Diary, May 30, 1791.) In his last years he served as Superintendent of the Married Members in the Lititz congregation. Died of consumption.
317. Carl Frederick Shroeter. 1, r. iii, 4. March 28. Deacon of the Church; formerly a missionary in Surinam; retired in Lititz. Born in Seehausen, Brandenburg, Oct. 31, 1750. United with the Brethren in Gnadau. Married Anna Catharina Stiefel of Herrnhut. In 1799 he was the Superintendent of the Single Brethren in Salem, N. C.
318. Anna Maria Maehr, m.n. Tshudy. 1, 1. iii, 12. June 21. Born April 6, 1764, a daughter of Christian and Eva Barbara (Kiesel) Tshudy. In 1799 she married the Rev. John Frederick Metz, missionary, who died in Paramaribo. Her second marriage was to the Rev. John Maehr, also a missionary in South America.
319. Miriam Traeger. 1, 1. vii, 3. Aug. 3. Aged five months.
320. Jacob Shoenlein. I, r. viii, 6. Sept. II. Aged one day.
321. Gottlieb Eichler. I, r. iii, 5. Sept. 26. Born in Lower Oderwitz, Upper Lusatia, Aug. 14, 1758. His first wife was Benigna Klotz, of Lititz. Louisa was their only child. In 1791 he married Elizabeth Kiehl; they had four children. His third wife was Elizabeth Frevel, of Nazareth. By trade, a tobacconist.
322. Elizabeth Goepfert, m.n. Etter. 1, 1. iii, 13. Oct. 6. Born in Done- gal, Pa., 1747. Wife of John Goepfert. Five children.
323. John Abraham Ricksecker. 1, r. iii, 6. Oct. 18. Born in Lititz, 1788, a son of Jacob Ricksecker, farmer. Died while on a visit here from his home in Gnadenhuetten, Ohio. Married Maria Blickensderfer. Of four children, two survived him.
324. Matilda Louisa Rudolphi. 1, 1. vii, 4. Nov. 4. Aged 16 days.
325. Lavinia Theresa Christ. 1, 1. vii, 5. Nov. 12. Daughter of Christian Christ. Aged three years.
1822.
326. John George Geitner, third. I, r. viii, 7. Jan. 4. A son of Jacob Geitner, aged five months.
327. Charles Lichtenthaler. I, r. viii, 8. Jan. 17. One year old.
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328. Anna Nielsen. 1, 1. viii, 2. Jan. 22. Unmarried Sister. Born in Nazareth, 1745.
329. Augusta Charlotte Rock. 1, 1. vii, 6. April 10. Daughter of Jacob Rock, aged five years.
330. Henry Godfrey Rauch. I, r. iii, 7. April 22. A son of John Henry and Catharine (Goodyear) Rauch, born in Lititz, July 13, 1781. Married Rosina Kornman; three children.
331. John David Eichler. I, r. ix, 4. April 26. Unmarried. A son of Gottlob Eichler, born in Lititz, Oct. 1800.
332. Margaret Georgiana Levering, m.n. Jones. 1, 1. iii, 14. April 28. Born in Myford, North Wales, June 3, 1796. Wife of John Lever- ing.
333. Maria Henrietta Van Vleck. 1, 1. viii, 3. May 5. Unmarried Sister. Born in Lititz, 1797, a daughter of Henry and Susanna Elizabeth (Kreiter) Van Vleck. Died of consumption.
334. Benjamin Chitty. I, r. iii, 8. July 12. Born in Frederick Co., Md., March 14, 1743, a son of Benjamin and Sarah (Palmer) Chitty. He was a half-brother of Mary Tippet (400) and Catharine Toon (60). In 1765 he married Mary Padget. Of their ten children Elizabeth was married to the Rev. Nathanael Braun, Dorcas to David Peter, and Sarah to Samuel Luckenbach.
335. Daniel Henry Christ. I, r. viii, 9. July 12. Aged 2 years.
1823.
336. Maria Henrietta Kreiter. 1, 1. vii, 7. Aged five weeks. Daughter of Michael Kreiter, landlord of Lititz Inn.
337. Juliana Geitner. 1, 1. vii, 8. March 29. Aged 8 weeks.
338 John Henry Shoenlein. I, r. viii, 10. April 17. Infant.
339. Charlotte Wilhelmina (Lembke) Eberman. 1, 1. xx, 12. April 25. Born May 28, 1793, in Graceham, Md. Her parents were Christian William and Anna Maria (Demuth) Lembke. Married the Rev. William Eberman, 1819. She had two children, of whom Francis survived her.
340. Elizabeth Romania Rudy. 1, 1. vii, 9. July 14. Aged one year.
341. Catharine Muecke, m.n. Blickensderfer. 1, 1. xix, 12. Aug. 30. Born in Lititz, May 17, 1761, a daughter of Christian and Catharine (Sherger) Blickensderfer. Married Matthew Muecke, 1782, and had seven sons and one daughter.
342. Anna Maria Kiesel. 1, 1. viii, 4. Sept. 27. Unmarried Sister. Born at Kiesel-hill, near Lititz, 1774. Daughter of Frederick Kiesel.
343. George Hoeffer. 1, r. ix, 5. Oct. 4. Unmarried. Born in Lan- caster, 1795.
344. George Henry Frederick. I, r. vii, I. Oct. 7. Aged three years. 345. Charles Miller. 1, r. ix, 6. Oct. 9. Born Jan. 8, 1809, a son of Peter Miller.
346. William Adolph Grosh. 1, r. vii, 2. Oct. II. Aged 19 months. A son of Peter Grosh.
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347. Julius Cunow Bechler. I, r. vii, 3. Oct. 18. Born in Nazareth Hall, Feb. 7, 1819; a son of the Rev. John C. Bechler, pastor and Principal of the Girls' School in Lititz.
348. William Lennert Seaber. I, r. vii, 4. Oct. 31. Born in Warwick, 1812, a son of Jacob Seaber.
349. Delia Belinda Shoenlein. 1, 1. vii, 10. Aged four years.
1824.
350. Christian Andrew Kreiter. I, r. xx, II. Jan. 4. Born in Hempfield Township, July II, 175I. His parents were Peter and Maria (Hirschy) Kreiter. In 1784 he married Regina Fertig, who died in 1786. His second wife (1801) was Maria Salome Borroway. No children in either marriage.
351. Edward Levering Kreiter. I, r. viii, II. Jan. 16. Infant son of Michael and Anna (Levering) Kreiter.
352. Beatus Rickert. I, r. vii, 5. March 14.
353. Magdalena Rickert, m.n. Goepfert. 1, 1. xviii, 12. March 21. Born in Rapho Township, Lancaster Co., Dec. 26, 1782. Wife of Daniel Rickert.
354. Beatus Rudy. I, r. vii, 6. March 26.
355. John Gottfried Traeger. I, r. iii, 9. May 31. Born in Friedersdorf, Upper Lusatia, Nov. 3, 1769. Married Elizabeth Hall, 1800. Ten children. He was a useful man, esteemed as a leader in the councils of his church. By trade a shoemaker.
356. Johanna Carolina Levering, m.n. Schnall. 1, 1. iii, 15. July 31. She was born in Gnadenthal, near Nazareth, July 15, 1800, a daughter of the Rev. John Schnall, missionary in New Fairfield, Canada. In 1823, she married the widower John Levering, merchant, in Lititz, and died one hour after the birth of her first child, a daughter.
357. Anna Maria Werner, m.n. Kiesel. 1, 1. xvii, 12. Aug. 7. Born at Muddy Creek, Pa., 1741. Wife of William Werner.
358. Maria Amalia Harry. 1, 1. viii, 5. Sept. 4. Unmarried Sister. Born in Lititz, 1799.
359. Maria Sophia Beck. 1, 1. vii, II. Sept. 25. Born July 5, 1822, a daughter of John and Johanna Augusta (Reinke) Beck.
360. Maria Cecilia Geitner. 1, 1. vii, 12. Sept. 27. Aged 7 months ..
361. Caroline Sophia Bechler. 1, 1. vii, 13. Oct. I. A daughter of the Rev. John C. Bechler, Pastor in Lititz.
362. Anna Maria Kreiter, m.n. Seyfried. 1, 1. vii, 15. Oct. 16. Born in Friedensthal, near Nazareth, Sept. 15, 1784, a daughter of Nicholas Seyfried. She was the wife of Benjamin Kreiter, farmer and Justice of the Peace. Four sons and three daughters.
363. Catharine Charlotte Sturgis. 1, 1. xv, 14. Oct. 22. Aged 18 hours. 364. Francis Lennert Kreiter. I, r. vii, 7. Oct. 24. Aged eight weeks. A son of Daniel Kreiter, saddler.
365. John Miller. 1, r. iii, 10. Oct. 29. Born in Lititz, 1794, a son of John Miller, dyer.
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366. Hans Petersen. 1, r. iii, II. Nov. 18. Born in Taustrup, Jutland, Dec. 4, 1764. His parents were Peter Hansen and Elizabeth, m.n. Peters. Served ten years in Denmark as a soldier. Came with Bro. Martin Hansen to this country in 1802. By trade a baker. In 1806 he married Maria Elizabeth Rudy, who died in 1813; their two children died in infancy. His second wife was Rachel Ricksecker, and their children were Lucinda Amelia, born 1816, Anna Eliza, 1818, Mary Anne, 1820, and Rebecca Catharine, 1823. Anna Eliza was married to the Rev. John Regennas.
367. Maria Barbara Milchsack, m.n. Regin. 1, 1. xvi, 12. Nov. 27. Born in Lancaster, 1765. Wife of George Milchsack, who died in 1804. Five sons and five daughters.
1825.
368. John Frederick Rudolphi. 1, r. iii, 12. March 3. Born in Arneburg, Brandenburg, Oct. 19, 1763. Studied medicine and surgery. United with the Brethren in Herrnhut, 1783, and went in the same year as medical missionary to Tranquebar and on the Nicobar Islands, where he stayed six years and then returned to Herrnhut, practicing surgery there for two years. In 1795 he came to Bethlehem and served that congregation and its neighborhood as physician and surgeon, twenty years. In 1796 he married Sophia Magdalena Otto; seven children : in 1809, Anna Schaaf; no children : and in 1815 he married Elizabeth Frey, with whom he had three children. In 1816 he moved to Warwick, and in 1824 to Lititz, practicing his pro- fession in both places.
369. Ferdinand Lichtenthaler. I, r. vii, 8. April 4. A son of Adolph Lichtenthaler, aged two years.
370. Josephine Matilda Sturgis. 1, 1. xv, 15. April 17. Infant daughter of Samuel Sturgis.
371. George Siwelly Rogers. 1, r. vii, 9. May 9. Infant son of John Jarvis Rogers, M.D.
372. Barbara Rauch, m.n. Rudy. 1, 1. xx, 13. May 25. Born in Warwick, 1792, a daughter of Henry Rudy. Wife of John William Rauch. Four sons and one daughter.
373. Beata Eberman. 1, 1. xiv, 14. June 21.
374. Francis William Schmidt. 1, r. vii, 10. Oct. I. Infant.
1826.
375. Maria Elizabeth Kreiter, m.n. Ricksecker. 1, 1. xix, 13. March 3. Born in Warwick, 1777. Wife of Peter Abraham Kreiter.
376. John Peter Lennert. I, r. xix, II. April 10. Born in Gnadenthal, near Nazareth, July 30, 1755. A tinsmith. His first wife was Eliza- beth Baumgartner; their daughter Rebecca married Christian Youngman. In 1797 he married Johanna Susanna Knauss. The Rev. William Lawrence Lennert was the third son of the second marriage. 4
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377. Emma Maria Augusta Reinke. 1, 1. xiv, 15. May 2. Born in Lan- caster, 1820, a daughter of the Rev. Samuel Reinke, Principal of the Lititz Girls' School, and Susanna Theodora, m.n. Eyerle.
378. Andrew James Ricksecker. 1, r. vii, II. Aug. 4. Two years old. A son of Frederick Ricksecker.
379. Sarah Ann Cacy. 1, 1. viii, 6. Sept. 19. Born in Queen Anne Co., Eastern shore of Maryland, Dec. 24, 1811. A pupil in the Lititz Girls' School (Linden Hall), the first one to die there.
380. Susanna Theodora Reinke, m.n. Eyerle. 1, 1. xviii, 13. Sept. 21. Born in Nazareth, Dec. 17, 1796. Daughter of Jacob Eyerle and Anna Maria, m.n. Frey. Wife of the Rev. Samuel Reinke.
381. Lawrence Peter Kreiter. I, r. xv, 14. Nov. 27. Seven weeks old. Son of Daniel Kreiter.
382. Michael Jung. I, r. ix, 7. Dec. 13. Unmarried. Born in Engolds- heim, Alsatia, Jan. 5, 1743. In his eighth year he came with his parents to Broadbay, Maine, and lived there until 1767, when he re- moved to Bethlehem. He served as a missionary among the In- dians for twenty-eight years. Retired in Lititz, 1813.
383. Christian Schropp. I, r. xviii, II. Dec. 31. Born June 27, 1756, in Bethlehem, where his father, Matthew Schropp, was Warden of the congregation. His mother's maiden name was Maria Thomet. In 1793 he married Anna Maria Russmeyer; their son, Christian Russ- meyer, died in 1821. His second wife (1806) was Rebecca Edmonds. He was by trade a nailsmith, but served the congregation for many years as its schoolmaster, and many there were who, in after years, cherished a kindly remembrance of him. A fine musician, he was of use to the church, musically, in various ways, but especially as its organist,-a position he held for forty years.
1827.
384. Maria Elizabeth Rudy, m.n. Merck. 1, 1. xvii, 13. Feb. 6. Born in Lititz, 1758. Wife of Henry Gottlob Rudy.
385. John Martin Beck. I, r. xvii, II. Feb. 14. Born in Schafhausen, Switzerland, Sept. 29, 1746, the oldest son of Alexander Beck, Stadt Musicus, and Barbara, m.n. Schnetzler. Spiritually awakened by the preaching of Moravian itinerants in his native city, he united with the Brethren in Neuwied, and came to be a very successful teacher there in the Boys' School. In 1786 he received a call to America. On the voy- age hither he made a providential escape-"a direct answer to the prayers of the Brethren on board"-from imminent death or slavery ; for their vessel was chased by an Algerine pirate who had come so near them that the gleam of his crew's naked sabres could be seen and their blood-thirsty threats distinctly heard, when his ship was caught and whirled in a sudden squall, its rigging torn, and its progress hindered, leaving the Brethren's vessel to sail away in peace. Some of his fellow-voyagers-destined for Lititz-were John Herbst (later, Bishop), John Erdman Oehme, and Gottlieb Eichler, the latter also mentioning in his memoir the above occurrence. In Bethlehem he was again engaged in teaching boys, until, in 1790, he married Anna Johanna Grube and went with her to his first ministry
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in Emmaus, he having been previously ordained a Deacon of the Church by Bishop Huebner. Other pastorates of his were Grace- ham, Donegal, Bethel, Lancaster (twice) and York. His wife died in 1808. Their children were John, Benigna Louise, and Johanna Elizabeth. In 1812 he married Mary Magdalena Kreiter, m.n. Grosh, and with her served the Lititz congregation as Superintendents of the Married Members, he at the same time practicing medicine, in which he had considerable skill.
386. Beatus Kreiter. I, r. xiv, 14. March I.
1828.
387. Beata Rauch. 1, 1. xiii, 15. March 30.
388. Anna Maria Protzman, m.n. Buehler. 1, 1. xvi, 13. April 8. Born near Lititz, 1751. In 1772 was married to Peter Spiker, and at the time of her death her five sons and one daughter were living in Pittsburg and Ohio. In 1786 she was married to Daniel Protzman, of Graceham, Md.
389. Jacob Abraham Cassler. I, r. xiii, 15. April 12. Seven months old. 390. Anna Maria Geitner. 1, 1. xiii, 16. May 5. Aged seven months.
391. Anna Maria Beck. 1, 1. viii, 7. May 16. Unmarried Sister. Born in Lebanon, Dec. 7, 1752, a daughter of Philip Beck. Lived in the Sisters' House, where she was blind for the last thirty-one years of her life, yet busy always with her spinning and knitting.
392. Louise Pauline Muecke. 1, 1. xv, 16. May 22. Infant.
393. Christian Christ. I, r. xvi, II. June 19. Born in Lititz, Nov. 7, 1773, a son of Daniel and Barbara (Grosh) Christ. May 13, 1810, he married Anna Julianna Christ (a daughter of Peter Christ, tawer, who moved to Nazareth). He was survived by three children, Caro- lina Elizabeth, Peter Augustus and Francis William. He served the congregation many years in the Wardens' College and as chief "Saal-diener."
394. Maria Rudy. 1, 1. xiv, 16. July 10. Lived one hour.
1829.
395. Mary Anne Kaufman. 1, 1. viii, 8. Jan. 29. Born in East Hempfield Township, Jan. 25, 1814, a daughter of John Kaufman, landlord of the Lititz Inn. Her mother's maiden name was Becker.
396. Henry Augustus Kummer. I, r. xv, 15. Feb. 27. Born Dec. 22, 1827, a son of the Rev. John Gottlob Kummer, Principal of the Lititz Girls' School (Linden Hall).
397. Mary Anne Susanna Muecke. 1, 1. xiii, 17. March 19. Aged 9 months.
398. Mary Magdalena Grosh. 1, 1. viii, 9. April I. Born July 22, 1813. Her parents were Peter Grosh, farmer of one of the congregation farms, and Catharine, m.n. Conrad.
399. Francis Eugene Bechler. 1, r. ix, 8. April 15. Born on Staten Island, Dec. 7, 1815. A son of the Rev. John C. Bechler, Pastor in Lititz.
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400. Mary Tippet. 1, 1. viii, 10. April 23. Unmarried Sister. She was born in Carroll's Manor, Md., April 11, 1750. Her mother's maiden name was Sarah Palmer. Received into the Lititz congregation and the Sisters' House in 1768. Her first charge there was of the larger girls. "The training of young people," she writes, was always, not- withstanding its difficulties, a pleasure to me." In 1784 she was ap- pointed the Pflegerin of her "Choir;" in 1798 received a call from Bethlehem to serve there in the same capacity; and in 1809 was re- called to Lititz where she continued in the same service eight more years. After thirty-seven years of official life, she retired from active duty in 1817.
401. William Cassler. I, r. xx, 12. May 6. Born in Philadelphia, July 15, 1754. Married Rosina, daughter of David Tannenberg, organ- builder. Of his children, William, Lewis David, Samuel, and John Christian survived him.
402. Jacob Rauschenberger. I, r. xix, 12. Aug. 3. Born in Hope, N. J., 1779. A Deacon of the Church; late Pastor of the Gnadenhuetten, Ohio, congregation; retired in Lititz on account of ill-health. His wife was Margaret Huber. Formerly a teacher in Nazareth Hall.
403. Elizabeth Shoenlein. 1, 1. xx, 14. Sept. 18. Born in Lititz, 1786. Daughter of Jacob Ricksecker and wife of John Shoenlein. Ten children; survived only by Juliana and Joseph.
404. John Michael Kraemer. I, r. xviii, 12. Nov. 22. Born in Lancaster, 1744. Son of Michael and Catharine Kraemer. Married Elizabeth Schneider. Ten children.
1830.
405. Johanna Caroline Tshudy. 1, 1. xix, 14. March 15. She was born in Lititz, Nov. 28, 1806, a daughter of the Rev. Abraham Levering, Warden of the congregation. First wife of Jacob Blickensderfer Tshudy.
406. Daniel Florian Loudy. 1, r. xvii, 12. May 23. Born in Neuwied, 1791. Came to Lititz in 1820, and married Anna Wilhelmina Kreiter. They lived in Warwick where he had his own weaver's shop. A superior French-horn player,-having been attached to a military band in Germany-he frequently accompanied our trom- bonists with his instrument, much to the delight of the congregation and somewhat to the chagrin of the resident players of brass. Died of small-pox.
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