The Moravian Graveyards of Lititz, Pa., 1744-1905, Part 8

Author: Abraham Reinke Beck
Publication date: 1905-01-01
Publisher: Transactions of the Moravian Historical Society
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1864.


756. Christina Caroline Heiserman. 2, 1. x, I. Jan. 6. Infant daughter of George Heiserman.


757. George Lewis Frederick. 3, 1. xxiii, 15. Feb. 7. Born Nov. 26, 1826. Died from injuries resulting from a fall from the roof of the hotel at Wabank, on the Conestoga, incidental to its removal by Samuel Lichtenthaler to Lititz.


758. Thomas Lewis Frederick. 3, 1. ix, 4. Feb. 9. Son of the foregoing. Aged one year, nine months.


759. George Lewis Frederick. 3, 1. viii, 4. Feb. 27. Son of George and Susanna (Murr) Frederick. Aged one year. A different family from the preceding one.


760. Horace Rudolph Souder. 3, 1. ix, 5. March I. Infant son of Daniel Souder.


761. Thomas Franklin Diehm. 3, 1. viii, 5. March I. Infant.


762. Theodore J. Burnett. 3, 1. xxiii, 16. March 8. Born at Strouds- burg, Pa., June 4, 1820. Died in Harrisburg.


763. Adam Kling. 3, 1. ix, 6. March 20. Child of Frederick Kling. Aged three years, four months.


764. Clara Olivia Groff. 2, 1. ix, I. April 10. Infant daughter of Martin and Adelaide (Kryder) Groff.


765. Anna Rebecca Witmeyer. 2, 1. xxi, 12. July 26. Wife of Richard Witmeyer. Aged twenty-six years.


766. Mary Elizabeth Keller. 2, 1. viii, 16. Aug. 14. Infant daughter of Edward and Maria Keller.


767. Samuel Harvey Kreiter. 3, 1. viii, 6. Oct. 5. Son of Martin Kreiter. Aged six years.


1865.


768. Adelaide Clementina Groff. 2, 1. xxi, II. Jan. 15. Born in War- wick, Aug. I, 1835. A daughter of Charles Henry and Olivia (Rauch) Kreiter. Married Martin S. Groff. They had one child, a daughter, that lived only one year. Before her marriage she was a teacher of music in the Bordentown, N. J., Young Ladies' Semi- nary. Died of consumption.


769. Rosina Klingman. 2, 1. xv, 13. Jan. 17. Born in Ischabrunn, Baden, Jan. 10, 1843. Daughter of Christopher and Barbara Klingman.


770. James Munroe Derr. 3, 1. ix, 7. Jan. 23. Born in Lititz, Dec. 26, 1855, a son of Dr. John William and Juliana Derr. He was a hearty, active and very lively boy until shortly before his last Christmas.


771. George Francis Haughman. 3, 1. viii, 7. Feb. 27. Infant son of George Washington and Amanda (Delbo) Haughman.


772. Jacob Geitner. 3, 1. xxii, I. March 5. Born Sept. 6, 1791. Son of John George Geitner, second. Married Joanna Elizabeth Beck. By trade a tanner. For thirty years a member of the Aufseher Col- legium. Though somewhat taciturn and slow of speech, he was a man of excellent understanding, and a keen debater; his few words went usually straight to the truth of a discussion.


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773. John Stark. 3, 1. xvi, 7. April 6. Born Jan. 15, 1838. Unmarried. Son of Charles and Elizabeth Stark, of Warwick. He sustained an excellent character and was a great help to his parents. On the 4th of April he met with an accident on the railroad, which resulted in his death.


774. Laura Susanna Schmidt. 2, 1. vii, 16. May 10. Born Jan. 24, 1863. Daughter of John and Amelia Louisa (Regennas) Schmidt. Diph- theria.


775. Susanna Elizabeth Bachman. 2, 1. xxi, 10. June 23. Born in Lititz, Nov. 2, 1778, a daughter of Andrew and Elizabeth Albright. Was married to the widower John Philip Bachman, Dec. 19, 1800. She lived to see 26 grandchildren, and eleven great-grandchildren.


776. William Demuth Kreider. 3, 1. ix, 8. July 16. Infant son of William Eugene and Mary Josephine (Demuth) Kreider.


777. Mary Elizabeth Seaber. 2, 1. viii, 15. Aug. 3. Infant daughter of Henry and Mary Elizabeth (Sturgis) Seaber.


778. Haydn Albert Habecker. 3, 1. viii, 8. Sept. 10. Infant son of Isaac and Rebecca (Reidenbach) Habecker.


779. Helen Beck. 2, 1. vii, 15. Sept. 24. Daughter of Abraham Reinke and Joanna Salome (Huebener) Beck. Aged fifteen months.


780. Catharine Tshudy. 2, 1. xxi, 9. Oct. 23. She was born Nov. 4, 1775, in York County, a daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth Blickens- derfer. Moved to Lititz when fourteen years of age, and became a communicant member of the congregation. In 1798 she was married to Matthias Gottfried Tshudy. They had one son and five daughters. She became blind about a year and a half before her end.


1866.


781. William Grant Seaber. 3, 1. ix, 9. Jan. 12. Infant son of Christian Samuel and Lydia Ann Seaber.


782. Beata Schmidt. 2, 1. viii, 14. Jan. 20. A twin child of John Schmidt. 783. Emma Ernestina Rickert. 2, 1. xxii, 4. Feb. 7. She was born in Bethania, N. C., Aug. 26, 1820; a daughter of Bishop Peter Wolle and his wife Maria Theresa, m.n. Shober. She was married to Ferdinand Daniel Rickert, in 1845. Was afflicted with epilepsy nearly all her life, and died suddenly.


784. Elizabeth Keller, m.n. Erb. 2, 1. xxiii, 3. Feb. 18. Born in 1792. Wife of Samuel Keller, of Lititz Mills.


785. Elmer Stauffer Kauffman. 3, 1. viii, 9. Feb. 25. Infant son of Emmanuel Kauffman.


786. Joanna Elizabeth Geitner. 2, 1. xxii, 3. March 8. Born in Grace- ham, Md., May 31, 1796; a daughter of the Rev. John Martin Beck and his wife, Anna Johanna, m.n. Grube. Wife of Jacob Geitner. She had seven children, of whom three survived her.


787. Beata Enck. 2, 1. vii, 14. March 23. Franklin Enck's child.


788. Laura Augusta Keller. 2, 1. viii, 13. April II. Daughter of Edward Keller. One year, five months.


789. Beatus Kreiter. 3, 1. ix, 10. July 7. Son of Charles W. Kreiter.


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790. Beata Kreiter. 2, 1. vii, 13. Nov. 6. Child of Aurora Kreiter, of Warwick.


791. Jacob Blickensderfer Tshudy. 3, 1. xxi, I. Nov. 8. He was born in Lititz, Nov. 30, 1805; a son of Matthias Gottfried Tshudy. From his tenth to his fourteenth year he was a pupil in Nazareth Hall. In 1828 he married Joanna Caroline Levering, who died in 1830. His second wife was Caroline Harbaugh, with whom he had two sons and two daughters. In 1828 he opened a general store, here, and was very successful in business. He held a number of honor- able and trustworthy offices, and was widely known and highly es- teemed throughout Lancaster County. For many years he en- riched our Church-music with his good tenor voice, and was also one of the violinists.


792. Christian Henry Rauch. 3, 1. xxii, 2. Nov. 22. Born in Lititz, July 19, 1788; a son of John Henry and Anna Christina (Stohler) Rauch. Married his first wife (m.n. Romig) in 1812. They had four sons and four daughters. His second wife, the widow Wickel, he married in 1850. His first occupation was that of a stocking- weaver; then he followed surveying and conveyancing, and from 1820 to 1860 he was a Justice of the Peace. As a musician he served the congregation with his violoncello and as a bass-singer and trombonist. He was all his life a steady reader, and fond of an occasional good novel. In 1810 he wrote a text-book on Arithmetic, Des Deutschen Bauers und Landmanns Rechenbuch, und des Schul- lehrers Gehülfe; printed in Easton by Christian Jacob Hütter. Can- dor was a distinguishing trait of his character.


793. Beatus Heiserman. Child of George Heiserman.


794. Susanna Regennas. 2, 1. xxiii, 2. Dec. 5. Born in Lititz, Dec. 14, 1794. Daughter of Frederick Peter Kreiter. Wife of John Jacob Regennas.


1867.


795. Beata Keller. 2, 1. viii, 12. March 6. Samuel E. Keller's child. 796. Eliza Schnell. 2, 1. xvi, 12. March 12. Born in Reading, Pa., Oct. 17, 1809. Unmarried Sister. Afflicted with deafness for many years. A dressmaker.


797. Salome Huebener. 2, 1. xxi, 8. May 25. She was born in Lititz, March 5, 1803; a daughter of Matthias Gottfried Tshudy. In the spring of 1823 she became a teacher in Linden Hall Seminary, and in October, of the same year, was married to the Rev. Samuel Renatus Huebener. With him she served in the congregations of Friedland, N. C., Gnadenhütten, Ohio, Graceham, Md., Friedberg, N. C., and Salem, N. C., where her husband departed suddenly, June 7, 1849; then she returned to Lititz, serving here as a Deaconess. She had nine children. The Rev. Lewis Renatus Huebener was one of her sons. For the praise that might be given her, she would not have wished.


798. Lucetta Rauch, m.n. Ritter. 2, 1. xxii, 2. May 28. Born in Phila- delphia, Feb. 22, 1804. Married S. Henry Wolle. They had three


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sons and two daughters. Some years after her husband's death she became a teacher in Linden Hall Seminary, and served faithfully in that capacity for more than eighteen years. In 1859 she married the widower John William Rauch. Died of a cancer.


799. Lucy Ann Roth, m.n. Fielis. 2, 1. xxi, 7. Aug. 17. Non-Moravian. Aged thirty-four years.


800. Carrie Hortense Tshudy. 2, 1. vii, 12. Sept. 6. Infant daughter of Richard Rush Tshudy. Aged eleven months.


801. Infant son of Obed Bowman. 3, 1. ix, II. Sept. 17.


802. James Edward Sturgis. 3, 1. viii, 11. Infant son of James and Eliza Sturgis.


803. Samuel Lichtenthaler. 3, 1. xxi, 2. Oct. 2, Born Feb. 3, 1808. In 1832 he married Catharine Kraemer. They had six children, two sons and four daughters. He was a son of Adolph Lichtenthaler. For many years he carried on the business of cabinet-making here. About the year 1854 he purchased the Lititz Springs Hotel property, where, being of a genial disposition, kind-hearted and obliging, he- not to forget the capable assistance of his good wife and daughters -made a model landlord. Having much ability as an architect, he gave his valuable aid to the congregation in designing the Hotel building, the changes in Church and Parsonage, and the southern addition to Linden Hall. He designed also the Moravian Church in Lebanon, Pa.


804. Infant son of Theodore Lichtenthaler. 3, 1. ix, 12. Dec. 7. 805. Martha Huber. 2, 1. viii, II. Daughter of John Huber. Infant.


1868.


806. Daniel Kreider. 3 1. xxii, 3. Jan. 3. He was born March 22, 1799; a son of Frederick Peter and Catharine (Leinbach) Kreiter. In 1822 he married Maria Louisa Lennert, who died in 1836. They had six children, only two surviving their mother. In 1837 he married Anna Maria Meyers. Of this union there were two children, a boy and a girl, the former dying in his infancy. The mother died on the fourteenth anniversary of her marriage. His third marriage was to Jemima Leinbach. By trade, a saddler.


807. Edward Grant Habecker. 3, 1. viii, 12. Feb. 9. One year.


809. Alice Elizabeth Opitz. 2, 1. vii, II. Feb. 22. Daughter of Catharine Diehm. Aged three years.


810. Beata Lichtenthaler. 2, 1. viii, 10. March 4. Daughter of Charles Lichtenthaler.


811. Maria Louisa Seaber. 2, 1. vii, 10. March 6. Infant daughter of Samuel and Lydia Seaber.


812. Harriet Amelia Bowman. 2, 1. xxiii, I. May 3. Wife of Obed Bowman. Aged thirty-nine years.


813. Benjamin Kreiter. 3, 1. xxi, 3. May 12. Born in Lititz, June 20, 1786. A son of Peter Kreiter and his second wife Anna Maria, born Kohn. In 1810 he married Anna Maria Seyfried, of Nazareth, who died in 1824. By this marriage he had eight children. His


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second wife was Eleanor Bandon, a widow; two children. He was not a member of the Congregation at the time of his death.


814. Henry William Hall. 3, 1. xvi, 8. May 19. Born in Lititz, Sept. 9, 1809. A son of Christian Hall. Unmarried. Served as a teacher in Nazareth Hall, and in the Lititz Academy. Followed the business of clock-making, and for many years was organist of the Congrega- tion. Not a church-member at the time of his decease.


816. Jacob Rock. 3, 1. xxi, 4. June 7. He was born in Cocalico Town- ship, Nov. 21, 1774. United with this congregation in 1800. Ac- companied the Rev. Denke as Assistant to the Mission in New Fairfield, Canada. Married Susanna Magdalena Christ. They had seven children. In 1858 he moved to Marietta to live with his daughter, Cornelia; and later, with her, to Philadelphia, and then to Blair County. Having been seriously injured by a fall, whilst living in Marietta, he was confined to his room for the last nine years of his life. By trade a tailor.


817. Susan Lavinia Habecker. 2, 1. viii, 9. July 31. Daughter of Isaac and Rebecca Habecker. Aged six years.


818. Samuel Kreiter. 3, 1. xxii, 5. Aug. 27. He was born in Lititz, June 4, 1790; a son of Friederich Peter and Catharine (Leinbach) Kreiter. Married Elizabeth Westhaefer, April 20, 1817. By trade a cooper. He served as a soldier in the War of 1812.


819. Edward Augustus Diehm. 3, 1. ix, 13. Aged two years.


820. Charles Stark. 3, 1. xxi, 5. Oct. 15. Aged fifty-six years. Non- Moravian.


821. Fredericka Louisa Lindenlos. 2, 1. xv, 12. Oct. 28. She was born in Amsterdam, June 10, 1793. Brought to America when she was about six years of age, and lived, first, with a Quaker family in Maryland, and later in York. Came to Lititz in 1815. Some mystery attaches to the circumstances which led to her coming to this country. Of her early childhood she had only a misty recol- lection; but she kept a distinct remembrance of a visit from a hand- some, richly-dressed lady who gave her sweetmeats and wept over her; and there was a sea-faring man who, by his promise of some nice present, induced her to go with him to his ship. Whether she was thrown upon the world purposely, or kidnapped, this is certain, that her lines, subsequently, were cast in pleasant places, for here, with Samuel Sturgis' family, with the Petersens, and finally in the Sisters' House, she found a home, and everybody had a good word for old "Lindy."


1869.


822. Beatus Russel. 3, 1. viii, 13. Jan. 12.


823. Beata Sturgis. 2, 1. vii, 9. Jan. 15. Daughter of Nathan Sturgis.


824. Anna Maria Kling, m.n. Licht. 2, 1. xxii, I. Jan. 14. Born in Flacht, Würtemberg, Jan. 14, 1805. Wife of Adam Kling, of Warwick. Came to this country in 1854. Not a member of this congregation. Died suddenly of apoplexy.


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825. Catharine Holl, m.n. Beck. 2, 1. xxi, 5. Jan. 17. Born in New Holland, March 25, 1783. Came to Lititz in 1849, with her daughter, the widow Barr, with whom she lived upwards of thirty years.


826. Martin Eck. 3, 1. xxii, 4. March 17. Born in Hesse-Darmstadt, in 1829. Served this country as a soldier in the Civil War. Not a member of the Congregation.


827. George David Thomas. 3, 1. xxii, 6. April 25. He was born in Lancaster, Sept. 29, 1803; a son of George Thomas. He came to Lititz in his thirteenth year, after his father's death, and was ap- prenticed to Jacob Greider to learn shoemaking. Married Catharine Sheed, Jan. 3, 1826. They had one son and four daughters, of whom one daughter survived him. In the same year, in which he was married, he was appointed chief-sacristan of the congregation, and from that time, for forty-three years, attended to the duties im- posed upon him by this office with much care and faithfulness.


828. Emmanuel Holl. 3, 1. xxi, 6. July 27. Born April 20, 1844. Served in the army during the Civil War: first in the 122d Regiment, Co. F., P. V., for nine months; then in Nevin's Independent Battery, six months, and finally in the same until the end of the war. Mar- ried Catharine Diehm. Died of consumption.


829. John Alexander Sturgis. 3, 1. ix, 14. Aug. 17. Infant son of James and Eliza Sturgis.


830. Edward Price Seaber. 3, 1. viii, 14. Sept. 4. Infant son of Charles and Mary Seaber.


831. Christian Gottlieb Oehme. 3, 1. xxii, 7. Dec. 5. Born Feb. 12, 1801; a son of John Erdman Oehme. Married Margaret Gernand. Lived in Lexington, near Lititz.


832. Christian Frederick Youngman. 3, 1. xxi, 7. Dec. 5. He was born in Bethlehem, Sept. 6, 1810; a son of Peter Youngman. Married Rebecca Lennert. For thirty-six years he was the ticket agent, at Lancaster, of the Penna. R. R. Co., winning in that capacity the entire confidence of his official superiors and, because of his kind- ness and courtesy, that of the traveling public.


833. Matilda Miksch. 2, 1. xxi, 4. Dec. 21. Born Sept. 21, 1821; a daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth Kreiter. Married to James H. Miksch, April 29, 1845.


1870.


834. Bertha Frailey. 2, 1. viii, 8. June 20. Infant.


835. Cora Virginia Grosh. 2, 1. vii, 8. March I. Born April 7, 1865. Daughter of Samuel and Amanda Grosh. Died of scarlet fever.


836. Haydn Hamet Albright. 3, 1. ix, 15. March 4. Son of Reuben Albright. Aged six years. Died of scarlet fever.


837. Elizabeth Sophia Diehm. 2, 1. viii, 7. March 4. Daughter of Oliver Diehm. Aged nine years. Died of scarlet fever.


838. Horace Linnaeus Weltmer. 3, 1. viii, 15. March II. Son of Dr. Jonas Weltmer. One year, five months. Scarlet fever.


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839. Christoph Tschopp. 3, 1. xvi, 9. March 14. Unmarried. Born in Switzerland. Aged seventy-eight years. Non-Moravian. Died of consumption.


840. Martha Ann Enck. 2, 1. vii, 7. March 26. Daughter of B. Franklin Enck. Died of scarlet fever, aged two years.


841. Susan Amanda Seaber. 2, 1. viii, 6. April 16. Daughter of Samuel Seaber. Died of scarlet fever, aged three years and seven months. 842. Della Elizabeth Delbo. 2, 1. vii, 6. April 22. Daughter of Darius Delbo. Died of scarlet fever, aged three years.


843. William Albert Brenneman. 3, 1. ix, 16. April 28. Son of John Brenneman. Aged two years, seven months. Scarlet fever.


844. Rosina Brunner. 2, 1. xvi, II. May 17. Unmarried Sister. Born in Christianspring, near Nazareth, April 24, 1792. Came to Lititz in her seventeenth year. Lived nearly all her life in the Sisters' House, holding various official positions.


845. Horace Grant Stark. 3, 1. viii, 16. May 20. Son of Samuel Stark. Aged one year, seven months. Scarlet fever.


846. Adam Henry Habecker. 3, 1. vii, I. June 18. Son of Isaac Habecker. Aged ten months. Consumption.


847. Albert Henry Frailey. 3, 1. vi, I. July 8. Son of Hiram Frailey. Died of scarlet fever, aged two years.


848. Joseph Eschbach. 3, 1. xxii, 8. July 23. Born in Inlenheim, near Strasburg. Came to this country in 1854. Aged sixty-two years. Non-Moravian.


849. Caroline Catharine Haughman. 2, 1. viii, 5. July 24. Infant daughter of George W. Haughman.


850. Mahlon Shirk. 3, 1. vii, 2. July 29. Infant.


851. Friedrich Wilhelm Kling. 3, 1. vi, 2. Aug. 2. Son of Frederick and Catharine (Herkel) Kling. Aged two months.


852. Philip Conn. 3, 1. xxi, 8. Aug. 9. Born in Lancaster, June 23, 1793. Married at Emmaus, 1823, Sarah Ann Geitner. As "Pappy Conn" he was affectionately known to many Lititz Academy boys who boarded with him.


853. Lilly Agnes Haughman. 2, 1. viii, 4. Born March 8, 1861. Died Aug. 25, 1861, in Petersburg; reinterred here Sept. 1870.


854. Kate Landstreet Holl. 2, 1. vii, 5. Aug. 23. Infant daughter of Emmanuel Holl. Aged one year.


855. Sophia Augusta Bricker. 2, 1. xv, II. Aug. 30. Unmarried Sister. Born May 8, 1849; a daughter of David and Lucinda (Petersen) Bricker. She died, while on a visit to Lebanon, of typhoid fever. 856. Bernhard Martin Tshudy. 3, 1. vii, 3. Sept. 5. Infant son of Haydn and Emma (Hull) Tshudy.


857. Anna Maria Kreiter. 2, 1. xvi, 10. Oct. 21. Unmarried Sister. Born Oct. 8, 1824. A daughter of Benjamin and Anna Maria (Sey- fried) Kreiter. Died of a cancer.


858. Mary Jane Baker. 2, 1. xv, 10. Dec. 20. Aged twenty-two years. Non-Moravian.


859. Harry Franklin Bollinger. 3, 1. vi, 3. Dec. 24. Infant son of William H. Bollinger.


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1871.


860. John Ricksecker. 3, 1. xxii, 9. Jan. 29. Born in Lititz, June 6, 1789. A son of John and Rachel (Frederick) Ricksecker. Married Louisa Fredericka Fisher. The latter part of his life he spent with his son in Mount Joy, where he died. Not a member of this congregation at the time of his death.


861. Christiana Catharine Reidenbach, m.n. Yerger. 2, 1. xxi, 3. Aug. 31. Born June 27, 1848. Wife of Aaron Reidenbach.


862. George Washington Broome Viven. 3, 1. xvi, 10. Nov. 7. Un- married. Born in Philadelphia, Oct. 24, 1850. Age twenty-one years.


863. Elizabeth Sturgis, m.n. Shiffer. 2, 1. xxi, 2. Nov. 26. Born in Mount Joy Township, 1848. Wife of Nathan O. Sturgis.


864. Anna Rosina Rauch. 2, 1. xxi, I. Dec. 7. Born in Bethlehem, Sept. 10, 1796. She was the widow of Henry Gottfried Rauch. Her maiden name was Kornmann. After her husband's death she kept the infant school for girls, here, for twelve years.


865. Howard Jacob Tshudy. 3, 1. vii, 4. Dec. 10. Infant son of Richard Rush and Sarah Tshudy.


866. Abraham B. Kreiter. 3, 1. vi, 4. Dec. 30. Child of G. W. Kreiter. 1872.


867. Herman Darius Kling. 3, 1. vii, 5. Jan. 27. Son of Jacob Kling. Died of scarlet fever, aged one year, eight months.


868. Della Augusta Stark. 2, 1. vii, 4. Feb. 2. Infant daughter of Samuel Stark. Died of scarlet fever, aged ten months.


869. Helen Sophia Bachman. 2, 1. xvi, 9. Feb. 16. Unmarried Sister. Born in Lititz, Sept. 27, 1806; a daughter of John Philip Bachman, organ-builder. Her mother's maiden name was Albright. She was the sick-nurse in Linden Hall for twenty-five years. Deceased from an attack of apoplexy.


870. Beata Albright. 2, 1. viii, 3. Feb. 23.


871. Anna Sophia Roberts. 2, 1. xx, 16. March 13. Born in Lititz, Jan. 14, 1794; a daughter of Daniel and Anna Maria (Kleinmann) Christ. Married John Roberts of Marietta.


872. Maurice Edwin Kreider. 3, 1. vi, 5. March 26. Son of Martin Kreider. Died of scarlet fever, aged two years.


873. Magdalena Frederick, m.n. Gottman. 2, 1. xix, 16. April 9. Born in Gnadenthal, near Nazareth, Oct. 23, 1787. Moved hither with the second Steinman family. Married the widower Christian Frederick, who died in 1834. From 1835 she lived on Pine Hill.


874. George Adam Kling. 3, 1. xxi, 9. May 7. Born March 24, 1803, in Flacht, Würtemberg. Married Anna Maria Licht. Came to America in 1854. Lived in Warwick. Lutheran.


875. John Herman Kling. 3, 1. vii, 6. July 21. Infant son of Jacob Kling. 876. Mary Ann Holl, m.n. Whitcraft. 2, 1. xx, 15. Aug. 7. Wife of Isaac Holl.


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877. Francis Lewis Lennert. 3, 1. xvi, 11. Aug. 10. Born in Lititz, Nov. 17, 1805. Unmarried. A son of John Peter and Joanna Susanna (Knauss) Lennert. Not a member of the Congregation at the time of his death. A clock and watchmaker. Played the serpent in the village music.


878. William Nauman Bollinger. 3, 1. vi, 6. Aug. 13. Infant son of William H. Bollinger.


879. Henry Richard Rickert. 3, 1. vii, 7. Sept. 2. Infant son of Richard Rickert.


880. Carl Friedrich Kling. 3, 1. vi, 7. Sept. 19. Infant son of Friedrich and Catharine Kling.


881. Edmund Samuel Grosh. 3, 1. vii, 8. Nov. I. Son of Samuel and Amanda (Kraemer) Grosh. Died of membranous croup, aged five years.


882. Abraham Van Vleck. 3, 1. xxii, 10. Nov. 21. Born in Lititz, June 15, 1784; a son of Henry Van Vleck (hatter) and his second wife, Elizabeth, m.n. Riem. Married twice, and had four children. Served as teacher in Nazareth Hall, in New York, and at Savannah, and finally settled in Newark, N. J. Returned to live in Lititz after an absence of fifty years.


883. Eliza Adeline Michael. 2, 1. xv, 9. Dec. 23. Unmarried Sister. For many years a domestic in John Beck's family. Having become in- sane, she was removed to the Hospital, at Lancaster, where she died. 884. Maria Louisa Hamm, m.n. Dinges. 2, 1. xx, I. Dec. 24. She was born in Schnabenheim, Hesse Darmstadt, Aug. 16, 1794. United with the Moravians in Neuwied. Married Feb., 1823, to John Hamm, and came to this country in 1827. She had four sons and three daughters, six of whom died in their childhood. Died of dropsy.


885. Frederick Adolphus Zitzman. 3, 1. xxi, 10. Dec. 24. Born in Amsterdam, June 7, 1787. Came to this country in his fifteenth year. Married Susanna Miller. He was the landlord of the Lititz Springs Hotel for two years. Appointed Postmaster, in Lititz, by President Andrew Jackson, and continued in this office nineteen years.


886. Martha Ellen Seaber. 2, 1. vii, 3. Dec. 28. Daughter of Charles Seaber. Died of diphtheria and croup, aged nine years and nine months.


1873.


887. Morris Herbert Seaber. 3, 1. vi, 8. Dec. 31. Son of Charles Seaber. Died of diphtheria and croup, aged six years.


888. Anna Mary Bollinger. 2, 1. viii, 2. Jan. 29. Daughter of William H. Bollinger. Died of diphtheria, aged five years and ten months.


889. John Beck. 3, 1. xxii, II. February II. He was born June 16, 1791, at Graceham, Md., where his parents, the Rev. John Martin and Anna Johanna (Grube) Beck were then stationed. Having been educated in Nazareth Hall, he was sent to Lititz in 1805, and here was apprenticed to Gottfried Traeger with whom he served his time 6


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as a shoemaker. In 1815 he was appointed to take charge of the village school for boys, from which humble beginning was evolved his famous Boarding School, the Lititz Academy-his own institu- tion, not a church school-which was conducted by him, with great success and without personal or public solicitation, from 1819 until 1865. On the second of February, 1819, he married Joanna Augusta Reinke. At the Golden Anniversary of their wedding he gave a lovefeast, in the church, to the congregation and a dinner to his de- scendants and nearest friends at the Springs Hotel.


For his calling he was especially gifted; excelling as a teacher, it was a pleasure as well as an advantage to be taught by him, and to experience his influence for good was to many a boy a blessing. Of a cheerful disposition and a winning personality, simple-hearted and guileless, he had yet a remarkable sense of character, so that he could measure a boy almost as soon as he first saw him. Impartially faithful to his pupils, whether they were of high or low estate, bright or dull; scorning the use of sarcastic speech to a defenceless lad; readily giving his kind word of commendation when it was deserved, and bringing to the settlement of difficulties in discipline a superb degree of tact, he won the absolute confidence of his patrons and the lasting love of his boys. The whole number of his pupils during fifty years was 2326.




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