Lancaster Co., Pa., p. 593. Pa. Arch., 2d Series, Vol. 12, p. 4; 6th Series, Vol. 7, p. 261. Buried in Hibshman Family Burial Plot. Bronze marker. HITZELBERGER0 George: d. Sept. 3, 1872, over 90 years of age. Capt. commanding a company of drafted militia, 2d Regt., 2d Brig. Ellis and Evans, p. 79. L. C. H

pupils who attended the Durlach School half a century ago held a reunion at the new Clay Schoolhouse to pay tribute to their teacher, Mrs. Stella M. Stauffer Hurst. Mr. C. B. Snyder acted as chairman. The speakers were E. Paul Burkholder, Superintendent of Public Schools of Sussex County, Delaware; Prof

GRAVEYARD OF THE REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIERS AT LITITZ* By HERBERT H. BECK OR nearly a century the burial place of the 110 Revolutionary soldiers who had been interred in Lititz was a mystery. At least Abraham R. Beck, former archivist of the Lititz Moravian Congregation, who was born in 1833 and who

Obsequies in Honor of Andrew Jackson Held in Lancaster By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER Andrew Jackson, ex-President of the United States and hero of the battle of New Orleans, died on Sunday, June 8th, 1845. A meeting of citizens of Lancaster was held on Tuesday, June 17th, at the call of Michael

. Hollow Schoolhouse was one of the first school buildings erected in this portion of Lancaster county. The first building was a humble log structure, which was built by Joseph Rutter on his farm which Conrad Rutter, his father, had taken possession of in 1716. This house was built at the foot of the ridge

founded near the present bridge Wright's Ferry, for many years the main gateway into the expanding West, Erected for the Bicentennial of this Historic House and the Sesquicentennial of Colum- bia by the Lancaster County Historical Society, 1938," John Wright was a man who stood out among men in the times

was the brother of Joseph, who came over in 1732, although this has not been definitely established. On October 7th, 1743, Johann Friederich "Hubely," aged 25 years, arrived at Philadelphia on the ship "Saint Andrew," Robert �Brown Captain, from Rotterdam. He is also believed to have been a brother of

Revolution." Major .John Light—a Hero of the Revolutionary War By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER In the beautiful old churchyard adjoining Saint James's Protestant Epis- copal church, Lancaster, Pa.. lie the mortal remains of Major John Light, a dstinguished soldier of the Revolutionary War, who died on July 2nd

. Andrew Jackson Invited to Visit Lancaster By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER A MEETING of friends of Andrew Jackson in the city and county of Lancaster met in the court house in Lancaster on Wednesday, April 17th, 1833. Hon. John Lightner was ap- pointed president ; James Jackson, of Colerain, Moore Connell, of

was cheered down the street to the tavern. In the evening several called to see me and learn who I was. We passed several of these trees on the way, with green boughs on the top." 1 In Reamstown, Lancaster county, Pa., on the day following Christmas, an unusually fine hickory pole was erected. It was