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

unveiling of the tablet to the memory of Count Zinzendorf, at the home of D. Paul Hershey, located on the old Newport Road, one mile north of Lititz, Pa., on Sunday, Oc- tober 11th, 1936. The actual unveiling was done by Mary Jane Hershey, the ten- year-old daughter of Mrs. Sue Snyder Hershey, whose family

desiring to become an Inhabitant in the new Town or village called Lititz situate in the Township of War- wick in the County of Lancaster in the Province of Pennsylvania, must agree strictly to observe & adhere to, viz : 1. Forasmuch as the fundamental Plan & original Design of building the Congregation

house, built after his plans, still stands some- what altered opposite the General Sutter Hotel, formerly the Lititz Springs Hotel. Records in the California State Library show that Sutter was invested with a commission of major general in the State Militia in February, 1853. �A NATION-WIDE CELEBRATION

July 2; on the 4th he was sworn in as a captain. These new companies joined in the chase for Lee, and arrived at Hagerstown and the Potomac as the last of the straggling Southerners crossed the river. A few laggards were captured. Among the officers in the 47th Regiment were Surgeon William H. Egle

that most of the waters examined we11e up to a high stand- ard of purity. The hydrant water, for purity, wholesomeness and softness, showed a more satisfactory result than waters drawn from the wells and cisterns. In February, 1887, in a test with Cones- toga water and a sample from the Lititz Springs

to stamp the barrels and locks of his pieces—H. E. Leman, Lancaster, Pa. Most of our other makers, if they marked their guns at all, and many of them did not, used their names only, without their town. Leman was an advertiser of his rifles and of Lancaster. Thus properly identified, Leman rifles are

site along the Susquehanna. Of many marker events in which I have taken part in Lancaster and neighboring counties, there has been none whose purpose appeals to my per- sonal appetite for local historical facts as much as does this one marking Wright's Ferry. All of us interested in history have

, Confirmations and Deaths, began by Frederick Theodore (?) Mel- sheimer, Evangelical Lutheran Preacher, Beckstein (Paxtang), the 26th day of April, A.D. 1783." See History of the Evangelical Lutheran Synod of East Pennsylvania, 1892, p. 122. �Frederick Valentine Melsheimer By DR. STUART W. FROST It is an honor