Lititz, our community in story : a collaborative project by the Lititz Historical Foundation and the Archives Committee of the Lititz Moravian Congregation
"This volume is published in connection with the celebration of the Bicentennial Celebration of the Moravian Congregation at Lititz, Pennsylvania [...] The following pages have appeared in the Transaction of the Moravian Historical Society (Volume XIV, Parts 3 and 4)". -- Foreword.
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Bicentennial history of the Lititz Moravian congregation / by Mary Augusta Huebener -- The Beck Family School / by Herbert Huebener Beck -- Linden Hall Junior College and School for Girls, 1748-1948 / by W.N. Schwarze.
The family of Pierre and Madelene Armingeon, Arminshon, Armischong, Armschung, Jong, Jung, Young French Waldensians from Wurttemberg to Warwick Twp., Lancaster County, Pa., 1753; a classic example of how a surame disappeared in Lancaster County / Appendix C 1983 compiled research by Victor A. Young
The Burkey Book : Ancestors and descendants of John (Honus) Burkey / Johannes Berg (1819-1895) and Clara Bloomingsteel/Blumenstiel Burkey (1822-1901) of Green Bank, East Earl Township, Lancaster County, PA
pt. 1. Telling the story -- "Drive the heathen out of the land" -- "Some hot headed ill advised persons" -- "The same spirit & frantic rage" -- "Persons of undoubted probity & veracity" -- pt. 2. Retelling the story -- "I never heard one word of it till it was just over" -- "A mighty noise and hubbub" -- "Shot, scalped, hacked, and cut to pieces" -- "One of those youthful ebullitions of wrath" -- "The innocent were destined to share the fate of the guilty" -- "A zone of vicious racial violence" -- pt. 3. Killers and abettors -- "The most respectable of men" -- "They had possession and would keep it" -- "Eternal shame & reproach" -- pt. 4. Death and reconciliation -- "The remains of the victims of a terrible crime" -- "Slaughter'd, kill'd, and cut off a whole tribe" -- "Who was left to mourn for these people?"
