Thaddeus Stevens' tomb, Shreiner's Cemetery. Stevens epitaph: I repose in this quiet and secluded spot, not from any natural preference for solitude, but finding other cemteries limited as to race, I have chosen this as my last resting place, that I might illustrate in my death the pricnicples I advocated through a long life, "The equality of man before his Creator."
Bronze tablet on the house at 45 South Queen Street, Lancaster, where the Honorable Thaddeus Stevens lived from 1843 until his death. He was a leading statesman of the Civil War period and represented Lancaster County in the U. S. House of Representatives.
Provenance
Album of historical markers erected by the Lancaster County Historical Society, compiled by George L. Heiges in 1986.
