., Manheim. There is an old gas lamp, electrified of course, standing in the churchyard of the First Reformed Church (United Church of Christ) on N. Christian Street, Lancaster city. Uncle James Kautz said, "Each gas lamp had a mantle which had to be replaced when worn. When I first lit lamps for your father

A Lancaster City Boy of the Gay Nineties Part 2* by Abner McMichael Eyde with Miriam Eyde Bixler A boy really worked for his spending money in my day, none of this allowance business. You got a few pennies for Sunday School and church and mostly that was it, unless your older brothers and sisters

been! The story goes that not only did he ob- tain the rank of brigade fifer major but General Lafayette himself presented the soldier with a silver fife in honor of his heroic play- ing. �Thomas Montgomery, in the Lancaster County Historical Socie- ty Journal recounts that in 1825 when Lafayette was

Interesting Lancaster Folks, Odd and Otherwise. by Abner McMichael Eyde as told to Miriam Eyde Bixler You know there were some real interesting and then again some mighty odd folks around Lancaster in my day. If I put my mind to it maybe I could recollect a few for you. Let's see. For one there was

train for their wedding trip to Steel- ton. �Early Lancaster County Funeral Customs by Miriam Eyde Bixler In 1683 William Penn reported on Indians in Pennsylvania, "If they die they bury them with their apparrel [sic] be they man or woman and the nearest of kin fling something precious with them as a