as pastor. The present pastor is the Rev. Charles L. Fry. i I I • • «i� : : ; : �U1'1'owez-S1te-oenz-�e�no1dz. • I t • • I Our illustrations show where many of our most distinguished citizens have lived and died. We also present I I the tombs where some of our great men sleep their long last sleep. t

death." Colonel Alexander Lowery came from the North of Ireland. His father, �Lazarus Lowery, with his family, set- tled in Donegal in 1729. He was an In- dian trader, as were his sons after him. Alexander was a man of great physical strength and prowess. No Indian could outrun him. He was thrifty in

, about one mile east of Petersburg, is a tablet stone with the following inscription: JACOB OBERHOLTZER CATHARINE OBERHOLTZER 1792 Immediately above it is another with the following: Wer Gott vertraut hat wohl gebaut in himmel and auf erde- 1792 Near the mill stands an old stone dwelling with a stone

for ours, their descendants, pass down to us in tangible form the story of their lives and times. The student of our early local history is confronted all along the way with un- settled questions, matters merely hinted at and doubts without number, the solving of which will always re- main to vex and

1769, William was a member of the Legislature in 1790, 1805 and 1806. He was a Director of the Poor in 1799, the year in which the Poorhouse farm was bought. This family of Webbs must not be confounded with that of another James Webb, a mason by trade, and a Tory in politics. who lived in Lancaster at

in the valley of the Susquehanna, the Algonquins, were of the same linguistic family as the Iro- quois to the north, with whose dia- lects he was quite familiar; therefore, he could have had no difficulty in mak- ing himself understood by those he met on the Susquehanna and Chesa- peake Bay. Besides

street, on the site of the buildings numbered 120-122, now occupied as a cigar factory. Mrs. Wolf, then a young girl, was an inmate of her Uncle Dering's family, and gives the following account of what she witnessed at that period in the following language: "Lancaster, at this period, was crowded with

when the next county historian comes to the front he will be supplied with a stock of unused materials that will en- able him to improve on the work of his predecessors. Provinces and Colonies. I beg leave at the outset of this somewhat discursive paper to recall to your minds a fact that is not always