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Additional Notes
Also administrators' bond.
Two servants, a man and a woman, listed.
Possible African-American servant/enslaved person listed.
2 items, 2 pieces
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Credit
Courtesy of Lancaster County Archives and LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Classification
RG-03-00-0133
Description Level
Item
Custodial History
Digitization of this document was funded by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, PHMC Appl ID # 202010016624, 2020-2023.
Open door to smokehouse on property at Abbeville. Written on back: "John Farmer believes Mrs. Armstrong said it was a smokehouse, was Lancaster's jail door. Door was on white shed to southeast of house. Door given by Armstrongs to scrap metal drive, WWII".
Provenance
From MG-228 Dr. John L. Farmer, Abbeville Collection
Usner family, taken at Rossmere. Back row, left to right: Elias Usner, Ike Swope, Frank Usner, Mr. Foltz. Four women in front of back row, left to right: Emma Usner, Lizzie Usner, Maggie Bare, Libby Buch. In front of these four women are, left to right: John Usner, Annie Laura Usner Bare, Mabel Leib, Stella Grosh. Front row, left to right: Edith Enck, Emma Bare, George Washington Brian, Ida Shirk. There are three generations in this photograph: Elias Usner, Annie Laura Usner Bare and Mary Emma Bare Brian.
Tom Heckles, center, is welcomed home from Vietnam by his wife, Kathy, and his father, John, at the Heckles home on Springside Drive in Lancaster. Heckles served two tours in the Navy as a Sea Bee.
