who have gone to their Father in Heaven during the past 25 years. It would not be fair to name some and not others. You can recall many that you have know. But there is one who was the friend, counselor and leader of our flock, always there when needed in times of trouble or joy. He served us for 50

Useful and Entertaining Knowledge. (Book) 1900. Roehl, Katherine M. The Book of Geib. (Typescript) 1967. Rosenberger, Homer Tope Adventures and Philosophy of a Pa. Dutchman: an autobiography. (Book) 1981. Rudy, Arthur F. History of the Rudy Family of Lancaster County, Pa. (Typescript) 1981. Sater, Joel

GEORGE L. HEIGES 1860 - THE YEAR BEFORE THE WAR An exhaustive account of political ac- tivity in Lancaster County in 1860, the first year Countians elected a Repub- lican president, and the beginning of a tradition. One hundred years ago, with no TV or radio to report the national political

AARON ESHLEMAN Towards the end of the eighteenth century and at the beginning of the nineteenth, painted, in England, Rey- nolds, Romney, Lawrence. After them, in America, painted Gilbert Stu- art. After Gilbert Stuart painted Eichholtz; after Eichholtz painted Bannade; after Bannade painted Aaron

AutoNumber Surname First Name Middle Name Prefix/Suffix Birth Date Death Date Notes Cemetery Name Cemetery Location Worner Vol # Cemetery # Page # 67444 Erisman Catharina 1809 wife of Michael Erisman Abbeville Cemetery Lancaster Township 24 506 1 67442 Erisman Daniel Sr. 1793 August 11, 1858

a few years later. At sharp contrast with a train speeding today across the county, from Conewago to Christiana in about 40 minutes, stands the passing of the funeral train, April 22, 1865, on the following schedule: Conewago siding A M. 11.56 Lancaster 1.19 Elizabethtown P M. 12.07 Gap 2.23 Mt. Joy

Chester county, Pa., with some additional facts rela- tive to Mr. Lincoln's political history and it became the basis of well written articles which practically all of the Pennsylvania papers published in January 1860. When the convention convened, among the names presented for the Presidency, was that of

. The "Circular of Terms" for the Beck Family School for Boys is a case in point. �Moravian Family School for a Limited number of Boys, Abraham R. Beck, Principal. Litiz [sic], Lancaster County, Pa. Terms. "For tuition and all domestic expenses, $300 a year, to be paid half-yearly in advance, in

con- siderable land on that side of the river, and his deed shows that he only acquired the tavern property on the west side on September 23, 1789. It is said, in Evans' and Ellis' History of Lancaster County, that he first pur- chased the land on which the tavern was built and afterwards, in 1789

THE ACADIANS IN LANCASTER COUNTY. There is no history in which can be chronologically traced the struggles and changes within that small region known as Acadia, the confines of which were ex- pressly named by Henry IV. of France in his letters patent of November 3, 1603, over the country, territory