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

the 1903 edition of the Lancaster City Directory notes a Charles Richardson, baker, 623 S. Queen Street. No bakeshop is recorded. "Doc" Welchans got his nickname because his father was an M. D. "Doc" and his mother, a nice woman, lived on N. Mulberry Street. He wound wall clocks and tore off

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