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Archive

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Collection
Old Chestnut Level Presbyterian Cemetery Tombstone Rubbings
Title
Old Chestnut Level Presbyterian Cemetery Tombstone Rubbings
Object ID
MG0575
Date Range
No date
alphabetical order, but are color-coded to represent six decades from 1720-1776. The index shows the name on the gravestone and then row and lot number in the cemetery. A database is available in the library with all information from the rubbings and index. There are 111 names. Creator: Caruthers, Elizabeth G
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Collection
Old Chestnut Level Presbyterian Cemetery Tombstone Rubbings
Title
Old Chestnut Level Presbyterian Cemetery Tombstone Rubbings
Description
This collection contains gravestone rubbings of all graves before and including 1776 at Old Chestnut Level Presbyterian Cemetery, compiled by Elizabeth G. Caruthers in October 1967. The gravestones are all of Peach Bottom Slate, unless otherwise indicated. The rubbings have been placed in alphabetical order, but are color-coded to represent six decades from 1720-1776. The index shows the name on the gravestone and then row and lot number in the cemetery. A database is available in the library with all information from the rubbings and index. There are 111 names.
Date Range
No date
Creation Date
Unknown
Creator
Caruthers, Elizabeth G.
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Storage Room
Archives South
Storage Wall
Side 12
People
Caruthers, Elizabeth G.
Subjects
Sepulchral monuments
Search Terms
Cemeteries
Chestnut Level, Drumore Twp.
Finding aids
Gravestone rubbings
Gravestones
Manuscript groups
Old Chestnut Level Presbyterian Cemetery
Peach Bottom slate
Slate
Extent
Rubbings and index
Object Name
Archive
Language
English
Object ID
MG0575
Location of Originals
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Notes
Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Old Chestnut Level Presbyterian Cemetery Tombstone Rubbings (MG0575), LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Access Conditions / Restrictions
Patrons must use the database in the Research Center. Collection may not be used due to its extremely fragile condition.
Copyright
Collection may not be photocopied. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at research@lancasterhistory.org.
Credit
Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Classification
MG0575
Description Level
Fonds
Custodial History
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Covered bridges

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo16676
Author
Caruthers, Elizabeth Gipe.
Date of Publication
[1979?]
Call Number
624 C326
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Responsibility
by Elizabeth Gipe Caruthers and William W. Mussmann.
Author
Caruthers, Elizabeth Gipe.
Place of Publication
York, Pa
Publisher
York Graphic Services, Inc.,
Date of Publication
[1979?]
Physical Description
71, [1] p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Notes
Limited edition of 4000 copies.
Subjects
Covered bridges - United States.
Additional Author
Mussmann, William W.,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
624 C326
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Elias McMellen--forgotten man

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Author
Caruthers, Elizabeth Gipe.
Date of Publication
1981
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Responsibility
by Elizabeth Gipe Caruthers.
Author
Caruthers, Elizabeth Gipe.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1981
Physical Description
16-29 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 85, no. 1
Subjects
McMellen, Elias, - 1839-1916.
Contained In
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 85, number 1 (1981), p. 16-29Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.85
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Oral History

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Collection
Oral History Collection
Object ID
OH0067
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Collection
Oral History Collection
Description
Operation Remember
Memories of Duke St. etc.
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
People
Caruthers, Elizabeth
Narrator
Caruthers, Elizabeth
Subcategory
Need to Classify
Subjects
Oral history
Search Terms
Duke Street
Oral histories
Object Name
Oral History
Length of Interview
00:26:05
Language
English
Condition
Fair
Object ID
OH0067
Access Conditions / Restrictions
Request at Reference Desk; photocopy made by staff member.
Other Numbers
#5A, B
Description Level
Item
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Painting

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Collection
Fine Arts Collection: Paintings
Title
Kepler Lodge
Object ID
2006.015.002
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Collection
Fine Arts Collection: Paintings
Title
Kepler Lodge
Description
Painting of Kepler Lodge, by Mary Susan Herr Weirsham,
Written in pen on back: "At my death, this is to go to my cousin, Susan Raub. (Ditty's daughter) Signed June 4, 1993 by Elizabeth Caruthers.
Typewritten and attached to back:
Artist: Mary Susan Herr Weirsham painted this picture in the 1950's & made her living selling her paintings. The artist who was six feet tall and hated it, crouched to seem less tall & gave this painting to her cousin Betty (Elizabeth Gerhardt Gipe Caruthers) as both loved their summer Girl's camp, Kepler Lodge, located 4 mi from Pequea, Pa. on Rt. 324 which was built in the 1700's (period of Hans Herr House) as the Master's mansion of an iron foundry.
Mary Sue paints herself on the left and Betty, with red hair, on the right. The girls, whose mothers were first cousins, joyously attended this camp from about age 9-16. Mary Sue, who went to Europe as a child as her parents did well, had great stories to tell Betty like pouring water on passengers as they went down the aisle of a train.
One year at camp, Betty came running down the hill, leaping over the clasped outstretched arms of two standing friends who were at the pool's edge. This time Betty hit the sloped side of the cement pool & broke her nose. While a hospital in Lancaster put one stitch in the nose, she hope her mother wouldn't find out.
Another later year, working as a "kitchen police" ( which "consisted of washing dishes & doing all the thing you do in the kitchen for 60-80 girls") on late eveing (sic) when "we weren't too tired, we went "skinny dipping" in the same infamous pool. Someone noticed the nearby farmer and all his sons sitting on their porch watching us in the bright moonlight." We all fled and were thoroughly embarrassed. The put a crimp in our skinny dipping."
Betty Gipe Caruthers was born 11/17/(19)14. Betty was a couple of years older than Mary Sue, although Mary Sue was 'bigger."--These notes taken down by a friend in June 1993. Although the families of the two girls were at odds, the two girls were fast friends.
Year Range From
1950
Year Range To
1959
Creator
Weirsham, Mary Susan Herr
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Storage Room
DAC
Storage Wall
Island 5
Storage Cabinet
Unit 43
Storage Shelf
Shelf 2
Storage Drawer
Bin 2-G
People
Caruthers, Elizabeth
Caruthers, Elizabeth Gerhardt Gipe
Raub, Susan
Weirsham, Mary Susan Herr
Subcategory
Art
Search Terms
Kepler Lodge
Object Name
Painting
Length (cm)
30.48
Length (ft)
1
Length (in)
12
Width (cm)
40.64
Width (ft)
1.3333333333
Width (in)
16
Dimension Details
Framed: 17" x 13"
Condition
Good
Condition Notes
Foxing on back.
Object ID
2006.015.002
Accession Number
2006.015
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