. The Pennsylvania-German : devoted to the history, biography, genealogy, poetry, folk-lore and general interests of the Pennsylvania Germans and their descendants. f John Lewis Roth. Roths name has gone down in his-tory. He was born July 4, 1773. in thecounty of Tuscarawas, at the historictown of Gnadcnhutten. the first whitechild born in the state of Ohio. Misfather Rev. Roth was a Moravian mis-sionary and great ceremony attendedthe announcement of birth, and hischristening by David Zeisberger. thefamous old Moravian missionaryamong the Delaware Indians of theTuscarawas Valley, upon the very
. The Pennsylvania-German : devoted to the history, biography, genealogy, poetry, folk-lore and general interests of the Pennsylvania Germans and their descendants. f John Lewis Roth. Roths name has gone down in his-tory. He was born July 4, 1773. in thecounty of Tuscarawas, at the historictown of Gnadcnhutten. the first whitechild born in the state of Ohio. Misfather Rev. Roth was a Moravian mis-sionary and great ceremony attendedthe announcement of birth, and hischristening by David Zeisberger. thefamous old Moravian missionaryamong the Delaware Indians of theTuscarawas Valley, upon the very dayof the missionarys arrival from Penn-sylvania, was an event made memor- able in the annals of the MoravianChurch and of the Buckeye state. At the outbreak of Lord DunmoresWar, great uneasiness prevailedamong the Indians. Upon Mission-ary Zeisbergers advice Rev. Rothtook his wife and baby and returned toBethlehem until the war clouds blewover. His parents lived subsequentlyat Mt. Joy, York, and Hebron. Ineach place his father was pastor of Mo-ravian churches. The father died atYork, Pa. July 22. 1791. His motherpassed away at Nazareth, Feb. 5, 1805. d@ Hi. * 1 • GEORGE W©LFGovernor of Pennsylvania, IS29-MS John Lewis Roth was educated atNazareth Hall, a member of the firstclass that was graduated there, theclass oi 1785. Nothing is known of himuntil suddenly he turns up on a farmnear Nazareth, meanwhile havingbeen married. He died at Bath,where he had moved some years prior,on September 25, 1841. aged 68 years2 mouths and 21 days. The Rev. An- gustus Fox, pastor of the Lutheranchurch of which Roth was a memberat his death, conducted the funeral. But we cannot linger. Passing theBachman, Keim, and Edelman farms,and climbing another hill we come tothe Rice homestead now occupied byAmandus Dilcher. Here are seen thecatalpa and chestnut in full bloom andfields of rye and wheat ready for har-vesting. This, apparently, is the high-est point in Moore township south ofthe mountai
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