. The annals of the families of Caspar, Henry, Baltzer and George Spengler, who settled in York County, respectively, in 1729, 1732, 1732, and 1751 : with biographical and historical sketches, and memorabilia of contemporaneous local events. aryland, and was buried in the Antietam cemetery, located near thebloody battlefield of that name. His remains were recently taken and depositedin the Emmert lot in the graveyard near Funkstown, Washington county, Mary-land. He was grandfather of the distinguished lawyer, Henry L. Fisher, Esq., ofYork, from whose invaluable contribution on the Pennsylvania
. The annals of the families of Caspar, Henry, Baltzer and George Spengler, who settled in York County, respectively, in 1729, 1732, 1732, and 1751 : with biographical and historical sketches, and memorabilia of contemporaneous local events. aryland, and was buried in the Antietam cemetery, located near thebloody battlefield of that name. His remains were recently taken and depositedin the Emmert lot in the graveyard near Funkstown, Washington county, Mary-land. He was grandfather of the distinguished lawyer, Henry L. Fisher, Esq., ofYork, from whose invaluable contribution on the Pennsylvania Germans to Gib-sons York County History, many of the foregoing facts were obtained; andalso the great grandfather of Edward W. Spangler, Esq., who at the battle of An-tietam, in 1S62, fired eighty-eight rounds, and had the stock of his rifle shatteredby a Rebel bullet, within cannon shot of the sepulchre of his Revolutionary an-cestor. The following interesting notice of his life, character, anddeath, is from the York Republican, of August i6th, WORTHY CITIZEN AND HERO AT REST. Died—On Monday, the ist ult., at Mr. Emmerts, his son-in-law, near Hagers-town, Md., the aged and venerable Yost Harbaugh, Esq. Mr. Harbaugh was at-. THE LURKING SAVAGE. tacked by the cholera, and only survived this rapidly mortal disease four was born on the nth of October, old style, (22nd of October) 1741, therefore,he lived to the advanced age of eighty-nine years, nine months and 9 days. Thedeceased always lived on plain, frugal diet, the substantials of life, and was per- 280 CAPTAIN YOST HERBACH. fectly temperate and sober, free from all passion, and excessive induluence of everykind. He was an uneducated man, but possessed a native vigor of intellect, and alarge share of common sense, which gave him a conspicuous, as well as usefulstanding iti societv. Mr. Harbaugh well remembered when the Indians, whosename as a nation, has long since become extinct, had a town on the banks of
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