. The centennial history of Kutztown, Pennsylvania : celebrating the centennial of the incorporation of the borough, 1815-1915. icistDcr Zctt. The following- day an arni\as Air. OXeill termed it, went out to disj;,but Air. Biehl forbade it. ^^hat became ofall the objects found is not known ; how-ever, a few beads are in the ])ossession ofEugene Sharadin and a brass kettle andgun lock are in the collection of the lateDr. Cyrus Wanner. ()n Alay 23, KjOI, after the ])lace had been under cultivation more than 50 years,the burial site was re-located by permissionof mv uncle, Charles Deisher, superv
. The centennial history of Kutztown, Pennsylvania : celebrating the centennial of the incorporation of the borough, 1815-1915. icistDcr Zctt. The following- day an arni\as Air. OXeill termed it, went out to disj;,but Air. Biehl forbade it. ^^hat became ofall the objects found is not known ; how-ever, a few beads are in the ])ossession ofEugene Sharadin and a brass kettle andgun lock are in the collection of the lateDr. Cyrus Wanner. ()n Alay 23, KjOI, after the ])lace had been under cultivation more than 50 years,the burial site was re-located by permissionof mv uncle, Charles Deisher, supervised bythe writer and assisted by Frank A. Alertz, Chas. K. Deisher, WilliamWessncr, F. B. Druckenmiller, George , Charles A. Swo\er and John Stump, .Ir. Air. ( )XeilI in descriljing the locationhad been misled by the change of a drive-way iir wdodland road from the west sideof the log house to the east side. But thewriters father, John D. Deisher, remem-bered that in the fall of 1847 his father .^^^■i^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^HS^^^ ^• J p^^ ^^^^^Hl The Deisher Inui.^n 1ot CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF KUTZTOWN. CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF KUTZTOWN II had directed him to put a stick in the bung-hole of a barrel ancl go to Jacob Biehl tomake water cider. Coming up what wasthen an old woodland road, he noticed tothe left where the five boys had dug theprevious spring of the year. We dug forthree hours and being about ready to aban-don the project, I concluded to make obser-vations, by circling the place, set my eyeson a spot, walking up to it and making ascratch, calling Frank Rahn to start a shovel fulls of earth removed, re-vealed that I had scratched on the exactsoot of a grave. A necklace of white andblue beads, several long stemmed white claypipes, and a small iron cup were found justunder the cultivated soil. Four more graveswere found, some of which had been open-ed 54 years before. A necklace composedof colored glass beads and brass thimbles Harry VVeyl
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