Ancient and historic landmarks in the Lebanon Valley . ANOTHER VIEW OF SAEEM EUTHERAN CHURCH, EEBAXON, PA. be glad to give a transcript of many old tombstone in-scriptions found here, but we have space for but a few. 274 LANDMARKS IN THE LEBANON VALLEY. Some of the oldest have so faded that they are no longerleo^ible. It is believed that such an one marks thegrave of Mr. George Steitz ; for upon the most reliabletradition of his descendants, despite any former supposi-tion to the contrary, it is generally believed that thisfounder of our town, who died in 1769, lies buried great-great
Ancient and historic landmarks in the Lebanon Valley . ANOTHER VIEW OF SAEEM EUTHERAN CHURCH, EEBAXON, PA. be glad to give a transcript of many old tombstone in-scriptions found here, but we have space for but a few. 274 LANDMARKS IN THE LEBANON VALLEY. Some of the oldest have so faded that they are no longerleo^ible. It is believed that such an one marks thegrave of Mr. George Steitz ; for upon the most reliabletradition of his descendants, despite any former supposi-tion to the contrary, it is generally believed that thisfounder of our town, who died in 1769, lies buried great-great-grand-daughter, Mrs. Allen D. HofFer,told the author that she remembers having visited inher childhood this old graveyard in company with hergrandmother, who used to point out an unmarked gravenear the western wall as the spot where grandfatherSteitz was buried. But even this is only tradition, how-ever reliable. Can it be that this old German founder oflyebanon was, like the great leader and lawgiver of Israel,buried by the angels of God out of hum
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