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Last
Updated:
1 OCT 2018
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� Henry
Deemer, 2018 |
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Documents Library
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Martha
JOHN's Sampler
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"Made In The 18th
Year Of Her Age
In The Year 1787"
A genealogical
record preserved in needlework.
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"The modest Meeting
House of which I write,
There on a flat topped hill's
commanding height,
The Meeting House where Friends
once used to meet...
Now fronting South, a gentle slope
extends
Just to the road. ...
In sight a farm home still mute
the view,...
And farther off the higher hills
arise
In massive form to meet beholding
eyes." |
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Under the pen of Eliza John,
the history of the John Family becomes the
concern of all members of the family. ..In
sketching her own life, [she] gives a true
and accurate reflection of' her day and her
people. She is typical Quaker---God-fearing
and God-loving. She had a firm faith in the
Life after Death, and she was never
frivolous or foolish, although she often
enjoyed the simple pleasures which came to
those serious minded Quaker folk. Life was
real and often grim, especially to one who
knew full well what her fate would be. Eliza
John knew that she was the victim of the
dread disease of cancer. Even as she tried
to find a cure, she must have realized that
the end was near, as the pain grew ever more
acute. The conflict between her strong soul
and her failing body is told briefly but
surely in the last word of her
Diary---"trouble".
NOTE: The Eliza
John Diary is also available at
Internet Archive (archive.org)
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History
and the John Family
Welsh and
Quaker background information
About Uwchlan and Lionville
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