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following are surnames of persons, found within our databases, as having been either born, married or
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Christman; Heckendorn |
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Hauer; Kuffer; Silar; Weirich |
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BETHEL TOWNSHIP |
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Bethel Township is a township in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania,
United States. It is part of
the Lebanon County, PA Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 4,526 at the 2000
census. Fredericksburg is a census-designated place within the township. |
Bethel
Township was settled about 1737 and incorporated in May 1793 from
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HEBRON |
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The community of Hebron is
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HEBRON MORAVIANCHURCH & CEMETERY |
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On December 19, 1747, a congregation was formally organized at Hebron
and within a year it became the center of missionary activity in the Lebanon
Valley .
Services were held in the old blockhouse on the Quittapahilla, but need for a
church building was soon felt. On June 16, 1751, a two-story stone building
was dedicated to serve both as a residence and church. It was located at what
is now the northeast corner of Fifth Avenue
and Moravian Street .
On December 19, 1848, just 100 years after its formal organization,
the congregation moved to at new building located at lOth & Spring Streets
in the center of Lebanon .
On June 2, 1853, the parsonage built on the north side of the building
was completed. The church building was completely destroyed by fire on June
29, 1858. However the congregation |
with support from Lititz and other
congregations began construction of the second building that was completed
and consecrated on June 5, 1859. The congregation slowly grew
from fifty-four members in 1860 to nearly 100 in 1940. Since that time the
membership has more than doubled. In 1981,
the parsonage, which had served Moravian pastors since 1853, was converted
into a Christian <Education
Building
and offices and a new parsonage was purchased on Poplar
Street . Nearly 260 years from its beginnings, the <Lebanon
Township .
The new church was built in 2005 and was dedicated and used for the first
time early in 2006. Moravian
Church
of Lebanon re-located for a second time in its
history to its present locating 1115 Birch Road
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HILL CHURCH |
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In 1743 the first church organizers in all of what is now Lebanon
county, Rev. John Casper Stoever leader of the local Lutheran congregation
and Rev. John Conrad Tempelman the
pastor of the Reformed congregation united the two groups to erect a Union
Church, to be known as the Berg Kirche, or Hill Church. This
church, a log building, was dedicated Sunday, August 12, 1744. The little log
church was without a floor in it other than the one of baked clay, and seats
of logs hewn on two sides.
Prior to 1752 the land held by the two congregations was held by the
mere right of occupation, but in that year 65 acres and 94 perches were
surveyed. In 1837, by right of a
special Act of the Pennsylvania Assembly, 59 acres and 94 perches of the original 65 acres and 94 perches were sold
at public sale, the money realized in
that way, as conditioned by said Act of Assembly, to be used in erecting a new church, leaving six acres
that could not be disposed of, and had to be reserved for the church premises and burial purposes.
In 1858 the church yard fence was placed further outwards to the north, and
the new enclosed ground was laid out into burial lots which then could be sold,
but only to members of one or the other congregations. In 1868 the burial
ground was again enlarged so as to include the entire six acres, and the
whole converted into a public cemetery, known as the Hill Church Cemetery,
open to any and all buyers.
The Lutheran Church Book was opened in 1743, and the Reformed Church
Book in 1745, but beyond entries of
births, baptisms, marriages, communion lists and death records, they contain
very little bearing on circumstances and events in either of the congregations. |
In 1789 the congregations united in repairing, and enlarging the
building of 1744. The congregations
had grown larger in numbers due to the near-by settlements such as Annville
and Lebanon that had come into existence during the preceding 45 years.
By joint action of the two congregations a new church building was
erected in 1837. This was a brick
structure, built very closely to where stood the old but dilapidated church of
1744. Its cornerstone was laid on August 26, 1837, and the church was
dedicated September 16, 1838. In
the year 1902 the Hill Reformed congregation undertook to act in conjunction
with the Hill Lutheran congregation to repair and renovate the jointly held
church building erected by them in 1837.
Not succeeding in this, the Reformed congregation secured a tract of
two acres of land, situated about 500
yards farther north and away from the 1837 building, along a main road, called the Gravel Hill
Road, and proceeded to erect thereon a church building of its own. However, by this action they did not
surrender, or cede, in any way its half right in the old church building and
in the Hill Church Cemetery. This new
church was a handsome structure, its walls of red sandstone, its interior in
line with modern church furnishings, erected at a cost of about $10,000. The
cornerstone was laid Sunday, August 9, 1903, and the church dedicated Sunday,
July 24, 1904. The church had a main
room with a seating capacity of about 300, and a Sunday School annex of about
150 capacity. The windows of the building are all of finely stained glass,
and the main room is supplied with a $1200 pipe organ. The congregation
numbers 112 "communicant" members, and the Sunday School 139
members. |
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LEBANON |
VA Medical Center at 1700 South Lincoln
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that was then named
"Steitz Creek". The Light patriarchs built an Indian Fort and named
it "Light's Fort" during this time. The town was laid out in 1753
and incorporated as a borough on February
20, 1821 and became a city on November
25, 1885. In 1900, 17,628 people lived in Lebanon; in 1910, 19,240 people lived there; in 1920, 24,643 people lived there; and in 1940, 27,206 people lived in Lebanon, Pennsylvania.
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Tulpehocken
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Trinity Tuplehocken Reformed
Congregation is located in Jackson Township, which lies in the eastern region
of Lebanon County. The church was organized in 1727 by Tulpehocken settlers.
Since 1745, one red rose has been paid annually by the Church |
to the heirs of Caspar
Wistar as rental for the land granted by him for erection of the second place
of worship. Since 1902, a white rose,
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Lebanon County, Pennsylvania Gazetteer of Localities The list below will assist
in your research regarding the matching of your ancestors birth, marriage,
death dates and in what locality of this county these events may have
occurred. Source: Wikipedia |
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The red star in the map below designates the location of
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