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Title: Ancient and historic landmarks in the Lebanon Valley
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Croll, P. C. (Philip Columbus), 1852-1949
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Publisher: Philadelphia : Lutheran Publication Society
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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Berks county, headed by its energetic Superintendent,Prof. W. M. Zechman, to put up at an early day a suit-able monument to Weisers honor in the city of Read-ing. This movement has been seconded by the Boardof Trade of Reading, and by the Pennsylvania-GermanSociety at its last annual meeting. It thus bids fairsoon to be realized. The Weiser burial plot is a patch of ground aboutforty feet square, not more than fifty yards removedfrom the old house, on a slight elevation of ground inthe midst of a thriving orchard of apple trees. Here lieburied possibly a dozen different members of the Weiserfamily, together with a few Indians. Only the tomb-stone of Conrad and his wife (rather that of the wife ofa sou by the same name, as dates do not correspond withthe marriao^e of the elder Conrad with his Anna Eva, 22 LANDMARKS IN THE LEBANON VALLEY. whom tradition will make out to have been a squaw)are found remaining. Other graves are marked bybroken or well-nigh buried lime-stone slabs. The epi-
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CONRAD WCISER S GRAVE. taph on Mr. Weisers tombstone, recently retraced fromits fading indistinctness under the ravages of FatherTimes influences for nearly a century and a half, readsfollows: CONRAD WEISERS HOMESTEAD AND GRAVE. 23 Dieses ist die Rube Staette des weyl Ehreii Geachten M. CON- RADI WEISERS. Der- selbige GebohreN 1696 D. 2 November in ASTAET im Amt HerreNBerg, in Wit- tenberger DANDE. Und Gestorben 1760 D. 13 Julius. Ist Alt Worden 64 Jahr 3 M. 3 W. 6 T. This grave has been visited by many men and womensince that eminent man was buried here, 134 years ago.Hither the illustrious families of Weiser and Muhlen-berg and Shulze (including the once Governor of Penn-sylvania) and other descendants of fame have made theirpilgrimages in respect to a worthy sire. But perhapsthe most illustrious personage that ever visited the spotwas President George Washington, who, during hissecond term of office, visited Womelsdorf and thisgrave, coming from Philadelphia. It w^as on November13

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