Memories by Beatrice Thompson Moyer

Daughter Of Abraham Thompson, Granddaughter Of Alexander Thompson The only memory I have of my daddy was at age 4 ½. That year 1911, I cut my chin on the wooden tub. My daddy always let me wash his back when he knelt at the tub to start his bath after a day of work in...

The Family That Prays Together

The Kuntz & Rauch Families of West Hanover Does prayer work? Well, these two families put it to the test. They found that families that pray together build eternal relationships built on a foundation of strength, comfort, and love, and prayer was the bedrock of...

Elijah Anderson & M. Catherine Bordner

Elijah Anderson and Catherine Bordner were lifelong residents of what would become Snyder County in Pennsylvania. Their lives spanned the greater part of the nineteenth century and, except for Elijah’s service in the Civil War, they rarely if ever felt the need to...

The Battles of Newbattle

The Stoddart & Muckle Families of Newbattle Battles! For the peasants of Newbattle, every day was a fight against the domination of insatiable lairds, merciless coal masters, disease, cruel weather, and hunger. Add to this the ever-present wars and religious...

Samuel Peters & Mary A. Swartz

Samuel was the first born of five children of Leonard Peters and Susan Enders of Dauphin County. Both families are of German ancestry. Samuel was followed by brother John, and a sisters Margaret and Barbara. Samuel’s father, Leonard, was born and lived in Dauphin...