Michael Weidler (1705-1770) was born in Kirchardt, Baden, Germany. He married Anna Elizabeth Klein in 1726. They came to America in 1727 and settled in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Descendants and relatives lived in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Missouri, Texas, California and elsewhere. Includes ancestors in Germany and Switzerland.
Volume 2 includes the following cemeteries by township: East Hempfield Township: Bear or Norman S. Landis Cemetery, Brubaker Cemetery, Vernon Charles Farm or Swarr Cemetery, East Petersburg Mennonite Cemetery, East Petersburg Union Cemetery, Foltz Cemetery, Graybill Cemetery, Grosh Graveyard, Kurtz or Schopp-Kurtz Cemetery, Landisville Mennonite Cemetery, Landisville Reformed Mennonite Cemetery, Isaac Miller Cemetery, Rohrer Farm Cemetery, Rohrerstown Cemetery, Rohrerstown Cemetery-Mennonite #1, Salunga Brethren Cemetery, Salunga Mennonite Cemetery. East Lampeter Township: Bird-in-Hand Methodist Cemetery, Mellinger Mennonite Cemetery, Harry Hoover or Denlinger Cemetery, St. John's United Methodist Church, formerly Paradise Cemetery, Siegrist Cemetery. Eden Township: Barr Graveyard, Herr Cemetery, Mount Eden Lutheran Cemetery, Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Quarryville Cemetery, Snavely Cemetery. Elizabeth Township: Brickerville Lutheran Cemetery, Brubaker Cemetery #1, Brubaker Cemetery #2, Frank Weber Farm Cemetery or Brubaker Monuments, Eby Cemetery, Hammer Creek Mennonite Cemetery, Old Zion's Reformed Church Cemetery, Stauffer or Zartman Mill Cemetery. Ephrata Township: Akon Lutheran, Becker Cemetery, Bergstrasse Cemetery, Ephrata Cemetery, Ephrata Cloisters or Mount Zion Cemetery, Erb Cemetery #1, Erb Cemetery #2, Gross Cemetery, Hahnstown United Zion Cemetery, Hershberger Cemetery, Kurtz Cemetery, Landis Cemetery, Mohler's Brethren Cemetery, Mohler Dunkard Cemetery, Kemper Family Cemetery, Scherck Cemetery, Wohlfahrt Cemetery. Fulton Township: Blake Cemetery, Park Shank Farm Cemetery, Old Boyd Plot, Bethel Methodist Episcopal Church Cemetery, Ballance Friends Cemetery, Hess Cemetery, Rock Springs Primitive Baptist Cemetery, Pleasant Grove Methodist Episcopal Cemetery, Little Britain Presbyterian (Old) Cemetery, Little Britain Presbyterian (New) Cemetery, Old Jackson Cemetery, Little Britain (Penn Hill) Friends Cemetery. A must for any Lancaster County, Pennsylvania researcher! Surname index to all names.
The rich and diverse arts practiced by the distinctive Mennonite communities in Europe, Pennsylvania, and Canada over a 300-year period are presented. A host of newly recognized Mennonite artisans of traditional quilts, furniture, wood carvings, and fraktur, are introduced, and many are displayed here in the hundreds of color images.
With Genealogy as Found in Early Dutch Church Records, State and Government Documents, Together with Sketches of Colonial Times, Old Log Cabin Days, Indian Wars, Pioneer Hardships, Social Customs, Dress and Mode of Living of the Early Forefathers