Ziegler’s Church was a log building erected about 1795, and was the first church building in that vicinity for the joint use of the German Reformed and Lutheran congregations. The Lutheran congregation being the stronger absorbed the Reformed, and continued to worship in the old church until 1832. In that year the congregation abandoned the church and erected a new one in Newville, incorporated as Zion’s Lutheran Church. The old graveyard, unlike many, is kept in excellent condition from the income of a fund realized from the sale of the old church building.

Asper, George, b. June, 1787; d. Nov. 13, 1865.
Asper, Salome, b. Jan.. 1, 1797: d. October 28, 1871.
Allman, Christopher, b. 1742; d. May 2,1806.
Christlieb, Solomon, b. Feb. 18, 1797; d.May 11, 1850.
Christlieb, Isaac, b. March 27, 1791; d. May 22, 1858.
Christlieb, George, b. May 29, 1784; d. Jan, 6, 1846.
Christlieb, Catharine, b. 1744; d. Oct. 30, 1837.
Chrietlieb, Charles, b. June 1, 1750; d. June 27, 1837.
Diehl, Joseph, b. Jan. 16, 1796, d. Oct. 9, 1859.
Diehl, Susanna, wife of Joseph, b. April 14, 1793: d. May 27, 1847
Diel, Elizabeth, b. 1775; d. Feb. 1815.
Diel. Peter, b. 1753; d. 1812.
Dunlap, Anna, wife of Thomas, b. 1794; d. March 15. 1855.
Failor, Christian, b. July 14, 1772; d. Jan. 16, 1845.
Failor, Christina, wife of Christian, b. Jan. 15. 1779; d. April 23, 1862.
Gilmore, John, b. April, 1798; d. Aug. 13, 1826.
Giveler, Henry, b. Jan. 22,1773; d. March 31, 1835.
Heberlig, Barbara, wife of John, b. Oct. 1801; d. Nov. 11, 1827.
Hemminger, Jacob, b. Oct. 9, 1765; d. April 1, 1830.
Memminger, Susan, wife of Jacob, b. Aug. 14, 1778: d. May 23. 1863.
McDermond, Henry, b. 1792; d. March 13, 1857.
McDermond, Mary, wife of Henry, b. 1796: d. May 9. 1862.
Mentzer, Frederick, b. 1790; d. Sept. 3, 1864.
Mentzer, Catharine, wife of Fred, b. April 18, 1777; d. July 2, 1860.
Myers, Jacob, b. Aug. 19, 1761; d. Aug. 28, 1838.
Myers, Margaret, wife of Jacob, b. 1753; d. Oct. 28, 1834.
Myers, John. b. Nov. 9, 1781: d. Sept 14, 1823
Roush, Jacob, b. 1788; d. March 25, 1861.
Roush, Elizabeth, wife of Jacob, b April 10, 1784; d. March 25, 1861.
Ramp, Samuel, b. Sept. 1793; d. April 20,
Ramp, Elizabeth, b. Dec. 3, 1794 d March 23, 1868.
Ramp, Philip, b. Aug. 10, 1760; d. Oct. 31, 1843.
Ramp, Elizabeth, b. Dec. 24, 1758; d. Dec. 20. 1835.
Stoneberger, Elizabeth, b. 1767; d. Aug. 10, 1837.
Wise, Elizabeth, b. 1772; d. Aug. 15, 1840.
Zeigler, John, b. June, 1787; d. April 29, 1863.
Zeigler, Catharine, b. March 1787; d. Oct. 14, 1856.

G. E. SWOPE.
Newville, Pa.

SOURCE:  Page(s) 218-219:  Notes and Queries: Historical, Biographical and Genealogical, Relating Chiefly to Interior Pennsylvania By William Henry Egle, Pennsylvania State Library; Harrisburg publishing company, 1898

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