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Woman’s Relief Corps Purchases Cemetery Plot

| February 3, 2012

The following article appeared in the Lykens Standard, 22 August 1902: WOMAN’S RELIEF CORPS LYKENS — The Woman’s relief Corps of this place is not a large body, but notwithstanding they have labored for many years, and with good results, to advance the standard of patriotism and loyalty to country and to instill the belief […]

Church of the Brethren Cemetery, Upper Paxton Township – Part 2

| December 23, 2011

Church of the Brethren Cemetery is located just north of Route 209 in Upper Paxton Township.  In traveling west from Rife, the Free Grace Church appears on the left and within a short distance, on the other side of the road, there is a sign for Keefer’s Road.  Turn right at Keefer’s Road and the […]

Church of the Brethren Cemetery, Upper Paxton Township – Part 1

| December 22, 2011

Church of the Brethren Cemetery is located just north of Route 209 in Upper Paxton Township.  In traveling west from Rife, the Free Grace Church appears on the left and within a short distance, on the other side of the road, there is a sign for Keefer’s Road.  Turn right at Keefer’s Road and the […]

Zion (Hoover’s) Church and Cemetery, Rife – Part 2

| December 14, 2011

Zion’s Lutheran and German Reformed Church and Cemetery, also known as Hoover‘s Church, is located just north of Route 209 in Rife, Upper Paxton Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania.  Rife is a small village located to the west of Elizabethville.  Today, the church is known as Zion Lutheran Church and its pastor is Rev. Beth George.  […]

Zion (Hoover’s) Church and Cemetery, Rife – Part 1

| December 13, 2011

Zion’s Lutheran and German Reformed Church and Cemetery, also known as Hoover‘s Church, is located just north of Route 209 in Rife, Upper Paxton Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania.  Rife is a small village located to the west of Elizabethville.  Today, the church is known as Zion Lutheran Church and its pastor is Rev. Beth George.  […]