Stones Of Faith - Pennsylvania Germans and their Gravestones

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Emanuel's Evangelical Lutheran Church, Emanuelsville,
Moore Township, Northampton Co. PA - Group 1

Photos Copyright: Richard Mammana

Fronica Herbster Stone
Fronica Herbster (Armbrust)
1728 - 1773		 Fronica Herbster Stone
Reverse of Fronica
Herbster stone

Text in Heart reads: F. C. married to Martin Herbster 1753

Stone reads (in part):
Fronica Ambrustin
is G(eborn) A(nno) 1728
"My feeble body sleeps in the earth. It sleeps until my Friend awakens it. The ashes will become like the sun now covered by the dark night. With joy it will be resurrected, and to the wedding go, united with me."

Group 1

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