George
Neisser (1715-1784)
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Bethlehem at the end of June 1741. He encassed the document placed in the cornerstone of the Gemeinhaus, and was tehe first school-master of Bethlehem, when the school was opened in May, 1742, -- as he was also the first diarist and the postmaster, who had charge of the mail sent to and received from the Brother who rendered a like service in Philadelphia. In 1745, Feb. 14, he married Catherine Theodora Medter. Ordained a deacon in Bethlehem by John d Watteville, Spangenberg and Cammerhof on Oct. 27, 1748, he served in the pastorate of various congregatoins, last of all in Philadelphia, where he died on November 1, 1784. He was buried in the Brethren's Cemetery, Franklin and Vine Sts. then the (church and) cemetery was sold in the Fall of 1886, and the remains yet in the graves reintered elsewhere, those of George Neisser wre brought to Bethlehem and reinterred in October in the Old Graveyard in Bethlehem - grave no. 18, row 3. Page 1 | 2 |
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