Fraktur Epitaph for Meyer Family, (painting).

Fraktur Epitaph for Meyer Family, (painting).

Hunsicker, Isaac Z., 1803-1870, painter.

Fraktur Epitaph for Meyer Family, (painting).

The fraktur epitaph is a record for Anna H. Meyer (1829-1858), wife of Jacob Cassel, and daughter of John and Marie Meyer. It is also a record for her brother, Samuel K. Meyer (1827-1855). There is a poem at the bottom, and the initials I.Z.H. The colors are black and red.

Primitive -- Fractur

Homage -- Cassel, Jacob, Mrs. (Anna H. Meyer)

Homage -- Meyer, Samuel K.

Mennonite Historians of Eastern Pennsylvania, Mennonite Heritage Center, 565 Yoder Road, P.O. Box 82, Harleysville, Pennsylvania 19438 Accession Number: 88-8-1

Acquired from Kulp, Linneaus F., Harleysville, Pennsylvania 1975.

The epitaph was created about 1858 for the family of John Meyer (1799-1877) and Mary Kulp Meyer (1800-1868) of Towamencin Township, Montgomery County. Their two children, Anna H. Meyer (1829-1958) wife of Jacob Cassel, and her brother, Samuel K. Meyer (1827-1855), both died young. This piece was passed down in the family of their sister Lydia K. Meyer (1839-?) who married William G. Fretz, to their daughter, Annie Freed (1867-?) who married Abraham C. Kulp, to their son, Linneaus F. Kulp (1893-1981).

Mennonite Historians of Eastern Pennsylvania, 1988.

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