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    <persname>Miss Eugenia M. Henry</persname>, <placename>Madison, Conn.</placename>
    <persname>Miss Georgene W. Henry</persname>, <placename>Madison, Conn.</placename>
   <persname> Dr. Thomas H. A. Stites</persname> and wife, <placename>Hamburg Sanatarium, Pa.</placename>
   <persname> Mr. Robert W. Henry</persname>, <placename>Nazareth, Pa.</placename>
   <persname> Mr. Clarence A. Wolle</persname>, <placename>Bethlehem, Pa.</placename>

    Inscription on the Moravian Memorial, erected <date>1917-1918</date> by
the Moravian Church of <placename>Lancaster, Pa., </placename>in memory of members
previously interred in the original Prince Street Cemetery, <placename>Lan-
caster, Pa., </placename>sold in <date>1917</date>. Remains re-interred in group on this
spot:
Moravian
Here Lie the Remains
Disinterred from Prince
Street Cemetery
<date>April, 1917</date>
Names Recorded 
in
Moravian Church Archives

Memorial Shaft
To the Memory of
<persname>John Joseph Henry</persname>, of <placename>Lancaster, Pa.</placename>
Second Son of
<persname>William and Ann Wood Henry</persname>
<date>Nov. 4, 1758
April 15, 1811</date>

    (This stone originally erected at his grave in the Moravian Cemetery
on <placename>Prince Street, Lancaster, Pa., </placename>and at the cost of his direct descendant,
<persname>Miss Mary Buckley</persname>, of <placename>Chesnut Hill, Philadelphia, Pa., </placename>restored and re-
moved, <date>1918</date>, to this new Moravian burial place.)

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The Old Moravian Cemetery
At <placename>Lancaster, Pa.</placename>
<emph>From The Lancaster New Era, <date>1917</date>.</emph>
    "Tall sycamores and maples spread their aged boughs above the
graves of the ancient Moravian Cemetery on <placename>North Prince Street</placename>
near <placename>Chestnut</placename>. There, wrapped in their dreamless sleep, rest many
dignitaries of <placename>Old Lancaster</placename>. On the low monuments and pros-
trate slabs appear the names of such old-time worthies as the
<persname>Henrys, De Huffs, Graeffs, Weidels, Hobsons, Demuths, Carpen-
ters, Ebermans</persname>, and others. But soon this God's acre may be only
a memory.
    No more distinguished persons are buried there than the two
<persname>Henrys</persname>, father and son. Near the west end of the main walk of
the graveyard, running east and west, is the tomb of <persname>Col. William
Henry</persname>, of Revolutionary fame, who died in the year <date>1786</date>. Close
to <placename>Prince Street</placename>, with the open Bible carved upon his monument,
is the grave of <persname>Judge John Joseph Henry</persname>, who died in the year
<date>1811</date>-illustrious sire. Theirs is a most interesting story-one of
which their home town may well feel proud. During long and
useful careers they reflected great credit upon the <placename>Lancaster</placename> of
more than a century ago." ......

    <persname>William Henry</persname>, of <placename>Lancaster, Pa., </placename>was born at the Henry home-
stead, in <placename>Chester County, Province of Pennsylvania</placename>, <date>May 19, 1729</date>,
and during the active period of his life was prominently identi-
fied with the leading men of the Colonial and Revolutionary years. 
    His grandparents, <persname>Robert and Mary Ann Henry</persname>, were of Scotch
ancestry, and came to <placename>America</placename> in <date>1722</date> with their three sons, <persname>John,
Robert and James</persname>, taking up a tract of land in <placename>West Caln Town-
ship, Chester County, Pa.</placename>
    Here both parents died the same year, <date>1735</date>, and were buried at
Boyd's Presbyterian Meeting House. Of the sons, <persname>James</persname> married