Cemeteries: Becker Family Cemetery, Clay Township, Lancaster County, PA

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Title of Journal:  Genealogy
                   Volume 1, No. 23, June 1912
                   Page 179
Title of Article:  Becker Family Cemetery


A Pennsylvania Family Graveyard
By S. H. Flickinger

The following inscriptions are from tombstones in the Becker family graveyard on the Martin Becker farm in Clay township, Lancaster county, Penn.

Eleven graves are noticeable that have no inscriptions, only limestone markers at head and foot of the grave.


Name               Born       Died               Age             Comments

Benjamin E. Becker 12/31/1848 03/07/1849                         Son of John and Elizabeth Becker   
Daughter Becker    07/27/1863 07/27/1863                         Daughter of Marten and Hannah Becker
Elizabeth Becker   02/07/1802 01/20/1879                         Wife of Johannes
Heinrich Becker    07/23/1771 08/24/1839         68-1-1
Isaac Becker       01/29/1838 07/06/1839                         Son of Johannes and Elizabeth
Johannes Becker    10/12/1797 08/26/1870
Maria Becker                  XXX JUN., MDCCLXL  LIX VIIL, XD(?) Almost illegible
Martin Becker      01/17/1769 01/18/1844
Martin Becker      10/20/1806 12/06/1806
Peter Becker       08/10/1724 10/13/1802         78-2-3
Peter Becker       02/20/1758 09/30/1820         62-7-10
Samuel Becker      07/25/1829 04/21/1839                         Son of Johannes and Elizabeth
Sarah Becker       07/28/1824 07/14/1839                         Daughter of Johannes and Elizabeth
Solomon Becker     10/25/1795 05/07/1798
Susanna Becker     02/05/1769 02/10/1839                         Wife of Martin Becker
Valentine Becker   04/22/1763 03/11/1825         62-10-22
Elizabeth Haffly   09/19/1776 04/25/1855                         Wife of Jacob
Polly Haffly       07/29/1803 01/19/1832
Jacob Heaffly      12/26/1773 10/11/1850         77-9-16
Joseph Heaffly     09/20/1816 10/30/1863         47-1-10
Jacob Heise        03/15/1845 02/05/1847                         Son of Daniel and Esabel Heise
Rachel Heisey      02/04/1814 04/24/1865                         Wife of Daniel Heisey; nee Haffli
Susanna Heisey     09/11/1853 11/14/1856                         Daughter of Daniel and Rachel Heisey
Son Mellinger      03/03/1857 03/03/1857                         Son of Jacob & Maria Mellinger 
                                                                 (Sohlein von)
Elizabeth Paul     02/23/1827 06/09/1832                         Daughter of Wilhelm H. & Susanna Paul
Isaac Paul         01/13/1829 12/16/1836                         Son of W.H. & Susanna Paul, nee Hefley
Noa Scherk         08/12/1812 09/  /1812