Pine Grove Township in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania — The American Northeast (Mid-Atlantic)

Jacobs Church Pioneer and Revolutionary War Memorial

Photographed by William Fischer, Jr., November 12, 2024

1. Jacobs Church Pioneer and Revolutionary War Memorial Marker

Inscription.
In Memory of
the Early Settlers of Jacobs Church
and of the Revolutionary Soldiers
who lie buried here

5th Battalion Berk's Co. Militia
Private Burkhart Bohr • Private Peter Deefenbach • Private George Emerich
Private George Felty • Private Henry Gebhart • Lt. John German
Private Jacob Kayser • Private Jacob Kramer • Private Simon Lengel
Private John Ream • Private Jacob Smeltzer • Private Jacob Smith

6th Battalion Berk's Co. Militia
Private Daniel Angst • Private John Beuchler • Private Peter Beuchler
2nd Lt. Peter Bressler • Private William Felty • 1st Lt. John Stine, Sr.
Private John Stine, Jr., Court Martial Office

1st Battalion Lancaster Co. Militia
Private John Minnig • Private Daniel Zerbe

Northampton Militia
Private John Brenner • Private John Shropp

4th Battalion Berk's Co. Militia
Private John Hubler • Ensign John Reed

2nd Battalion Berk's Co. Militia
1st Lt. Jacob Rehrer

Berk's Co. Militia
Wagon Master General Leonard Reed

1st Battalion Berk's Co. Militia
Ensign Jacob Stine

Erected 1936 by Mahantongo Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution.

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Location. 40° 32.133′ N, 76° 24.936′ W. Memorial is near Pine Grove, Pennsylvania, in Schuylkill County. It is in Pine Grove Township. It is on Suedberg Road (Pennsylvania Route 443), on the left when traveling east. Monument is on the Jacobs Lutheran Church grounds. Touch for map. Memorial is at or near this postal address: 316 Suedberg Road, Pine Grove PA 17963, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this memorial is in Pennsylvania’s Anthracite Coal Region.

It is also in the American Northeast,

in the Mid-Atlantic,

in Appalachia,

and specifically in Northern Appalachia. Globally, it is in North America,

the Western Hemisphere,

the Western World,

and the Anglosphere.

Historically, it finds itself in what was once the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy

and also one of the original Thirteen Colonies.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 2 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies:

Jacobs Church Pioneer and Revolutionary War Memorial image. Click for full size.

Photographed by William Fischer, Jr., November 12, 2024

2. Jacobs Church Pioneer and Revolutionary War Memorial

In God We Trust (approx. 1.6 miles away); Buried Here (approx. 1.6 miles away); Site of the 1st Reformed-Lutheran Church (approx. 1.6 miles away); Boyer Home (approx. 1.7 miles away); Conrad Richter (approx. 1.8 miles away); M60A3 MBT (approx. 1.8 miles away); Jacob Gunkel's Tavern (approx. 1.9 miles away); Veterans Memorial (approx. 1.9 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Pine Grove.

Jacobs Lutheran Church image. Click for full size.

Photographed by William Fischer, Jr., November 12, 2024

3. Jacobs Lutheran Church

Credits. This page was last revised on November 17, 2024. It was originally submitted on November 17, 2024, by William Fischer, Jr. of Reynoldsburg, Ohio. This page has been viewed 238 times since then and 35 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3. submitted on November 17, 2024, by William Fischer, Jr. of Reynoldsburg, Ohio.