Louis Gustavus Eggers and Mrs. Elizabeth Kettering

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Husband Louis Gustavus Eggers ¹

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            AKA: Rev. Lewis G. Eggers 2
           Born: 14 Feb 1805 - Leesen, Duchy of Brunswick, Germany 3
     Christened: 
           Died: 30 Oct 1882 - Northumberland Co, PA 4
         Buried: 3 Nov 1882 - Palmyra, Lebanon Co, PA 4

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         Father: Henry Eggers (      -      ) 3
         Mother: Charlotte Lambrecht (      -      ) 3

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       Marriage: 8 Aug 1872 4

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   Other Spouse: Lydia Schaeffer (      -1868) 4

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Wife Mrs. Elizabeth Kettering ⁴

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           Born: 
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           Died: Aft Oct 1882
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General Notes: Husband - Louis Gustavus Eggers

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He was instructed and confirmed when between thirteen and fourteen years old, attending the parochial school until after his confirmation. He learned the trade of a bookbinder with Mr. Lambrecht, of Klausthal. Before he had quite finished his trade, in 1822, his parents emigrated to America, and he accompanied them thither. He worked at bookbinding for a short time at Hagerstown, Maryland, and later carried on the business in his own name. Determining to study for the ministry, he went to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, where he remained five years, two in the gymnasium and three in the theological seminary. He was licensed at the annual meeting of the Evangelical Lutheran Ministerium of Pennsylvania, at Germantown, in the year 1835. After his licensure he was urged to become a missionary in the West, but declined on the ground of his timidity. His first charge was in Nittany Valley, Centre County, Pennsylvania. He labored in Sugar Valley and Nittany Valley, and in one church in Penn's Valley organizing two new congregations, one at Bellefonte, the other six miles east of that town. His second pastorate was the Palmyra charge, in Lebanon and Dauphin Counties. He was pastor from 1847 to 1852, and cared for Palmyra, Campbellstown, Schell's, Bindnagel's, and Union Deposit. His third pastorate was the Tulpehocken, or Stouchsburg charge, in Berks County, from 1852 to 1867. He served Rehrersburg, Womelsdorf, Myerstown, Mill Creek, and Newmanstown. A new church was built at Myerstown during his ministry there in 1857-58, and the church at Mill Creek remodeled. He removed from Stouchsburg to Centre County in 1867, but shortly after retired for a period from the active duties of the church on account of the failure of his health, subsequently taking charge for two years of the Trevorton congregation, near Sunbury. From 1871 to 1874, when he resigned on account of his health, he was pastor of the Palmyra charge. However, he often preached during the years intervening up to his death at Brickerville, Lancaster County, and supplied Zion's, Walmer's, and Sattazahn's, in Lebanon County, and occasionally at Lebanon, Harrisburg, and in the Ephrata charge. On Sunday, October 29th, he kindly supplied the Lutheran Church at Lautz in the morning and at Hollow Run in the afternoon, both churches of the Trevorton charge. On the following Sunday he was to preach in the church at Rehrersburg, Berks County. On Monday morning, Oct. 30, 1882, while at the depot at Selinsgrove Junction, in Northumberland County, he sat down in a chair in the waiting-room, and died in a short time. He was buried at Palmyra on Friday, Nov. 3, 1882, and devout men were at his burial. He was a faithful, earnest, and consistent minister of the gospel. [HLC 1883, 267]

He was born in Germany, whence when a lad of ten years he came to the New World. [CBRCP-CCJC, 461]

1 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 461.

2 William Henry Egle, History of the County of Lebanon in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 240, 266.

3 William Henry Egle, History of the County of Lebanon in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 266.

4 William Henry Egle, History of the County of Lebanon in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 267.