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State of Service: PA
Qualifying Service: Private / Patriotic Service
Author: Shane Allen Miller
Rudolph “Rudy” Meyer was born in 1724 to a Mennonite family in Mein Berks County Pennsylvania. About 1750 he married Anna Light (born 1728), and had twelve children. Although Rudy was a practicing Mennonite and remained with his religious persuasion, he raised a patriotic family. Two of sons became patriots: - Rudolph Meyer III (P-248691), and - John (P-248674).
During the Revolutionary War he enlisted as private in Captain John Moore’s 5th Company, 2nd Battalion, Lancaster County Militia (PA).
He died in1783 at the age of 58 years, 3 months, and 2 days and is buried at the Kauffman’s Mennonite Meeting House Cemetery, Lebanon, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Anna Light died in 1792. In German the abbreviated first and last names, and the years of birth and death, are chiseled out in native limestone. These are still discernible.
In 1962 the Meyer Family Association placed a new granite marker between two ancient tombstones of Rudolph and Anna Light.
On October 9, 1970 a Memorial Shield of the Pennsylvania Society, National Society Daughters of the American Colonists was placed on the grave of this worthy pioneer American: Rudolph Meyer II.
Approved ancestor February 6, 2001 for Shane Allen Miller
References: PA Archives Series III Volume 6: pages 423, 468, 474 and 567 Burial Location of Pennsylvania Revolutionary War Soldiers, Golden Book: PASSAR
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