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Suzanna Eisenberg ~ August 13, 1783 - May 3, 1822

My name is Suzanna Eisenberg. I was born August 13, 1783 and passed on May 3, 1822.

Just look at all of this land, as far as the eye can see. That's why my family came here, to farm, there was so much land just waiting.

There were many Germans already here, some had been here many years before the Revolution. When I arrived in this country, it already felt like home, there were even German newspapers and German churches here.

Like many women of my time, my life's story is lost to the years, but trust me, I lived!

Working together with my husband, we took untamed land and we changed it into the fields and pastures that fed our family. Our children grew up as citizens of our new homeland and married and raised families of their own. Some of them stayed here and some, like us, set their sights on a better life away from the land of their birth. 

When I died, I was 38 years old. I no longer remember what caused my passing, but for my era, I lived a full and long life. Even though the person who engraved my stone didn't speak it, you can see the writing is in my native tongue, German.

Riverview Recollections
  1. Introduction
  2. Suzanna Eisenberg ~ August 13, 1783 - May 3, 1822
  3. David McMurtrie ~ January 14, 1764 - November 9, 1843
  4. William Steel ~ 1754 - May 12, 1840
  5. Samuel Steel ~ 1765 - 1850
  6. Reverend John Johnston ~ 1750 - December 16, 1823
  7. Benjamin Elliot ~ 1752 - March 13, 1835
  8. Richard Smith ~ January 25, 1769 - October 1, 1823
  9. Thomas Duncan Smith ~ November 18, 1760 - July 9, 1789
  10. John Simpson ~ January 1744 - February 3, 1807
  11. John Dougherty ~ July 25, 1803 - November 12, 1886
  12. Anne Dorris Chisolm ~ 1863 - 1918
  13. J. Simpson Africa ~ September 15, 1832 - August 8, 1900
  14. Anna Fisher ~ March 6, 1866 - April 2, 1953
  15. Hon. John M. Bailey ~ July 11, 1839 - September 27, 1903
  16. J. C. Blair -Nov. 27, 1847- June 23, 1897, Kate Fisher Blair- July 7, 1848-Sept. 23, 1938
  17. Clara McMurtrie ~ February 7, 1860 - September 16, 1952
  18. Lt. Col. John Blanchard Miles ~ September 20, 1827 - May 10, 1864
  19. John G. Chaplin ~ November 30, 1828 - January 5, 1907
  20. Frederick Schneider ~ 1780 - March 31, 1861