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From: "john" <>
Subject: Trip to Hanau, Germany. in June 2005. ISENSE
Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 10:51:22 -0400
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Dear Rusty Clark;

Thank you, thank you, you are helping to restore my faith
with your beautiful story.
I will print it out and add to my file for my Hanau trip.
God bless you and all the other participants,
John Helmut Merz.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rusty" <>
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 7:48 AM
Subject: John Andreas ISENSE (Isensee)


> Greetings,
>
> On Sunday a dozen of us stood at the grave of John Andrew Isense in West
Springfield MA while I read a short story on the lightning strike that
killed him shortly after he settled here to farm. His sandstone marker was
carved by Solomon Brewer, a talented local gravestone carver who also carved
gravestones for the town's elite. Someone cared enough to have the stone
made and erected in his memory.
>
> I believe he left no descendants, so we make a special effort to visit the
burial site, and discuss the march of the Hessians through town on the way
to the coast.
>
> Rusty Clark
> Ramapogue Historical Society
>
>

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