Zion Church & Cemetery, Pitman, Pa.

The first church was also built on the Hepler farm and named Zion, perhaps after the one in Northampton County. The building shown is the third one built on this plot of ground. The first was built by Casper Hepler and his family, and was Lutheran. It is now Evangelical. The first death in the new settlement was that of little Benjamin Hepler, aged 11. A cemetery was started across the road on the Hepler farm. It was named "Gottes Acker" (God's Acres)and this little grave was the first in a long row of Hepler graves. If you turn around, you can see this beautiful little cemetery (below) where Casper, his wife, 2 daughters, 5 of his 7 sons, 5 daughters-in-law, grandsons, etc. Twenty three in all are buried. The Hepler Association erected a beautiful monument of Vermont marble on Casper & Anna Maria's graves. In the foreground in the small picture is the original gravestone for Casper. Every year the clan gather here to honor not only Casper, but his brothers Jacob, Christopher and George as well, to pay tribute to the 4 patriots.

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