Suzanna Zeisberger

Suzanna Zeisberger (1744-1824) was a missionary of the Moravian Church. Susanna was born February 17, 1744 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.[1] She moved to Lititz, when she was sixteen years old and lived in the Single Sisters House.[2] She married the Moravian missionary David Zeisberger on May 4, 1781.[1] Susanna was confirmed as a deaconess six days later on May 10, 1781 and became a missionary to the Native American lands in the Ohio Valley.[1] Susanna and her husband were missionaries in the years following the Gnadenhutten massacre of 1782.[2]

After the massacre, the Zeisbergers fled to Schönbrunn where they were captured on September 3, 1782.[1]

Susanna died in 1824 in Lititz, PA.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Carté, Katherine E. "Susanna Zeisberger (1744-1824)". bdhp.moravian.edu. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
  2. 1 2 Lindley, Susan (2008). The Westminster handbook to women in American religious history. Louisville, Ky: Westminster John Knox Press. ISBN 978-0664224547.
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