Introduction
Born: March 23, 1840, York County, Pennsylvania.
Died: September 3, 1920, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania.
Buried: Harrisburg Cemetery, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
Born: March 23, 1840, York County, Pennsylvania.
Died: September 3, 1920, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania.
Buried: Harrisburg Cemetery, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
Henry was the son of William Henry Hartzler and Anna Virginia Hurst, and husband of Sarah A. Zeller.
A United Evangelical minister, he was living in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, in 1900, and in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, in 1910 and 1920.
O Christmas days of long ago,
I see your lights across the snow;
I hear your voices, sweet and low,
And feel the mystic thrill and glow
That made my child heart love you so,
O Christmas days of long ago!
O Christmas days of old, so dear,
Would God that I could bring you here,
And know again the sunny cheer,
The simple joys, the holy fear,
The solemn sense of Jesus near,
That made those days of old so dear.
O Christmas days of long ago,
You sing to me across the snow;
With playful hands of childish glee
Across the years you beckon me;
I hear again the old refrain,
And this old heart is young again!
Henry Burns Hartzler (1840–1920)