Jesse Eichlin, an 81-year-old male farmer and carpenter from rural Hunterdon County, New Jersey, spent most of his life working the land and building with his hands. In later accounts he was remembered as the kind of man whose skills were poured back into his community: when his Franklin Township church needed room for a Sunday school wing, it was Eichlin who helped raise the new space, framing walls and fitting boards as an act of quiet devotion. By the mid-1990s he was an elderly man in his ei
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