Hi again everyone! I was going over some stuff that Lynn Vondran sent sometime ago on the Berkheisers from a book she extracted from that contains information from Summer Hill, Schuylkill Co., PA. When I was in Summer Hill Cemetery in 2004, I located a tombstone for Gebeine Berkheiser, 1754-1838. I found this same one in Lynn's notes and turns out this is really Maria Magdalena (Lehr) Berkheiser. Just goes to show you I'm lousy at German so the following will be corrected in my next update. That trip to Summer Hill was a fast one since we arrived late in the afternoon after a series of wrong turns and the sky was turning ugly. I'm surprised my pictures turned out as well as they did. The complete phrasing I probably didn't note was "hier ruhen die gebeine von" which means, "Here rests the bones of". Gebeine is obviously not a girl's first name. Color me stupid on this one! :-) Rick B