Hi Folks I noticed all the talk about Frieden's Cemetery. I have numerous relatives buried there. I would just like to mention that if the superintendent/caretaker Robert Lynn has not retired yet, he is a very pleasant and helpful man. He is a genealogist himself and understands our need to get information. But he is a busy man, and hard to contact. I also feel the need to point out that in my experience, names in card files, ledgers, and plot maps, have been grossly misspelled. The misspellings, when they occur, change from one document to the next. For an example...my great grandfather Frank Kanstinger, (who died in 1893) is in the ledger as Frank Constinger (section & grave not recorded), and they don't even know where is grave is, they can't find him. Grt grand, Gertrude Kanstinger (1908), is on the ledger as Kanstanger, and the plot map as Kinsgraugh/Kanslaugher. John Dunz (1914) is on the plot map as John Duzs. Even my grandfather, John Ebert, who died in 1913, was John Evert. And while the plot map showed his section and grave, for years even Robert Lynn didn't know where exactly this small section was located in the cemetery. A very elderly gentleman came in one day wanting to put a stone on his grt grandfathers grave. Luckily he was in the same lost section as my grandpa Ebert, and this old gentleman knew where it was, because he continued to visit the grave site through the years. The next time I went in Mr. Lynn told me he had good news...they now knew where my grandfather was buried. So records at Friedens are apparently all a matter of phonetics, so be very liberal in your spellings, when searching for death certificates, burial permits (which are usually submitted by the cemetery), and cemetery records. I searched for years for many of the people, and had I not been fortunate enough, many years ago, for Robert Lynn to allow me to sit down and search the old, fragile ledgers, and plot maps myself, I would not have found them (none of them have stones). Try to come armed with as much information as you can. Death dates, doctors, home addresses are a great help with the ledgers. Good Luck! Ida Ebert