Cindy wrote: > Remember reading about one of the KEIMs boys (and it seems it was a > Peter Keim) that went to live in MD? > > Peter Keim's father, Johann Peter KEIM, d. 1787. Peter would have been > just 6 yrs. old. I recently ran across the fact that Peter's (b. 16 > September 1781) older brother, Jacob Keim, was living in MD in 15 March > 1800 when his dau. Elizabeth was born. So did Peter go to live with his > brother in MD. (Copied this at the Meyersdale, Somerset County, PA library ) David Keim (Taken from Don Thackrey's draft of July 1994 of "Some Amish Branches of the Keim Family") Peter and his family show up in the censuses for 1810 and 1820 in Wharton Twp., of Fayette co., Pa., and in the 1830 census for Fayette co., the second wife Eve shows up in the 1840 and 1850 censuses for German Twp., Holmes co., OH. John J. Keim in a letter in 1899 quoted in KAF (p. 56) says that Peter, brother to Nicholas "moved to Fayette co., PA. and died there." He did move to Fayette co., but, unknown to John J. Keim he moved on to IN before he died. Peter's obituary printed in the Mennonite newspaper "Herald of Truth" for Nov. 1870 reads as follows: "On the 28th of July, in Lagrange county, Ind., Bro. Peter Keim, aged 88 years, 10 months and some days. he was buried on the 29th, on Pretty Prairie, where funeral sermons were held by Christian Naffzinger, in the German language, from Rev. 14: 12, 13, and by Christian Beery in English from Tim. 4: 7, 8. Bro. Keim was born in the State of Pennsylvania, in September 1781. He was twice married and lived with his first wife, with whom he had 12 children, about 33 years. After her death he married again and lived with his second wife about 21 years, when she also died. Bro. Keim was a member of the Mennonite church about fifty years and was strong in the faith. But now that he has gone to his rest, as we hope, let us imitate his virtues and seek to meet him in the better land when our Father calls us from the scenes of trial and toil here below." If he was buried in the Pretty Prairie Cemetery, as the obituary indicates, his grave (or at least the grave marker) was subsequently moved to the Borntrager Cemetery.