Ran across this book and copied this info to pass on. WELSHIMER CEMETERY is located in Amanda twp., Fairfield co., OH ... He (John WELSHIMER) is buried in a small private cemetery on the SHAEFFER farm, Sunny Knob. Also buried in this cemetery are his wife Elizabeth, his daughter Mary, his son Henry and a grand-daughter Priscilla GRIFFITH. On the tombstone is the date of his death (30 Oct 1858) and his age - 70 yrs 6mo 7da - and also the following verse: Weep not for me as you pass by, What you now are so once was I. Farewell, my loving children dear, I am not dead, but sleeping here. Although my body’s turned to dust, I hope to rise among the just. Relations dear, refrain from tears. I must lie here till Christ appears. -Mary WELSHIMER b. 22 Aug 1809; d. 23 Mar 1865; m. John CUNNINGHAM, b 1814; d. 1903 -Henry WELSHIMER b. 26 Mar 1812; d. 3 April 1864 -Alice Priscilla GRIFFITH (Priscilla GRIFFITH was the d/ William GRIFFITH and Priscilla WELSHIMER), b 26 Sep 1864; d 29 Nov 1869, buried in private cemetery on Sunny Knob Farm. Frank SHAEFFER* said that after burial, the grave was robbed to obtain cadaver for a medical school so her grave is only a cenotaph. -Picture of gravestones with caption: The graves of John with his wife Elizabeth and daughter Mary. *Frank Augustus SHAEFFER (son of Jacob SHAEFFER & Deborah WELSHIMER) b. 28 June 1852 at Lancaster, OH; d. 26 Feb 1939, lived at Sunny Knob farm, ... ‘on which John Welshimer settled’” pg’s 29-33 A History of the Welsheimer Family, Edith L. Welsheimer, Pub’l by Bronson Printing co., Las Cruces, N. Mex. 1969 http://content.ancestry.com/Browse/BookView.aspx?dbid=26457&iid=dvm_GenMono007045-00001-0 [Mar 2008] Rebecca C. Huddle