Hi to the group, I need help : ) I have a copie of a card with this on one side: “Josiah Brecht, Excelsior Traveling Artist. Additional copies can be had by addressing , Orefield, Lehigh. Co., Pa.” the other side of the card is a photo of a lady. I never thought this was from a photographer.If anyone would like to see this please send me a note. I am sure I am not wrong that the first letter is a B. What I have on this family goes back to Bucks County, pa., with Jacob Brecht ( C. 1784-1850 ). Jacob was a teacher in Springfield, Haycock, Richland and Rockhill Townships. I have a paper “ Bucks County Fraktur: A Catalogue and Guide to the Artists.” This is 4 pages all about Jacob Brecht and in J.H.Battle’s History of Berks County 1887 he gives some details of Jacob’s life. Jacob was married three times. It is with the three wife Catherine Tyson they had nine children. Samuel, Jacob, Josiah, George, Jackson, Edwin, Elizabeth, Lydia Ann and Englehart Brecht/Bright. It was in Englehart’s line a Meda Bright ( Wimmer) who died in 1989 that this card was found. Mrs. Bright also saved a lot of obits for the Bright’s too. I found in 1850 census in Norristown Pa., Jacob Bright age 24, mason, born Pa. Mary, age 20, Gansville, age 1. In the census for 1860 in Norristown, Pa., Josiah Bright, born Pa., age, 36, Stone mason, Mary age 31, Gansville, age 10. Now I wonder if the two are the same person, Jacob and Josiah the name Josiah and Gansville are names you don’t see a lot and may have thrown the census taker off. I have the obit for Mrs. Mary S. Bright nee Cowgill widow of Josiah Bright Reading, Daily Times, Sept. 8, 1904. Says she was born in Plumstat, ( misspelled , Plumsteadville) Bucks County.She came to Reading two years before her death having lived in Norristown.They only had the one child. I don’t know if Josiah Brecht/Bright is in the 1840 census, or when he died. I don’t know if Josiah Knecht and Josiah Brecht are the same person. If anyone out there has any ideas please write to me this is a brick wall. Thanks Jean Dillon Reading, Pa. [email protected] <A HREF="http://www.libraries.psu.edu/speccolls/FindingAids/darrahindex/penn.htm">http://www.libraries.psu.edu/speccolls/FindingAids/darrahindex/penn.htm</A>