Jennifer, Vee, and all: I thought you all might like to know how my afternoon of cemetery searching went since you were all so helpful. First of all, for some reason I could not access the map website Jennifer was so kind to tell me about. However, she went beyond the call of duty and got the necessary information for me. After she mentioned the map site I remembered about MapQuest which is another Internet map page. I went to that site and found Dover in York Co. and found Salem Church Road on that map. At about the same time as I was locating the road Vee came along with the information which reinforced the location for me. My husband has been taking these lovely autumn Friday afternoons off from work and we have been locating our ancestors' final resting places which for the most part are less than a 2 hour drive from our house. To make a long story short I found Salem Church in Dover (often called Strayers) with NO trouble thanks to all of you. So here is the story: We found the kindly caretaker and chatted with him about the cemetery. He told us many stones have been lost--whole rows of them. The cemetery goes back many years--there are many VERY old stones there. Many are barely readable--and others cannot be read at all. I was very lucky in that the stones I was looking for could be read quite easily. In this cemetery I found the graves of my 5th great-grandfather Philip Jacob Zinn born 25 May 1737 and died 4 May 1809, and his wife Maria Elizabeth Barthmes. A lovely, and fairly recent, marker had been placed in the cemetery by the Barthmes Family Association in addition to the original marker. Also buried in this cemetery I found my 3rd great-grandfather, Jonas Hoffheins, born 13 April 1797 and died 16 December 1856. The inscription on his grave reads: "My dearest friends that dwell above I now have gone to see, and all my friends down below will soon come after me." We then proceeded to head to the town of Jacobus in Springfield Township, York County, to visit a few other graves at Salem Lutheran Church in that town. That one I knew how to find. I had been past it before while visiting another cemetery in the town, but did not know I had ancestors buried in this church at that time. The town of Jacobus is named for my 2nd greatgrandfather, Jacob Geiselman, who was sort of the first postmaster. You see, Jacob ran the general store in town for many years. The town was named New Paradise back then, after the name of the town church. When the U.S. Postal Service began deliverying mail to New Paradise they merely dropped the letters off at the general store which also doubled as the post office. The post master from Lancaster which serviced New Paradise told Jacob that the men of the town would have to come up with a new name for the town if they wanted their mail to arrive safely. There was too much confusion with Paradise Twp. in Lancaster Co., and Paradise in York Co. as well. The men talked it over and could not arrive at any name they liked for the town. Jacob told the post master that they could not think of a new name so the post master bagan to write "Jacob U.S.Mail" on the letters going to Jacob's store. Soon that was abreviated to "JacobU.S." and before long the town became known as Jacobus. The name has stuck for over 150 years now. But alas, I digress, on to Salem Lutheran Cemetery and my ancestors who lie buried there. My 3rd great-grandfather, John Jacob Geiselman (father of Jacob, Jr., for whom the town was named) born 3 May 1787 and died 28 February 1864 and his wife Elizabeth (Goodling) born 10 May 1787 and died 22 February 1851 are buried near the church and beside Jacob, Sr. on the opposite side from Elizabeth is Elizabeth's sister Catharine who married Jacob, Sr. after Elizabeth's death. Catharine was a widow at the time and her first husband had been Dr. Marbourg. Buried very near to Jacob, Sr. and his two wives were Joseph Leader born 23 October 1798 and died 1883 and his wife Catharine (King) born 16 Mar. 1802 and died 25 April 1885. Joseph and Catharine's daughter Anna Mary was the wife of Jacob Geiselman, Jr.--son of Jacob, Sr. and Elizabeth mentioned above. With all of these ancestors to talk to today there was no time left to search for Friedensaal's so I will save that for yet another day. I am sure the knowledge that it is in Glen Rock will make it easy to find. Let's just hope my ancestors and my friends on the list guide me to yet another rewarding day of exploration when I return to discover what awaits me at Friedensaal's. There now! I feel like I took all of you along on the journey. Hope you enjoyed the trip--the leaves were beautiful too. Joan Myers Young