I searched for this gravestone for many years and was walking right by it because it is so worn. But by sitting and staring at it through different lighting and taking many pictures from different angles, I could make it out...or, at least enough to realize that it reads (in ornate German script):
"Here lies the body of Peter Eby's wife, Veronica..."
The lower part is harder to discern, but I believe the birth year is 1730, the death year, 1805, and the age 74 years.
This makes perfect sense with what I reasoned to be the time of her death. Hannes Eby in his "Death and Burial Record," published by the Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society, makes no mention of her. But Eby only began his ledger in 1806. Therefore, I have always thought she must have died in the earliest years of the 19th century.
It faces the gravestone of Peter Eby, her husband, at the end of the 3rd row in from the east.
This makes the gravestone in the Brubaker graveyard a cenotaph, as many have long suspected.
Thank you Martee Xakellis for your comprehensive notes that allowed me to take this off my "Before I Die" list.
"Here lies the body of Peter Eby's wife, Veronica..."
The lower part is harder to discern, but I believe the birth year is 1730, the death year, 1805, and the age 74 years.
This makes perfect sense with what I reasoned to be the time of her death. Hannes Eby in his "Death and Burial Record," published by the Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society, makes no mention of her. But Eby only began his ledger in 1806. Therefore, I have always thought she must have died in the earliest years of the 19th century.
It faces the gravestone of Peter Eby, her husband, at the end of the 3rd row in from the east.
This makes the gravestone in the Brubaker graveyard a cenotaph, as many have long suspected.
Thank you Martee Xakellis for your comprehensive notes that allowed me to take this off my "Before I Die" list.
I searched for this gravestone for many years and was walking right by it because it is so worn. But by sitting and staring at it through different lighting and taking many pictures from different angles, I could make it out...or, at least enough to realize that it reads (in ornate German script):
"Here lies the body of Peter Eby's wife, Veronica..."
The lower part is harder to discern, but I believe the birth year is 1730, the death year, 1805, and the age 74 years.
This makes perfect sense with what I reasoned to be the time of her death. Hannes Eby in his "Death and Burial Record," published by the Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society, makes no mention of her. But Eby only began his ledger in 1806. Therefore, I have always thought she must have died in the earliest years of the 19th century.
It faces the gravestone of Peter Eby, her husband, at the end of the 3rd row in from the east.
This makes the gravestone in the Brubaker graveyard a cenotaph, as many have long suspected.
Thank you Martee Xakellis for your comprehensive notes that allowed me to take this off my "Before I Die" list.
"Here lies the body of Peter Eby's wife, Veronica..."
The lower part is harder to discern, but I believe the birth year is 1730, the death year, 1805, and the age 74 years.
This makes perfect sense with what I reasoned to be the time of her death. Hannes Eby in his "Death and Burial Record," published by the Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society, makes no mention of her. But Eby only began his ledger in 1806. Therefore, I have always thought she must have died in the earliest years of the 19th century.
It faces the gravestone of Peter Eby, her husband, at the end of the 3rd row in from the east.
This makes the gravestone in the Brubaker graveyard a cenotaph, as many have long suspected.
Thank you Martee Xakellis for your comprehensive notes that allowed me to take this off my "Before I Die" list.
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