Greetings! I currently live with my husband and daughter in Mountain Top, Pennsylvania.

I've been reaping the benefits of Findagrave for years now as I do my own genealogical research, so I'm helping to research a local cemetery to try to give back to those who have helped me.

Major family names I'm researching are Montagna, Branca, Shamy, Gomber, Balint, Ur, Dove, and Kamin (Kammin).

Feel free to contact me and happy hunting!

"Dear Ancestor"

Your tombstone stands among the rest;

Neglected and alone.

The name and date are chiseled out

On polished, marbled stone.

It reaches out to all who care

It is too late to mourn.

You did not know that I exist

You died and I was born.

Yet each of us are cells of you

In flesh, in blood, in bone.

Our blood contracts and beats a pulse

Entirely not our own.

Dear Ancestor, the place you filled

One hundred years ago

Spreads out among the ones you left

Who would have loved you so.

I wonder if you lived and loved,

I wonder if you knew

That someday I would find this spot,

And come to visit you.

Author: Walter Butler Palmer