This is a rough draft which I will edit sometime.---- Old family records that date from pre-1934 say that Samual Brode the husband of Anna Barbara Bergstresser Brode was buried in Stoler's cemetery in 1836. At some time, Stoler's cemetery has become St. Luke's cemetery. ---- Samuel Brode II was the husband of Anna Barbara Bergstrasser Brode who is buried in (Shoups graveyard) Fockler Cemetery, Saxon, PA. ---- The saxton library has a cemetery book but Samuel Brode is not listed in there. Also, early Brode genealogical research conducted by Howard Stidham Brode in pre-1930s never mentioned Samuel Brode having a headstone. And none of the Brode genealogy lists a death date--month & day, so the early Brode researchers likely never found an inscribed headstone for Samuel. maybe he never had a headstone, or maybe he just had a footstone without a headstone, Or, perhaps his headstone was an uninscribed headsone. There are several uninscribed slate, & natural-stone headstones. Or perhaps his headstone had fallen over early and has been covered with grass even pre-1930s. It seems to me that Samuel Brode would have had a headstone in 1836, because he was a prominent citizen and his wife would have made sure he had a headstone. Before I started driving back to Kentucky I spent an hour in the St. Luke's (Stoler's) cemetery checking headstones. About 5-10% of the headstones have inscriptions that have become difficult if not impossible to read. And, there are several headstones-very old headstones-without ever having any inscription at all. I didn't have enough time to probe around with a metal-rod. I wish I had. If he had one, Samuel Brode's headstone or footstone is obviously in St Luke's cemetery (Stoler's) , but his headstone may have fallen over and grown over with grass. I'm thinking that one of the old, uninscribed, headstones is actually Samuel's, but with no inscription ever haven't been engraved, it may never be known.-â€" Stoler Cemetery is probably where his oldest son Jonathan was buried in 1837. Jonathan Brode, son of Samual and Barbara Berkstresser Brode. Jonathan was brought by his parents from Bucks County to Bedford County, Pa. in time to be included in the census of 1800 in Bedford County. His parents settled on a tract of land about two miles northwest of the present town of Saxton, Pa. The settlement was first called Stonerstown. ~~~ Barbara and her husband Samuel Brode probably came to the Saxton area because one of the 'Berkstressers' was already in the Saxton area, and as early as the 1770s. Thus the 'Berkstressers' were one of the earliest white families in the Saxton area. Samuel was a tanner and pursued that occupation in the new location. As to Jonathan's occupation, he is reported to have been a farmer and a tanner. Jonathan is said to have had poor health, and this may account for his early death when near 45 years of age. He was buried in the Stoler Cemetery which is near the old home place. He married Dec. 6, 1818, Sarah Donaldson, daughter of John Donaldson and Esther Ralston his wife. Jonathan Brode's sister Sarah married Andrew Donaldson, a brother of Sarah Donaldson. Descendants of this family still live near the old home place a few miles east of Saxton Pa., at Little Valley. Jonathan and Sarah had eight children as follows: [omitted]. The family lived for a time in the large house of Samuel Brode, probably until his death in 1836, when they moved to a smaller house not far away. After Jonathan's death they continued here until 1848 when the family broke up housekeeping and left that valley and went to live with the daugher Anna Barbara who had married Charles Funk and lived in Woodbury. Samuel [eldest son] married and continued to live in Bedford County. Esther married and also remained in the same locality [but later moved west]. The other members of the family moved farther west. In the spring of 1852 the mother with children David, Elizabeth, Isaac and Andrew moved to Whitley County, Indiana. The Funks went to Buda, Illinois and lived there for five years. The others excepting Isaac followed in 1854. Andrew married Sarah Stidham and remained in Illinois, David went on to Iowa. Elizabeth married Obadiah Lineaweaver and they with the Funks and the mother went to Tipton, Iowa. David remained in Iowa, while the others went to Harvey County, Kansas. The mother returned to Illinois and spent her last years with her son Andrew. Elizabeth and Andrew later moved to Los Angeles, California where some of their children had gone before them. -----------------------