140 years later, woman traces long-lost relative to abandoned cemetery in Lancaster County

Marla Weber places a yellow flower next to a headstone.

The grave marker is newer than the older ones scattered on the corner of a Lancaster County road intersection at Southwest 114th Street and West Sprague Road. The headstone was placed in August 2025.

She’s about 3 miles north of Kramer, on the side of the road at the Highland Precinct Pioneer Cemetery. The flower she placed was for her great-great grandmother Bauke Lubben, who she traced back to this small cemetery…

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