Through Ancestry.com, Find A Grave, and some written family history, I found information about our 3rd, 2nd and 1st Great Grandparents (4, 3 and 2 for the next generation) – where they were born, lived and where they were buried.
I found a little gold mine of information in a booklet at the Centre County Historical Library – a listing of all the area cemeteries and the row and plot number of all the people buried in them. I found three area cemeteries where our relatives were buried, and driving directions to them since they were small, rural places. The cemeteries were all in the same general area, located near where the families had lived.
Heckman Cemetery is out in the farming country, as are all of them, and contains the graves of our 3rd Great Grandparents: Johannes & Eve (Ream) Willaman.
Unfortunately, the gravestones in that cemetery were all of sandstone and quite badly deteriorated and/or missing altogether. Even with the row and space numbers, we could not locate the specific graves, just the general area. I am going to contact the Cemetery Association to determine if they can help us find where the graves are located. We want to see how much it would cost to place simple markers on the graves – it seems a shame to have them lost to history.
The only gravestone that we could read was for John Ream, a Revolutionary War soldier, who was probably related to Eve (Ream).
Our next stop was more productive. I found the deed to the family farm, but in those days the legal descriptions were very general. 
This is probably the area where our Great-Grandfather, Aaron Ezra, was raised.
The only landmark that still existed was the ‘base of Brush Mountain’ which was to the north of the cemetery.
We found the grave of our 2nd Great Grandparents: Samuel and Sarah Grace Gobble,
2 of their children who died very young (so many children died in the 1800s) and Annie Margaret Willaman, a 3rd Great Aunt.
Both of the children’s gravestones had fallen forward and were pretty stained.
Bruce is never far from his tools, and he found a nearby pile of dirt to use. He dug up the stones, cleaned them off and resituated them so that they will last longer. 
I cleaned the Great Great Grandparent’s marker, and the back side, with Sarah Grace’s information, was very badly stained. I got quite a bit off, but it will never be really good. Bruce dug up the ‘Father’ marker because it was badly tipped over, and re-situated it. Someone has planted a pretty lily beside the gravestone.
I also cleaned Annie Margaret’s gravestone a bit, it had lichen and mildew on it as so many of them do.
Our third stop for the day was Holy Cross Cemetery, 
where we found the graves of John Wesley 
and Amanda Gobble, Aaron Ezra’s brother and sister-in-law. His two children Mary and Samuel and their spouses are also buried there.
Mary Gobble Steiger was Grandma Willaman’s ‘much beloved cousin’ according to the note on the back of her photograph. 
These granite markers were in pretty good shape; we just did a little cleanup of lichens and mildew, plus tossed out the broken, empty plant holders. The cemetery association was weed-eating around the gravestones that day so we thought it would help to clean up a bit.
Samuel and Annie’s stone was in pretty bad shape, but we were able to clean it up quite a bit.
Our fun story for the day: We carry some water with us to clean gravestones, but we mostly rely on the cemeteries to have some kind of water supply. The cemeteries we visited this day had no supplemental water and we had used up the water we had carried with us. We had passed a house with a nice flower garden right beside the narrow country road, so we decided to go back to that house and ask for some water. We ended up visiting a very nice couple in their 80s who had lived in that area all their lives. They even knew Mary Steiger and her family. We could have visited with them for hours.
The next day, we drove to New Berlin, where Aaron Ezra Gobble had been president of Central Pennsylvania College and where Grandma Willaman was born. The New Berlin Cemetery is quite large and located on the edge of town, on a hill.
Paul Seibert Gobble, Grandma’s brother, died at 1 year old and that is when the family plot was purchased, according to the deed for the plot recorded with the county recorder. Paul’s gravestone was quite unreadable and Bruce spent over an hour carefully cleaning the mildew stains, trying not to take off too much of the sandstone. He got it cleaned up pretty well.
I cleaned our Great-Grandparents and Grandparents stones, which were not in bad shape at all, there was some lichen to remove and some staining to scrub off.
These projects ended our time in Pennsylvania. We headed east to New Hampshire where we have spent the rest of the summer. We have lots more family records to explore and will return at another time.