More about Georg Himmelberger

I make the case for this ( the photo and grave 908) to be the marker for Georg/Jorg Himmelberger brother of Valentine. Thus the genealogical disappearance from census/records/tax roles/etc of Georg, and perhaps the elimination.
It is hard to read the inscription but if you play with the levels, brightness contrast and RGB intensity you can get some letters to stand out in certain situations while others fade etc. If you know someone who is really good with image manipulation and wouldn't mind taking a shot at this I have more images of the same marker at different angles and light. Its also in German which makes word recognition hard for me. I can generally see Himmelberger at the very top and about 4-5 letters to the left of it which I feek at times I have seen a capital G and end two letters "rg" before the Capital German H. If you have an LCD screen when tilted seems to help. I can see two years the upper most appearing to be 1735 and the lower 1774 which aggress with the Blatt's who documented and established the numbering system for the cemetery in 1981.
I think the following argues in my favor but not proof thus if we could somehow enhance the photos. The marker material and shape and adult size are the same as the other very early markers. It appears about 1885 they started using granite.
It is within 15 feet (two rows) of the foundation area of the original log church, ninth row from SW corner, 8th space in toward the church. The original log church ran in the front from space 606 to 621 making this marker near the front left corner of the church.
Most families are in rows and this marker is in an early Himmelberger row. Himmelbergers are in rows 6, 8 and 9 [900]. Elizabeth and Susanna are in graves 602 and 603. There are several missing markers as you get closer to the church foundation lines. The cemetery is narrow on the south side of the old log church as there are only 7 graves to a row. It is likely that Valentine and his wife are in there somewhere as they are recorded as buried but markers missing. All the early Himmelberger's buried at Belleman's are within 50 feet of the church area. There are three rows of Himmelberger's. This marker is in the row with Philip and wife Margarethe, then a space and a still born infant daughter of Joel and Emma ( also never noted before) then 4 spaces no markers to the marker I am discussing here. Georg was listed as one of the donors whose funds were used in 1768 to purchase a 1763 edition of the Saur Bible. (Belleman Church archives) Valentine and Philip also donated. I find no other Himmelberger's on record whose death was in that time frame. If the birth date of 1735, he is unlikely to be the offspring of Valentine whose marriage is recorded as 1737 and his son George was born in 1747 and died in 1821 and would not have had a marker of this material type with that date of death. It is suggested by me that Georg came to Berks even at the young age with the support of Valentine and lived and worked their farm. There is no mention of Georg in Valentine's will suggesting that he was not living at the time. It was unlikely given the wills of the time that no mention of him would have been made. There are a lot of similar letters documented in the Rudd and Yoder books on Paletines to the US.