From Rick Berkheiser

"The South Bend Weekly Tribune", Saturday, February 22, 1890, page 8

     Mr. Peter Berkheiser, a resident of Penn township, five miles southwest of Mishawaka, died on the 11th inst., of dropsy, aged 80 years, 10 months and 20 days.  He was born in Manheim township, Berks county, Pennsylvania, March 22, 1809.  He was married to Elizabeth Reber, March 27, 1831.  In 1868 he came to this county and settled on the farm where he died.  His wife and four of his eleven children passed away previous to his death.