On a recent afternoon, the winter sun cast stark shadows across his grave marker, which has a trumpet engraved beneath his name, EDW. LEE MORGAN, and the years 1938 to 1972 — the measure of a ...

The last wooden grave marker in Berks County, left, believed to be more than 125 years old, will be replaced on Nov. 1, 2023, by a new, handcrafted version at Bern Cemetery and Historic Graveyard.