Hi Marian, many thanks for your help.  Jeremiah has proven to be very elusive to me for 35 years, but I haven't given up hope.  I had another family from Germany that I could not find for the same number of years but with perserverance I finally found the information that I sought and went back 4 more generations.

 

I sent pcummings an email some years ago, but never received a response.  Jeremiah's son Thomas had four children, John, b 1870, Delia b 1872, Rosanna d 1873,and Edward b 1876.  They lived in St. Clair, PA (Schuylkill Co) until at least 1880.  After that I lose them.  According to oral family tradition, they moved west.  Could be western PA or Iowa.  Maybe pcummings is part of Thomas' family.  I don't know.  Bop