Have any connections to these?: 1. Barnhardt PAULUS b. Bavaria 1828 +Margaret Neibert 2. Henry Paulus b. Newton co IN (just south of Lake Co) +Bessie Dunlap 3. Lela Paulus b. Brook, Newton Co IN +Eugene Huish 4. Robert Huish <--- my dad b. in East Chicago, Lake co IN The story goes....Barnhardt/Bernhard Paulus was born in the district between Nuremburg and Werzberg, in Bavaria, June 30, 1828. He was in the Bavarian Army, but he hired someone to take his place in the ranks and set forth to America with his fiance Margaret Neibert on the Ship Mississippi landing at MD Sept 1853...they ran to Ohio and were married in Cincinatti Jan 1, 1854. There until around 1860-65 where they had the first few children, then moved to Newton Co In. Life of Bernard Paulus (Biography) http://members.tripod.com/~KHuish/bernbio.txt Ship Mississippi passenger list http://members.tripod.com/~KHuish/shipmis.htm Kathy Anolelady@aol.com http://members.tripod.com/~KHuish/index.html http://www.worldwide-top100.net/tops5/rankem.cgi?action=in&id=ancestry