The earliest verifiable information I have about my g.g.grandfather, Rudolph (or Rudolf) Bossert is an 1830 Deed (Allegheny County, PA) showing that he and his wife Margaret ("Peggy") purchased land in Indiana Twp., just prior to his death. (By coincidense, the same year that John Yerkes Bossert died.) A June 6, 1900 entry made by Rudolph's daughter-in-law in our Family Bible states that he " He married in Alsace-Lorraine, came to the U.S. and his wife died and was buried at sea. Rudolph re-married Margaret Acre and had 2 children: John - and Sally - - ". I have no information about his age at death, or when and where he and Margaret were married. Based upon the birth of their first child, Sarah/Salome/Sally (4/25/1816), and the assumption that it had taken 5 to 15 years for Rudolph to get established here in the USA and then marry Margaret, he may have arrived here between 1800 & 1810, but to-date I have not found his or a similar name in or around that period on any online ship's lists or the 2001 edition of the "1500s-1900s Passenger and Immigration Lists Index" by P. William Filby. If that portion of my g.grandmother's Bible notation about Rudolph coming from Alsace-Lorraine and his wife having died and buried at sea is not accurate, maybe he was a descendant of one of the "5 Bossert brothers came to US 1723-1725 on ships Martha and Goodship Mary" or perhaps of the Jacob Bossert who came on the ship Mercury on May 2, 1735. I know that I am really reaching, but maybe one of you out there can help break a hole in my "brick wall". Thanks for "listening". Lois