Sorry, no Jacob Bauers in the US. I do have a Jacob Bauer born July 1674 in Wurttemburg who had a son Johann Jakob born 20 May 1716 died 18 Dec 1788, all in Kleinbottwar, Neckar, Wurttemburg. And a Jakob Bauer born 1839, s/o Ulrich Johann Bauer b 1801, also presumably from Kleinbottwar. Also Jakob Friederick Bauer, born 1808, s/o Johann David Bauer; note says "had daughters", implying no sons to carry on name. Jakob Friederick Bauer born 1850, s/o Gottlieb Friederick and Anna Maria Summer Bauer. My Bauer line came from Kleinbottwar AND Hoheneck, Wurttemburg, in 1838. Stephen Gottlieb and Maria Glock Bauer had six sons, no daughters. The first son (Jakob Fredrick b 12 Dec 1836) died young in Germany. Karl Gottlieb, the next son, was born in Germany but grew up in America and was known as Charles; he died in the Civil War at the Battle of Shiloh. His enlistment (without telling his folks) was particularly upsetting to Stephen & Maria because they were Dunkards and thus pacifists. Anyway, Charles didn't live long enough to marry and have kids. The next son was John L. Bowers born 22 March 1840 in what was then Huntingdon Co. PA (family settled at Aughwick Mills). My great-grandfather, David Bower, was the next son, and he was born 15 April 1842, also in PA. Only John L. & David lived long enough to marry and have children. The two remaining sons, Benjamin (b 1844) and Samuel (b 1848) died in May 1849 of cholera while the family was moving from the Dunkard settlement at Aughwill Mills, PA, to another Dunkard settlement in Stephenson County, IL. My great-grandfather's journals tell of crossing the mountains in PA on some sort of contraption that carried them on tracks. Then they took a boat(s?) down the Ohio River to the Mississippi. When the boat stopped at Galena, IL, for supplies during a cholera epidemic that the two littlest boys became ill. At that point Stephen contracted with a Dunkard he ran into in Galena to take the family overland on up to northern Illinois and get them out of the plagued city. Stephen (b 1799) did have at least one other brother from Kleinbottwar who came to America "and lost track of". We'd like to find that branch. David's journals say "Two older brothers, John being the oldest, emigrated (and lost track of, as mail facilities were poor and very slow by foot them days.)" Stephen Gottlieb Bauer's brothers and sisters were (daughter) b 1786 Johann Sebastian b 1787 Johann Georg Jr b 1789 Johanna Christina b 1792 Georg Frederick 1 b 1794 Goerg Frederick 2, b 1796 (Stephen Gottlieb fits in here in 1799) Karl Stephan b 1801. We guess that Johann Georg Jr was probably the older brother called John in David's journals. But Johann Sebastian was the oldest, so who knows? We just guessed that he would have inherited anything the family had to inherit, which probably wasn't much. Anyway, the other brother who started out to America with "John" was Karl. David's notes about what his parents had told him doesn't exactly square with the dates we have on these brothers: "Two oldest sons (one being Karl) emigrated..." Karl started and got as far as France, "got sick and died and buried and the brothers furnished money, that was in 1838." Since Stephen & Maria Glock Bauer are also supposed to have emigrated in 1838, I guess we don't know who left first. I know I've never been able to find the name of the ship that Stephen and Maria came on, so perhaps David got the year wrong.?? Stephen Gottlieb Bauer's parents are Johann Georg Bauer and Susanna C. Weiss. We've never yet found any Bauer lines we hook up with, but I'm always hoping. Jan T