This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Peterson Solms Meissner Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/YW.2ADI/4240.1 Message Board Post: A very helpful person (Teresa Meikle) at Santa Rosa Press Democrat sent me Fred Peterson's 2002 obit, with names and locations of his 4 children. I have made contact with them. = I still don't know what happened to Joseph (b 1857) or Annie (b 1871). = Also I am still looking for Wilhelmina's sister Eleonora listed in US Census 1860 at San Francisco with surname Solms and son Charles Solms age 1. My best guess is that (before 1870 census) Eleonora had remarried and her son assumed his stepfather's surname.