This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Clouse Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/zIJ.2ACEB/290.2.1.1.1 Message Board Post: I have a Charles F. Clouse who came from the same area, born 1801 and he died in Webster County, Iowa and is buried at Corpus Christi Cemetery at Fort Dodge. I have his wife as Elizabeth Spooner b. 1808 and died 1894 in Wheeler county, Nebraska, but is buried at Fort Dodge. I have they had nine children: Charles b. 1833; George D. b. 1845; Barney b. 1846; Catherine b. 1849; Louis b. 1851; Elizabeth, & Leo; these 7 children were born in Alscace and John b. 1857 and Joseph b.1858 were born in New York. Catherine is my direct line. Her brother John moved to Wheeler County, Nebraska and is buried there. Their father also went by F.C. Clouse on different records.