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 Message Board Post: Thanks. Bernhard and his brother Charles look more like sons of my Charles' brother, by date. The locations are good, as mine moved to Dubuque later in the 1850s. Supposedly, my Charles's father died in Ohio, also an immigrant, before 1893, but I've had no luck finding his name. It looks to me as if the whole family moved over serially, first coming to the Erie area. My Charles and his sons Mathias and Lewis definitely were in Dubuque Co and later Ida and Webster Counties in Iowa.