This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Decker Deaker Macke Lubbe Willmann Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/hgR.2ACIB/416.466.502 Message Board Post: I am interested in the information that you have about the Decker families who lived in Cincinnati and came to Ripley Co. IN. A brother, Fred Decker (spelled Deaker, but I hope that is wrong as I can't find that name anywhere), is listed in my husband's great great grandmother's obit (1902 in Clark Co. IL) We believe that must have been Anna Maria Macke's maiden name. She was married to John Henry Macke in 1846. She was born in Hanover Germany in about 1821, came to OH in 1846, and lived in Cincinnati and in Ripley Co. for a while in the 1850s before going back to OH and then coming to IL. in the 1870s. They had a sister, Henrietta who married Fred Lubbe and lived in Ripley Co. and later in Dearborn Co. as did her daughter, Sophia, who married a Willmann. I am hoping that some of these names sound familiar or that you can tell me when the Decker family moved from OH to IN. Thanks for any help. Eleanor