About that letter from Jacob GALLMAN where he says his son Heiri has a wife from the Rhein valley: Could Heiri be a pet name (maybe even misspelled) for Heinrich - or Henry - and could he be the Capt. Henry GALLMAN (b. 1709) that Elizabeth GEIGER, daughter of Herman, married? Diepoldsau was in a loop of the Rhein (Rhine) River which has been cut across (I think in the late 1800's), leaving D'sau on the other side of a very handsome bridge. I'm beginning to think Herman's descendants didn't know an awful lot about each other when they put up that monument. Anne C.