Anita, We share another family name! I have a grandmother, LETHA KESSLER. I have a "cousin" in Warrenton, VA who has gone to Alsace to trace this family.....Weber-Kessler. I knew my great grandmother, Caroline WEBER KESSLER. We hold our WEBER-KESSLER reunion the second weekend in August in Indiana. If you want more info let me know, My files are in the car. We are in Clinton, TN (Bill's family home). Julie ----- Original Message Follows ----- > > This Schmidt family is not connected with Germanna. > Heinrich Franz Schmidt was born 12 March 1871 in > Gelnhausen, Hesse, Germany. He graduated from the > University of Heidelberg as an Evangelisch Pfarrer. He > came to Dixon, IL after graduation and marriage (21 July > 1896) to AnnaMartha Catherina Kessler of Verden am Aller, > Hesse, Germany and came as a Lutheran missionary pastor. > The family was in Gelnhausen from the 1600's. > > If anyone is connected to the Kessler or Schmidt families, > I would like to exchange information. ............... > Anita (Rouse) Schmidt > > > bill and julie wallace