In a message dated 7/23/2004 4:11:30 PM Central Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: > Valentine RAUCH was a custom butcher and sausage maker Valentine is my great grandfather. He was born 6 May 1838 in Bavaria & died 20 Jun 1918 - according to the newspapers he suicided in his butcher shop - according to the family, he accidently hung himself up in the apple orchard. Valentine was the son-in-law of Jakob Reinhard, who I believe built the stone house at 636 3rd Street in Buffalo. Jakob & his wife, Anna Maria, had only 1 child, Anna Maria - she married Valentine after being widowed by Edwan Banholz/Bernholtz/Barnholtz/etc. Valentine & Mary married 21 Nov 1872 in Scott Co., Iowa. They had the following children: 1. Amelia b. 1873 m. William Ochsner 2. Mary b. 1874 d. 1893 3. George b. 1876 m. Rosella (Mounts) Clark 4. Louis b. 1878 m. Kate & someone else 5. Mathilda b. 1880 m. Preston Gold 6. Katherine b. 1882 m. Edward Strohm 7. Frank b. 1884 d. 1886 8. Carl b. 1887 m. Lillie Thora Christensen (my grandparents) 9. Harold b. 1889 m. Verona Eberhardt (I've been working on the Eberhar(d)ts - interesting family - were commissioned glass manufacturers under Thomas Jefferson.) 10. Clarence b. 1892 m. Anna I'll gladly share info on any of these families! Thanks again, Jo!!! Lynnea