Surnames: STROOT STROTH WELLINGHOFF Submitter: Tim Nutt ([email protected]) Date: 23 Jan 2003 My ancestors, Henry & Maria Schulte Strott (Stoot, Stroth)lived in Clinton County in the 1860s until 1880. At that time, the family (Henry, wife Maria, daughters Katherine, Anna, Margaret, Carolina, and Bernhard Schulte) moved to Perry County, Arkansas. It was not just this family that moved, a whole group of families from Clinton and surrounding counties moved to this area in Arkansas. Some of the other families who moved were Wellinghoff and Lipsmeyer. I can find no record of when the Strotts came to Illinois and their is some debate as to where their first child Katharine was born (either in Germany or Illinois). Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be any newspapers from around that time. Can anyone help? Thanks. Tim --------------------------------------------------------------------------------