At 03:00 PM 7/24/2000 -0500, you wrote: >My great-grandfather, John D. Wilkens, came to Effingham from Germany >around 1857. He married Anna Catherine Brand on May 10, 1865 in >Effingham. They had two children, John Albert Wilkens and Elizabeth >Wilkens. Anna then died. She may be buried in Teutopolis but unsure. >Also, John D. came from Germany with his mother, Anna Knaba Wilkens and >at least one sister, unsure of her name. Looking for any information on >his mother and sister. > >Also, Anna Brand Wilkens, his wife, may be buried in Effingham. Can you >possibly check your cemetery records? Thank you. > >John D. moved to Leopold, Missouri where he remarried and had five more >children, one of them my grandmother, Anna J. Wilkens Ferguson. > >Connie P. Blattner, St. Louis, MO > Connie: ******** No Anna Wilkens listed in St. Francis Cemetery, Teutopolis....she's not listed under Brand, either (but I didn't expect she would be). Linda