In a message dated 6/10/99 10:42:10 PM Central Daylight Time, BrenHebert@AOL.COM writes: << Both sets of Grandma's parents were early settlers in Iroquois County, in fact her grandpa MERKLE donated the land that the old MERKLE school was built on, and her father Chris A. MERKLE taught at the school at one time. >> I think one of my grandpa's sisters married a Merkle. Very well known name in Iroq co. Debbie