This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Jg.2ADI/11.388.1 Message Board Post: Don't know if you have gotten a response but there was a Philip Lower = (Lauer) married to a Mary (Margaretha?) living in what is now Auglaize = County (then Allen County) in 1840, This location is about 30 miles or = so north of Miami County. Philip purchased land in that area Oct 8 1835. = He died sometime around 1846. I am also researching ancestors = Lower/Lauer but I believe they came from Alsace to Ohio if I can believe = the census responses from the 1800s. My Lauers are Carl/Charles and son = Charles and in 1850 were in Auglaize County but I can't connect with = Philip at this time although I believe there is some connection. Please = contact me if you want to pursue further. I am in Ohio and may be able = to access some records at some point locally. Blaine