This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: KNECHT, KENT, GOKEY, MC CLAREN, MC MILLEN Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Eh.2ADI/20 Message Board Post: Seeking info. regarding John Kent (aka Johann Knecht), born 1828, immigrated from Prussia in 1840s, served in U. S. - Mexican War 1846-1848, married Mary Gokey in Jo Daviess Co., IL on 12-1-1851. She was born in Jo Daviess Co., IL to Gabriel Gokey and Sophia Shennet/Chenet. Her father was born in French Canada and her mother was born in OH. John and Mary (Gokey) Kent farmed in Thompson Twp., Jo Daviess Co. and had 13 children: Harriet, Julia, Victoria, George, Charles, John, Alice, Albert, Edward/Edwin, Christian, Robert James, Emma R., and Margus. Margus died at the age of two having drowned on the family farm. Harriet died at the age of 16. They are both buried at Zion Presbyterian Church cemetery in Shapsville. The Kent family later moved to Byrd's Creek in Richland Co., WI about 1885. Any info. pertaining to these families is greatly appreciated! THANKS!