Is anyone else on the list interested in the Ernst surname in Macoupin/Montgomery Counties? In particular I'm interested in the descendents of a Carl Ernst (1828-????) and Josephine Müller (1842-????). He was born in Germany, she in Switzerland. Not sure when they immigrated but I believe it was in the later 1850s as their first children were born in Kentucky (likely Louisville area) and then I believe they came to the Montgomery County area at the end of the Civil War. I believe one of Carl's sons, Albert M, settled in South Otter Twp sometime after 1900. His wife was Annie "Geranst", but I think that's a typo as I can't find squat on that name anywhere. In 1920 her folks were living with them but I still can't make out their surname. Does anyone know what her real surname was? Another Ernst of interest to me is a Christina Ernst that married Heinrich Ossiek in Mt Olive in 1867. I can't find hide nor hair of this family except that they have two small children buried at St Paul's outside Nokomis in 1873. Were they there because they were related to the other Ernst families between Witt and Nokomis? There are other Ernst folks in the Zion Lutheran records in the 1860s, was she related to any of those? Anyone have a clue to what happened to this Ossiek/Ossick family??? Are these two Ernst folks related in any way to those in Macoupin County at the time? Darren