Hi Everyone, These are two of my mysterious lines. I haven't found out much about them, but what I have found is interesting. Christian KRUEGER was b. 1844 somewhere in Germany. I thought I had that figured out, but I didn't. <g> The first record I find of him in Vermilion County is in Danville in 1875, when he married Maria RINGLER b. 1850. Christian and Maria had: Louisa b. 1878, Fredrick b. 1879, Marie b. 1882, George b. 1886, and Martha b. 1889. In 1894, Christian left Maria. He probably went to St. Louis, MO. In 1912 in Danville, Maria filed divorce papers against Christian, saying that he had deserted her. Christian countered with the argument that he had not deserted her, she had been a bad wife and had such an evil disposition that he had been forced to leave her, and furthermore he had divorced her in St. Louis, MO, in 1901! The Vermilion County judge ruled in Maria's favor, but she had to pay all the court costs. Christian died in 1915 and Maria died in 1922. >From Maria's death certificate and from the censuses, this is what little I know about the RINGLERs: Maria's parents were John RINGLER and Anna Maria MILLER b. 1825 in Hesse-Darmstadt. Her brothers and sisters were Daniel b. 1848, Jacob b. 1854, and George b. 1860. Christian and Maria's daughter Marie KRUEGER married my great-grandfather Harley Johnson REYNOLDS in 1903. If anyone is researching these family lines or has any insight into German settlement in Vermilion County and where I might find Vermilion County German genealogy resources, I'd sure appreciate help. Thanks! Michele Chavez mchavez@netwiz.net