Some Woodford County info and connections I have are as follows. Please keep in mind my long search for Charles Brown! Emma Alice Brown-Rush-Mishler is daughter of Charles Brown and Mary Gerth. Mary Gerth was born in Woodford County around 1842. She married Charles Brown in Kansas, Leavenworth or Kansas City. The mystery is where Charles Brown came from and how did they get to Kansas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Samuel Mishler born 22 Feb. 1844, Holmes County, Ohio. Civil War Service Report: The Muster Rolls of the Adjutant General's Office, now in the State Archives, show the following Civil War service record on: Samuel Mishler Rank: Private Unit: Company G, 67th Illinois Infantry Nativity: Tuscaneaux County: Holmes State: Ohio Joined for Service and Enrolled When: 2 June, 1862 Where: Peoria, Illinois By whom: E. H. Oakley Term: 3 months Mustered into service When: 13 June, 1862 Where: Chicago, Illinois By whom: Captain Christopher Residence Town: Washington County: Tazwell State: Illinois Samuel Mishler was a member of the Washington Mennonite Congregation Samuel Mishler married Naomi Jones, 7 Feb, 1865, Woodford County Illinois Abraham Mishler, son of Samuel Mishler and Naomi Jones was born 16 Oct. 1863, Tazwell County. Abraham Mishler married Emma Alice (Brown) (Rush) Mishler 6 Aug, 1894, Eureka, Woodford County, Illinois. Witnesses: Michael Mishler and Mary F. Mishler. Parents of Emma Alice Brown Rush Mishler: Charles Brown and Mary Gerth. Other Woodford County Mishler marriages: Jacob Mishler and Mary Crow, 11 June, 1867 Israel Mishler and Hattie May Metzger, 1 Jan, 1904 Where married: Kappa, Woodford County Residence: Kansas Township Parents of Israel Mishler: Samuel A. Mishler, Katherine Miller Parents of Hattie Metzger Mishler: Charles Metzger, Leona Dixon Birth Record: Isaac Valentine Mishler b 14 Feb, 1899, Eureka, Woodford County born to Abraham and Emma Brown Rush Mishler. Death Record: Samuel Mishler, male, white, widowed. Birthplace: Holmes Co., Ohio. Date of birth 1843. Age: 70 years. Died 5th day of June, 1913 at 8:30pm. Former occupation: day laborer. Place of death: Metamora, Illinois. Date of burial: June 6, 1913, hr.: 4pm. Informant: pension cert. discharge from Army Court records. Undertaker: Wm. K. Briggs, Metamora, Illinois. Physician's certificate of cause of death: (a) cause of death: exposure & neglect during 1 week of alcoholic spree. Found in dying condition from circulatory failure, after laying out 2 or 3 days. (b) contibutory (secondary): arterio Sclerosis, nitral insuff. Chronic rheumatism. Signature: Jos. I. Knoblauch. Illinois Federal Census Report, 1860, Woodford County, Montgomery Township Gerth, Christian 59m farmer born Prussia Gerth, Alice 42f born PA Gerth, Mary E. 18f born IL Gerth, Lonnidas (?) 16m born IL Gerth, John 12m born IL Gerth, Edward 10m born IL Gerth, Cagle 7 m born IL Gerth, Harrison 5 m born IL Gerth, Hannah 2 f born IL Gerth, William 3/12 m born IL