For what it's worth I can contribute the following information from the Franklin County Atlas of 1882 concerning my ggrandfather, Andrew J. Heasom. "In 1847, when only four years old, he left his native soil in company with his parents, who located in Brookville. Two years after their advent to this place, the parents both died, being carried away by the cholera in 1850. Thus was Mr. Heasom, at a very tender age, thrown on the world. Unfortunately for him, he was bound out in 1850 by Messers Francis Grassnook and Daniel St. John, to a man named George Metzger, who during four years cruelly mistreated him; finally he was taken from the man on February 22, 1854 and bound to a farmer named Thomas Johnson by Messers Enoch McCarty, Simpson Calfee and John Wynn, remaining with him until his eighteenth or nineteenth year. In the agreement made with Johnson, the latter was obliged to furnish young Heasom with one year's schooling, which he faithfully discharged. ......" Evidently the placing of children was handled by members of the community, possibly appointed by the court. Andrew Heasom was born in Bavaria. After being wounded in the Civil War, he returned to Brookville, became a merchant, Brookville Twp. Trustee and finally Franklin County Treasurer. He married Anna Frank, who was born in Cologne, in Brookville 10-1-1868. So here are two more immigrants from two more parts of Germany, to add to the group. Dinah Pascal