This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/mh.2ADI/630 Message Board Post: I didn't post when this thread started, but thought I should add some families now that it has been revived. Nearly all the children and widow of an Elias Ritter of southern Stark Co (Bethlehem Township) came to Kosciusko in the 1840's and 1850's. It is unclear if Elias himself made it from Stark before he died, but his wife (Christina Grindle) is buried in Tippecanoe township. There were also some Grindle families that may have been related, and a son-in-law, Peter Stametz, who made the same migration. These families seemed closely allied with some northern Tuscarawas Co., OH (Lawrence Twp) families who also moved to Kosciusko (Hamman, Mock, Stiffler, etc.)