This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Musselman, Kruger, Blair Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/TZo.2ACIB/7.11.14.17.18.19.20.22.1 Message Board Post: My Musselmans are connected to John J. Kruger of Lake Park, Dickinson Co., Iowa, through his son Henry and Bess Blair Kruger late of Sioux City. I have been collecting online information about the Christian and Nona Kruger family, recently, and I believe that my John J. Kruger (possibly Johann Jacob Kruger) b: Nov 1852 in Germany (s:1900 Census) who was married to an Anna M. resided in Osceola County and then finally in Dickinson County, Iowa. His children were Wilda Emma, Nona C., Kris (m), Klaus, Henry, and Albert and William. I'm pretty sure that this John J. Kruger is the son of Christian and Nona Kruger, for the naming of his children match several of his siblings and their children. (i.e. Kris / Christ, Klaus, Henry Fredrick, Albert, Nona.) and that other children of Christian and Nona Kruger moved to NW Iowa (i.e. Osceola, Obrien, Lyon, and Dickinson counties.) I've yet to pursue any death records for my John J. Kruger, I'd hope that it would list his parents' names. I've been looking for this Kruger family, less Christian who died in 1857, in the 1860 Census in Illinois and Iowa, but with no luck. 1870, too. Does anyone have these listings, yet? I'm willing to share what I've collected, so far, with anyone with a connection to these Krugers.