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/Cm.2ADI/54 Message Board Post: I would like to be in contact with the ARENS relatives of Mitchell County, Kansas. I see many ARENS in the Tipton, Kansas Catholic cemetery. I'm wondering their ancestory. Does it connect with mine back to Luxembourg? Bob Arens of St. Paul, MN lavaeandbob@cs.com

Bob These are the ancestors of my husband's maternal grandfather. Small world item: The grandparents of my husband's maternal grandmother, along with most of their adult children, immigrated to Mitchell Co, KS ca 1875. Surname: Klein Jo kesterjo@earthlink.net Descendants of Joannis Henrice ARENS Generation No. 1 1. JOANNIS HENRICE1 ARENS He married MARIA ADETHEIDIS KRAMER. Child of JOANNIS ARENS and MARIA KRAMER is: 2. i. Joannes/Johann/Bernardus2 ARENS/ARNS, b. March 30, 1788, Damme, Oldenburg, GER; d. July 1849, Minster, Auglaize, Oh. Generation No. 2 2. JOANNES/JOHANN/BERNARDUS2 ARENS/ARNS (JOANNIS HENRICE1 ARENS) was born March 30, 1788 in Damme, Oldenburg, GER, and died July 1849 in Minster, Auglaize, Oh. He married CATHARINA MARIA SCHULTE October in Damme, Germany, daughter of JOANIS SCHULTE and MARIA ORTMAN. She was born August 28, 1785 in Damme, Oldenburg, GER, and died October 29, 1850 in Minster, Auglaize, Oh. Notes for JOANNES/JOHANN/BERNARDUS ARENS/ARNS: They both came from Oldenburg, Germany to America in 1833. He died during the cholera epidemic of 1849 and is buried in the cholera section of the cemetery in Minster. No stone. Large memorial stone behind chapel at St Michael's Cemetery in Fort Loramie, OH. A researcher found graves in Germany of two infants. This could explain the large amount of time between the births of Elsie and John Henry. Passenger and Immigration Lists: Baltimore Port Passenger Arrivals 1820-1834 Ahrens Bernhard 45 " Anna 45 " Elsie 21 " Henry 10 Children of JOANNES/JOHANN/BERNARDUS ARENS/ARNS and CATHARINA SCHULTE are: i. Maria Elisabeth "Elsie"3 AHRNS, b. October 23, 1812, Damme, Oldenburg, GER; d. December 16, 1870; m. (1) Johann Joseph SUERMANN, June 28, 1836, Fort Loramie, Shelby, OH; d. Bef. 1845; m. (2) George Brune, 1845. "Elsie" arrived in Baltimore, MD in 1833. She was 21 and came with her parents and younger brother. ii. John Bernard Ahrns, b. July 27, 1821, Damme, Oldenburg, GER; d. August 04, 1821, Damme, Oldenburg, GER. iii. B. Heinrich/Bernard Henry AHRNS, b. November 12, 1823, Damme, Oldenburg, GER; d. April 06, 1877, Fort Loramie, Shelby, OH; m. Maria Anna Carolina Timmerman, April 18, 1850, St Augustine Church, Minster, Auglaize, OH; b. January 30, 1833, Lutten, Visbeck, GER; d. April 15, 1877, Fort Loramie, Shelby, OH. He was baptized 16 Nov 1823 St Victor Church Damme, GER iv. John Bernard Ahrns, b. March 24, 1827, Damme, Oldenburg, GER; d. April 17, 1900, St Rosa, Mercer, OH; m. Elizabeth Drahman, July 29, 1850, Minster, Auglaize, Oh. I would like to be in contact with the ARENS relatives of Mitchell County, Kansas. I see many ARENS in the Tipton, Kansas Catholic cemetery. I'm wondering their ancestory. Does it connect with mine back to Luxembourg? Bob Arens of St. Paul, MN lavaeandbob@cs.com