Deb, you will have to subscribe to the list in order to post to it, or I will do it for you like you see here! :) >Date: Wed, 1 Apr 1998 11:24:13 -0800 (PST) >X-From_: [email protected] Wed Apr 1 11:24:12 1998 >Old-Date: Wed, 1 Apr 1998 10:03:05 -0800 (PST) >From: Angie <[email protected]> >Subject: kunkel schafer connection >To: [email protected] >X-Diagnostic: Not on the accept list > >I received your e-mail a few days ago, just now getting to respond. I >have been entering all my history into PAF. Now I am at the Schafers >and I find a connection with Kunkel. Phillip Schafer had a daughter >named Mary Catherine (9-20-1880 to 7-11-1962). She married a Thomas >Smith. Their son Elvin married a Lois Kunkel (b: 1-19-1913) on >12-6-1928. Their son Melvin married a Ruth Kunkel on 5-29-1929. >Most of the Schafers remained in Dent Co., MO around Salem, Darien, >Sinking Township, Rolla, etc. and are buried in the Greenforest >Cemetary in Salem. If both brothers married a Kunkel then obviously >there was a family of Kunkel there. I find it interesting too that in >putting this all together my Gunkels and the Schafers were all from >Hesse, Darmstadt, Germany. I noticed the ship landed in Philadelphia. >I thought Gunkel was such an uncommon name but in checking the >internet there are alot in the Philadelphia area. My Gunkels did go to >Northern Missouri for a while. Dent County is in South Eastern >Missouri in the Boot Hill. >I'm still plugging away and entering everything everyone has sent me. >If I come up with another Kunkel I'll let you know. Send me the name >of the Schafer your relative married and I'll see if I can find it. > >Deb