This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: dellkatt Surnames: Meyer, Myer, Streeter, Strater, Reakes, Kahlstorf Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.meyer/3267/mb.ashx Message Board Post: What happened to Jacob P. Meyer's first wife, three daughters, and mother-in-law? What was Mary H. Meyer--his second wife's--maiden name? 1. Jacob P. Meyer was born in New York State in Sept 1831. Spellings from the records which I know to be attached to him include: Myer, Myers, Meyer, Meyers. 2. In 1850 he was living with his birth family in Eden, Erie Co. New York. Jacob J Myer and Roseanna M Myer were his parents--both were born in France; he had several brothers and sisters: Magdalena (1834), Frederik (1838), John (1840), Louisa (1845), August G (1847). 3. The US Census for 1860 lists Jacob Meyer (born 1832 in NY) as living in Waukesha Wisconsin with wife Mary Meyer (born 1836 in New York), their daughters Mary (born about 1856 in New York), Louisa (born about 1858 in New York), and Margaret (born in WI in 1859). Also living with them was a Mary H. Streeter (or Strater), born in 1804 in Prussia (I assume this was Jacob's mother-in-law). 4. Jacob had a son, John, in July of 1861 Wisconsin. After this point the five women mentioned in item #4 disappear. 5. Jacob P. Meyer was married to Mary H. [unknown maiden name] Meyer in 1874. She had been born in Vermont in January of 1848, so she was too young to be John's mother. 6. Jacob P. and Mary H. Meyer lived together in Wisconsin at least in 1875-76, when their sons William and Edmund were born 7. They had moved their family to Butternut Valley, Blue Earth Co, MN by 1880, when Mary E. B. Meyer Kahlstorf (or Eva Mary) was born. Several other children followed: Ida L.H. Meyer [married name: Reakes] in 1886, Roy Daniel Meyer in 1888, and Frederick J. Meyer in 1891. John appears with them on the 1880 federal census, but he doesn't appear on the 1885 Minnesota Census. [After this point John and his wife Dena and their children are consistently listed together in the censuses as living on their farm in Butternut Valley.] 8. Jacob P. and Mary H. Meyer were both still alive in 1895, and still lived in Butternut Valley, Blue Earth Co, MN . 9. In 1900 Jacob P. and Mary H. Meyer were living in Hancock Village (Swan Lake Twp), Stevens Co., MN with their four youngest children. 10. The 1910 census has Mary H. Meyer and her son Fred Meyer living in Lake George, Hubbard County, MN. Jacob P. Meyer is not with them at this point. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.