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/UGB.2ACI/1403.2.1.1 Message Board Post: Loretta, This had certainly been a tough family to track. As far as I know right now they never left Monroe County. Descendants of Christian Grassle Generation No. 1 1. CHRISTIAN1 GRASSLE (Source: Marriage records of Monroe County.) was born Abt. 1820 (Source: Calulated from age at marriage.). He married KATHARINA MARIA RODE (Source: 1841 Immigration Records.) January 14, 1844 in Monroe County, Michigan (Source: Marriage records of Monroe County.), daughter of JEAN RODE and KATHARINA KOEHLER. She was born May 15, 1820 in Wachenheim, Bavaria (Source: Civil Register of Wachenheim.), and died November 17, 1885 in Monroe, Michigan (Source: Trinity Lutheran Church - Monroe Michigan.). More About KATHARINA MARIA RODE: Burial: November 19, 1885, Trinity Lutheran Cemetery, Monroe, Michigan (Source: Trinity Lutheran Church - Monroe Michigan.) Cause of Death: Lung Sickness (Source: Trinity Lutheran Church Records, Monroe, Michigan.) Immigration: 1841 More About CHRISTIAN GRASSLE and KATHARINA RODE: Marriage: January 14, 1844, Monroe County, Michigan (Source: Marriage records of Monroe County.) Marriage Note: Married by S. Schmidt -Pastor Children of CHRISTIAN GRASSLE and KATHARINA RODE are: i. SOPHIA PHILIPPINA GRASSLE (Source: Trinity Lutheran Church Records, Monroe, Michigan.), b. June 09, 1846, Monroe, Michigan (Source: Trinity Lutheran Church Records, Monroe, Michigan.); d. September 14, 1850, Monroe, County, Michigan (Source: Trinity Lutheran Church Records, Monroe, Michigan.). More About SOPHIA PHILIPPINA GRASSLE: Burial: September 15, 1850, Trinity Lutheran Cemetery, Monroe, Michigan (Source: Trinity Lutheran Church - Monroe Michigan.) Cause of Death: Typhus (Source: Trinity Lutheran Church Records, Monroe, Michigan.) ii. WILHELM GRASSLE, b. July 26, 1848, Canada. iii. MARIA GRASSLE, b. September 24, 1850, Monroe , Michigan; m. DANIEL CLAUSER, April 03, 1872, Trinity Lutheran Church, Monroe, Michigan; b. March 04, 1846. More About MARIA GRASSLE: Baptism: September 24, 1850, At Home in Monroe, Michigan More About DANIEL CLAUSER and MARIA GRASSLE: Marriage: April 03, 1872, Trinity Lutheran Church, Monroe, Michigan iv. JOHANNES GRASSLE, b. October 24, 1853, Monroe , Michigan. More About JOHANNES GRASSLE: Baptism: November 20, 1853, Trinity Lutheran Cemetery, Monroe, Michigan