This will be my last posting to this mailing list. So if you have any INFORMATION on the FOLLOWING, Please contact me at: Carla in Oregon [email protected] Thank you very much for all the help you have given me. Looking for the PARENTS of the following or any Information: JOHN CHRISTIAN KOCH & LENA ROSA OHRENSCHALL *** JOHN CHRISTIAN KOCH: born: 15 August 1865 in Mulhausen Thuringen, East Germany died: 27 April 1953 in The Pioneer Home for the Aged, Wilton, McLean County, North Dakota buried: 30 April 1953 in the Family Plot - MacComber/MineView Cemetery, SE of Wilton in BURLEIGH County, North Dakota John Christian Koch lived in Burleigh County, ND, for over 46 years. He came to America in 1890. What ship.?? On 31 August 1904 in Mora, Kanabec County, Minnesota. John married his FIRST COUSIN. Three children were born in Minnesota, before the family moved to Burleigh County, North Dakota. The children that were born in MINNESOTA... Two daughters - Elnora Koch & Louisa Koch. the third Unknown.?? *** LENA ROSA OHRENSCHALL: born: 01 May 1888 in Niederbipp in the Canton of Bern, Switzerland. died: 04 March 1931 at Home, near the Coal Mine in Ecklund Township, near Wilton, Burleigh County, North Dakota. >From complications of Childbirth, when Pneumonia set in, about a week after giving birth. buried: 06 March 1931 in the Cemetery, South of the Coal Mine, near Wilton, Burleigh County, North Dakota. (Cemetery where her Husband and Sons Paul & Alfred are buried) Lena came to America in 1897, (What ship.?) with her Step-mother. (Who is she.?) Where was her father.?? OHRENSCHALL is of German Orgin: Found only in Arnstadt and Muhlhausen, in what used to be East Germany. Some of the information was sent to me by an Ohrenschall Family Researcher. Their informat in Switzerland says that there is NO one with the surname of Ohrenschall in Switzerland. Please send any Information, no matter how small to: Carla in Oregon [email protected] . . --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.373 / Virus Database: 208 - Release Date: 07/01/2002