In your book, do you have any information on the surnames: Wallner, Dusel (Dussel, Dusl), Brand, or Rewitzer? Joan on 11/1/03 7:11 PM, [email protected] at [email protected] wrote: > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/HGB.2ACE/128.2 > > Message Board Post: > > I have a book in my possession called "Journey 1872-2000". The book has short > biographical sketches of families in Sleepy Eye and the surrounding area. It > also has pictures of businesses, churches, schools, banks etc., old and new , > in Sleepy Eye. The only hotel I see listed is one called "The Lake House, > first hotel in Sleepy Eye, built in 1872 by Christian Emmerich. It was a > white frame building and stood on the corner of 1st Ave. N. and Main Street > until 1932 when the Sleepy Eye Fire Department condemned the building and had > it pulled into the intersection of Main and 1st Ave. and burned it to the > ground. A brick building was built in its place and housed a general store, > later a drug store and lunch counter and various offices on the second floor. > In the family biographies of this book is a family picture and short biography > of the family of Xavier Seidl. Their are 13 children in the family and one of > them is named Mary. She married Henry Stelzer. Is this your ancestor? > Just thought I'd pass this information along just in case. > [email protected] > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go > to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >