This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Zimmerman Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/TJB.2ACI/1270.1 Message Board Post: Pauline -- There was a Joseph Zimmerman listed in the 1880 census of Stearns Co. in Albany Township (page 514B). He was age 1 in June, 1880. He was the son of Joseph and Catherine Zimmerman, ages 50 and 30, born Prussia and Bohemia respectively, and sibling to Louisa, Anna, Kate and John, ages 7, 6, 5 and 3 in the census, all born in Minnesota (as was Joseph). The parents and brother John appear to be buried in St. Mary's Cemetery in Albany, MN. There were a number of Zimmerman(n) families in Stearns Co. in this time period, some of which were influential in local commerce. You state that Joseph was born in St. Cloud... do you have any real proof of that, or could that location be the result of the "nearest big city" syndrome? --Tom