Let's do our ancestors who have a surname that starts with the letters V, W, X, Y, or Z That way we did the first letters and the last letters...we will do middle letters next week and so forth until we have them all covered. mine are: WALTER: Frederick came to St. Louis sometime in the early 1850s. He married Eva WEBER here on April 1, 1854. He opened the F. Walter Candy Company that is talked about in the 1875 Survey of St. Louis. Frederick and Eva had several children including: Adolph (married and had two children Eva and Louise) Clara (married SCHROTH) Caroline (married FAHLEN) had two children Fritz and Lottie Fred (Fritz, Frederick) (married BANG) had 4 children, but only know names of Fritz and Carl Jospeh (my great grandfather) (married Dora GEBHARDT) had Dorothy my grandmother, Caroline, Jospeh, Olivia (Ollie), and Juliette or Julia Julia Eva (married WIPPERN) and had two children Carl and Walter WEBER: Eva married Frederick above...I don't know anything else about her except that she was born in Hessen Darmstadt around 1834 and died on Oct 12, 1905 in St. Louis. WOERNER: Martin. The butcher located in Soulard. He came from Baden. Don't know much about him until he appeared here in St. Louis. He married Elizabeth Reis or Reiss on May 22, 1879 here in St. Louis. They had 12 children: Viola (my grandmother) married Joseph Hempen August (Gus) Frank Mary Edna Hilda Ottilia (called Nuddy) Joe William Edwin (married RODENHAUSER) Charles Martin ZIMMERMANN: Charles married Antoinette Walter, the cousin of my Frederick above. Her father was Anton WALTER and her mother was Clara RHEIN. She was the sister of August J Walter, Adele, and Caroline called Lini). She and Charles had 3 children: Antoinette (married MEYER) Carl (married 3 times: MEEHAN, ALBERT, and a lady named Pearl but I don't have a last name) Ella (married MORISSE) Laura

These are my names. They are related by marriage only into my collateral lines. What I find interesting is that no longer is there a predominance of Irish marrying Irish with this generation who are mainly first or second generation Irish on my side. VONARX-given name possibly Adolph. Married one of my collaterals-Katherine Alice FINNEGAN (1879-1965). Believed that they divorced sometime before the 1920 census. Had at least one child (still living), maybe two. VORBECK, Joseph (ca 1893-1956) married into one of my collateral lines-Ellen "Nell" CALLAHAN (1895-1991) Had at least five children, four deceased as of 1993. WARD, Thomas (ca 1836-1891) married to Ann McQueeney/McQueeny (ca 1844-1907), one of their daughters or granddaughters married into my collateral FINNEGAN line. WARREN, Charles (1913-1976) married Rose FINNEGAN (1917-1999). No children. He may have been her second husband. WEGENER, August (1911?-1990?) married Helen FINNEGAN (1909-1995), collateral line. Had two children that I know of. WEIR, Elizabeth M. (CA 1916-1997) married one my collaterals-Living Vonarx. WEIR, Gloria J. (1924-1975) married my uncle Joseph Robert Emmet FINNEGAN (1919-1995)-3 living children. Georgia rbozzay wrote: > Let's do our ancestors who have a surname that starts with the letters V, W, X, Y, or Z > That way we did the first letters and the last letters...we will do middle letters next week and so forth until we have them all covered. >

Vesper Wachter Westerhold, Westerholt, any variant thereon... Wiemers Windmoeller Willaredt Wille Wolf Zendel Zinschlog These tended to immigrate through New Orleans and end up in Madison Co., IL after a stay in St. Louis. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree