This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Allenbrand,Allenbrandt,Babion Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/HKB.2ACE/374.1.1 Message Board Post: I’m still looking for where Xavier and Margaret are buried. All I know about Joseph is what is below. I have some information on Julie, Anna, and Peter. In the book HISTORY OF PORTER COUNTY, there is a biographical section on Peter allenbrand, son of Xavier. In that section, it is reported that, “Xavier was born in Alsace, Germany, and when he was eighteen years of age immigrated to America. He had no capital, and his greatest possessions were his health and strength, combined with his sturdy German character. He was educated in the German tongue and had learned the trade of cabinet maker. In 1850, he, with his family, came to Porter County, Indiana. His wife was also a native of Germany, who came to America as a young girl of thirteen years. Her mother and father settled in Maryland and there passed the remainder of their lives.” His mother’s maiden name was spelled Babion and have been told that her fathers name was john, but am not sure on that. The 1850 Porter Co. Census shows Xavier to be forty at the time, a farmer, and from Germany. Margaret is 35 and also from Germany. Peter is 15, Lewis 12, Allen 9, Joseph 5, and George 3, all born in Canada. Julie Ann and Anna Elizabeth are not on Census. I have no actual records of Julie Ann and Anna Elizabeth, just what I got off other family trees on the Internet. Xavier Alsation Allenbrandt, born 1-28-1810 in Alsace, Germany. He married Margaret Babion in 1833 in Canada. Margaret was also born in Germany on 8-27-1812. They had 7 children, one of them being Peter Allenbrandt, born 8-22-1835 in Canada and passed away in 9-25-1913 and is buried in Merriman Cemetery, Porter County, Indiana. Xavier and Margaret are in the Porter County 1870 census, but in 1880 index are in Miller, Gentry County, Missouri with son Joseph, his wife Minnie and their two children. We do not have any cemetery books for Gentry County, which is North of St. Joseph, MO. The following is from the book GENTRY & WORTH COUNTY HISTORY 1882 page 414. "Xavier Allenbrand, farmer, section 31, post office Berlin*, was born in Germany, January 28, 1810. He was reared and educated in Europe. In 1831, he came to America, and since 1869, he has been a citizen of Gentry County. He is the owner of a fine farm of 260 acres. For some time after coming to this continent, Mr. Allenbrand resided in Canada, where he was married in 1833, to Miss Margaret Babeon, a daughter of John P. Babeon, an eminent educator of that country. They have six children, four boys and two girls." *Berlin was a community (or town) in Miller Township that no longer exists. In 1792, Alsace, Germany, was officially annexed into France. I believe it is now know as Lorraine Province, France.