Hello MOHenry mailing list, I have recently become the MOHenry Mailing List administrator. I would like to thank the former administrator Joy Kersteter for her dedication to the MOHenry Mailing List. Thank You Joy! Joy's assistance is greatly appreciated and will be missed. You may wish to thank her also. It is a rare individual who does not at sometime in his or her life wonder just who his forebears were; what they did, where they lived, what personal characteristics did they possess that might have been passed down from generation to generation; from whence came the composite of genes that determined our particular physical features such as color of eyes and hair, height, complexion and sometimes even our personal traits and dispositions. Some knowledge of the past, some information on just who we are and what line of descent brought us into being does help us to better understand ourselves. Without a past, there could not be a present, without a present, there could not be a future. Della Maye Fowler of Windsor, Henry Co., MO, compiled a booklet, A Genealogical History of the Eberting Family, 1980 - 1982. This was not a published work, but a booklet that was prepared and distributed to several family members. As the generations come and go a certain amount of family facts and history that can be obtained only from the memory of individuals is lost. The purpose of this booklet was to record some of the information before it disappeared in the mists of time. At the time of preparation it had some errors and unintentional omissions. However, it was very well done considering all the volunteer effort of family members. Although this information is now close to twenty years old, I find that her research is still very relevant today. This information has become the foundation of my research. My interest and research relates to John George Eberting family and descendants of Henry County, Missouri. John George Eberting and Catherine Hobein and their five children: Wilheim (William), Heinrich (Henry), Adam, Catherine Elisabeth & Martin Thomas came from Germany to the United States aboard the ship Atlantic from the port of Bremen and arrived in New York on June 16, 1865. Apparently, they had one more child, Carrie Bell, upon arrival in Chicago, Cook Co., Illinois before they went to Henry Co., Missouri. Many of this Eberting family are interred at Englewood Cemetery, Clinton, and other surrounding cemeteries in Henry Co., Missouri. Family tradition is that in the fall of 1869 when the family started for Missouri, from Cook County, Illinois, the team of horses ran away, and John George Eberting was killed October 9, 1869. John's widow Catherine Hobein Eberting was an important and key ancestress in my family history. Catherine Hobein was born in Werkel, a small village which has since been absorbed into the town of Fritzlar which is near Kassel in the province of Hesse Germany. Catherine Hobein Eberting married John Boettcher on June 30, 1872 in Cook County, Illinois. John Boettcher and Catherine Hobein Eberting Boettcher are interred at the Tebo Baptist Church Cemetery, Clinton, Henry Co., Missouri. The MOHenry Mailing List is an e-mail list for genealogical research regarding Henry County, Missouri. HARMONY is the objective. If you have any suggestions, words of wisdom or innovative renovations, please post them to the list so we can discuss them. This is your list! If you feel you have a legitimate complaint, send it to the administrator, NOT to the list. To contact the administrator of this mailing list, send mail to MOHENRY-admin@rootsweb.com. I hope you enjoy your association with this group and that it will be useful in furthering your knowledge of Henry County, Missouri and your surname family. May it bring you lots of success in your own genealogy research. Keep your ideals high enough to inspire you and low enough to encourage you. Thank you, enjoy, participate, and have a good time! Oh, and in case you don't notice in my signature, I would also like to point out that I am a Jayhawk! :-)) Thanks, Mike Michael G. McManness, a Jayhawk through and through, eating, sleeping, and bleeding Crimson and Blue near the University of Kansas. Family genealogist and research historian.