This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Gunkel, Rouse Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/QKB.2ACE/292 Message Board Post: I decend from Mary Sebelia Rouse (Rausch) b: 1855 in New Orleans Louisiana. In 1870 She married John Gunkel in Holt Co., Missouri. They had several children. By 1900 they were living in Indian Territory, Chicksaw Nation (Bryan Co., Oklahoma). Living with them was Mary's mother, Elizabeth Rausch b: July 1827 in Germany. Both families were from Germany. My Gunkel line was spelled KUNKEL back in Germany. They came to the US in 1857 through New Orleans. I would love to correspond with decendants from either family. Deb