This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Family KREKEL (Missouri) Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/WMB.2ACE/4548 Message Board Post: I live in France and I seek my ancestors left to the United States : - KREKEL Jacob, born September 1830/1831 in Germany, deceased on May 6, 1908 in Saint Louis MO, married on September 24, 1854 in Gasconade MO with SCHMITT/SCHMIDT Marguerite, born on August 24, 1832 at Petite-Rosselle (Lorraine - France) and deceased June 22, 1913 in Saint Louis MO, and their children : - KREKEL Catherina, born in 1860 (Missouri) - KREKEL Maria or Mary, born in 1860 (Missouri), married with Frank DESSAU, born in 1857 in Virginia, and their children : Andrew or Audler (born in 1885) and Arthur (born in 1904) - KREKEL Elizabeth or Lizie, born in 1862 (Missouri), married with SCHOENBAECHLE and ZECK : Theresa and Hanna ZECK - KREKEL Margaret or Magie, born in September 1869/1870, deceased October 1954 in Saint Louis, married with John H. KISTENMACHER (born in 1870, deceased March 8, 1956 in Saint Louis. - KREKEL Theresa, born in 1872, deceased in 1945 in Saint Louis, married with ? SCHIMMELPFENNIG. Jacob KREKEL arrived at the USA in 1847. In 1853, Jacob and Marguerite left to live in Saint Louis, in the family of Jacob. They were listed in Census 1880 in Saint Louis (Missouri). The trade of Jacob was a blacksmith. Jacob and Marguerite are buried with the cemetery Sts Peter & Paul de Saint Louis. Thank you in advance for your assistance.