This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ZVC.2ACE/4054.2 Message Board Post: There is a John Herman Koester, who was born September 18, 1873 in Hanover, Germany and was the son of Gerhard and Helena (Purk) Koester. This information is in the Family of Faith book about St. Clement Parish near Bowling Green, Missouri. As far as I know these people would have come directly from Hanover to the St. Louis, Missouri area before settling in St. Clement.