This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: PLUMER, GELTHAUS Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ZVC.2ACE/4118.1.1.1 Message Board Post: When you are checking the Lutheran records for Diepholz, please look for PLUMER and GELTHAUS families. They were Lutheran. Johann H. Plumer (01 October 1795 - 02 April 1883) started the "mother" church for many of the Lutheran churches around Council Bluffs Iowa. Johann may have been born in Schobrink which is now part of Diepholz. He and his wife, born Maria Martha Henrietta Gelthaus (1798-1859), and 6 children came to Missouri in the 1840s, then moved to southwest Iowa in 1851. www.plumersettlement.org lists burials in the Lutheran cemetery next to the mother church.