I have a gt grandfather named Peter Scherrer, a blacksmith from Hesse Darmstadt. I can find information on him and his wife Elizabeth, and ther 9 children and grandchildren. Peter and his brothers formed a funeral business called Scherrer Brothers. It is obvious from the city directory which of his brothers were involved. All I can find is the info in the city directories. The first person to show up is John Adam Scherrer in 1847. I believe he is the Adam that can be found who was born in 1829 and died in 1894. He is there off and on and there are even some years when the city directories do not have any Scherrer's spelled any way. Then there is an Adam. He show up more often, and it is hard to tell if he is the same man or a different one. He is not the one that you can consistently find married to a Margareth, all the way up to the 1930 census. There is one time when both are listed in the directory at the same time, both listed at the business and one at the business and the house.Then there is one time when they both are listed at the business but different houses, if I remember correctly. Those two are the ones I can start off with. I think that Adam's wife's name was Mary as she is listed at the same house, one year, as a seamstress. If anyone can find John Adam on anything or Adam, let me know. I still would like to know if non citizens were registered for the draft, as there are some possibilities with naturalization records after the Civil War. Sue