This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Ludwig Fink (Finck) Crites Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/ZYB.2ACI/691 Message Board Post: Jacob Ludwig and Mary Elizabeth Fink Ludwig (later Crites) had the following children: Sophia (b.1813), Jacob (b.1818), William (b. abt 1820) and George W. (b.1821). I have some circumstantial evidence that their son William is one of my grandfathers, but I am not certain. My g-g-g grandfather William Ludwig married Anne Jemima Webber in Pike Co., OH (just south of Pickaway) in 1842. They had at least 2 sons (George W. and William) before 1850 but I cannot positively find any of the family until Anne Jemima Ludwig and her two sons appear in the 1870 census after William has presumably died or divorced. I cannot find him in either the 1850 or 1860 Census. However, a George Ludwig, age 16, was living with George Crites and the above mentioned (widowed and now remarried) Mary Elizabeth Fink Ludwig Crites in Pickaway Co., Oh in the 1860 Census. G.W. (George Washington) Ludwig, my g-g grandfather was in the Ohio 58th Infantry out of Pickaway County in the Civil War (Company I, which formed the day before his 18th birthday, October 30, 1861) so I assume this is likely the same George Ludwig of the 1860 Census of the same county (He had not yet turned 17 at the time of that Census). I speculate that William Ludwig died before 1850 and that his son George went to live with his grandmother Mary E. Fink Ludwig Crites. What I don't know is any details about Jacob Ludwig and Mary E. Fink's son William. When was he born? Where is he buried? The other three children of Jacob and Mary moved to Allen Co., OH, but I can find no information about William. Can anyone help?