This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Teetor Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.ohio.counties.erie/11658.2.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hello long-distance-distant family!! I have not yet found the name of the stockyard, but have rec'd a lot of helpful info from Gordon, Lynne, Rosemary & JoAnn. I've looked in countless city directories, at Cinti Historical @ Museum Ctr & downtown & school libraries, web census & auditor web sites for property/ owner info. I did find that twice, maybe more often, street names had been changed as the city grew. Some I've found the new names for, some have been lost to the previous generations. This past Monday, Christmas 2006, I found a photo in my Mom's boxes of photos that's ancient - a group of men in suits standing outside a store that says Hoffman(n)s Meats.Late 1800s or early 1900s?There are barrells of something too, vegetables ? There are dozens of photos with no names on the back.I don't recognize anyone, looks like before my Mom or her parents were born. My Grandpa Edward Vincent Teetor's parents are Carrie Meurer & Edward Daniel Teetor. Carrie's parents were Elizabe! th "Lizzie" Schilferth(Schiffert?) & Gus/Gustave/August Meurer. Lizzie is buried in Walnut Hills Cemetary with near a daughter that died at age 14 or 15, and there are two other girls who were small, along with my Grandpa's brother Howard who died in 1926, not yet 2 years old. Lizzie's Schilerth Meurer's parents were Mary Hoffmann/Hoffman & Sebastian Schilferth( i really cannot make out the correct spelling of her maiden name, on any document). Has anyone heard of Hoffman's Meats before ? Do you have any records? I haven't found where Gus Meurer is buried, he lived in Indiana & 'died in Lookout IN April 25, 1936, husband of Louise Meurer.' Louise/(Ludwina on 1 photo) is his second wife, that my Uncle Butch/Wilbur remembers. Lizzie died in 1909. Hope this helps. I have found very few death cerificates yet, some of the folks at the library have watched me struggle for 5 or 6 hours & do not care to help, I always mess up the microfilm too. Sometimes I get lucky & get a little! info each trip, sometimes none. I'll send what I find & appreciate an y deatils you are willing to share or send me. I've access to a copier at work, short on free time to search. Love ya all & hope to someday MEET some of you!! -Mary Bush, squierfan@aol.com Dec. 30, 2006