I don't know this family, but my relatives also came from Buer in the same time frame and their last name was Westerhold. (Similar but different.) However, this gives me the opportunity to give those of you with ancestors from Buer a new source opportunity. (If the Catherine Nienhueser listed is yours, it says she died in 5 Aug 1919, however, it gives a different husband's name so maybe its not the same person.) http://www.buer-us.de/ This site is devoted to people from Buer who emigrated to the US and is wonderful. They have gone to extensive effort to document who came over, when, where they settled, who they married, etc. The contact is: dreuse@buer-us.de Somehow he found one of my posts into a genealogy group and contacted me about one of my relatives. The data on his page fleshed out a family I had some data on and gave me a separate relation that also came over that I had not found before. It says it is "Dedicated to the german and american descendants of the Buescher, Nienhueser (Niehaus) and (auf der) Masch families (as well as hundreds of other farmers who left the german village of BUER and its surrounding villages in the 19th century to emigrate to the U.S.A.) " So potentially the contact on the website has more data on the family you are related to. There was a link to a family tree for Nienhuser, but its broken. The site has a list of 3600 names and a history of the area, pictures of the area and normal farms/residences. It gives a great perspective on where our folks came from. The people listed on the site come from research into emmigration records, passenger lists, church records both here and in Germany, census lists in US, and researchers. Each person on the list is documented as to what sources were used for them. See below for standard reference for one person. Catharine Louise NIENHÜSER ( verheiratete LOHEIDE) Geburt: 4.November 1834 in Buer Eltern: Franz Henrich NIENHÜSER, Heuerling Marie Elsabein BAUMEYER Emigration: 1858 ? Heirat: Johann Friedrich LOHEIDE (John), geboren 1838 in Grambergen, verheiratet ca.1867; gestorben vor 1890 in Cincinnati Ohio. Kinder: 6 Kinder , davon 1 überlebend: Anna LOHEIDE, geboren im Juli 1872 in Ohio; verheiratet mit John H.Tackenberg; gestorben 1959 ? Leben in USA: Frau eines Zimmermanns und Einzelhändlers in Cincinnati, Ohio; Tod: 5.August 1919 in Ohio. Quellen: 1, 4, 5,