This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Orthmeyer, Hacker, Hecker Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/CZB.2ACI/684.3.1 Message Board Post: I have Franz Orthmeyers boat records and his family records from Wiedenbruck, Germany. The Hacker family history is still a mystery. They arrived in Lawrence Co, Ohio sometime in the early 1840's but I do not know from where. The census records state Hanover. I believe that Herman Hecker, Marie Anne (Kosick) and Anna Catherine (Orthmeyer) may have been brother and sisters who may have come at the same time. Herman was married with children when he immigrated. The women married in Lawrence County.