This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Bower , Bowers, Bauer Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/HZB.2ACI/867.2 Message Board Post: I am related to the Bowers family , They were Mennonites and lived in Ohio , Some of them lived in Wayne county , Ohio I have a history and genealogy book of the family called Trail of the Pioneers that traces the family back to switzerland and Hans Bauer , who left his home on July 13 , 1711 and ended up in America. Ken Johnson , Palm bay , Florida