patticake wrote: > Hi, > The family name I am researching is BOTT. Are there Cemetery Inscription > books that might carry these names? Our ancestor was Jacob BOTT, born about > 1809 who settled in Monroe county coming from Germany. He also had a son > named Jacob born in 1838 or 1839 who came to Lorain Co. in 1880's.Does > anyone have anything on this family? Jacob II shows up as BUTT in the 1870 > census, yet our family name is BOTT. Are the BUTTS and BOTTS one and the > same? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks . Pat Owens Pat, There is/was a Dr. Hugh Bott who lived in Monroe Co., I believe, who was researching the Bott family...I tried to find an address by going thru. all the family charts and past newsletters for Monroe Co., but I was unable to find his address. I did find these: From the Navigator, the newsletter for Monroe Co. Chapter, Vol. 7, No. 3 (July 1994) Abstracted from the Spirit of Democracy (newspaper pub. cont. from 1844) 16 May 1928 Jacob BOTT, age 75, former prominent Lewisville citizen was found dead in bed at his Columbus home Sat. of heart trouble. His wife died several years ago. L. D. BOTT of Woodsfield is a brother. Mrs. Eva BURG of New Lexington is a sister. And from the Ancestor Charts, Vol. 1 is a submission from Michael L. BROWN, Casilla 55, Santa Cruz, Bolivia of an Anna Christina BOTT who married John SALZMANN. She was b. 5 Nov 1808 and d. 21 Feb 1865. Their daughter, Anna Martha SALZMANN was b. 7 Mar 1837 in Hesse, Germany and she died in Pike Co., OH 29 Aug 1907. Anna Martha SALZMANN m. Jacob SAUTTER (b. 25 Aug 1823 Wurttenberg, Germany; d. 8 Sep 1893 Pike Co., OH) 19 Aug 1857. Jacob and Anaa Martha (SALZMANN) SAUTTER's daughter, Margaret Ann SAUTTER b. 18 Aug 1860 Waverly, Pike Co., OH, d. 15 Aug 1945 Madison Co., OH m. Richard Harvey BROWN b. 31 Aug 1854 Woodsfield, Monroe Co, OH, d. 3 Jan 1930 London OH. on 25 Nov 1886. The son of Richard & Margaret (SAUTTER) BROWN was Ernest Ellsworth BROWN b. 9 Jan 1894 Pike Co., OH, d. 13 Feb 1969 Lancaster OH. He married Mary Edith STOCKWELL b. 15 Dec 1900 Pike Co., OH on 15 Dec 1921. I did find a bio of the BOTT family that Hugh is researching in Monroe Co., Ohio Families. He lives/lived in Woodsfield at 135 North Main St. and is descended from the L.D. Bott named in the abstract above. Here is his line: Lewis J. ( 1826-1891) & Catherine ( 1825-1891) (SCHENK) BOTT came from Hinterveindethal, Bavaria abt. 1852. They settled on a farm abt. 2 miles south of Lewisville, Monroe Co., Ohio where they farmed and reared a family of seven children: Eve 1852 - ? (husband John BURG) Jacob 1853 - 1928 (wife Elizabeth CHRISTMAN 1857 - 1921) Louis 1855 - 1930 (wife Louise DRESSLER 1862 - 1944) John 1858 - 1928 (wife Julie ?) Fred 1860 - 1923 (wife Matilda WEBER 1868 - 1924) Caroline 1864 - 1956 (husband Chris LAUER) Mary 1866 - 1952 (husband Edward CATHARY) Eve and John BURGs children were Alfred, Roscoe, & Lizzie were reared at 213 East Row, Woodsfield; Jacob and Elizabeth lived in Columbus OH, no children; Louis and Louisa had children, Charles, Forest, Clara, Harrison (Harry), and Marie and they were born and reared on the farm 2 miles east of Woodsfield on Rt. 78; John and Julie had one child, Nellie (1893-1911) who died in senior year of high school, they lived in Columbus OH; Fred & Matilda had 4 children, Charles Henry, Urban, Ethel (d. young), Zelda ASHTON, 2nd husband CHRISTY; Chris & Carrie LAUER had Dora, Edna, Clarence and Gerald; Edward and Mary CATHARY had Alice BARNES; Louis and Louisa had Charles F., the father of Hugh BOTT. Charles F. BOTT m. Georgia NEUHART on 1 Jun 1910 and they had Hugh, b. 1912 and Charles Daniel b. 1916. The rest is abt. his family and his brother's. Hope this is your family. -- Bonnie Burkhardt <burkhard@flash.net> <bburkhardt@juno.com> Researching: Allender/Arbo/Archibald/Bergman/Burdick/Burkhardt/Debruler/ Deline/Holden/Hathorn/Hyett/Keyser/Lashley/Long/Pervorse/ Porter/Rice/Sternbacher/Stone