This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Gravenhorst Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/kYB.2ACE/650.1 Message Board Post: The dates for Julius (Christian) Gravenhorst are: Born 6. July 1840 Gut Weide (Holstein, Germany), died 8. Febr. 1914 Rooks County (Kansas, USA). Married to Helene Delfs. His Father Karl Frederick (Friedrich Carl) was born 29. May 1798 in Hamburg (Germany), died 29. Mar. 1867 in Grossenaspe (Holstein, Germany). Married to Margarethe Christine Cirsovius. Julius Christian had 4 brothers and 3 sisters: Marie (Emma Caroline Margarethe) Ernst, Helene (Dorothea Emilie Maria) Nutzhorn and Mathilde (Dorothea Amalie Louise) Otto. Also named in Marie Ernsts testament must be the 2 sons of her deceased brother Adolf (Wilhelm Cirsovius) named Adolf and Johannes Hermann. The group located in Stade consists of Maries brother Friedrich (Heinrich Ludwig Diedrich) and his daughters Anna Margerethe, Ella Blanka and Frieda; there are more children. Gravenhorst is not a common name in Germany. I'm not shure which Charles F Gravenhorst joined the spanish american war. I have 2 favourites: One born in Effingham, Illinois (son of Albert A. and Barbara Blattner), the other is born in Meldorf (Holstein, Germany) and son of Friedrich (Heinrich Ludwig Diedrich) mentioned above. I have complete data of all their Gravenhorst-forebears back to 1480 and am able to show you the relations. For more information please contact me by emailing directly to joachim.gravenhorst@gmx.net.