Hello: My name is Bill Fleckenstein and I am researching the family of my greatgrandparents Philipp and Catherine Fleckenstein. Philipp, his brother Johann, sisters Margaretha and Katherina and possibly his mother Salome Bott Fleckenstein came to the US from Bavaria in 1847. They settled in the Bradys Bend Area. Philipp married Catherine Bergmann ca 1849. Johann married Catherine Hartmann ca 1847, Margaretha married Martin Seitz in 1847 and later about 1850 married Conrad Freund. Katherina married Johann Loew in 1849. The only hard evidence of Armstrong county is Philipp and Catherine in the 1850 Census (name spelled Fleckstein). The baptism of son John at Sts Peter and Paul, Queenstown, the marriage of Margaretha to Martin Seitz at the same church. Brother Thomas and his wife Elizabeth came from Bavaria in 1852 and brother Joseph and wife Margaret cane in 1856. Does any of this ring a bell for anyone ? I sure hope so as this has been a stone wall. We have traced the family in Germany back to the late 1600's. Thanks, Bill in Ohio