Posted on: Pennsylvania Dutch Queries Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Pa/Dutch?read=4870 Surname: Hymes, Himes ------------------------- Searching for John Hymes (or Himes) b. PA (family tradition is that he was German); father of Joseph Perry Hymes (1855-1934 b./d.Appanoose Co IA, although he lived most of his life in Putnam Co MO). Do you have any information on a John Himes that migrated PA>IA in the late 1840s or early 1850s?