Looking for information or connections to these people: Joseph KESLER of Kleinfischlingen and Eva Catharina JAECK (JACK) of Essingen. Their oldest child was Anna Maria, born 1802. The rest of the children were born over the next twenty one years, making the first and last ones twenty-two years apart! They are Maria Katharine, Joseph, Maria Appollonia, John Michael, who died at age three months, and Catharine, in addition to three brothers who came to Missouri, Jacob, Michael, and John Adam. The maternal grandparents of the family were Nicolaus JACK and Anna Marie MAJOR, and on the father's side, the grandparents were Andreas Franz KESLER originally from Weingarten near the Rhine in a wine region, and Appolonia BUECHLER (BIEGLER). The BUECHLER family has a history of migration from Switzerland, where they lived in the Simmenthal area near Bern, working as shepherds and cow herders.