Hi Patsy, 1910 Census Name: John Heibel BP: Germany Relastionship to head of household: Father Residence:Justice Precinct 1, Victoria, Texas MS: widowed Race: white Gender: male Immigration Year: 1883 Father's BP:Germany Mother's BP: Germany family number: 480 page number: 24 Household child: Adam Heibel M 35y spouse: Teresa Heibel F 32y Mary Heibel F 11y Adam Heibel M 4y Emile W Heibel M 3y Otto Heibel M 1y In the 1900 census John Heibel is already widowed and there is a brother-in-law mentioned by the name of John Hueber born 1878 in Texas. This info came from www.familysearch.org website, on Ancestry I found John Heibel born 18 June 1839 in Hessen, Germany, died 10 June 1916 from someone's personal website on ancestry. I went back to www.familysearch.org as I have seen death records for Texas Name: John Heible (this is how it is spelled) DOD: 10 Jun 1916 Death Place: Victoria County, Texas Gender: Male Race: White Death Age: 77 years Estimated Birth Date: 1839 Birth Place: Germany Marital Status: Widowed Mother's Name: Anna Goehler Mother's Birthplace: Germany Occupation: famer Cemetery: Catholic Cemetery Burial Date: 11 June 1916 film number: 2051626 digital film number: 4165881 Image Number: 1184 Reference Number: 15411 Your friend should order a copy of the death certificate, it may reveal a lot more, even the specific town Johann was born in. Once she has that and there is a specific location, we can look for the Catholic archives in Germany. Yvonne in California ----- Original Message ----- From: "Patsy Hand" <patsy2931@suddenlink.net> To: <prussia-roots@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2011 7:01 AM Subject: [PRUSSIA-ROOTS] Johann Heibel > With my limited knowledge of the history, etc of Germany I have bee trying > to help a friend with his German family. The name is Johann Heibel, b. > June 1839. Possibliy had a brother, Christopher that did not come to > America. Johann came about 1882/83 and settled in South Texas. He was a > Catholic. MY friend has Johann's diary where he wrote he was born Nassau > Hessen, Germany. My friend thinks that means Johann was b. in the city of > Nassau, state of Hessen, Germany. I think grandpaw meant to say the > district of Hessen Nassau, Germany and no village or town listed. Can > someone out there either agree with my friend or me. If I am right, I > would like to get my friend going in another direction. Patsy Hand, Texas > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > PRUSSIA-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >