Charles PIEPER b: 8 Dec 1859 Schleswig-Holstein d: 17 July 1912 Omaha, Nebraska. Arrived US 1880 Lived in Lancaster County, Nebraska and then Omaha. Parents - unknown. Wife Minnie BRINKHOFF May have traveled to US with brother Ferdinand PIEPER b: 18 Nov 1854, d: Nov 18, 1909, Lincoln, Nebraska. Brother Albert PIEPER b: 26 Feb 1865 S-H d: 8 Dec 1944 Lincoln, Nebraska. Known to use name of stepfather in early life WENDT. Married to Matilda Bartz. Listed Ernest WENDT and Louisa Gorse ? as parents. Wendt was stepfather, mother or stepmother? Stepfather of above Ernest WENDT b: abt 1840 S-H, arrived in US before 1885. Minnie BRINKHOFF b: 1857 to 1864 S-H, sister Kate, lived in Lancaster County Nebraska, married to Dittmeyer or Demeyer in 1881 and had son Anton in 1882 (?). Married Charles PIEPER around 1885-1886. Died in fire in home in Omaha in 1893. Parents listed as Henry BRINKHOFF and Charlotte SEIFERT Looking for any information that will lead me to the parents of Charles PIEPER and Minnie BRINKHOFF This brickwall is early in my hunt for ancestors as Charles and Minnie were my great-grandparents. Appreciate any ideas or information. Susan Leighton