This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/ZAQBAEB/59.1 Message Board Post: If that George was George Washington Strack, then I am his great grandson. He married Emilie Staub. They lived at 2131 Hatmaker in Lower Price Hill. The site now is an old parking lot. The George to whom I am referring is buried in Spring Grove Cemetery in Section 122 Lot 27 next to Emilie. Jacob Mayer was given a purse by Napoleon, as one of about 7 personal bodyguards. If my memory serves me correctly, from a newspaper article shown to me long ago, that purse later was donated to the Cincinnati Art Museum. The rest of the story is that Jacob actually fled with his wife the night before Napoleon's capture. By my recollection, they had several children, Henriettta, Louella, Ethyl, Barney (probably Barnard), along with my grandfather William James Strack (b. July 25, 1896). On William's birth certificate his mothers name is given as Amelia, but the stone at the cemetary says Emilie. William married Helen Uth. They had two daughters, Willa and Joy. Joy was my mother. Please let me know if this helps, and what else you might know. Thank you. Chris