It has been a while since I have posted my last inquiry but I am still searching for my Moegelin immigrant ancestors. Prior to 1854, when they immigrated from Prussia to Texas, the father and, perhaps, the older sons were ship captains on the Warthe River and on the Baltic Sea. When they reached Texas they immediately took up farming but since I cannot locate them on any passenger lists I am thinking that they might have taken jobs as crew members and, perhaps, used assumed names in order to get to America. My reason for this suspision is because one obituary states that the family left Prussia so that the sons could avoid being drafted into the Prussian Army. The Moegelin family consisted of the father Johann Michael, his wife Henriette, four unmarried young adult sons and three daughters. (It appears that the Moegelin name was pronounced similar to McLean because that is the name that some of the sons used during the Civil War in the U. S.) Any advice and comments are solicited.