This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: GERDES, HIBBELER Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/mkB.2ACI/388 Message Board Post: My father's mother was Johanna Gerdes. She married Fritz (Fred) Hibbeler (many different spellings in census) in 1895 in Fayette County, Texas. The 1900 census shows them in Fayette county with their oldest child Hugo (Henry in the Census). I cannot track her family down. I know that she came to America from Hamburg when she was 11 yrs. old and that she was born in 1876. If anyone has any information on the family you can email me at dhjackson55@yahoo.com. Any help will be greatly appreciated.