This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Eicher Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/QBC.2ACI/817.2 Message Board Post: Abraham Eicher was my great great grandfather. When I was going through the 1870 census I found Abraham Eicher listed as 32, Male, Farmer. Then Jane 24, Female, Keeps house and Alice 3, Female and Margaret 10/12, Female. He must have been married before he married Louisa. When my mother was doing her research on the Eichers she asked someone why they moved to Virginia. I guess Abraham had asthma and found the climate in Virginia was much better for him.