This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Phernetton, Stafford, Weyer, Teague Classification: Census Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/gFC.2ACI/1373 Message Board Post: According to my grandmother, Muriel I. Phernetton, her great-grandfather came from Germany. It has been difficult to fit this in with the other things I know about him until I found his sons, Christopher Columbus Phernetton, Jr, and Henry Phernetton, in the 1880 US Census. They both list their father as having been born in Germany.