This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/jEC.2ACE/1358.1.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: With a brother named Colwert, your Emma most likely is part of the Pier family often credited with being the first settlers of Fond du Lac county (first death, first to enlist in civil war, first white family to settle, etc etc etc.). The first white settler was Colwert E. Pier, first white female was Fanna Pier, and her death on March 1, 1838 was the first death in the county) There is a Pier cemetery, established by the family, where most of the original Pier family members are buried. Tracy