This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: SMITH, COTTER, WEISS, HEINZEN Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/0EC.2ACE/630 Message Board Post: My name is Mary Aberg (the daughter of Ruth Weiss Maley) and along with my cousin Barb Mabie (the daughter of Dora Weiss Heinzen), have just restarted our family research on the Cotters of Lincoln County. Our grandmother Dora Cotter Weiss was the granddaughter of O.B. Smith, one of the founders of Merrill.