At 08:04 PM 7/7/2000 EDT, you wrote: Carol, Although the enumerator spelled the name Kepler, the name for the family should be Kessler. I'm sorry if this spelling sent you on a wild goose chase (but that was the way the name was recorded in 1860). Best regards, Scott Bosecker >Subj: Re: [WISAUK] Gottfried Kessler family of Sauk City > Date: 6/28/2000 8:24:45 AM Pacific Daylight Time > From: sbosecker@mindspring.com (Scott Edward Bosecker) > Reply-to: <A HREF="mailto:WISAUK-L@rootsweb.com">WISAUK-L@rootsweb.com</A> >To: WISAUK-L@rootsweb.com > > Jim, > > Thanks so much for your post. I am specifically interested in Gottfried's >wife, Christina. In the WI 1860 census we find: > > Gottfried Kepler 43 M Stone Mason Germany > Christina " 53 F " >============================================================ >Hello Scott, > >I was interested in your posting above, as I have been searching for a >KEPPLER family: > >Anna SONNABEND b. 7 Jan 1869, WI; m. 12 Sep 1886, WI, Louis T. KEPPLER. They >had 3 children that I know of: > 1. Edna KEPPLER b. in Kiel, WI; m. --- FOLEY, divorced. > 2. Arno KEPPLER b. in Kiel, WI; m. Ella DUERWACHTER-they had a son, James. > 3. Elda KEPPLER b. in Kiel, WI; m. Otto SCHAEFER-they had a daughter, >Yvonne. > >Any information is appreciated. >Thank you, >Carol Davies >