Jesse Gaines Crecelius (1815-1900) was born in Washington Co., Tennessee to Mary Polly Zubrotin Crecelius, daughter of John Godhard Crecelius. He married Drusilla Turner (1819-1895) 1838 in Scott County, Mississippi. They had nine children. Descendants live in Mississippi, Texas and elsewhere. The Crecelius/Krecelius family originated from Germany. The earliest known ancestor, Dietrich "Theodor" Krekel (Krecelius) was born 1540 in Gemunden, Westerwald,...

Johann Wilhelm Crecklius was born in Germany in 1762. He married Elisabeth Margaretha Reichel. They had four children, but only sons reached adulthood. These men brought their families to America settling in St. Louis, Missouri. Information concerning their descendants who now live throughout the midwest is given in this volume. Includes Crecelius, Beyes, Mueller, and related families.

Stephen Golden (1766/7-1855) married Hanna Helms. He was a descendant of Richard Golden (ca. 1750) who immigrated from Ireland to North Carolina early enough to have served in the Revolutionary War. The family migrated to Virginia, Tennessee and settled in Kentucky. Relatives and descendants scattered throughout the United States.

Mabel Gilbert was born 4 March 1797-1870 in Tennessee. His parents were William Gilbert and Nancy Morris. He married Charity Morris (1801-1854) in about 1819. They had twelve children. He married Rachel Gibbs Albright Freeman in 1855. They had eight children. He died in 1870 in Wichita County, Texas.

Joseph Belk was born 25 February 1794 in South Carolina. He was the son of William Alexander Belk and Hannah Darling. He married Margaret McCann in about 1816 and they had ten children. Joseph died in 1867 in Marion County, Georgia. Descendants and relatives lived in Georgia, Texas, Arkansas, California, Colorado and elsewhere.

Pedigrees of families related to the Heymanns of Kaltenholzhausen, Hessen-Nassau, Germany, which emigrated to Ohio during the mid-19th century. Most lived in the vicinity of Wiesbaden. Family data is from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. Two of the children of Johann Wilhelm Heymann (1761-1836) and Katherina Dorothea Hölzer (1776-1823) settled in Huron co., Ohio. Emphasis is on the German ancestry, not on their American descendants.

Johann Michel Heisman (d/1828/1829) immigrated from Germany to Shenandoah County, Virginia, and married Mary Magdaline Ziegler in 1785. Descendants and relatives lived in Virginia, Maryland, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Washington, D.C., Oklahoma, Nevada, California and elsewhere.