Peter Yagy (1787-1849) and his wife, Anna Wilhelm Yagy (1792-1860), had six children, ca. 1823-1837. The oldest daughter immigrated to the United States, ca. 1840, as a nursemaid to a family who settled in Wisconsin. The rest of the family emigrated from Zizers, Graubunden Canton, Switzerland, in 1849. They landed at New Orleans, went up the Mississippi to Galena, Illinois, where Peter Yagy died of cholera. The mother and children continued on to...