ASK JACKSON

The Southeast Missourian asked people about their family history.

Liz Overy: "The Friedrich family originated in the 1700s in Germany. My grandfather came over here in the late 1800s when he was very young. My dad was born here in Jackson in 1917."

Sue Dickerson: "I can trace my family back six generations. The Peetz family came over in the 1800s from Germany, and we still have relatives there. Our family started out here in the Tilsit area."

Barbara Stephens: "My father's family, Hopwood, and my mother's family, Sutton, came over from England in the early 1700s. My dad has some Irish. His family came from Hopwood, England."

Anne Rees: "My grandfather, at age 22, whose name was Grootens, came over to Cairo, Ill. in 1922 from Kaevelier, Germany. He worked as an engineer at the Cairo hospital and met my grandmother who was in nurses training."

David Ludwig: "My family came from Germany, through New Orleans in the early 1800s and settled here. Part of my family was in Bavaria. My great-great-great grandfather, Peter Ludwig, was a Union soldier in the Civil War."