A Handful of Johanns

In 1839, Johann Gottlob and Justine Ernestine (Bock) Fiehler arrived in America with their three year old daughter, Ernestine.  They had sailed on the Copernicus. Not long after arriving in Perry County, on June 22, Ernestine gave birth to a son, and they named the boy Johann Gotthilf Fiehler.  I am no expert on these … More A Handful of Johanns