Re: LOOKING FOR AMON RELATIVES
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Re: LOOKING FOR AMON RELATIVES
8/05/99
My mother's maiden name was Amen, shortened from Amend. In cemetery records, it appears that some of the family had the surname of Amon. It is interesting that the Amon's you are researching were in Hannibal, Mo., just across the Mississippi river from Quincy, Adams Cty, Ill., where I grew up, and where there were many, many, Amens. There are still a few of them there. The family research I have done shows two brothers, Phillip and Frances Amen(d), came to Adams County Ill.in 1834, coming up the river from New Orleans. They later brought their parents over, and their may have been other family members. They were from Oggersheim, Germany, near the Rhine, now a part of Ludwigshaven. There may be connections between your search and this info.