Dear Barb,
The only other info I can give you it that my Great great Grandfather had three brothers, August, Adolf and Charles.Charles married a Emma Sass. Charles was a master carpenter (German trained) he built a house in Oak Lawn Illinois which still stands today. I can not remember off hand who the other brother was that married the other Sass sister.The family is of the Lutheran faith. St. Andrew's Lutheran church and school was founded and started by these ancestors of mine.