I am searching for ancestors, descendants and other relatives of Adam Mock and his wife Barbara Rittsteiger. They were from Eicheldorf, Hofheim, Oberbayern, Bayern, Germany. They had two children John George and John. John George was the oldest. John was born on November 24, 1858 in Eicheldorf. He died on June 13, 1918 in Timber Lake, Dewey, South Dakota. He married Helena Dorothea Volkenant on April 10, 1872 in Waconia, Carver, Minnesota. Helena was born on January 17, 1853 in Siebleben, Gotha, Sachsen-Coburg-Gotha, Thuringen to Friedrich Wilhelm Volkenant and Catharina Maria Ernestine Hasenstein. She died on December 08, 1942 in Seattle, Washington. She came to America in the ship Stedinger from Bremen and arrived in New York on May 8, 1855 with her parents, some siblings and her grandfather, Georg Ludwig Hasenstein. Her siblings were Hugo, Jacob F, Emilie, Anna, Theresia, and Wilhlemina. When her father died in the Civil War her mother married John's older brother John George and they had one daughter named Mary. John and Helena had 12 children, 6 boys and 6 girls. They were William George, Joseph, John, Otto Hubert, Kate, Anna Helena, Emilie Mary, George Fredrich, Maria Theresa, Rose Louise and one whose name is not known. William George Mock was born on April 18, 1883 in Wilmont Twp, Nobles, Minnesota. He died on 06 Oct 1952 in North Bend, Washington. He married Mary Delphine Shannon on July 15, 1905 in Ramona, Lake, South Dakota. They had 5 children 4 boys and one girl. Mary was born on September 27, 1886 or 1887 in Wessington Springs, Jerauld, South Dakota to John Mock and Mary Delphine Collier. Her siblings were Eliza, John, Joseph, and Vera. Mary died on March 13, 1916 in Saint Paul, Ramsey, Minnesota from giving birth to her son.