| We have little information on the Mayer family.
      Even the names we have in the older generations are suspect; we have
      received two conflicting sets of names from two researchers. The Mayer family lived primarily in Waterville
      and Whitehouse Ohio. The relationship of
      the Mayer family is shown on our main
      genealogy page, and in  Dick Estel's
      pedigree. According to one researcher, John Martin Mayer I
      (1794-1871) came to America from Germany in 1840, arriving in Boston 26
      August. He went then to Maumee, OH, where he worked on the canal. In 1842
      he purchased 160 acres in Section 10, Waterville Township. I
            have seen the old Mayer home in rural Whitehouse, although my father
            stated it had been modified significantly from its appearance when
            he was a child. --Dick
            Estel, September 2006 |