I have some information for those who may be doing research on this family line.

This is in relation to an adopted child of Edward Ben/Benjamin Ernst a/k/a Edward Bernard a/k/a Bernard E. Ernst and Mary A. (Jordan) Ernst.

Joseph Ferdinand Ernst
DOB: 08/20/1931 (St Louis, MO)
DOD: 10/21/2003 (Jefferson County, MO)
Adopted: 04/08/1932 (Juvenile Division St Louis County, Missouri Circuit Court)
Baptized: 04/17/1932 Corpus Christi/St Lucy Church, Jennings Rd, St Louis, MO

(I have copies of these original documents I can send to people for their research files)

Joe's father, Edward Ben Ernst, is the son of Ferdinand and Mary/Maria A. (Drieman) Ernst. She was Ferdinand's 2nd Marriage.

Full brothers and sisters to Edward Ben Ernst are: Leo August Ernst, Rosa "Rose" (Ernst) Trout, Mary Wilhelmina (Ernst) Mager, Theresia Julia Ernst, Frank I. Ernst(a/k/a John Ignatius Francis Ernst), and a questionable brother of John Ferdinand Joseph Ernst.

Half brothers and sister to Edward Ben Ernst are(born from his father's first marriage to Helena "Lena" Beller): Anna Mary (Ernst) Ell, Mary H. Magdalen (Ernst) Zerr, John Marc Ernst (a/k/a Johann Ernst).

I am in need of information regarding the offspring of this line to include the surnames of: Ell, Vedder, Post, Roeper, Echele, Dunnermann, House, Ohlms, Simpson, Loeffler, Kliethermes, Tegethoff, Leverenz, Schneider, Kullman, Zerr, Meyer, Hepperman, Drieman, Trout, Mager, Wilhelm, Jordan.

I am working on a probated estate that is difficult to trail this family with regard to descendants.