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Message Board Post:
Francie, I'm afraid that we will have to be cousins in spirit only. The message that
you responded to, which I posted in August 1999, gave an incorrect ancestry. Since then I
have learned that my Ott ancestors in Floyd and Harrison Counties were not related to the
Frank Ott family at all. Frank Ott, Sr., who lived near Georgetown, was from
Hesse-Darmstadt. My great-grandfather was Ferdinand Ott, who was from Baden. Ferdinand
came to Indiana well after Frank and family were already in Floyd Co. I have not been able
to find any connection between Ferdinand and Frank Ott's family, nor to the various
descendants of Henry Ott who were mostly in Harrison Co. Henry Ott and Frank Ott were not
related either. Henry was born in Virginia, began his family in Kentucky, and was one of
the pioneers in Harrison Co.