I am searching my family history. Our family also came from Lohn Switzerland. My great great grandfather was Gottfried Ehrat, his parents were John J Ehrat and Sara ( do not know her maden name) married to Barbara Weeber in Lohn they too were in the family business at the tile brick factory. The story goes that one of the family members fled to America with the monies from the factory. Gottfried came to America in search of this family member. They never did find them. The story continues that they would change there name back and forth from Ehrat to Ehret to try not to be found. I do not know of this other family member name. Gottfried and Barbara settled in Defiance, Ohio. They had several children, Robert was my grandfather and his son John Lee was my father. We grew up in Fremont Ohio.