Indiana Dillmans

On This Day - May 4th

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On This Day...

1844 - Birth: Anthony Duclos, Saint Lucas, Fayette County, Iowa

1866 - Death: Daniel Marion Batman,

1867 - Birth: Wilbur Asa Olmstead, Washington, Illinois

1867 - Birth: Willis Alva Olmstead, Washington, Illinois

1922 - Death: Lucy Margaret Gaar,

1937 - Birth: Rexanna Rosette Barnes,

1944 - Death: Frank Fred Karnitz,

A very short list today! A pair of twins born in Illinois in 1867, and the birth of my aunt Rex in 1937.

This and all other articles on this blog are © copyright 2013 by Daniel G. Dillman

On This Day - May 3rd

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On This Day...

1767 - Alternate Birth: Mary McPherson, Orange County, North Carolina

1767 - Birth: Mary McPherson, Orange County, North Carolina

1860 - Birth: Almeda Elizabeth Hatten,

1883 - Birth: Joseph Kilian Kunkel, Haverhill, Marshall County, Iowa

1886 - Death: James Bourn, South Villa, Vale of Health, Hampstead, Rockingham County, New Hampshire

1897 - Birth: Pinckney Lee Dark, Winnfield, Winn Parish, Louisiana

1898 - Birth: Alice May Beaudreau, Huron, Beadle County, South Dakota

1898 - Residence: Bert Mederick Beaudreau, Beadle, South Dakota

1898 - Residence: Erminnie Thurston, Beadle, South Dakota

1908 - Birth: Albert Mathew Lommel, Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minnesota

1915 - Death: Imogene Bumpas McQueen,

1919 - Death: Helena Holthaus, Kimball, Stearns County, Minnesota

1955 - Death: Ella Belle James, Norwood, East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana

1983 - Death: Mary Krueger,

1767 - Why do I have a Birth and an Alternate Birth entry for this person? Both are the same date, both appear to be the same place. It should be just one entry, right? I will have to check, and maybe do some cleanup on her entry.

One thing about doing this kind of blog post series, it sure highlights where you have issues in your data! And now every one of you gets to see it, too...

This and all other articles on this blog are © copyright 2013 by Daniel G. Dillman

On This Day - May 2nd

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On This Day...

1695 - Birth: Benjamin Morgan, Springfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts

1800 - Birth: Esther Olmstead, Wilton, Fairfield County, Connecticut

1823 - Birth: Anrihet Beaudreau,

1827 - Birth: Charles S. Myers, Missouri

1856 - Birth: James Matthew Boyett,

1860 - Death: Frances Westfall, Crawford County, Indiana

1882 - Death: Margaritte Degrand, Hupperdingen, Luxembourg

1886 - Birth: Edith Adeline Nelson, Waintown, Montgomery County, Indiana

1888 - Birth: Wade Alexander Singletary,

1898 - Birth: Henry A. Steichen, Pearl Lake, Stearns County, Minnesota

1901 - Birth: Mathilda M. Ellenbecker, Minnesota

1906 - Birth: Alphonse Henry Kremer, Watkins, Stearns County, Minnesota

1923 - Death: Martha Calhoun James, Winn Parish, Louisiana

1923 - Death: Cynthia Matilda James, Winn Parish, Louisiana

1975 - Death: Redrick Manard Singletary, Bladen County, North Carolina

1989 - Death: Minnie Hoeschen, Minnesota

2001 - Death: Agnes Mary Helen Steichen, Litchfield, Meeker County, Minnesota

1923 - Two deaths in the same family? I don't know the story here, it would be interesting to find out what happened to the James women. I happen to be in contact with Mr. Gregg Davies of Winn Parish, LA, who is a phenomenal resource for Winn Parish history. He appears to know everyone and almost everything that ever happened there. I shall have to inquire about this and see if he knows the story.

This and all other articles on this blog are © copyright 2013 by Daniel G. Dillman

On This Day - May 1st

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On This Day...

1649 - Alternate Birth: Samuel Foote, Wethersfield, Hartford County, Connecticut

1649 - Birth: Samuel Foote, Hatfield, Hampshire County, Massachusetts

1673 - Marriage: James Olmstead and Phoebe Barlow, Fairfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut

1688 - Birth: Anna Sophia Britzius, Achtelsbach, Birkenfeld, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany

1772 - Death: Joannes Zwilling, Wallenborn, Eifel, Germany

1846 - Birth: Catherine Mary Mathews, Bark River, Ottawa County, Wisconsin

1855 - Marriage: Dominic Lommel and Gertrude Adeline Lemm,

1868 - Birth: Joseph J. Kunkel, Jefferson Township, Marshall County, Iowa

1869 - Birth: Anna Gertrude Keppers, Avon, Stearns County, Minnesota

1870 - Death: Leonard Fruth, Saint Wendel Township, Stearns County, Minnesota

1873 - Burial: Rebecca Higginbotham, Shipp Cemetery Near Springdale, Mississippi

1873 - Death: Rebecca Higginbotham, East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana

1875 - Residence: Katherine Theis, Louisville, Scott, Minnesota, United States

1875 - Residence: Theresia Hartmann, Louisville

1875 - Residence: Anna Margaretha Theisen, Wakefield Township, Stearns County, Minnesota

1875 - Residence: Margaret Keppers, Avon

1875 - Residence: Adam Keppers, Avon

1875 - Residence: Nicholas Simplicius Keppers, Avon

1875 - Residence: Elisebeth Geis, Sand Creek

1875 - Residence: Charles E. Edgerton, Ramsey, Minnesota

1875 - Residence: Theresia M. Theis, Sand Creek

1875 - Residence: Michael Ellenbecker, Luxemburg

1875 - Residence: Nicolaus Ellenbecker, Luxemburg

1875 - Residence: Elizabeth Mary Keppers, Avon

1875 - Residence: Maria Anna Terwey, Avon

1875 - Residence: Adam Keppers, St Joseph

1875 - Residence: Johanna Hundzek, St Wendel

1875 - Residence: John George Fruth, St Wendel

1882 - Death: Ann Martha Palmer,

1885 - Residence: Peter Francis Keppers, Avon

1885 - Residence: Susan Catherine Keppers, Avon

1885 - Residence: Anna Gertrude Keppers, Avon, Stearns County, MinnesotaAvon

1885 - Residence: Adam Keppers, Avon

1885 - Residence: Johanna Geis, Sand Creek

1885 - Residence: Frank Monroe Whitman, Owatonna Ward 2

1885 - Residence: Clarence L Whitman, Owatonna Ward 2

1885 - Residence: Elizabeth Mary Keppers, Avon

1885 - Residence: Michael Fruth, St Wendel

1885 - Residence: Eva Johanna Fruth, St Wendel

1885 - Residence: Johanna Hundzek, St Wendel

1885 - Residence: Clara Fruth, St Wendel

1904 - Death: Eleanor C. Conkling,

My goodness that's a long list! But a quick perusal will show that most of it is Residence type listings. These are from two separate Minnesota State Census entries, the 1875 and the 1885. Both years used May 1st as their residency date. I like that Minnesota used a 10-year cycle like the US Federal Census, but chose to do it at the half-decade points. This gives me a finer grained picture of where my Minnesota people lived, and a closer idea of when they moved.

Have you checked your state censuses?

This and all other articles on this blog are © copyright 2013 by Daniel G. Dillman

On This Day - April 30th

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On This Day...

1633 - Christen: Phillip Smith, Hadleigh, Suffolk, England

1662 - Death: Henry Burt, Springfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts

1807 - Marriage: James Watson and Eleanor Roberson, Washington County, Kentucky

1809 - Christen: Henry Bourn,

1855 - Marriage: Mathias H. Theis and Theresia Hartmann, Saint Paul, Ramsey County, Minnesota

1864 - Birth: Chesterfield Merriwether, Indiana

1878 - Birth: Emma Florence Dark, Dodson, Winn Parish, Louisiana

1890 - Birth: Lula Neita Singletary,

1905 - Death: Anna Maria 'Mary' Kunkel, Haverhill, Marshall County, Iowa

1946 - Death: Bjorge (Bjorguf) Halvorsen Omdahl, Greenbush, Roseau County, Minnesota

And so we close out another month! This is an interesting exercise in genealogy blogging, as it requires a posting every single day. Now, the tools are here, and I am using them, to prepare posts in advance and publish them on schedule, but it still remains that I must do one post for every day of the year. It takes some discipline, and sometimes I make the posting for the day rather late on the day. Usually, though, I do a week or two in advance, which lets me schedule a block of time when I can do a bunch of posts.

So far, in the year in which I am posting these, they have not yielded any new contacts, which is really the intended purpose - cousin bait. I've mentioned that before. However, I already knew there are not very many people working my lines, in part because when I've gone looking, I'm not finding anyone else posting about them. However, the nature of the Internet is such that these posts can conceivably be around forever, so I am not discouraged about the lack of immediate contacts. The payoff will be years down the road when someone else discovers their family roots and goes looking...

In the mean time, thanks for putting up with what feels like an unbroken stream of lists!

This and all other articles on this blog are © copyright 2013 by Daniel G. Dillman

On This Day - April 29th

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On This Day...

1723 - Death: Mary Day, Springfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts

1730 - Death: John Day, Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut

1788 - Marriage: Daniel Coy and Elizabeth , Nelson County, Kentucky

1853 - Death: George Roberson, Crawford County, Indiana

1868 - Death: Magdalena Scholzen, Wallenborn, Eifel, Germany

1873 - Birth: Henry Elijah McQueen,

1874 - Birth: Apollonia Winter, Jacobs Prairie, Stearns County, Minnesota

1889 - Marriage: Peter J. Theisen and Maria Theresia Theis, Saint Mary's Church, Marystown, Scott County, Minnesota

1915 - Death: Valentine Hartmann, Saint Benedict, Scott County, Minnesota

1921 - Birth: Josephine Templin,

1925 - Birth: Loy Russell Gaar, Gaar's Mill, Winn Parish, Louisiana

1948 - Death: Frances Melissa Faith,

1974 - Death: Roger Elmer Zwilling,

On This Day - April 28th

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On This Day...

1641 - Birth: Hannah Burt, Springfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts

1729 - Death: Elizabeth Butler,

1731 - Death: James Olmstead, Norwalk, Fairfield County, Connecticut

1737 - Birth: Anna Maria Kunkel, Neuhutten, Germany

1819 - Birth: Martha McCarty, Mississippi

1857 - Birth: Edward Bernard (Barnhart) Kunkel, Peru, Miami County, Indiana

1871 - Birth: George Taylor Dillman, Crawford County, Indiana

1871 - Birth: Martha E. Denbo, Crawford County, Indiana

1871 - Death: Leonard Fruth, Saint Wendel Township, Stearns County, Minnesota

1881 - Death: David Griggs Abell, Jackson, Dubois County, Indiana

1910 - Census: John Watry, North Ottawa Townahip, Grant County Mn, Family 38 with Kathrine A. 23, Elizabeth C. 19, A. Matilda 14, Nick J, 13, John N. 11, Lena R. 9, Herbert 7, Margaret N. 5.

1913 - Birth: Vera Katherine Johnson,

1929 - Death: Sarah Jane Peters, Louisiana

1957 - Death: Lucy Maxwell, Winn Parish, Louisiana

1967 - Death: Theodore Laurent Beaudreau, Fond du Lac, Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin

1971 - Death: Emma Jordan, Winnfield, Winn Parish, Louisiana

1978 - Death: Anna Mary Lehnen, Cold Spring, Stearns County, Minnesota

On This Day - April 27th

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On This Day...

1629 - Burial: Ezechiell Stone, Hertford, Hertfordshire, England

1629 - Death: Ezechiell Stone, Hertford, Hertfordshire, England

1678 - Birth: Nathan Olmstead, Norwalk, Fairfield County, Connecticut

1734 - Birth: Phoebe Passmore, Chester County, Pennsylvania

1818 - Death: Elijah White,

1851 - Birth: Anna Maria Wagner, Marytown, Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin

1878 - Birth: Peter Isaac East, Cape Sandy, Crawford County, Indiana

1881 - Birth: Katherine Schneider, Farming, Stearns County, Minnesota

1887 - Birth: Henry Francis Kremer, Luxemburg Township, Stearns County, Minnesota

1904 - Death: John A. Branch, Winn Parish, LA

1911 - Birth: Edna Mae Fulkerson, Harrison, Indiana

1972 - Death: Aloys H Zwilling, Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minnesota

2004 - Death: Gerald W. Dark,

On This Day - April 26th

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On This Day...

1625 - Death: David Stone, Great Bromley, Essex, England

1744 - Birth: Lydia Sloan, Weston, Fairfield County, Connecticut

1772 - Birth: Mary Day,

1886 - Death: Jemimah Hattie Dillman, Crawford County, Indiana

1888 - Birth: Elsie May Dillman, Crawford County, Indiana

1915 - Death: Ailcey A. Roberson, Crawford County, Indiana

1968 - Death: Leonard Jerome Omdahl, Greenbush, Roseau County, Minnesota

1983 - Death: Alphonse B. Hoeschen, Stearns County, Minnesota

1988 - Death: Anna Watry, Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minnesota

On This Day - April 25th

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On This Day...

1650 - Birth: Dorcas Pearson, Rowley, Essex County, Massachusetts

1821 - Birth: Susan Dark, North Carolina

1916 - Death: Wade Alexander Courtney, Courtney Cemetery, North of Holden, Livingston Parish, Louisiana

1925 - Marriage: Leo A. Beaudreau and Bertha W. Zickau,

1940 - Death: Arnold Bernard, Stearns, Minnesota

1941 - Death: Emma Florence Dark,

1994 - Death: Phoebe Miles, Perry County, Indiana

On This Day - April 24th

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On This Day...

1197 - Death: Rhys ap Gruffudd, Saint David's, Pembrokeshire, Wales

1737 - Death: John Copeland, Isle of Wight County, Virginia

1818 - Birth: Catherine Sandel, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania

1822 - Birth: William Peters, Lawrence, Mississippi

1836 - Birth: Nancy Drucilla Crane, Madison, Tennessee

1865 - Death: Nicholas Lommel,

1870 - Birth: Lula Gertrude Williams, Louisiana

1872 - Birth: Sarah Alice Edoline Vernon, Indiana

1879 - Birth: James Riley Smith, Winn Parish, Louisiana

1926 - Birth: Phoebe Miles, Perry County, Indiana

1927 - Death: Mary Ellen Steichen, Pearl Lake, Stearns County, Minnesota

1927 - Birth: Mary Ellen Steichen, Pearl Lake, Stearns County, Minnesota

1985 - Death: Rose Mary Lommel, Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota

Um, yeah, 1197. See, there's this theory that my Day line connects back to Welsh aristocracy. Being royalty, it's documented pretty far back. At one point, I entered that whole line. Later, I decided the evidence for the link was not strong enough to keep in my tree, so I removed it. Except I apparently missed at least Rhys ap Gruffudd above.

Make sure you have strong enough evidence before you include people in your tree. Make a separate speculative tree if you want to keep the data pending research to firm up the sources, but don't toss it all in your main tree.

This and all other articles on this blog are © copyright 2013 by Daniel G. Dillman

On This Day - April 23rd

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On This Day...

1661 - Birth: Nathaniel Gunn, Branford, New Haven County, Connecticut

1747 - Birth: Benjamin Day, West Springfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts

1797 - Birth: Daniel Blake, Litchfield, Kennebec County, Maine

1856 - Marriage: Johann Steichen and Angelika Roller, Kehlen, Capellen, Luxembourg

1895 - Death: Elizabeth E. East,

1907 - Death: Katherine Zwilling, Morrison County, Minnesota

1910 - Death: Mary ,

1920 - Death: Louise Mary Beaudreau, Fond du Lac, Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin

1937 - Death: Reuben Dixon Crain, Winn Parish, Louisiana

1985 - Death: Elizabeth Middendorf, Melrose, Stearns, Minnesota, United States of America

1992 - Death: Walter George Gohmann, Stearns County, Minnesota

On This Day - April 22nd

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On This Day...

1643 - Death: Daughter Burt, Springfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts

1805 - Alternate Death: Larkin Gatewood, Elbert County, Georgia

1815 - Birth: Jehu Madison Grishom, Georgia

1817 - Death: Johann Philipp Kunkel, Brucken, Unterfranken, Bavaria, Germany

1847 - Birth: Clotide Beaudreau,

1850 - Birth: John Wagner, Marytown, Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin

1856 - Birth: Florence Esther Roach, Alabama

1859 - Birth: Isaac Newton Crain, Columbia County, Arkansas

1879 - Death: Catherine Sandel, Keokuk County, Iowa

1887 - Death: Theodore Keppers, Avon, Stearns County, Minnesota

1891 - Death: Lydia Day,

1893 - Death: Joyce Ellen Brister, Winn Parish, Louisiana

1966 - Death: Lucius W. Gulledge, Sikes, Winn, Louisiana, United States of America

2001 - Death: Lilian Rose Carlin, Saint Joseph, Stearns County, Minnesota

On This Day - April 21st

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On This Day...

1595 - Birth: Henry Burt, Harberton, Devon, England

1736 - Birth: Sarah Olmstead, Wilton, Fairfield County, Connecticut

1756 - Death: Joseph Foote, Colchester, New London County, Connecticut

1843 - Birth: Aaron Dark, North Carolina

1886 - Birth: Clyde Taylor Dillman, Crawford County, Indiana

1926 - Death: Isaac East, Crawford County, Indiana

1931 - Marriage: Alois J. Lommel and Cecilia R. Libbesmeier, Stearns County, Minnesota

1935 - Death: Mary Francis Liles, Jordan Hill, Winn Parish, Louisiana

1937 - Death: Jessie Myers,

1957 - Death: Horace Lafayette Boyett, Winn Parish, Louisiana

On This Day - April 20th

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On This Day...

1709 - Marriage: David Straughan and Mary Prise,

1736 - Marriage: Johann Jacob Fenstermacher and Anna Margaretha Schweig,

1778 - Birth: Christoph Grein, Grande Duchy Of Luxembourg

1792 - Death: Daniel Moody, South Hadley, Hampshire County, Massachusetts

1793 - Birth: Emily Bliss, Bennington, Bennington County, Vermont

1808 - Birth: Margaret Blythe, Tennessee

1827 - Birth: John George Fruth, Kemnatheröd, Bavaria, Germany

1846 - Death: Elijah Austin, Kelloggsville, Cayuga County, New York

1865 - Birth: Joseph Ebenezer Beaudreau, Fond du Lac, Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin

1892 - Birth: John Carnes Roberson,

1900 - Birth: Magdalena Schreifels, Cold Spring, Stearns County, Minnesota

1906 - Death: Margaretha Muller, Rice, Benton County, Minnesota

1916 - Death: Isaac A. Peters, Louisiana

1931 - Death: Mary C East, Crawford County, Indiana

1972 - Death: Wilhelmine C. Lommel, Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minnesota

1989 - Death: Tellis F Aucoin,

1999 - Death: Odell Erma Maloy, Jena, La Salle Parish, Louisiana

On This Day - April 19th

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On This Day...

1643 - Birth: Daughter Burt, Springfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts

1643 - Birth: Dorcas Burt, Springfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts

1663 - Birth: Jasper Gunn, Branford, New Haven County, Connecticut

1808 - Death: John Corbin Straughan, Shelby County, Kentucky

1822 - Birth: Eliza Ann McCartney Lowe, Ross County, Ohio

1870 - Birth: Malinda Jane Pinky Tarver, Mississippi

1927 - Birth: Malcolm Henry Steichen, Cold Spring, Stearns County, Minnesota

1931 - Death: Samuel Burton Dawson,

1966 - Death: Robert Lee Dark, Wisner, Franklin Parish, Louisiana

1986 - Death: Arthur Milus Gibbs, Winnfield, Winn Parish, Louisiana

On This Day - April 18th

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On This Day...

1642 - Birth: Mary Dresser, Rowley, Essex County, Massachusetts

1697 - Birth: Elizabeth Kathrina Otterbach, Trupbach, Nassau-Siegen, Westfalen, Germany

1709 - Death: Rebecca Stone, Hadley, Hampshire County, Massachusetts

1709 - Death: John Stone, Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut

1835 - Alternate Birth: Nicholas Simplicius Keppers, Pronsfeld, Kreis Prum, Germany

1840 - Birth: Balthasar Kunkel, Rothenbach, Germany

1864 - Birth: Anna Maria Pflueger, Wallenborn, Eifel, Germany

1875 - Marriage: George H. Riddle and Catharine A. Bird, Crawford County, Indiana

1882 - Birth: James Day, Weeping Water, Cass County, Nebraska

1892 - Death: Oliver Perry Dark, Jones County, Georgia

1894 - Birth: Mable Williams,

1914 - Birth: Leonard Jerome Omdahl, Roseau County, Minnesota

1914 - Death: Kate Arkins Williams,

1916 - Death: Kate Arkins Williams, Louisiana

1916 - Alternate Death: Kate Arkins Williams,

1933 - Marriage: Alvan Kirby Browning and Nannie Mae Reames,

Hmmm. Which was it, Kate? 1914 or 1916? More research.

This and all other articles on this blog are © copyright 2013 by Daniel G. Dillman

On This Day - April 17th

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On This Day...

1675 - Birth: James Olmstead, Fairfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut

1739 - Birth: Elizabeth King, Middlesex County, New Jersey

1740 - Death: Petrus Steichen, Strassen, Luxembourg, Luxembourg

1788 - Birth: Abigail Morgan, Essex, Chittenden County, Vermont

1817 - Birth: Elijah Roberson, Meade County, Kentucky

1827 - Birth: Peter Theisen, Girst, Rosport, Luxembourg

1870 - Alternate Birth: Lula Gertrude Williams,

1883 - Birth: Noah Jefferson Cox, Cape Sandy, Crawford County, Indiana

1883 - Birth: Joseph B. Krueger, Winsted, McLeod County, Minnesota

1902 - Death: Norman McQueen, Wilson, East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana

1906 - Death: Methe Marcella Landiss,

1929 - Death: Baby Girl Omdahl,

1929 - Birth: Baby Girl Omdahl,

1948 - Death: Helen Faye, Alton, Madison County, Illinois

1971 - Burial: Katherine Susan Steichen, Holy Cross Cemetery, Marty, Stearns County, Minnesota

On This Day - April 16th

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On This Day...

1616 - Christen: Lidda Stone, All Saints, Hertford, Hertfordshire, England

1740 - Death: Marie Catharine Kleiner, Strassen, Luxembourg, Luxembourg

1818 - Birth: Andrew Jackson Batman, Harrison County, Indiana

1827 - Birth: Emily Louisa Miller, Clarendon, Orleans County, New York

1848 - Birth: Stephan Wesley Chatham, Lauderdale County, Mississippi

1862 - Birth: Miles Henery Miller, Nephi, Juab County, Utah

1864 - Birth: Edward A. Thurston, Oasis, Waushara County, Wisconsin

1889 - Death: James Straughan, Place, Shelby, Indiana, United States

1923 - Death: Michael Kunkel, Saint Benedict, Kossuth County, Iowa

1942 - Death: James Henry Vondra,

1942 - Death: Agnes Vondra,

1948 - Death: James Adelbert McMurry, Pleasant Hill, Winn Parish, Louisiana

1986 - Death: George Parker Long, Alexandria, Rapides Parish, Louisiana

1989 - Death: Jerome J. Kunkel, Blue Earth County, Minnesota

1997 - Death: Harrison Fisher Durand, Short Hills, Essex, New Jersey, United States of America

I need to check on cause of death for the Vondra couple in 1942. Was it a car accident or other that caught both of them?

This and all other articles on this blog are © copyright 2013 by Daniel G. Dillman

On This Day - April 15th

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On This Day...

1616 - Birth: Lidda Stone, Hertford, Hertfordshire, England

1702 - Birth: John Otterbach, Trupbach, Nassau-Siegen, Westfalen, Germany

1735 - Birth: Anna Christiana Wiseman, Kernstown, Frederick County, Virginia

1742 - Death: Dorcas Burt, Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut

1748 - Burial: John Day, Killingworth, Connecticut

1791 - Birth: James Straughan, Franklin, Shelby, Kentucky, United States

1811 - Death: Moses Hopwood, Fairfax County, Virginia

1834 - Marriage: William H. Root and Fanny Day, Sheffield, Lorain County, Ohio

1843 - Death: Mary Polly Reed, Crawford County, Indiana

1845 - Birth: Andrew Jackson Batman, Crawford County, Indiana

1866 - Birth: Margaretha Zwilling, Wallenborn, Eifel, Germany

1866 - Birth: Elisabeth Zwilling, Wallenborn, Eifel, Germany

1866 - Birth: Jacob Thomas East, Indiana

1875 - Birth: John Wesley Boyett, Winn Parish, Louisiana

1875 - Birth: Oscar Holt Williams, Louisiana

1925 - Birth: Loy Russell Gaar, Gaar's Mill, Winn Parish, Louisiana

1939 - Marriage: Woodrow Wilson Dark and Vera Katherine Johnson, Desha, Arkansas, United States

1959 - Marriage: Joseph J. Ernesti and Nellie Edith Davis, Sioux Falls, South Dakota

2000 - Death: Marie Elizabeth Funk, Belgrade, Stearns, Minnesota, United States of America

2000 - Death: Marie Elizabeth Funk, Paynesville, Stearns, Minnesota

2010 - Death: Francis Lawrence Theisen, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minnesota

On This Day - April 14th

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On This Day...

1775 - Death: Rachel Colton, Springfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts

1781 - Birth: Josiah Holtzclaw, Fauquier County, Virginia

1794 - Birth: Marie Louise Gauthier Dit St. Germain, Bordeaux, France

1816 - Birth: Allen Wiseman, Crawford County, Indiana

1817 - Death: Francois Huitting,

1822 - Birth: Maria Eva (Ort) Mehling, Rothenbach, Germany

1832 - Marriage: James Wiseman and Lodica Dicy Lovell, Crawford County, Indiana

1849 - Birth: Nancy Myra Boyett, Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama

1874 - Death: Elias William 'Elle' Courtney, Courtney Cemetery, North of Holden, Livingston Parish, Louisiana

1900 - Death: Gervas Bachmann, Oldenburg, Franklin County, Indiana

1908 - Death: Anna Maria Michels, Saint Augusta Township, Stearns County, Minnesota

1932 - Death: George Henry Chase, Duluth, Saint Louis County, Minnesota

1958 - Death: Minervia Eliza Boyett,

1971 - Death: Katherine Susan Steichen, Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minnesota

On This Day - April 13th

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On This Day...

1635 - Birth: Mary Burt, Harberton, Devon, England

1660 - Birth: Phebe Pearson, Rowley, Essex County, Massachusetts

1719 - Marriage: John Day and Hannah Lee, Manchester, Essex, Massachusetts

1766 - Birth: Mary Olmstead, Wilton, Fairfield County, Connecticut

1770 - Birth: Johann Kunkel, Neuhutten, Germany

1777 - Death: Nathaniel Austin, Sheffield, Massachusetts

1782 - Death: Silas Olmstead, Norwalk, Fairfield County, Connecticut

1783 - Birth: Moses Bliss, Bennington, Bennington County, Vermont

1787 - Birth: David Olmstead, Wilton, Fairfield County, Connecticut

1837 - Death: Charles Eugene Day, Sheffield, Lorain County, Ohio

1864 - Birth: Mary Francis Liles, Grant Parish, Lousiana

1871 - Birth: Bjorge (Bjorguf) Halvorsen Omdahl, Lardal, Norway

1893 - Birth: Edward John Schmid, Avon, Stearns, Minnesota, United States

1900 - Birth: William McKinley Croskrey, Tama, Iowa

1911 - Death: Martin Kremer, Luxemburg Township, Stearns County, Minnesota

1923 - Birth: Blondell Ferguson, Louisiana

1931 - Death: D'Etta Eaton Hall, Beadle co. S.Dakota

1936 - Death: Stella Edith Thurston, Harrold, South Dakota

1941 - Death: Sidney Scott Wilson, Winnfield, Winn Parish, Louisiana

1956 - Death: Nell Mae James, Seattle, King County, Washington

1977 - Death: George Charles Orcutt, Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minnesota

On This Day - April 12th

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On This Day...

1646 - Birth: John Stoddard, Wethersfield, Hartford County, Connecticut

1694 - Marriage: Thomas Stebbins and Mary Day, Springfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts

1701 - Death: William Gull, Hatfield, Hampshire County, Massachusetts

1701 - Will: William Gull, Hatfield, Hampshire County, Massachusetts

1812 - Birth: Johann Schreifels, Mettendorf, Germany

1840 - Birth: Julia Dark, North Carolina

1846 - Birth: Robert Henry Dark,

1858 - Marriage: Peter Theisen and Margrethia Reuter, Dubuque, Dubuque County, Iowa

1858 - Birth: Susan Claire Chatham, Jackson Parish, Louisiana

1859 - Birth: James Franklin Batman, Crawford County, Indiana

1865 - Birth: Sylvester Sims Courtney, Livingston Parish, Louisiana

1888 - Birth: John Vondra, Zeigler SD

1890 - Birth: Anna Christina Koch, Minnesota

1907 - Death: Elizabeth Ehmer, Haverhill, Marshall County, Iowa

1909 - Birth: Leonard J. Lommel, Stearns County, Minnesota

1911 - Birth: Louisa Margareth Theisen, Stearns County, Minnesota

1914 - Death: Otto Aloys Pflueger, Collegeville Township, Stearns County, Minnesota

1920 - Death: Nancy Myra Boyett, Pollock, Grant Parish, Louisiana

Another busy day! We see in addition to a death in 1701, mention of a Will. This is an important clue to that ancestor's family, as well as their lifestyle seeing what items they owned and passed on to descendants.

On This Day - April 11th

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On This Day...

1675 - Birth: Ichabod Smith,

1745 - Birth: James McCartney, Londonderry, Ireland

1852 - Death: William Sandel, East Feliciana, Louisiana, United States

1864 - Marriage: Patrick Seborn Smith and Rhoda Porter,

1864 - Birth: Susan Rowena Miller, Nephi, Juab County, Utah

1866 - Birth: James Redden Sikes, Jackson Parish, Louisiana

1871 - Birth: Emma Acenath Courtney, Livingston Parish, Louisiana

1874 - Birth: Jesse Walter James, Norwood, East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana

1874 - Birth: Orville Wiseman, Missouri

1880 - Birth: Anna Catherine Hansen, Saint Augusta Township, Stearns County, Minnesota

1887 - Birth: Pharlene Jordan, Winn Parish, Louisiana

1897 - Birth: Samuel D Collins, Louisiana

1911 - Birth: Martin Kremer, Luxemburg Township, Stearns County, Minnesota

1920 - Birth: Leo T. Ritter, Minnesota

1920 - Birth: John Thomas Bourn, Downing, Dunn County, Wisconsin

1921 - Birth: Gilbert Alfred Lommel, Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minnesota

1921 - Birth: Francis Lawrence Theisen, Stearns County, Minnesota

1927 - Death: Margaret Anna Schreifels, Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minnesota

1929 - Birth: Warren Harlan Luedtke,

1933 - Death: Catherine Lommel,

1949 - Death: Nickolas Watry, Loretto, Hennepin County, Minnesota

1951 - Death: Jennifer Lucille Thurston, Seattle, Washington

1981 - Death: Rosa A M Haehn, Sauk Rapids, Benton, Minnesota, United States of America

Wordless Wednesday - Alta May Day

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Alta May Day circa 1991, last formal portrait.