Saturday Night Genealogy Fun –– Male Ancestors Age at Death

Randy Seaver of Genea–Musing has another great adventure for us. Our assignment is:

1) Review your Pedigree Chart (either on paper or in your genealogy management software program) and determine the age at death of your male ancestors back at least five generations (and more if you want to).

2)  Tell us the lifespan years for each of these ancestors.  Which of your male ancestors in this group lived the longest?  Which lived the shortest? 

Here’s mine:

Father:

William Joseph Hork (1930–2007) – 77 years

Grandfathers:

William Cyril Hork (1899–1967) – 68 years

Tom J. Johnston (1912–1973) – 60 years

Great–grandmothers:

Johan Anton Hork (1843–1906) – 62 years

John H. Sullivan (1854–1932) – 77 years

Thomas Newton Johnston (1885–1951) – 65 years

George Warren Lancaster (1893–1964) – 71 years

2nd Great–grandmothers:

Joseph Heinrich Horoch (1804–1857) – 53 years

Vincent Sievert (1823–1890) – 66 years

Jeremiah Sullivan (1811–1888) – 77 years

John Gleeson (1835–1915) – 80 years

Rueben Mack Johnston (1841–1924) – 83 years

Peter Hayden Hutson (1853–1930) – 76 years

William Carl Lancaster (1873–1946) – 73 years

A. Evenezer Loveless (1851–1929) – 77 years

3rd Great–grandmothers:

Johann Horoch (–1826) – birth unknown at this time

Johann Joseph Trösster (1778–1831) – 53 years

Christoph Siewert (1766–1841) – 75 years

Martin Gleeson (1787–1859) – 72 years

John Tierney (1804–1891) – 87 years

Samuel Johnston (1816–1869) – 53 years

Benjamin W Jones (1822–??) – death unknown at this time bef 1865

Robert Hutson (1821–??) – death unknown at this time

Greenlee Bean Selman (1820–1888) – 67 years

George Wilson Lancaster (1839–1919) – 79 years

James Madison Coor (1833–1890) – 56 years

Jesse Loveless (1806–1873) – 67 years

David Rodgers (1818–bef 1870) – death unknown at this time

John Tierney lived the longest at 87 years. I have three who tied for living the shortest at 53: Samuel Johnston, Johann Joseph Trösster, and Joseph Heinrich Horoch. I also have a few men where I don’t know their death date. If David Rodgers died before 1870, that would make him less than 53 at the time of his death.  Benjamin W. Jones died while serving in the Civil War, and he age would have been in the 40s.

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