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Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- Where Were They 150 Years Ago?

Your mission, should you decide to accept it (cue the Mission Impossible! music) is to:

1)  Determine where your ancestral families were on 12 January 1869 - 150 years ago.

2)  List them, their family members, their birth years, and their residence location (as close as possible).  Do you have a photograph of their residence, and does the residence still exist?  How many do you have in each generation living in January 1869?

3)  Tell us all about it in your own blog post, in a comment to this post, or in a Facebook Status  post
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We last did a post like this in 2016. I have updated my post to include where the same people were in 1869. Only one of my ancestors had died in the three years. The blue shading indicates my paternal line and the pink my maternal line.

Name
Relationship
Birthdate
Location in 1866
Location in 1869
Johan Anton Hork
Great grandfather
9 Nov 1843
Oberhundem, Kreis Olpe, Westfalen
Same
Julia Ann Sievert
Great grandmother
31 Oct 1854
Joliet, Will Co, Illinois
Same
John H Sullivan
Great grandfather
20 Jun 1854
Co Cork, Ireland?
Unknown
Anna Marie Gleeson
Great grandmother
13 Feb 1860
Richmond, Carleton Co, Ontario, Canada
Same
Maria Catharine Troesster Hork
2x-great grandmother
25 Dec 1813
Oberhundem, Kreis Olpe, Westfalen, Prussia
Same
Vincent Sievert
2x-great grandfather
24 Jan 1823
Joliet, Will Co, Illinois
Same
Susanna Raduntz Sievert
2x-great grandmother
1832
Joliet, Will Co, Illinois
Same
Jeremiah Sullivan
2x-great grandfather
1811
Co Cork, Ireland?
Houghton Co, MI
Mary Sheehan Sullivan
2x-great grandmother
1822
Co Cork, Ireland?
Houghton Co, MI
John Gleeson
2x-great grandfather
25 Feb 1825
Richmond, Carleton Co, Ontario, Canada
Same
Margaret Tierney Gleeson
2x-great grandmother
24 Apr 1835
Richmond, Carleton Co, Ontario, Canada
Same
John Tierney
2x-great -grandfather
1804
Fallowfield, Carleton Co, Ontario, Canada
Same
Ann Murray Tierney
2x-great -grandmother
1813
Fallowfield, Carleton Co, Ontario, Canada
Same
Reuben M Johnston
2x-great -grandfather
18 Apr 1841
Titan Co, Texas
Same
Olivia J Jones Johnston
2x-great -grandmother
22 Feb 1859
Titan Co, Texas
Same
Peter H Hutson
2x-great -grandfather
22 Dec 1853
Alabama? Texas?
unknown
Sarah H Selman Hutson
2x-great-grandmother
27 Sep 1858
Cherokee Co, Texas
Same
Ebenezer Loveless
2x-great -grandfather
8 Feb 1851
Chattooga Co, Georgia
Same
Eliza A Rodgers Loveless
3x great grandmother
May 1854
Chattooga Co, Georgia
Same
George W Lancaster
3x great grandfather
3 Apr 1839
Kaufman Co, Texas
Same
Martha J Polly Lancaster
3x great grandmother
Aug 1855
Montague Co or Kaufman Co, Texas
Kaufman Co, TX
Ellis W. Lancaster
4x great grandfather
7 Jul 1808
Kaufman Co, Texas
deceased
Elizabeth S Neel Lancaster
4x great grandmother
22 Mar 1811
Kaufman Co, Texas
Same
Nathan H Polly
4x great grandfather
27 Jan 1820
Montague Co or Kaufman Co, Texas
Kaufman Co, TX
Lydia M. [-?-]
4x great grandmother
24 Feb 1828
Montague Co or Kaufman Co, Texas
unknown
James M. Coor
3x great grandfather
18 Oct 1833
Copiah Co, Mississippi
Same
Melissa A Welch Coor
3x great grandmother
8 May 1840
Copiah Co, Mississippi
Same
Jesse Loveless
3x great grandfather
30 Nov 1806
Chattooga Co, Georgia
Same
Elizabeth Nixon Loveless
3x great grandmother
1810
Chattooga Co, Georgia
Same
Rebecca Waddell Rodgers
3x great grandmother
1820
Chattooga Co, Georgia
Same
Ann Kethley Coor
4x great grandmother
1792
Copiah Co, Mississippi
Same


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Comments

  1. You have a couple more ancestors alive in this year than I do (31 versus 29)!

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  2. We're tied at 31. The range seems to be relatively small between all of our trees, but Randy is ahead with 35. Some of mine will forever remain unknown because of missing church records.

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