It's Saturday Night
time for more
Genealogy Fun!
Randy Seaver of Genea-Musing has our assignment for this
week:
Your mission, should you decide to accept it (cue the
Mission Impossible! music) is to:
1) Gail Dever in a
blog post suggested writing a life sketch tweet with no more than 280
characters for a specific ancestor.
2) For this Saturday
Night Genealogy Fun, write two or more life sketch tweets with no more than 280
characters for your ancestors.
3) Share them with us
in your own blog post, in a comment to this post, or on Facebook. Please link to your post in a comment to this
post.
My husband’s family tweets:
Amos Gorrell
(1804-1890), a farmer, born in Beaver Co, PA and died in Ross Co, OH. He and
his wife, Leah Wollam, whom he married in 1827, had six children, two sons
lived to adulthood, four children died of typhoid fever. He is buried in Denver
Cemetery.
David Shotts
(1760-1825) was born perhaps in Virginia, lived in Ross Co, OH, where he died
being struck by lightning Married Mary Waggoner, in 1788, and they had ten
children.
Frederick Bishop
(1778-1821), born in Maryland, died in Ross Co, OH, married Susannah Cress, and
had 6 known children. Besides being a farmer, he was a justice of the peace in
Huntington, Ross Co.
Matilda Wollenweber
(1858-1885), born in Louisville, Ky and died in Carthage, Jasper Co, MO, she
had four children with Frederick Henry Davey. She had blue eyes, light brown
hair, and rosy cheeks. She died of diphtheria.
Philappina Margaretha
Voehringer (1834-1913), born in Unterhausen in Württemberg, died in
Louisville, Ky, and was married to Ludwig Wilhelm Wollenweber (5 daughters). She lived 40 years as a widow.
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