Randy Seaver in his Genea-Musings blog posts a weekly
challenge for digging deeper into our family history.
This week’s post is about analyzing our male ancestors
and their age at their deaths. The link
to his post is : http://www.geneamusings.com/2016/08/saturday-night-genealogy-fun-male.html .
Here’s my analysis.
I have used the ahnentafel numbering in this list.
Father -
2. Father – I am
blessed to still have my father .
Grandfathers -
4. W. Minor – 88 years
6. Robert T Miars –
(1915 – 1999) 84 years. He missed the millennial
celebrations by just a couple of weeks which is something he was really wanting
to see.
Great Grandfathers -
8. John R Minor –
(1880 – 1937) 57 years.
10. R. K. Fristoe – (1892 – 1965) 73 years.
12. Frank Miars –
(1870 – 1932) 61 years.
14. Joseph L
Stenger - (1878 – 1966) 88 years.
2nd Great Grandfathers -
16. Francis Grant
Minor – (1852 – 1918) 65 years.
18. William
Dempsey – (1842 – 1911) 68 years.
20. J C Fristoe –
(1852 – 1927) 73 years.
22. G W Craft – (1855
– 1939) 84 years.
24. William Miars –
(1943 – 1916) 73 years.
26. Thompson J
Saltonstall – (1848 - ??) Death date unknown.
This is one of my brickwalls!!
28. Frank Stenger –
(1837 – 1918) 81 years.
30. Francoise
Loescher – (1848 – 1902) 53 years.
3rd Great Grandfathers -
32. John Minor – (1819
– 1885) 65 years.
34. Ewald
Pruschwitz – (?? - ??) Unknown.
36. Peter Dempsey –
(1800 - ??) Unknown.
38. John G Kellar –
(1791 – 1849) 58 years.
40. _____ Fristoe –
Unknown.
42. _____ Craft –
Unknown.
44. Martin Miars – (1801 – 1885) 84 years.
50. Amos Hodgson – (1810 – 1866) 56 years.
52. Alexander
Hamilton Saltonstall – (1817 – 1856) 39 years.
54. Peter
Ringenberger – (1810 – 1892) 82 years.
56. Franz Stenger –
(1806 – 1890) 84 years.
58. Jakob Schmitt –
(1806 – 1883) 76 years.
60. Antoine Loescher – (1815 - ??) Unknown.
62. Martin Nufer – (1823 – 1873) 76 years.
In the four generations (grandfathers through 3rd
great grandfathers), the average age is 71.3 years old at the time of
death. There is a tie for oldest as my
paternal grandfather was 88 when he died and my great – grandfather Joseph L
Stenger was as well. The youngest at
their death was a 3rd great grandfather, Alexander Hamilton Saltonstall
who died at 39 years. I do not know the
whole story on his early death. More
research is needed here.
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Nice job! Interesting that you had a tie for the longest living male.
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