Saturday Night Genealogy Fun – Male Ancestors Age at Death

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.

2^nd 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.

3^rd 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 3^rd 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 3^rd 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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