The trouble with doing a daily meme is that it is really easy to fall behind! Somehow the last two days just slipped away, and I wasn't able to post anything to my blog. Luckily, it isn't that difficult to catch up, which is what I'm doing now. January 18, of course, proved to be a busy day for events in my family.
Births
Alexander Mack, son of Alexander Mack and Ekuzabeth Neis, was born January 18, 1758 in Germantown, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. He is my 5th great-granduncle through my Sellers line.
Susannah Mack, daughter of Jacob Mack and Hannah Englehart, was born January 18, 1768, probably in Pennsylvania. She is my 2nd cousin 2x removed through my Sellers line.
Sarah Ann Mock, daughter of John Mock and Mary Brown, was born January 18, 1835 in Knox County, Ohio. She is my 4th cousin 4x removed through my Sellers line.
Pearson Mathews, son of Edmund R. Mathews and Rachel Godshalk, was born January 18, 1838, possibly in Pennsylvania. He is my 2nd great-granduncle through my Sellers line.
Frederick Cleworth Dunstan, son of Richard Dunstan and Jane Coleclough, was born January 18, 3838 in Deansgate, Manchester, Lancashire, England. He is my great-great-grandfather.
Emma E. Githens, daughter of Alfred T. Githens and Margaret Middleton, was born January 18, 1848. She is my 3rd cousin 3x removed via my Gauntt line.
William Theodore Sellers, son of Samuel Sellers and Ann Cressman, was born January 18, 1852 in Pennsylvania. He is also my 3rd cousin 3x removed.
Emma Augusta Sellers, daughter of William H. Sellers and Nancy L. Derr, was born January 18, 1862, probably in Pennsylvania. She is my 4th cousin 3x removed.
Daniel Gaunt, son of Walter Clayton Gaunt and Lulu Sherman, was born January 18, 1917. He is my 5th cousin once removed.
Kenneth Lee Thurman, son of Rothell Leaton Thurman and Bertha May Gaunt, was born January 18, 1936. He is also my 5th cousin once removed, coincidentally through the Gaunts.
Renee Glass, daughter of Abraham Glass and Sarah Bornkind, was born January 18, 1937 in Brooklyn, Kings County, New York. She is married to Victor Bernstein, son of Sam Bernstein and Rose Gordon, who is my 1st cousin 2x removed via the Gordons.
Naomi Wendy Brainin, daughter of William David Brainin and Beatrice Horowitz, was born January 18, 1953 in The Bronx, Bronx County, New York. She is my 2nd cousin once removed.
Joellen Carol Townsend was born January 18, 1971. She is my 5th cousin 2x removed through my Gauntt line.
Marriages
Albert Sellers, son of Samuel Sellers and Elizabeth Barton, and Emma C. Mowery were married on January 18, 1891 in Auglaize County, Ohio. He is my 4th cousin 3x removed.
Benjamin Brainin, son of Mendel Hertz Brainin and Ruchel Dwojre Brainin, and Yetta Braunstein were married on January 18, 1920 in The Bronx, Bronx County, New York. He is my great-granduncle, youngest brother of my maternal great-grandmother.
Russell Eli Smith and Blanche Catherine Gauntt, daughter of Robert Elwood Gauntt and Elsie M. West, were married on January 18, 1941 in Moorestown, Burlington County, New Jersey. She is my 4th cousin once removed.
Roy Howard Eckert and Mary Elma Easlick, daughter of Daniel Leon Easlick and Ella Ritchie Mingen, were married on January 18, 1947 in Mount Holly, Burlington County, New Jersey. She is my 4th cousin through my Gauntt line.
Jack Lowell Gaunt, son of Walter Everett Gaunt and Norma Marguerite Prusso, and Rosemary Ann Trindade were married on January 18, 1953 in Alameda County, California. He is my 4th cousin 2x removed.
Deaths
Moses Mulliner died January 18, 1821 at the age of about 80 in Tuckerton, Burlington County, New Jersey. He is my 5th great-grandfather and one of my American Revolution patriot ancestors.
Mary Githens died January 18, 1867 at the age of 87 in Haddonfield, Gloucester County, New Jersey. She was married to Daniel Gaunt, son of John Gaunt and Jean Satterthwaite, who is my 1st cousin 6x removed.
Wayne Gaunt, son of Walter Clayton Gaunt and Lulu Sherman, died January 18, 1913 at the age of 1 1/2. Like his brother Daniel Gaunt, listed in the births above, he is my 5th cousin once removed.
John Howard Flynn, son of Roscoe Sherman Flynn and Edna May Gauntt, died January 18, 1958 at the age of 20 in Ocala, Marion County, Florida. He is my 1st cousin once removed.
Arthur Barnett died January 18, 1977 at the age of 69 in Venicem Sarasota County, Florida. He was the third (and final) husband of Catherine Marie Sellers, daughter of Cornelius Elmer Sellers and Laura May Armstrong, who is my grandaunt, sister of my paternal grandfather.
Genealogy is like a jigsaw puzzle, but you don't have the box top, so you don't know what the picture is supposed to look like. As you start putting the puzzle together, you realize some pieces are missing, and eventually you figure out that some of the pieces you started with don't actually belong to this puzzle. I'll help you discover the right pieces for your puzzle and assemble them into a picture of your family.
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