I always find it interesting when a date occurs in two closely or relatively closely related families. I wonder how aware they were of the coincidences.
Births
Anna Margarethe Kling was born April 20, 1680 in Europe, possibly in Baden. She was married to Alexander Mack, son of Johann Philip Mack and Christina Fillbrun, who is my 7th-great-grandfather.
Peter Sellers, son of Samuel Sellers and Catharine Bodder, was born April 20, 1787, probably in Pennsylvania. He is my 1st cousin 5x removed.
Emma Cora Worth was born April 20, 1881 in Pennsylvania. She was married to Washington Ferguson Sellers, son of Samuel G. Sellers and Anna C. Ferguson, who is my 4th cousin 3x removed.
Leroy Gantt, son of Carl Thomas Gantt and Mabelle Yost, was born April 20, 1916 in York County, Nebraska. He is my 4th cousin 2x removed.
Joan Barbara Haypak was born April 20, 1935 in New Jersey. She was married to George Russell Sellers, son of George Moore Sellers and Bertha Poinsett Eckman, who is my 1st cousin once removed.
Jeffrey Howard Baker, son of Sidney Baker and Adele Garfinkel, was born April 20, 1959 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He is my 3rd cousin once removed.
Lynn Marie Church was born April 20, 1966 in Pasadena, Los Angeles County, California. She is my 6th cousin on my Gauntt line.
Andrew Eugene Meckler was born April 20, 1971 in South Miami, Dade County, Florida. He is my first cousin.
Joshua Patrick Fitsimmons was born April 20, 1972. He is my 5th cousin 2x removed on my Gauntt line.
William Ledger Allen III was born April 20, 1980. He is my 5th cousin once removed on my Gauntt line.
Jessica Gabriel Hoffmann was born April 20, 1985 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. She is my 4th cousin once removed on my Meckler line.
Marriages
Alfred T. Githens, son of Thomas Githens and Mary Gaunt, and Margaret Middleton were married on April 20, 1843 in Gloucester County, New Jersey. Alfred is my 2nd cousin 4x removed via the Gaunts.
Alfred Winfield Asay and Sarah Anna Gaunt, daughter of James Gaunt and Amelia Gibson, were married on April 20, 1885 in Mount Holly, Burlington County, New Jersey. Sarah is my great-grandaunt.
Robert Senior, Jr. and Virginia Eileen Gauntt were married on April 20, 1985. Virginia is my 5th cousin once removed.
Deaths
Joseph Hopkins Gaunt, son of Joseph L. Gaunt and Elizabeth Hopkins, died April 20, 1865 at the age of about 22 in Newark, Essex County, New Jersey. He is my 2nd cousin 3x removed.
Henry August Sellers, son of Tobias Sellers and Elizabeth Faber, died April 20, 1868 at the age of 47, probably in Pennsylvania. He is my 1st cousin 4x removed.
Sarah J. Gaskill died April 20, 1901 at the age of 54, probably in New Jersey. She was married to Samuel Eckman, son of John Eckman, who is the 2nd-great-grandfather of my 1st cousin Albert Lore.
Mary E. James died April 20, 1943 at the age of about 77 in Jay County, Indiana. She was married to John L. Claycomb, son of George F. Claycomb and Hannah Holmes Gaunt, who is my 3rd cousin 3x removed via the Gaunts.
Morris Ferguson Sellers, son of Samuel G. Sellers and Anna C. Ferguson, died April 20, 1946 at the age of about 75, probably in Pennsylvania. He is my 4th cousin 3x removed and is the brother of Washington Ferguson Sellers (above), so he died on his sister-in-law's birthday.
John Edward Lawrence, son of John Edward Lawrence and Wilhelmina Atkinson, died April 20, 1963 at the age of 34, possibly in New Jersey. He is the 1st cousin 2x removed of my 1st cousin Albert Lore on his Eckman line through the Lawrences. He is also the 1st cousin once removed of George Russell Sellers, mentioned above in the births, and therefore died on his cousin's wife's birthday.
Sarah Meckler, daughter of Moishe Meckler and Mushe Zelda Nowicki, died April 20, 1980 at the age of about 79, possibly in Far Rockaway, Queens County, New York. She is my grandaunt.
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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