On This Day...March 30

Births:

1763 - Henry Harrison - Frederick County, Maryland Colony (Lisa's collateral ancestor)

1890 - Frances Richardson - Pennsylvania (Khris's collateral ancestor)


Marriages:

1900 - Elsie Martin & Marion Harrison - Harrison County, Indiana (Lisa's direct ancestors)


Deaths:

1920 - Cecelia Amelia Stierle Seiter - Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana (Khris's direct ancestor)

1961 - Jesse Willard Smith - New Albany, Floyd County, Indiana (Lisa's collateral ancestor)

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On This Day...March 29

Births:

1853 - Harriett Byrn - Harrison County, Indiana (Lisa's direct ancestor)

1867 - Lois Ann Kern - Indiana (Khris's collateral ancestor)

1895 - Oral Lee Smith - Byrneville, Harrison County, Indiana (Lisa's collateral ancestor)

1902 - Tom C Bowser - Flora, Carroll County, Indiana (Khris's collateral ancestor)

1911 - Forrest Robert Harrison - Broad Ripple, Marion County, Indiana (Lisa's collateral ancestor)


Deaths:

1904 - Elmira Rouse Wright - Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana (Lisa's collateral ancestor)

1929 - Samuel Redford Wright - South Canaan, Wayne County, Pennsylvania (Khris's direct ancestor)

1930 - John Jack Freiberger - Floyds Knobs, Floyd County, Indiana (Lisa's collateral ancestor)

1932 - Ida Spangenberg - Scranton, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania (Khris's collateral ancestor)

1971 - Cecelia Elizabeth Kern Baker - Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana (Khris's collateral ancestor)

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On This Day...March 28

Births:

1827 - Alexander Landiss - Indiana (Lisa's collateral ancestor)

1877 - Oren G Spangenberg - South Canaan, Wayne County, Pennsylvania (Khris's collateral ancestor)


Marriages:

1880 - Tilghman W Harrison & Florence R Arnold - Harrison County, Indiana (Lisa's collateral ancestors)

1952 - Larry Lee Dillman & Evelyn Anne Harrison - New Albany, Floyd County, Indiana (Lisa's direct ancestors)


Deaths: 

1927 - Emma Warbritton Kern - New Market, Montgomery County, Indiana (Khris's collateral ancestor)

1958 - Cora Fay Dillman Erickson - Seattle, King County, Washington (Lisa's collateral ancestor)

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On This Day...March 26

Births:

1887 - Nettie Mae Wright - Pleasant Mount, Wayne County, Pennsylvania (Lisa's collateral ancestor)

1934 - Harry Thomas Harrison - New Albany, Floyd County, Indiana (Lisa's collateral ancestor)


Marriages:

1874 - Anna Vogel & John Freiberger - Floyd County, Indiana (Lisa's direct ancestors)


Deaths:

1876 - Chauncey Carter Byrn - Floyd County, Indiana (Lisa's collateral ancestor)

1893 - John E Crawford - Iowa (Lisa's collateral ancestor)

1921 - Lafayette E James - Palmyra, Wayne County, Pennsylvania (Khris's collateral ancestor)

1924 - Susan Florence Harrison Wilson - Coatesville, Hendricks County, Indiana (Lisa's collateral ancestor)

1937 - William Vince Hornung - Jefferson County, Kentucky (Lisa's collateral ancestor)

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On This Day...March 24

Births:

1805 - Margaretha Freiberger - Engelmannsreuth, Landgrave Pegnitz, Bavaria, Germany (Lisa's collateral ancestor)

1856 - John Jack Freiberger - Floyds Knobs, Floyd County, Indiana (Lisa's collateral ancestor)

1896 - Elizabeth M Gaul - St. Paul, Ramsey County, Minnesota (Khris's collateral ancestor)


Marriages:

1881 - Wilford Lafayette Byrn & Emily Jane Dawson - Harrison County, Indiana (Lisa's collateral ancestors)

1895 - America Naoma Byrn & William G  Leffler - Harrison County, Indiana (Lisa's collateral ancestors)


Deaths:

1938 - Mary Olive Gleason Wiseman - Jefferson County, Kentucky (Lisa's direct ancestor)

1962 - Adam Curtis Kern - New Market, Montgomery County, Indiana (Khris's collateral ancestor)

1969 - Florence Belle Harrison Summers - Laconia, Harrison County, Indiana (Lisa's collateral ancestor)

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On This Day...March 20

Births:

1693 - Katherine Wheeler - Fairfield, Fairfield County, Colony of Connecticut (Khris's direct ancestor)

1775 - Harriet Foster - Hancock, Delaware County, New York (Khris's collateral ancestor)

1849 - Mary Josephine Shaw - Spencer, Tioga County, New York (Khris's collateral ancestor)


Marriages:

1872 - Barzilla Martin & James Livers - Floyd County, Indiana (Lisa's collateral ancestors)


Deaths:

1934 - Marshall Wright - Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana (Lisa's collateral ancestor)

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On This Day...March 16

Births:

1805 - James Downey - Nicholas County, Kentucky (Khris's collateral ancestor)

1840 - Narcissa Carathers - Tennessee (Lisa's collateral ancestor)

1890 - Nellis May Dillman - Crawford County, Indiana (Lisa's collateral ancestor)

Marriages:

1903 - Joseph Modestus Seiter & Minnie Black - Marion County, Indiana (Khris's collateral ancestors)

Deaths:

1742 - Katherine Wheeler Hubbell - Newtown, Fairfield County, Colony of Connecticut (Khris's direct ancestor)

1975 - John Edward Byrn - New Albany, Floyd County, Indiana (Lisa's collateral ancestor)

1998 - Mary Katherine Clark Wilson - Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky (Lisa's collateral ancestor)

2006 - Reva Belle Dillman Fulkerson - New Albany, Floyd County, Indiana (Lisa's collateral ancestor

2016 - Bernice Gilpin Hazen - Matamoras, Pike County, Pennsylvania (Khris's collateral ancestor)

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Wordless Wednesday...Esek Harrison and family

(l to r) Seated: Esek Harrison, wife Angeline with Marion, Sarah (Esek's sister) holding Tilghman
Standing: Frances, Charles.
c. 1879 Harrison County, Indiana

Source: Family Photo originally provided by Dr. Dallas Byrne Fouts Sr.

Wordless Wednesday blog postings include a photograph or image as the main focus. Some posters also include attribute information as to the source of the image (date, location owner, etc).

Wordless Wednesday is a genealogical blogging prompt suggested by Thomas MacEntee at GeneaBloggers.

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On This Day...March 15

Births:

1861 - Anna Bell Harrison - Shelby County, Kentucky (Lisa's collateral ancestor)

1897 - Edna Mae Wright - Starrucca, Wayne County, Pennsylvania (Khris's collateral ancestor)

1915 - Ruth Perkins - Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky (Lisa's collateral ancestor)

1935 - Larry Patterson - Ramsey, Harrison County, Indiana (Lisa's collateral ancestor)

Marriages:

1843 - Augusta Seiter & Johann Brehm - Söllingen, Rastatt, Baden (Khris's collateral ancestors)

1910 - Lucy Dana Harrison & Charles Oliver Wilson - Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana (Lisa's collateral ancestors)

Deaths:

1899 - Joseph LaFollette - Lincoln County, Washington (Lisa's collateral ancestor)

1940 - Henry Peter Dillman - Doolittle Mills, Perry County, Indiana (Lisa's collateral ancestor)

1956 - Laura Alice Byrne Byerley - Harrison County, Indiana (Lisa's collateral ancestor)

2002 - Gordon Eldridge Davis - Sequim, Clallam County, Washington (Lisa's collateral ancestor)

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On This Day...March 6

Births:


1834 - Elizabeth D Landiss - Crawford County, Indiana (Lisa's direct ancestor)

1878 - Anna B Seiter - Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana (Khris's collateral ancestor)

1892 - Charles Mac Smith - Harrison County, Indiana (Lisa's collateral ancestor)

1924 - Maurice Byrn - Byrneville, Harrison County, Indiana (Lisa's collateral ancestor)

1940 - Robert George Gilpin - Ledgedale, Wayne County, Pennsylvania (Khris's collateral ancestor)


Marriages:

1834 - Leason Brooks Byrn & Catharine Vanfossin - Harrison County, Indiana (Lisa's collateral ancestors)


Deaths:

1967 - Pachen Venita Boston Byrne - Ramsey, Harrison County, Indiana (Lisa's collateral ancestor)

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On This Day...March 3

Births:

1828 - Casimir Seiter - Söllingen, Karlsruhe, Baden-Wüerttemberg, Germany (Khris's collateral ancestor)

1844 - Mary A Martin - Pennsylvania (Khris's collateral ancestor)

1873 - Byrd Sylvester Sappenfield - New Albany, Floyd County, Indiana (Lisa's collateral ancestor)

1885 - Michael Lewis Freiberger - Indiana (Lisa's collateral ancestor)

1898 - Charles Wesley Gilpin - Pennsylvania (Khris's collateral ancestor)

1904 - Luella May Cox - Boone County, Indiana (Khris's collateral ancestor)


Marriages:

1907 - Sarah D Harrison & Benjamin R Shireman - Harrison County, Indiana (Lisa's collateral ancestors)


Deaths:

1913 - Hedwig S Gaul - Chicago, Cook County, Illinois (Khris's collateral ancestor)

1919 - Mayme A Wilson Dillman - Sterling Township, Crawford County, Indiana (Lisa's collateral ancestor)

1999 - Opal Olive Ault Hall - Sterling, Rice County, Kansas (Lisa's collateral ancestor)

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On This Day...March 1

Births:

1879 - Naoma Byrn - Byrneville, Harrison County, Indiana (Lisa's collateral ancestor)

1887 - Mamie Frances Walton - Indiana (Lisa's collateral ancestor)


Marriages:

1738 - William French & Prudence Gavit - Westerly, Washington County, Rhode Island (Khris's direct ancestors)

1832 - Joseph Kinkaid & Sarah Glenn - Crawford County, Indiana (Lisa's collateral ancestors)


Deaths:

1996 - Michael Felix Gaul - DuPage County, Illinois (Khris's collateral ancestor)

1999 - Henry William Horton - Lafayette, Tippecanoe County, Indiana (Khris's collateral ancestor)

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On This Day...February 18

Births:

1871 - Moses T Spangenberg - Wayne County, Pennsylvania (Khris's collateral ancestor)


Marriages:

1911 - Jessie Byrn & Aaron Gephart Fessel - Bradford, Harrison County, Indiana (Lisa's collateral ancestors)


Deaths:

1963 - Rose Ellen Obergfell Kelly - Sidney, Richland County, Montana (Khris's collateral ancestor)

1979 - Hartwell Marion Shaffer - Morehouse, New Madrid County, Missouri (Lisa's collateral ancestor)

2005 - Emerson Kelso Mugler - Richmond, Chesterfield County, Virginia (Lisa's collateral ancestor)

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On This Day...February 17

Births:

1877 - David Samuel Dillman - English, Crawford County, Indiana (Lisa's collateral ancestor)

1884 - Chauncey Mericle - New York (Khris's collateral ancestor)

1917 - Bertha Lucille Dillman - English, Crawford County, Indiana (Lisa's collateral ancestor)


Marriages:

1947 - Betty Joan Schmalz & Victor Lucas - Marion County, Indiana (Khris's collateral ancestors)


Deaths:

1991 - Myron Clynas Martin - Alameda County, California (Lisa's collateral ancestor)

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On This Day...February 16

Births:

1910  - Elen Loraine Byrn - Harrison County, Indiana (Lisa's collateral ancestor)

1923 - Bonnie Jeanne Perkins - Paoli, Orange County, Indiana (Lisa's collateral ancestor)

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On This Day...February 15

Births:

1816 - Harvey Byrn - Indiana (Lisa's collateral ancestor)


Deaths:

1880 - Caroline Riley Harrison - Boone County, Indiana (Lisa's collateral ancestor)

1919 - Richard Henry Hubbell - Chester, Delaware County, Pennsylvania (Khris's collateral ancestor)

1925 - Ezekial Hinton Downey - Lincoln, Logan County, Illinois (Khris's collateral ancestor

2011  - George Robert Adsitt - Aberdeen, Grays Harbor County, Washington (Lisa's collateral ancestor)

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On This Day...February 14

Births:

1798 - Margaret Potts - Nicholas County, Kentucky (Khris's collateral ancestor)

1818 - Amy Shaffer - Pennsylvania (Khris's collateral ancestor)

1879 - Marion Harrison - Byrneville, Harrison County, Indiana (Lisa's direct ancestor)

1897 - James Wyland Campbell - Carbondale, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania (Khris's collateral ancestor)

1906 - Joseph Valentine Lamke - Indiana (Lisa's collateral ancestor)

1933 - Larry Lee Dillman - New Albany, Floyd County, Indiana (Lisa's direct ancestor)

Marriages:

1861 - George I Dillman & Mary Beamgard - Floyd County, Indiana (Lisa's collateral ancestors)

Deaths:

1904 - Maria Rothweiler Stierle - Newlon, Richland County, Montana (Khris's direct ancestor)

1946 - Guy Davis - Boyle County, Kentucky (Lisa's collateral ancestor)

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On This Day...February 13

Births:

1821 - Marinda Harrison - Harrison County, Indiana (Lisa's collateral ancestor)

1873 - Albert Robert Obergfell - Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana (Khris's collateral ancestor)

1906 - Helen Marie Fouts - Harrison County, Indiana (Lisa's collateral ancestor)



Deaths:

1861 - Coonrod Kern - Hancock County, Illinois (Khris's collateral ancestor)

1969 - Aaron Gephart Fessel - Bradford, Harrison County, Indiana (Lisa's collateral ancestor)

1971 - John August Schmid - Saint Paul, Ramsey County, Minnesota (Khris's collateral ancestor)

1990 - Hazel Bertha Dillman Melcom - Corydon, Harrison County, Indiana (Lisa's collateral ancestor)

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On This Day...February 7

Births:

1876 - Christophorus Seiter - Söllingen, Rastatt, Baden (Khris's collateral ancestor)

1913 - Orval Treamond Harrison - Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana (Lisa's collateral ancestor)


Marriages:

1919 - Charles Thomas Byrn & Ida Carroll - Harrison County, Indiana (Lisa's collateral ancestor)


Deaths:

1893 - William Henderson Landiss - Illinois (Lisa's collateral ancestor)

1908 - Christopher Seiter - Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana (Khris's direct ancestor)

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On This Day...February 6

Births:

1859 - Elizabeth Keys - Boone County, Indiana (Lisa's collateral ancestor)

1924 - Reble Hudson Reeves Jr. - Leavenworth, Crawford County, Indiana (Lisa's collateral ancestor)

Marriages:

1838 - Eleanor Batman & Ferdinand Scott - Crawford County, Indiana (Lisa's collateral ancestors)

1915 - Edward Carl Harrison & Edna Dawson - Harrison County, Indiana (Lisa's collateral ancestors)

Deaths:

1919 - William Schmalz - Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana (Khris's collateral ancestor)

1949 - George Zimmerman - New Albany, Floyd County, Indiana (Lisa's collateral ancestor)

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On This Day...February 5

Births:

1861 - Ella Hattie Cravens - Indiana (Lisa's collateral ancestor)

1868 - Gustav Schmalz - Söllingen, Rastatt, Baden (Khris's collateral ancestor)

1871 - Wilhelm Schmalz - Söllingen, Rastatt, Baden (Khris's collateral ancestor)

1894 - Lewis Harrison - Indiana (Lisa's collateral ancestor)

Marriages:

1873 - Avis Harrison & William Kissinger - Boone County, Indiana (Lisa's collateral ancestors)

Deaths:

1942 - Edward Charles Sappenfield - Ramsey, Harrison County, Indiana (Lisa's collateral ancestor)

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On This Day...February 4

Births:

1890 - Ethel Pease - Harrison County, Indiana (Lisa's collateral ancestor)

1891 - Vera Minnie Ulbricht - Lakeville, Wayne County, Pennsylvania (Khris's collateral ancestor)

1898 - Mattie Mae Phillips - Florence, Lauderdale County, Alabama (Lisa's collateral ancestor)


Deaths:

1876 - Madison Martin - Greenville, Floyd County, Indiana (Lisa's direct ancestor)

1926 - Mary Susannah Downey Newhouse - Bluffton, Wells County, Indiana (Khris's collateral ancestor)

1932 - Temple Cole Byrn - Adair County, Missouri (Lisa's collateral ancestor)

2005 - Rose Mary Campbell Strom - San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas (Khris's collateral ancestor)

2006 - Johanna Gertrude Broekmans Harrison - New Albany, Floyd County, Indiana (Lisa's collateral ancestor)

2009 - Gloria Mae Hurd Adsitt - Aberdeen, Grays Harbor County, Washington (Lisa's collateral ancestor)

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On This Day...February 3

Births:

1829 - Andrea Zehe - Söllingen, Rastatt, Baden (Khris's collateral ancestor)

1878 - David Henry Perkins - Indiana (Lisa's collateral ancestor)

1916 - Myron Martin, Harrison County, Indiana (Lisa's collateral ancestor)


Deaths:

1920 - Armentia Belle Wiseman Dillman* - Jeffersonville, Clark County, Indiana (Lisa's direct ancestor)






* - See Matrilineal Monday - Armentia Belle (Wiseman) Dillman - dated August 15, 2016.

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On This Day...January 28

Births:

1836 - David Dillman - Harrison County, Indiana (Lisa's collateral ancestor)

1857 - Charles A Batman - Crawford County, Indiana (Lisa's collateral ancestor)

1906 - Gertrude Gaul - Chicago, Cook County, Illinois (Khris's collateral ancestor)

Marriages:

1809 - John E Harrison & Mary Polly Ashby - Shelby County, Kentucky (Lisa's collateral ancestors)

1949 - Francis J Striby & Virginia Maude Hollingsworth - Marion County, Indiana (Khris's collateral ancestors)

Deaths:

1903 - Idella Garrett Landiss - English, Crawford County, Indiana (Lisa's collateral ancestor)

1929 - John Enslin - South Canaan, Wayne County, Pennsylvania (Khris's collateral ancestor)

2011 - Joan Louise Crim Harrison - New Albany, Floyd County, Indiana (Lisa's collateral ancestor)

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On This Day...January 27

Births:

1898 - Christopher Louis Gaul - Chicago, Cook County, Illinois (Khris's collateral ancestor)

1906 - Leo Benjamin Harrison - Byrneville, Harrison County, Indiana (Lisa's direct ancestor)

1941 - Bettie Jean Byrne - New Salisbury, Harrison County, Indiana (Lisa's collateral ancestor)

Deaths:

1856 - Sarah Summers Mock - Crawford County, Indiana (Lisa's collateral ancestor)

1908 - Matthew Paul Obergfell Sr - Sidney, Richland County, Montana (Khris's collateral ancestor)

2004 - Harry Thomas Harrison - New Albany, Floyd County, Indiana (Lisa's collateral ancestor)

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This and all other posts on this blog are © copyright 2016-2017 by Lisa Dillman Wright.

On This Day...January 26

Births:

1823 - Chauncey Carter Byrn - Harrison County, Indiana (Lisa's collateral ancestor)

1836 - Evaline Webb - Kentucky (Lisa's collateral ancestor)

1845 - Eliza Burton - Harrison County, Indiana (Lisa's collateral ancestor)

1846 - Abigail Whitehead, Indiana (Lisa's collateral ancestor)

1862 - Herbert Henry Reed - South Canaan Township, Wayne County, Pennsylvania (Khris's collateral ancestor)

Marriages:

1896 - John Otto Kern & Sarah Emma Gray - Boone County, Indiana (Khris's collateral ancestors)

Deaths:

1991 - Elwood Levell, Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky (Lisa's collateral ancestor)

2014 - Melvin Laverine Dillman - Jennings Township, Crawford County, Indiana (Lisa's collateral ancestor)

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