Monday, January 10, 2011

John B. Gatchell

John B. Gatchell is my 2nd Great Grand Uncle that is a Civil War veteran. John served as a 1st Sergeant in Company F, 55th Ohio Volunteer Infantry.

Frances Emily (Wallace) Ryan


Frances Emily (Wallace) Ryan was my 2nd Great Grandmother. She was born in Ingersoll, Canada; married there and then immigrated to Milford, Michigan.

This obituary was published Ingersoll Tribune on Thursday, January 15, 1953.

Reading this obituary leads me to the discovery of her sister for the first time.

Saturday, January 8, 2011

Jacob Sack


Jacob Sack, a distant ancestor of mine from Fort Wayne, Indiana. This is his obituary from the newspaper in 1885.

Plain Jane--he must have been well known to be so general!

Florence Sack


Here is a the obituary of Florence Sack, an infant child of my Great Grandparents in 1907. Four months old, one of triplets and one of the other babes lies fighting for it's life.... Cholora is something my generation thankfully has never had to face.

Amos Pugh Gatchell

Here is a nice photo of the cemetery marker of my Great-great-great Grandfather, Amos Pugh Gatchell. Amos is interred at the Old Mission Cemetery, Upper Sandusky, Ohio.

Anthony Rucki


Here's the cemetery marker for my Great-grandfather, Anthony Rucki.

He's interred in Forest Cemetery, Toledo, Ohio.