T: Tuesday and Travel

Last Saturday, Randy Seaver of geneamusings.com challenged his readers to list their 16 great-great-grandparents with their birth, death and marriage data as a way of reminding ourselves where they all came from.

Here's my list:

1. Unknown (Father's father's father's father)  
2. Unknown (Father's father's father's mother)
3. Unknown (Father's father's mother's father)
4. Unknown (Father's father's mother's mother)
5. Jacob Bertalot, b. 1823 in Dornholzhausen, Germany; d. before 1917 in Stephenson Co., IL. Married Elizabeth Koch (Cook) in about 1854.
6. Elizabeth Koch (Cook), b. 1830 in Germany; d. 1917 in Stephenson County, IL
7. Silas W. Ingalls, b. about 1822 in NY; d. Unknown.  Married Helen Ingalls date Unknown.
8. Helen Ingalls, b. about 1832 in PA; d. Unknown
9. Jacob Armagost, b. 1811 in PA; d. 1884 in Stephenson County, IL.    Married Roseanna Miller 1831.
10. Roseanna Miller, b. 1812 in PA; d. 1900 in Stephenson County, IL.
11. Samuel Stine, b. 1818 in MD; d. 1891 in Jo Daviess County, IL. Married Esther Ann Walter in 1847. 
12. Esther Ann Walter, b. 1807 in PA; d. 1888 in Stephenson County, IL.
13. Johann Heinrich Henke, b. 1796 in Prussia (Germany), d. Unknown.  Married Unknown
14. Unknown
15. Henry Hofmeister, b. about 1807 in Germany, d. Unknown (in IL).  Married Anna Hofmeister, date Unknown.
16. Anna Hofmeister (Maiden name unknown), b. about 1820 in Germany, d. Unknown (in IL).

Here's my husband's list:

1. Unknown
2. Unknown
3. Thomas Connor, b. about 1841 in Ireland, d. Unknown.  Married Margaret Burke, date unknown.
4. Margaret Burke, b. about 1847 in Ireland.
5. Unknown
6. Unknown
7. Unknown
8. Unknown
9. William Godfrey Schuchardt, b. 1836 in Muhlhausen, Germany, d. 1904 in St. Louis, MO.  Married Ann Mary Rufle (Ruffle) in 1859.
10. Ann Mary Rufle (Ruffle), b. 1836 in MO, d. 1913 in St. Louis, MO.
11. Joseph I. June, b. 1837 in Franklin County, IN, d. 1872 in St. Louis, MO.  Married Theresa Schnitzler date unknown.
12. Theresa Schnitzler, b. 1838 in Switzerland, d. 1911 in St. Louis, MO.
13. Gilbert M. Sproull, b. 1812 in Orange County, NY, d. 1876 in St. Louis, MO.  Married Jane Y. Young date unknown.
14. Jane Y. Young, b. about 1814 in PA, d. 1892 in St. Louis, MO.
15. John Gardner, b. Date Unknown in IL, d. Unknown.  Married Mary (maiden name unknown).
16. Mary (maiden name unknown), b. Date Unknown in IL, d. Unknown

All these ancestors from Germany, Ireland, Switzerland, Pennsylvania, New York, Maryland, Indiana and Illinois, who moved on and may or may not have been able to maintain contact with "home".

And this puts into perspective the news that my youngest son will very soon be moving  from his home in St. Louis to Phoenix, Arizona for his first teaching job.  And reminding myself that, unlike those folks listed above, we have cell phones, Facebook, airplanes, etc. to stay in touch.  I keep reminding myself...