The How Long Do The Women In My Ancestry Live Challenge

Death record of Elizabeth Ellen Garber Jacobs 

1848 - 1914

I am a day late with this challenge because we were out of town all day yesterday and did not get home till almost three am.   But the Saturday Night Challenge can be found HERE and involves listing the women in your tree back five generations and determining how old they were when they passed away.

My mother:
Charlotte Ann Rairigh  - 14 January 1930 - 9 November 1990 - 60 years

My grandmothers:
Thelma Funk - 27 December 1911 - 12 November 1993 - 81 years
Doris Ellen Shively - 6 December 1908 - 16 December 1994 - 86 years

My great grandmothers:
Mary Etta Hildebrand - 11 December 1875 - 8 August 1959 - 83 years
Georgia Ethel Shepler - 14 November 1886 - 17 September 1967 - 80 years
Carrie Bell Jacobs - 31 May 1872 - 12 April 1922 - 49 years
Leona Elberta Sullivan - 6 March 1881 - 13 September 1903 - 22 years

My 2nd great grandmothers:
Louisa Raymer - 10 May 1848 - 28 March 1906 - 57 years
Sara Amanda Zellner - about 1852 - 8 July 1879 - 27 years
Louisa Dickey - 8 June 1854 - 2 January 1887 - 32 years
Clara Barton Patton - 7 June 1866 - 29 March 1945 - 79 years
Elizabeth Ellen Garber - 5 October 1848 - 4 October 1914 - 65 years
Harriet Little - 14 May 1847 - 10 January 1923 - 75 years
Aimee Francis Sullivan - 20 September 1856 - 30 January 1935 - 78 years
Mahala Stair - 9 April 1845 - 26 February 1907 - 62 years

Third great grandmothers:
Anna Schwalm - 7 March 1810 - 1863 - 52 years
Anna maiden name unknown  married name Hildebrand - 28 December 1816 - 18 March 1886 - 69 years
Amelia Moyer - 1830 - 22 October 1908 - 78 years
Mary Martin - 23 January 1827 - 10 May 1876 - 49 years
Barbara Berkey - 9 February 1820 - 12 April 1901 - 81 years
Amelia Jane Sullivan - 1 June 1845 - 7 May 1900 - 54 years
Sarah Wissenger - 10 June 1823 - 10 June 1870 - 47 years
Susanna Beeghley - 28 July 1825 - 8 September 1880 - 55 years
Jane Rebecca McKinstry - 26 September 1817 - 2 March 1900 - 82 years
Emeline Reed  - 8 April 1822 - 22 May 1895 - 73 years
Catherine Bowman - 1 January 1801 - 16 October 1885 - 84 years
Martha Jane Morris - 19 March 1830 - 22 July 1895 - 65 years
Sara Beck - 30 April 1825 - between 1845 and 1850 - about 19 years
Sarah Jane Wibel - 16 September 1816 - 17 April 1913 - 96 years

What amazes me most about these challenges is how much I learn doing them.  For example,  I was half way through this when I realized my Reunion software has a field where the age was already figured out for me so I could put down my calculator and the listing got easier.   And as I calculated the averages, since I am bad with numbers,  I totally struggled with the math.  So I hope I keyed in things to the calculator correctly.  My figures now follow:

The woman that lived the longest was Sarah Jane Wibel ,wife of David Rohrer, as she  lived to be 96.   The woman that died the youngest was probably Sara Beck, wife of William Stair,  as she lived to be about 19 but a close second would be Leona Alberta Sullivan, wife of Oscar Rohrer, who I have a definite death date on.  She lived to be 22 at which point she died following the birth of my grandfather.  The average age of death for the 29 women is 63.

When divided into generations the average age at death and the  age ranges are:

Generation one - (mother) - 60 years
Generation two -(grandmothers) - 83 years - range 81 and 86
Generation three - (great grandmothers) - 58  years - range 22 - 83
Generation four - (great great grandmothers) - 59  years - range 27 - 79
Generation five - (great great great grandmothers) - 64 years - range 19 - 96