1) Using your ancestral lines, how far back in time can you go with three degrees of separation? That means "you knew an ancestor, who knew another ancestor, who knew another ancestor." When was that third ancestor born?
To see the original challenge post and the links to the various blogs that took up the challenge click HERE.
My maiden name is Rohrer. I knew my grandfather Fred Edwin Rohrer. He was the son of Oscar Rohrer and Mahala Stair. He was born in 1903 and died in 1985.
This is a picture of my grandfather Fred Rohrer with his step mother Alice Wilson Rohrer and his father Oscar Rohrer. It is one of my favorite family photos.
Five of Frederick and Mahala Rohrer's children
Clarence, Ed, Elmer, Oscar, Ada
(not sure who is who except Ada is obviously in the center and Oscar is on the right end)
I have them as having ten children but several died when young.
Fred Rohrer's grandfather was Frederick Rohrer. Frederick didn't die till 1931 and since Fred was born in 1903 and they lived nearby Fred would have known his grandfather Frederick.
This is a picture of Frederick Rohrer and his second wife Pauline Stair who was his first wife's Mahala Stair's sister. Mae Rohrer died and Frederick married her sister Pauline.
Frederick Rohrer was born in 1843 and died in 1931. He was the son of David Rohrer and Sarah Wible. Since David's father didn't die until 1850 and Frederick was born in the area that David's father lived it is likely that Frederick knew David's father - Jacob Isaac Rohrer. David Rohrer did not move his father from Ohio to Indiana till after his father died.
I don't have a picture of David but here is his wife Sarah and six of ten his children. Some of his children died young also.
Jacob Isaac Rohrer was born in 1780 and died in 1850. I do not have a picture of him. He was buried in Holmes County Ohio. Here is a picture of his gravestone.
Jacob Isaac Rohrer is as far back as we have confirmed this line.
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