1) Determine what is your longest unbroken line of ancestral gravestones - how many generations can you go back in time? Do you have photographs of them?
2) Tell us and/or show us in a blog post of your own, or in a comment to this blog, or in a Facebook status or a Google+ stream post.
I decided to do my father and mother's main surname lines.
My father is still alive. So I will begin with his father.
Fred Rohrer
1903-1985
Bronswood Cemetery
DuPage County, Illinois
Oscar Rohrer
1878-1938
Rayburn Cemetery
Miami, Indiana
Frederick Rohrer
1843- 1941
Rayburn Cemetery
Miami County, Indiana
David Rohrer
1813- 1876
Fairfield Cemetery
De Kalb County, Indiana
Jacob Isaac Rohrer
1780-1850
Holmes County, Ohio
On my mother's side her maiden name was Rairigh. I will begin with her stone.
Charlotte Ann Rairigh
1930-1990
Ever-rest Memorial Park
Cass, Indiana
Loyd Hazen Rairigh
1911-1984
Westlawn Cemetery
Miami, Indiana
William Harve Rairigh
1884-1956
Metzger Cemetery
Miami, Indiana
James Quinter Rairigh
1850-1911
Metzger Cemetery
Miami, Indiana
Rev. Samuel Rairigh
1816-1899
Marion County, Kansas
Rev George Rairigh Sr
1793-1856
Slatehill Cemetery
Sagamore, Pennsylvania
So that is five stones in the Rohrer line and six stones in the Rairigh line. Jacob Isaac Rohrer's parents are unknown, although there are theories, no one has proved his parentage. I have a John Rohrig as Rev George Rairigh's father but I don't have it sourced and I don't have a grave stone photo.
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