On This Day - Dec 25th

On This Day...

1705 - Birth: Pelatiah Morgan, Springfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts

1740 - Death: Samuel Partridge, Hatfield, Hampshire County, Massachusetts

1776 - Birth: Oliver Dark,

1776 - Birth: Oliver Dark, Chatham County, North Carolina

1834 - Birth: Margaret Jane Bell, Crawford County, Indiana

1836 - Birth: John F. Winter, Oberbaar, Ahrweiler, Rheinland, Germany

1843 - Birth: Margaret Denbo,

1846 - Death: Jemima Holtzclaw, Garrard County, Kentucky

1852 - Alternate Birth: Margaret Lommel,

1853 - Birth: Margaret Lommel,

1860 - Birth: Gabriella A. Branch, Winn Parrish, LA

1880 - Birth: Laurence Frances Beaudreau, Wisconsin

1884 - Birth: Rachel Loretta Walker, Knapp, Dunn County, Wisconsin

1886 - Death: Amanda Straughan, Crawford County, Indiana

1890 - Marriage: Robert E. Lee McMurry and Lela Lawrence Louisiana Dark, Winnfield, Winn Parish, Louisiana

1890 - Marriage: Robert Lee Dark and Cora Belinda Jones, Winn Parish, Louisiana

1932 - Death: James Lawrence Dark, Oak Grove, West Carroll Parish, Louisiana

1939 - Death: Sarah Jane Landiss,

1966 - Death: Versie Hazel Stroud, Floyd County Hospital, New Albany, Floyd County, Indiana

Note the lack of recent dates for either births, marriages or deaths.  This backs up my claim in an earlier Advent Calendar post that none of these events had happened in my family in recent times, thus we don't tend to focus on them at Christmas time.

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