On This Day - April 12th

 On This Day...

1646 - Birth: John Stoddard, Wethersfield, Hartford County, Connecticut

1694 - Marriage: Thomas Stebbins and Mary Day, Springfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts

1701 - Death: William Gull, Hatfield, Hampshire County, Massachusetts

1701 - Will: William Gull, Hatfield, Hampshire County, Massachusetts

1812 - Birth: Johann Schreifels, Mettendorf, Germany

1840 - Birth: Julia Dark, North Carolina

1846 - Birth: Robert Henry Dark,

1858 - Marriage: Peter Theisen and Margrethia Reuter, Dubuque, Dubuque County, Iowa

1858 - Birth: Susan Claire Chatham, Jackson Parish, Louisiana

1859 - Birth: James Franklin Batman, Crawford County, Indiana

1865 - Birth: Sylvester Sims Courtney, Livingston Parish, Louisiana

1888 - Birth: John Vondra, Zeigler SD

1890 - Birth: Anna Christina Koch, Minnesota

1907 - Death: Elizabeth Ehmer, Haverhill, Marshall County, Iowa

1909 - Birth: Leonard J. Lommel, Stearns County, Minnesota

1911 - Birth: Louisa Margareth Theisen, Stearns County, Minnesota

1914 - Death: Otto Aloys Pflueger, Collegeville Township, Stearns County, Minnesota

1920 - Death: Nancy Myra Boyett, Pollock, Grant Parish, Louisiana

Another busy day!  We see in addition to a death in 1701, mention of a Will.  This is an important clue to that ancestor's family, as well as their lifestyle seeing what items they owned and passed on to descendants.

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