Centenarians

The notion that Betsy Ross sewed the first American flag was propagated most vocally by her descendants nearly 40 years after she died. (Historians consider it family lore and without…

The Hall family would readily acknowledge their lives revolved around their relationship with their Creator, and some of them made it their full-time occupation to share the good news of…

The title of “Oldest Old Maid” was proudly claimed by Mary Ann Crothers before she died in 1898 at age 104 because she had never been married. So far, three…

Europe was well represented in this family’s lineage. Katharine’s father’s parents were German and Swiss who settled in Pottsville, Pennsylvania while her mother’s parents arrived in Philadelphia  from Scotland and…

The famine that swept Ireland in the late 1840s was the motivation for as many as a million of its citizens to come to America. Among them was Elizabeth’s parents…

Many children are given the same middle name as their mother’s maiden name. That’s significant in this case because the settlement where this family lived was originally known as Hall’s…

The Lidazky family brought Amelia into the world when they lived in Germany, then brought her to America in 1880. Nothing more is known of her family or her life…

The definition of an “old maid” is a woman who never married and is no longer young. Today it’s considered an offensive term, but in 1897 Mary considered it an…

The youngest child in a family has the advantage of learning from the older ones. The tenth child in the Young family was known as Lena, so she learned from…