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Personal data Seffie Stanley Gantz 


Household of Seffie Stanley Gantz

She is married to William Bradford Alwood.

They got married on March 6, 1884 at Westerville, Franklin Co., OH, she was 21 years old.

William Bradford Alwood oo Seffie Stanley Gantz

Marriage source: Krystal Simpson, Charlotte, MI, FGS received xxi Feb MCMXCI for dom, place of marriage. <>

Child(ren):

  1. Hubert Jackson Alwood  1885-1964 
  2. Helen Anne Alwood  1886-1968
  3. Nellie Sarah Alwood  1888-1961 
  4. Mabel Seraph Alwood  1889-1970
  6. Lewis Gantz Alwood  1896-1909
  7. Sara Ester Alwood  1902-1904


Notes about Seffie Stanley Gantz

Steffie Stanley Gantz

Source: Klaus, Terry, The Family Alwood, (Sacramento CA, T.K., June MCMXCI), pg. 162, Repository: Dallas TX Pub. Lib.

Slaughter, Catherine B., Alwood FGS, ca. 1991

cf. Stahl, Harriet, The Family of Johann Jacob Stahl, Sr. of LeHigh County, PA., (Mt. Vernon IN, Windmill Pub. Inc., MCMXCV), pg. 316, Repository: Lenig Lib., Newport, PA

cf. Stringfellow, Helena, The Alwood Family Tree, (Grantville PA, Wert Bookbinding, MCMXCVI), pg. II-FGS-143, Repository: Dallas TX Pub. Lib. for town of death, cemetery location.

Mrs. Stringfellow cites her source: Hanna, Jackie, Portage MI, 1995

13 May 1910 Charlottesville Magisterial Dist., Albemarle Co., VA census, sheet 27B, M624-1619, Repository: Dallas TX Pub. Lib.

'62 [Alwood] Siffie, wife, fem, white, ae 46, M1 [1st marr.], married 26 yrs, 8 children born, 5 children living, b. OH, parents b. OH, can speak Eng, Occ = none, can read/write'

Today, Charlottesville is an independent city, not the part of any county.

Steffie's parents: Andrew Jackson Gantz & Sarah Breck Olney <>

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Historical events

Birthday January 29, 1863

  • The temperature on January 29, 1863 was about 3.0 °C. The air pressure was 13 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 79%. Source: KNMI
  • Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from February 1, 1862 to February 10, 1866 the cabinet Thorbecke II, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1863: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
    • May 1 » American Civil War: The Battle of Chancellorsville begins.
    • May 14 » American Civil War: The Battle of Jackson takes place.
    • May 17 » Rosalía de Castro publishes Cantares Gallegos, the first book in the Galician language.
    • July 19 » American Civil War: Morgan's Raid: At Buffington Island in Ohio, Confederate General John Hunt Morgan's raid into the north is mostly thwarted when a large group of his men are captured while trying to escape across the Ohio River.
    • August 17 » American Civil War: In Charleston, South Carolina, Union batteries and ships bombard Confederate-held Fort Sumter.
    • October 29 » American Civil War: Battle of Wauhatchie: Forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant repel a Confederate attack led by General James Longstreet. Union forces thus open a supply line into Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Day of marriage March 6, 1884

  • The temperature on March 6, 1884 was about 9.4 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 51%. Source: KNMI
  • Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from April 23, 1884 to April 21, 1888 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1884: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
    • February 19 » More than sixty tornadoes strike the Southern United States, one of the largest tornado outbreaks in U.S. history.
    • April 20 » Pope Leo XIII publishes the encyclical Humanum genus.
    • May 1 » Moses Fleetwood Walker becomes the first black person to play in a professional baseball game in the United States.
    • July 3 » Dow Jones & Company publishes its first stock average.
    • October 14 » George Eastman receives a U.S. Government patent on his new paper-strip photographic film.
    • October 22 » The International Meridian Conference designates the Royal Observatory, Greenwich as the world's prime meridian.

Day of death July 26, 1940

  • The temperature on July 26, 1940 was between 9.8 °C and 17.2 °C and averaged 13.6 °C. There was 5.5 mm of rain during 4.1 hours. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (6%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1939 to September 3, 1940 the cabinet De Geer II, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from September 3, 1940 to July 27, 1941 the cabinet Gerbrandy I, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1940: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 8.8 million citizens.
    • May 6 » John Steinbeck is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Grapes of Wrath.
    • May 27 » World War II: In the Le Paradis massacre, 99 soldiers from a Royal Norfolk Regiment unit are shot after surrendering to German troops; two survive.
    • June 21 » World War II: Italy begins an unsuccessful invasion of France.
    • June 26 » World War II: Under the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, the Soviet Union presents an ultimatum to Romania requiring it to cede Bessarabia and the northern part of Bukovina.
    • September 9 » George Stibitz pioneers the first remote operation of a computer.
    • November 16 » World War II: In response to the leveling of Coventry by the German Luftwaffe two days before, the Royal Air Force bombs Hamburg.


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