Gall/Genseal Family Tree » Obediah Gensel (1820-1913)

Personal data Obediah Gensel 

Sources 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11

Household of Obediah Gensel

He is married to Catharine Orilla Swank.

They got married on January 2, 1840 at Columbia, Pennsylvania, USA, he was 19 years old.Source 9


Child(ren):

  1. Emma Nancy Gensel  1841-1925 
  2. Malinda Gensel  1843-1942 
  3. Rebecca Gensel  1846-1931 
  4. Sarah Ann Gensel  1847-1935 
  5. Flora May Gensel  1865-1946 
  6. Amanda Any Gensel  1852-1936 
  7. Ellis Walden Gensel  1850-1858
  8. Phebe Gensel  1858-1883 


Notes about Obediah Gensel

1830 1840 censuses; 1841 - Daughter Emma Nancy Born Briar Creek PA; 1842 - Daughter Amanda born Briar Creek PA; 1843 - Daughter Malinda born, Briar Creek, PA 1846 - Daughter Rebecca born Briar Creek PA; 1848 - Daughter Sarah born Briar Creek PA; 1855 - Son Ellis Walden born, Berwick, PA 1857 - Son Ellis Walden died Berwick PA; 1858 - Daughter Pheobe born Berwick PA; 1861 - Daniel Fairchilds born Sullivan County PA; 1865 - Flora May born Sullivan County PA; 1913 -Died, Mitchell CO, KS SOME INFO FROM GANSEL FAMILY BIBLE IN POSSESSION OF ESTHER ELDRED MURPHY CALIFORNIA

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    1. 1870 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, Year: 1870; Census Place: Cherry, Sullivan, Pennsylvania; Roll: M593_1453; Page: 12A; Image: 27; Family History Library Film: 552952 / Ancestry.com
    2. U.S., Civil War Draft Registrations Records, 1863-1865, Ancestry.com, National Archives and Records Administration (NARA); Washington, D.C.; Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records (Provost Marshal General's Bureau; Consolidated Enrollment Lists, 1863-1865); Record Group: 110, Records of the Provost Marsha / Ancestry.com
    3. 1850 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, Year: 1850; Census Place: Briar Creek, Columbia, Pennsylvania; Roll: M432_769; Page: 147A; Image: 8 / Ancestry.com
    4. 1860 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, Year: 1860; Census Place: Cherry, Sullivan, Pennsylvania; Roll: M653_1184; Page: 705; Image: 33; Family History Library Film: 805184 / Ancestry.com
    5. 1880 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Year: 1880; Census Place: Glen Elder, Mitchell, Kansas; Roll: 389; Family History Film: 1254389; Page: 53A; Enumeration District: 179; Image: 0408 / Ancestry.com
    6. U.S., Indexed County Land Ownership Maps, 1860-1918, Ancestry.com, Collection Number: G&M_109; Roll Number: 109 / Ancestry.com
    7. Kansas State Census Collection, 1855-1925, Ancestry.com, Kansas State Historical Society; Topeka, Kansas; 1875 Kansas Territory Census; Roll: ks1875_13; Line: 46 / Ancestry.com
    8. U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
    9. 1900 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, Year: 1900; Census Place: Glen Elder, Mitchell, Kansas; Roll: 491; Page: 11A; Enumeration District: 0083; FHL microfilm: 1240491 / Ancestry.com
    10. Pennsylvania, Death Certificates, 1906-1963, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
    11. 1910 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, Year: 1910; Census Place: Beloit Ward 1, Mitchell, Kansas; Roll: T624_448; Page: 7A; Enumeration District: 0092; FHL microfilm: 1374461 / Ancestry.com

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    • The temperature on April 29, 1820 was about 7.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: half bewolkt. Source: KNMI
    •  This page is only available in Dutch.
      De Republiek der Verenigde Nederlanden werd in 1794-1795 door de Fransen veroverd onder leiding van bevelhebber Charles Pichegru (geholpen door de Nederlander Herman Willem Daendels); de verovering werd vergemakkelijkt door het dichtvriezen van de Waterlinie; Willem V moest op 18 januari 1795 uitwijken naar Engeland (en van daaruit in 1801 naar Duitsland); de patriotten namen de macht over van de aristocratische regenten en proclameerden de Bataafsche Republiek; op 16 mei 1795 werd het Haags Verdrag gesloten, waarmee ons land een vazalstaat werd van Frankrijk; in 3.1796 kwam er een Nationale Vergadering; in 1798 pleegde Daendels een staatsgreep, die de unitarissen aan de macht bracht; er kwam een nieuwe grondwet, die een Vertegenwoordigend Lichaam (met een Eerste en Tweede Kamer) instelde en als regering een Directoire; in 1799 sloeg Daendels bij Castricum een Brits-Russische invasie af; in 1801 kwam er een nieuwe grondwet; bij de Vrede van Amiens (1802) kreeg ons land van Engeland zijn koloniën terug (behalve Ceylon); na de grondwetswijziging van 1805 kwam er een raadpensionaris als eenhoofdig gezag, namelijk Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck (van 31 oktober 1761 tot 25 maart 1825).
    • In the year 1820: Source: Wikipedia
      • January 27 » A Russian expedition led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev discovers the Antarctic continent, approaching the Antarctic coast.
      • March 15 » Maine becomes the 23rd U.S. state.
      • April 8 » The Venus de Milo is discovered on the Aegean island of Milos.
      • September 15 » Constitutionalist revolution in Lisbon, Portugal.
      • October 9 » Guayaquil declares independence from Spain.
      • November 20 » An 80-ton sperm whale attacks and sinks the Essex (a whaling ship from Nantucket, Massachusetts) 2,000 miles from the western coast of South America. (Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick is in part inspired by this story.)
    • The temperature on January 2, 1840 was about 10.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south-southeast. Weather type: half bewolkt winderig bui. Source: KNMI
    •  This page is only available in Dutch.
      De Republiek der Verenigde Nederlanden werd in 1794-1795 door de Fransen veroverd onder leiding van bevelhebber Charles Pichegru (geholpen door de Nederlander Herman Willem Daendels); de verovering werd vergemakkelijkt door het dichtvriezen van de Waterlinie; Willem V moest op 18 januari 1795 uitwijken naar Engeland (en van daaruit in 1801 naar Duitsland); de patriotten namen de macht over van de aristocratische regenten en proclameerden de Bataafsche Republiek; op 16 mei 1795 werd het Haags Verdrag gesloten, waarmee ons land een vazalstaat werd van Frankrijk; in 3.1796 kwam er een Nationale Vergadering; in 1798 pleegde Daendels een staatsgreep, die de unitarissen aan de macht bracht; er kwam een nieuwe grondwet, die een Vertegenwoordigend Lichaam (met een Eerste en Tweede Kamer) instelde en als regering een Directoire; in 1799 sloeg Daendels bij Castricum een Brits-Russische invasie af; in 1801 kwam er een nieuwe grondwet; bij de Vrede van Amiens (1802) kreeg ons land van Engeland zijn koloniën terug (behalve Ceylon); na de grondwetswijziging van 1805 kwam er een raadpensionaris als eenhoofdig gezag, namelijk Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck (van 31 oktober 1761 tot 25 maart 1825).
    • In the year 1840: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 2.9 million citizens.
      • February 6 » Signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, establishing New Zealand as a British colony.
      • May 1 » The Penny Black, the first official adhesive postage stamp, is issued in the United Kingdom.
      • May 7 » The Great Natchez Tornado strikes Natchez, Mississippi killing 317 people. It is the second deadliest tornado in United States history.
      • May 20 » York Minster is badly damaged by fire.
      • June 20 » Samuel Morse receives the patent for the telegraph.
      • October 7 » Willem II becomes King of the Netherlands.
    • The temperature on March 16, 1913 was between 2.7 °C and 6.9 °C and averaged 5.1 °C. There was 5.5 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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 February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
    • In The Netherlands , there was from August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1913: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 6.1 million citizens.
      • January 18 » First Balkan War: A Greek flotilla defeats the Ottoman Navy in the Naval Battle of Lemnos, securing the islands of the Northern Aegean Sea for Greece.
      • February 13 » The 13th Dalai Lama proclaims Tibetan independence following a period of domination by Manchu Qing dynasty and initiated a period of almost four decades of independence.
      • June 19 » Natives Land Act, 1913 in South Africa implemented.
      • August 16 » Completion of the Royal Navy battlecruiser HMSQueen Mary.
      • October 9 » The steamship SSVolturno catches fire in the mid-Atlantic.
      • December 1 » The Buenos Aires Metro, the first underground railway system in the Southern Hemisphere and in Latin America, begins operation.
    

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