From Randy over at Genea-Musings:
it's Saturday Night -
time for more Genealogy Fun!!!
Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to:
(1) Thinking about your direct ancestors back through 2nd great-grandparents - in other words, ancestors #2 to #31 on your ahnentafel chart - how many children did they have? How many of those children lived long enough to marry? How many died before age 10?
(2) Tell us all about it in your own blog post, in a comment to this post, or in a post on Facebook.
Here's mine:
#2 and 3: My parents Gilbert Earl Tapley (1928-2008) and Linda Irene Tapley (1942-) had 2 children - a boy and a girl. One of them married. One of them died before age 10.
#4 and 5: My paternal grandparents Lusion Keman Tapley (1870-1935) and Nealie Vermell Drake (1895-1970) had 6 children - 5 boys and 1 girl. All of them grew up and married.
#6 and 7: My maternal grandparents Charles Morgan Tapley (1907-1973) and Ethel Irene Ranney (1913-1973) had one child - a girl. She grew up and married.
#8 and 9: Great-grandparents James "Jim" Madison Tapley (1847-1912) and Elizabeth Rebecca "Becky" Page (1844-1924) had 12 children - 7 sons and 5 daughters. Nine of the children grew up and married. One never married. Two children died before age 10.
#10 and 11: Great-grandparents William John Drake (1857-1927) and Emma Vermell Harrell (1867-1935) had 9 children - 4 sons and 5 daughters. Eight of their children grew up and got married. One died before he had that chance, but not before age 10.
#12 and 13: Great-grandparents Lusion Keman Tapley (1870-1935) and Mattie Schwalls (1877-1912) had 4 children - all sons. Three grew up and married. One died before age 10.
#14 and 15: Great-grandparents Luther Boardman Ranney (1870-1943) and Bessie Alice Carter (1883-1960) had 3 children - one boy and two girls. They all three grew up and were married.
#16 and 17: 2nd Great-grandparents George Washington Tapley (1814-aft 1880) and Elizabeth MNU (1824-aft 1880) had 7 children - 3 boys and 4 girls. Three children grew up and got married. One never got the opportunity to marry because he was killed in the Civil War, and three children possibly died before age 10.
#18 and 19: 2nd Great-grandparents Solomon Page (1800-1860) and Elizabeth Caroline Scoggins (1802-1880) had 4 children (that I know of). Of those, all 4 were girls and three grew up and married. One I am not sure.
#20 and 21: 2nd Great-grandparents James William Drake (1829-1908) and Mary Ann R Brantley (1837-1891) had 9 children - 5 boys and 4 girls. Four of the children grew up and got married. One child died before age 10. The others grew up, but never married.
#22 and 23: 2nd Great-grandparents William Robert Harrell (1838-1908) and Catherine M Odom (1841-1875) had 3 children - 2 girls and a boy. All off them grew to adulthood, but only two of them married.
#24 and 25: same as #8 and 9.
#26 and 27: 2nd Great-grandparents George W Schwalls Sr (1837-1908) and Lincelia E Claxton (1839-1882) had 7 children - 3 boys and 4 girls. Six children grew up and got married. One child died before age 10.
#28 and 29: 2nd Great-grandparents Comfort Ranney (1838-1920) and Mary Margaret Hesser (1842-1920) had 4 children - 2 boys and 2 girls. They all grew up and married.
#30 and 31: 2nd Great-grandparents Charles Kelso Carter (1843-1916) and Sarah Schoonover (1840-1918) had one adopted daughter. She grew up and married.
There were 36 male children and 30 of them married. There were also 36 female children and 25 of them married. (Does this indicate that men marry more often or that there were not enough men to go around?)
Two families had only one child; one family had two children; two families had 3 children; two families had 4 children; one family had 6 children; two families had 7 children; two families had 9 children; and 1 family had 12 children.
That's a lot of family in four generations!
Your ancestral families seem typical of most of our family trees - some large families, some smaller, but only 25 of 36 females marrying seems less common. That would be true for the 21st century, but not so much for the earlier half of the 20th century and times before that.
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