Grandma’s line 1

During the next days we will work our way back, both photographically and genealogically, through Grandma’s family tree. We begin with her parents and siblings.

Grandma’s mother was Sarah Epp Franz. Sarah was born 21 May 1884 in York County, was baptized twenty years later on 28 May 1904, and married Isaac G. Franz the following year, on 7 December 1905. She passed away on 4 June 1957 and is buried in the Bethesda Cemetery one mile north and a half a mile east of Henderson.

Grandma’s father, Isaac G. (for his father Gerhard) Franz, was born 1 April 1882 and was baptized on the same day as his future wife Sarah. He passed away 17 July 1950 and is also buried in the Bethesda Cemetery, where he and Sarah share a headstone.

Born 20 October 1906, Grandma was the oldest child in her family; one sister and three brothers followed over the course of the next nineteen years:

• Lydia, 31 October 1910
• Albert A., 30 March 1914
• Eduard, 19 June 1917 (he died less than two months after birth)
• August, 1 December 1925

All are now gone, with August passing away in 2005 and Albert A. in 2006.