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1910 – Samuel Bittles died 102 years ago in Illinois.  He was 77 years old.  (3rd great-granduncle)

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1866 – Margaret Bittles was born in Illinois 146 years ago to James Bittles & Margaret Reid.  (1st cousin 4x removed)

1871 – Joseph & Julianna Hallman were born in Prussia 141 years ago to Anton Hallman & Henrietta Kreft.  (great-granduncle & aunt)

1893 – Annie Kwart was born in Detroit, Michigan 119 years ago to John Kwart Jr. & Martha Kraus.  (1st cousin 3x removed)

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Name:  John Franklin Sinyard

Birthday:  about 1859

Parents:  John B. Sinyard & Eliza Garlick

Relationship:  Married to Mary Ann Bittles, father of 5 children.

Children:  Stewart, Margaret, John, Mary & Edward.

Hometown:  born in Michigan

Last Known Residence:  Lemont, Illinois

Education:  able to read and write

Occupation:  Quarry Laborer

Death:  after 1894.  He does not appear in the 1900 census with his family, though Mary is still listed as “married.”  In the 1910 census Mary is listed as a widow.

Cemetery:  Unknown

Relationship to Me:   2nd great-grandfather

John Bittles is my 3rd great-granduncle.  He immigrated from Ireland with his family and his brother’s family aboard the “City of Mobile” in July of 1857.  The family resided in Lemont, Illinois where he worked as a laborer.  He is buried in Brooks Cemetery in Goodings Grove, Illinois.