Christian Shank
(1791-1872)
Anna Boyer
(1795-1872)
David Beecher
(1793-1880)
Anna Maria Gilbert
(1797-1887)
Isaac Shank
(1822-1856)
Catharine Beecher
(1826-1894)
Ambrose Jacob Shank
(1853-1930)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. Anna Laura Erb

Ambrose Jacob Shank 1 2

  • Born: 29 Dec 1853, Beechersville, Adams, PA 1 2
  • Christened: 29 Dec 1854, Arendtsville: Arendtsville Union Church (Zion Lutheran and Trinity Reformed), Adams, PA 3
  • Marriage (1): Anna Laura Erb
  • Died: 8 Oct 1930, Franklin Twp., Adams, PA at age 76 1 2
  • Buried: 10 Oct 1930, Gettysburg: Evergreen Cemetery, Adams, PA 1 2

   Another name for Ambrose was Jacob Ambrose Schank.3

   FamilySearch ID: M7QP-FNF.

  Noted events in his life were:

1. He has conflicting birth information of The transcribed church baptism record has 1854 as birth year, not 1853 as on tombstone and death certificate., 29 Dec 1854 and Arendtsville, Adams, PA. 3

2. Cause of Death: influenza, 8 Oct 1930, Franklin Twp., Adams, PA. 1

3. Occupation: farmer on 8 Oct 1930 in Franklin Twp., Adams, PA. 1


Ambrose married Anna Laura Erb, daughter of George Washington Erb and Sarah A. Weaner. (Anna Laura Erb was born on 8 Feb 1861 in , , Pennsylvania, USA 4 5, christened on 11 Dec 1861 in Gettysburg: St. James Evangelical Lutheran Church, Adams, PA,5 died on 27 Feb 1949 in , , Pennsylvania, USA 4 and was buried in Gettysburg: Evergreen Cemetery, Adams, PA 4.)

Sources

1 Ancestry.com, Pennsylvania, U.S., Death Certificates, 1906-1968 (Original data: Pennsylvania (State). Death certificates. Records of the Pennsylvania Department of Health, Record Group 11. Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.), Death Certificate 92616. Ambrose Jacob Shank. Father Isaac Shank. Mother Katherine Beecher.

2 Find A Grave, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=35585645.

3 FamilySearch.org, Pennsylvania Births and Christenings, 1709-1950, https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/V2FG-YKW Jacob Ambrose Schank, 23 Apr 1854; Christening, citing Lutheran and Reformed Church, Arendtsville, Adams, PA. FHL microfilm 824351.

4 Find A Grave, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=35585754.

5 FamilySearch.org, Pennsylvania Births and Christenings, 1709-1950, https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/V2JF-F75 Anna Laura Erb, 11 Dec 1861; Christening, St. James Evangelical Lutheran Church, Gettysburg, Adams, PA; FHL microfilm 1433124.


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