1837 Mr David M Alter married Margaret Ritner, daughter of Governor Ritner, on April 20, at Zion German Lutheran Church in Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. [1]
1860 David M Alter (age 49, born in Pennsylvania) lived in Brown, Washington County, Indiana, in a household with Margaret R Alter (age 44), William W Alter (age 19), Lucretia D Alter (age 17), Elias M Alter (age 16), Mary E Alter (age 14), Joseph A Alter (age 12), Abby J Alter (age 10), George D Alter (age 7), Margaret E Alter (age 5), David H Alter (age 2), and Susan F Alter (age 1). David M Alter's occupation was farmer. [2]
1877 David Mell Alter, spouse of Margaret Anna Alter, died on February 2 in Illinois. He was born on August 15, 1811 in Pennsylvania, son of David Alter and Elizabeth Alter. [3]
1896 Margaret Anna Alter, spouse of David Mell Alter, died on June 4 in Mitchell, Lawrence County, Indiana. She was born on April 13, 1816 in Pennsylvania, daughter of Joseph Ritner and Susannah Whistler Ritner. [4]
1921 Lucretia Davidson Harper, spouse of John Wesley Harper, died on February 21 in Kirkwood, St. Louis County, Missouri. She was born on April 18, 1842 in Pennsylvania, daughter of David Mell Alter and Margaret Anna Alter. [5]
1926 Susan Frances Martin, spouse of Edwin McCoy Martin, died in 1926. She was born in 1859, daughter of David Mell Alter and Margaret Anna Alter. [6]
1948 Oliver Landis Alter, spouse of Lenna Alter, died on June 3 in Elmdale, Chase County, Kansas. He was born in 1861 in Campbellsburg, Washington County, Indiana, son of David Mell Alter and Margaret Anna Alter. [7]
Research Notes:
David Alter married Mell and had son David, who married Margaret Ritner, his cousin. [8]
[1] Pennsylvania and New Jersey, Church and Town Records, 1708-1985, PA, Dauphin, Harrisburg, Lutheran, Zion German Lutheran Church, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[2] United States Federal Census, 1860, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[3] Find A Grave Memorial at Ancestry.com, [AncestryRecord].
[4] Find A Grave Memorial at Ancestry.com, [AncestryRecord].
[5] Find A Grave Memorial at Ancestry.com, [AncestryRecord].
[6] Find A Grave Memorial at Ancestry.com, [AncestryRecord].
[7] Find A Grave Memorial at Ancestry.com, [AncestryRecord].
[8] William Henry Egle, Notes and Queries Historical Biographical and Genealogical Relating Chiefly to Interior Pennsylvania, Third Series, Vol. 1 (Dauphin County)(1887), 288, [GoogleBooks].