30. Births and deaths in February and March

Reviewing the February and March anniversary dates --

February --
   2/ 7/ 1847  --  Birthday of Anna Johanna Geiser 
   2/ 8/ 1872  --  Birthday of Anna Ida Treuthardt 
   2/ 12/ 1907 -- Death of Friedrich Treuthardt, age 73

March --
   3/ 11/ 1936 -- Death of Anna Johanna Geiser Treuthardt, age 89
   3/ 28/ 1834 -- Birthday of Friedrich Treuthardt
   3/ 29/ 1939 -- Death of Anna Ida Treuthardt Krieg, age 67

Ida was born the day after her mother's birthday, and they would have celebrated together for 64 years (1872-1936)!    Ida died the day after her father's birthday.   

Not to confuse things, but the second child of Friedrich and Anna was
Karl Arnold, who was born on March 30, 1874.  

28. Birthday -- Friedrich Christian Treuthardt, March 28, 1834; registry in Zweisimmen, Bern Canton

On this date 179 years ago, Friedrich Christian Treuthardt was born at Echandens, Vaud Canton, Switzerland.   Friedrich was the third and last child of Jacob and Margaritha Treuthardt.   He was baptized at Lonay, Vaud Canton, on 4 May 1834.   He was born on Good Friday.

Let it be known (this is important) that the Treuthardt family "came from" not Vaud Canton, but from Zweisimmen, Bern Canton.   Zweisimmen is the original home of the Treuthardts.   

Every Swiss national has a so called "place of origin" where he (or she) is registered.   Friedrich Christian Treuthardt's place of origin was "Zweisimmen" which is a small town in the "Berner Oberland."   The registry officer of Zweisimmen has found records of Friedrich Christian Treuthardt and his wife, Anna Geiser.  

Nineteen years ago I wrote a letter of inquiry and received the above response from the Bundesamt für Polizeiwesen, Bern, Switzerland -- Federal Office for Police Matters / Tracing Service, in a letter written by Claire Jordi on October 24, 1994. 

In those days, not so long ago, people typed and signed a letter, put it in an envelope, stamped and mailed it.

[Today Friedrich's birthday falls on Maundy Thursday.]

8. Good Friday, 1834

Maybe the Scripture engraved on Friedrich's tombstone in 1907 was a purely random choice on the part of Friedrich or his wife.   Maybe it never occurred to them that he had been born on the anniversary day of Jesus' crucifixion, Good Friday, 1834.   If so, it is one of those mysterious ways of God, that 106 years after Friedrich's death, I wondered about the correlation between Jesus' last words on the cross, and that Friedrich's birthday occurred on Good Friday.   My curiosity is whether he expected anybody to observe it, since it was such a rare event.   On only one other occasion in Friedrich's lifetime, in 1902, did his birthday occur on Good Friday.