Name: valentin-meckes -- Meckes-Mackes Family

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Family
Marriage: Children:

  1. Elmira Alice Meckes: Birth: 4 APR 1879 in ,Monroe Co.,PA. Death: 19 APR 1948 in Abington,Montgomery Co.,PA

  2. Edwin Elmer Meckes: Birth: 20 OCT 1880 in Manayunk,Philadelphia Co.,PA. Death: 25 MAY 1921 in Allentown,Lehigh Co.,PA

  3. Mary Agnes Meckes: Birth: 30 JAN 1883 in ,,PA. Death: 20 SEP 1940 in Horsham Twp.,Montgomery Co.,PA

  4. Lizzie Jane Meckes: Birth: 22 MAY 1884 in Lehigh Gap,Carbon Co.,PA.

  5. Simon A. Meckes: Birth: 29 JAN 1886 in ,Carbon Co.,PA. Death: 11 JUL 1952 in Philadelphia,Philadelphia Co.,PA

  6. Beulah May Meckes: Birth: 25 SEP 1887 in ,Monroe Co.,PA. Death: 18 JUN 1950 in Philadelphia,Philadelphia Co.,PA

  7. William Franklin Meckes: Birth: 7 SEP 1888 in Little Gap,Carbon Co.,PA. Death: 13 FEB 1969 in Philadelphia,Phila. Co.,PA

  8. Milton Allan Meckes: Birth: 13 JAN 1890 in ,,PA. Death: 24 MAR 1956 in Philadelphia,Philadelphia Co.,PA

  9. Robert Ervin Meckes: Birth: 16 AUG 1891 in Lehigh Gap,Carbon Co.,PA. Death: 31 MAR 1962 in Philadelphia,Philadelphia Co.,PA

  10. James Lee Meckes: Birth: 23 JAN 1895 in Slatington,Lehigh Co.,PA. Death: 8 FEB 1895 in Slatington,Lehigh Co.,PA


Notes
a. Note:   Edwin was christened at Salem Union Church at Gilbert. The sponsors were Math. Jorg and Sarah Makes (his maternal uncle and paternal aunt).
  Edwin first lived on a farm on part of the old estate of his grandfather, John
 Meckes, near Albrightsville. In 1858 the family moved north to Kidder
 Township, Carbon County, near what is now Hickory Run State Park. Edwin's
 father, Reuben Meckes, and his uncle, John William Meckes, operated a lumber
 mill for ten years until it was probably destroyed by fire. At some time in
 the 1860s Edwin went to Eldred Township and helped work his father's farm. He
 was confirmed there in the Lutheran faith at St. Matthew's Church in Kunkletown
 in 1870. Around 1878 he married Mary Jane Boyer.
  Shortly thereafter, the young couple, their daughter Elmira, and his brother,
 Simon Meckes and his family, moved to 149 Cotton Street in the Manayunk section
 of Philadelphia. Edwin and his brother worked as teamsters. In 1882 Edwin and
 his family returned to Monroe County at the time of death of his mother, Sally
 Ann (George) Meckes. He purchased five acres from his father for $200 and
 settled down to farming.
  In 1889 his father died and, as per the terms of the will, he and his brothers
 and sisters from the first marriage only received $10 each. Less than a month
 later, he sold the five acre farm to his uncle, Samuel W. Meckes, for $88 less
 than he paid for it. Sometime between 1889 and 1894 he moved his family to
 Slatington.
  In Slatington, Edwin worked as a slater in the many slate quarries near town.
 Some of the children in the family worked either in the quarries or the nearby
 textile mills. Late in 1902 Edwin returned to Philadelphia. Over the next
 fifteen years he lived at 2118 N. Franklin St., 2131 N. 9th St., 2214 N. 7th
 St., 2256 Camac St., and 130 N. Woodstock St. He was employed at the
 Stetson Company in Philadelphia as a hatter. Eventually he moved in with his
 son, Milton Meckes, at 2237 W. Lehigh Ave. where he died in 1942. He is buried
 at Northwood Cemetery in North Philadelphia, PA. (PA death certificate #105107)

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