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Note: AKA: I remember my Grandfather's friends calling him Jack or John.
Sidney Engle's occupations were: a miner, blacksmith, chauffering (for the Ford Family in Detroit, Michigan), a gas station owner, salesman.
Story #1 - 1996 letter
Sidney Engle and his brother Percy Engle headed out from Austin, Pennsylvania to the mid-west. According to a letter from Aunt Ruth Engle through the stories of Sidney and Anna Engle, Sidney heard Billy Sunday was preaching in the town square of Freeport, Illinois. Sidney Engle and Percy Engle stopped to hear - he spied mom (Anna Hillebrecht) and she blushed and right then he vowed to go the next night. He was there being dapper and swane so they took a walk. Later she took to meet my Grandmother (Georgianna (Eichhorn) Hillebrecht - she didn't like him, but dad's winning ways won and they were married, thus seven little dividends.
From Freeport, Illinois, Sidney and Anna Engle came to Detroit where Sidney Engle was a chauffer for the Ford family. Cars fasinated him and he knew cars were the thing of the future.
Later in time, Sidney and Anna Engle would buy a farm in Utica, Michigan. Then moving to Clawson, Michigan to have there last child. Sidney operated a gas station there.
Story #2 - August 3, 1996 From Aunt Clara Engle
My father (Sidney Engle), your Grandfather, was born in Indiana, Pennsylvania. Mother (Anna Hillebrecht) was born in Freeport, Illinois. They met in Freeport, Illinois. The story goes - Dad was on his way to California. He stopped in Freeport, Illinois when he ran out of money. He took a job in a buggy factory. Mother was a bookkeepper in a grocery store. Dad and his buddies sat on a fence watching when the girls come out of the store. One day, Dad said, see that girl, I'm going to marry her - after sometime, he did.
Mother's father died when she was 7 years old. Her mother took in washing to survive. Mother grew up in Freeport, Illinois, attended school to the 8th grade. Met and married Dad. Paul, I (Clara) and Earl were born in Freeport, Illinois. Later, Dad had employment in Detroit, Michigan. At one time, his Dad (Henry Engle) and Mother's mother (not sure who's mother - Rachel Stephens?) lived with us in Detroit, Michigan. Apparently they didn't get along and returned to their own homes. Later my Grandmother (Georgianna Eichhorn Hillebrecht) came to live with us in Clawson, Michigan and East Goodland (township), Michigan. She died in 1935 while I was in Butterworth (hospital - Grand Rapids, Michigan - now called Spectrum Hospital). Mother (Anna Engle) and Paul stopped for me. I went with them to Freeport, Illinois where the burial took place.
When I (Clara) was 5 years old, we mved to Detroit, Michigan, Dad found employment in Ford's Motor. In 1920 when I was 7 years old, we moved to Utica, Michigan. Ruth and Harry were born in Utica, Michigan. We moved to Clawson, Michigan - 1928 & 1929, I was in the 9th and 10 grade. My parents then moved to East Goodland (township) Michigan. They moved to Imlay City, Michigan during the war and lived in five different homes (one being owners of a motel).
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