Name: Adam Mengel_2019-08-02

Updated: 08-02-2019 12:08:37.


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Family
Marriage: Children:

  1. Alice Emma Mengel: Birth: 27 SEP 1853 in Pottsville, Schuylkill Co., PA.. Death: 07 SEP 1854 in Pennsylvania

  2. Mary Frances Mengel: Birth: 02 OCT 1855 in Pottsville, Schuylkill Co., PA.. Death: 21 MAY 1941

  3. Charles Abbott Mengel: Birth: 10 MAR 1857 in Pottsville, Schuylkill Co., PA.. Death: 11 NOV 1910

  4. Franklin Wescott Mengel: Birth: 24 NOV 1858 in Pottsville, Schuylkill Co., PA.. Death: 08 MAY 1929 in Cressona, Schuylkill Co., PA.

  5. Elizabeth Clara Mengel: Birth: 23 MAR 1861 in Pottsville, Schuylkill Co., PA.. Death: 15 OCT 1949 in Orwigsburg, Schuylkill Co., PA.

  6. Sarah Louisa Mengel: Birth: 03 NOV 1862 in West Brunswick Twp., Schuylkill Co., PA.. Death: 18 NOV 1937 in Pottsville, Schuylkill Co., PA.

  7. James Lincoln Mengel: Birth: 05 OCT 1864 in West Brunswick Twp., Schuylkill Co., PA.. Death: 22 NOV 1940 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co., PA.

  8. Irvin Grant Mengel: Birth: 05 JUL 1866 in Auburn, Schuylkill Co., PA.. Death: 14 JUN 1915 in Lebanon, Lebanon Co., PA.

  9. Edward Clayton Mengel: Birth: 30 MAY 1869 in West Brunswick Twp., Schuylkill Co., PA.. Death: 08 OCT 1958 in Bern Twp., Berks Co., PA.

  10. Frederick Calvin Mengel: Birth: 03 JUL 1874 in West Brunswick Twp., Schuylkill Co., PA.. Death: 23 JUL 1952 in Schuylkill Haven, Schuylkill Co., PA.

  11. Howard Arthur Mengel: Birth: 17 APR 1876 in Pennsylvania. Death: 27 JUN 1932 in Butler Twp., Schuylkill Co., PA.

  12. Lester Daniel Mengel: Birth: 09 MAR 1878 in West Brunswick Twp., Schuylkill Co., PA.. Death: 28 DEC 1945 in Auburn, Schuylkill Co., PA.


Sources
1. Title:   St Johns Reformed Church, Orwigsburg, Schuylkill Co., PA

Notes
a. Note:   H00013
Note:   An account of Daniel's death probably from a Reading newspaper:
  "Knocked Senseless
  Into the canal above Reading and drowned Sad fate of Capt. Daniel F. Mengel of Auburn (April 24th, 1888).
  Daniel F. Mengel of Auburn, for 40 years a boatman on Schuylkill Canal, was drowned in Brooks Lock at Leitz above Reading, shortly before 6 o'clock this morning.
  Capt. Mengel, accompanied by his sons Edward C., age 19 and Freddy, age 13, was taking an individual boat, William Fahl of Auburn, loaded with coal from Port Clinton to Manayunk. They left the port on friday last and reached the lock where the old boatman met his death at 5:40 am. When the lock chamber was level with the river below, the son, Edward, raised the western wicket to swell the boat out of the lock. His father was on the stern and was in the act of taking the arm from the tiller post when the swell swung the tiller around the arm, striking Capt. Mengel in the face above the right eye and knocked him senseless from the boat into the water. Without uttering a cry, the old man disappeared beneath the seething water coming through the lock and then a search for the body began. In a small boat with poles and grappling irons, Edward Henry Hill and Howard W. Weaver, recovered the body a half-hour later, about 15 feet from the lower gate. An attempt was made to resuscitate, but proved futile. Above his right eye was a cut about an inch long penetrating to the bone. He was laid on the dock of his boat and covered with a blanket until the arrival of coroner Denhard who had been summoned by the messenger.
  The deceased was a powerfully built and fine looking man, 69 years of age and was known and highly esteemed by all boatman and lock tenders along the canal to tide water. He leaves a wife, 8 sons and 3 daughters to mourn his untimely end."
 

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