ENGLE-FAMILY HISTORICAL ACCOUNTS

I have provided these pages so that my Engels cousins would have a place to post 19th century historical accounts or pictures of their more immediate ancestors which might be of interest to all branches of the family.

Descendants of Peter Engels Jr.

• Wain Martin, who is descended from Henry Auter Engels, provided this account of his ancestor William Henry Engels who with 30 others drove a herd of cattle from Arkansas to California during the gold rush a distance of some 2200 miles! The story was adapted from the article on William H. Engels in Washington County History written by Bill Engels, a descendant of William Henry Engels.
• Captain Charles Morgan Engles was a river boat captain on the White River of MO for many years. This obituary was provided by Brenda Jackson Mahan of Arkansas.
• Wain Martin, who is descended from Henry Auter Engels, provided this account of his ancestor Henry Auter Engels.Henry A. was born in Kentucky in 1802 and moved to Arkansas when he was nineteen. He was a Sheriff for six years and died at a young age, possibly murdered.
• Balthazar Kramer moved to New Geneva PA with his father and family around 1797 from Frederick. There is father established the famous Kramer glass factory. In 1800, Balthazar married Elizabeth Engels, daughter of Peter Engels Jr. About the outbreak of the war of 1812, he joined the army and fought in some bloody battles in Canada. He elected to stay in the military rather than return to glass making and died at Fort Smith Arkansas in 1823 on the desolate Western Frontier will his family awaited him in Kentucky.

Descendants of Margaret Weimer w/o Clemens Engels

• In 1851, Mrs Nancy Hufford was tried for the Arsenic poisoning of Rebecca Engle in Allegany Court. Rebecca Engle was the second wife of Samuel Engle son of Clemens Engels. The transcript was provided by Kenneth Engle a descendant of Samuel. This case had all the earmarks of a current high publicity trial with battles between forensic experts, sex, and religious bias. Savilla (Long) Engle was one of the witnesses.
• Our departed cousin Max Engle was the most dedicated researcher of the Engle family that I ever knew. I started the master tree based his hand drawn trees of the descendants of Clement Engle. Max died in 1997 at the age of 88. Donald Miner, a cousin by marriage, came into possession of the following account of Max's grandfather written by Max. Twelve years in the life of George Adam Engle from 1860 to 1873.
• In 1862 a seventeen year old boy from Iowa drove a team of oxen west to make a new life. He never married but ultimately settled in the town of Mondovi Washington. Mondovi is the town where the Webmeister's (Ken Engle) grandfather Oliver Rueben Engle settled for a while around 1900. I first heard of him in 1990 when some people called who were cleaning up the old Mondovi cemetery. His short biography can be found here.

Descendants of Elizabeth Graeff w/o Clemens Engels

• This is a brief account of the frontier life of Catherine Engle Boyd. Catherine Engle b. 2-28-1815 married on March 19, 1831 James Boyd II, d. February 6, 1881 granddaughter of Clemens Engels. From the web page of Barbara Boyd Stewart who is no longer with us.

Descendants of Michael (Ingle) Engels

• The probate records of Mathias Mathew Ingle son of Michael Engels. Probated in Indiana in 1890 he lists many of his surviving children.

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