Melvin Leo Sawtelle (1929 - 2002)

Ancestors

Died 15 Jun 2002 at age 72 in Brockton, MA

Biography

Melvin was born in 1929. In the US Navy he served on the USS Wasp, aircraft carrier, and was stationed for a while in Britain, where he met his first wife Margo. At some time in his youth he played minor league baseball. He learned to be a printer in the Navy and continued that as his career.

Mel Sawtelle was the father of two daughters with his second wife Barbara Schilling. He married a third time after his divorce with Barbara. He passed away at a nursing home in Brockton, MA in 2002.

Mel was a direct ancestor of both John Alden the Puritan ^[1] and of Richard Sawtell (Sartell, Sattell,or Sautell) of Watertown, Mass in the 17th century ^[2]. His ancestry from John Alden comes through Constant Southworth (bc.1678) and the Soule Family to his paternal grandmother Mabel Bacon of Oakland, Kennebec, Maine.

Sources

1. ↑ Savage, James. Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May 1692 on the basis of the Farmer’s Register, A: Volume I (A-C). Little, Brown, and Co.; Boston, MA; 1862. pp. 23-24.
2. ↑ Ibid. pp. 29-30.

See also:

• MA Death Records
• SSDI