Passenger Ship General Slocum caught fire and sank in the East River on Jun 15, 1904. More than 1000 passengers died, most of them German-Americans from "Little Germany" in Manhattan.
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↑ "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M9JF-YV6 : 20 January 2015), George Abel in household of Frederick Abel, District 2 Bayonne city Ward 3, Hudson, New Jersey, United States; citing sheet 14B, family 304, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,240,971.
U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015.
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