As per 1900 Census: William was living with his mother Annie, a widow, and her was listed as a servant, at his grandfather's (her father) home in Longswamp Township, Berks, Pennsylvania with his brother, Raymond.
Death
Date: 1969
Place: PA
Burial
Burial Place: Saint Peter's Union Church Cemetery, near Macungie, Lehigh Co., PA
Sources
Source: S287 Record ID Number: MH:S287 User ID: BE427D8F-ABEF-44B5-8781-3FAC27EA22F5 Author: William Earl Beers Title: Beers Web Site Text: MyHeritage.com family tree CONT Family site: Beers Web Site CONT Family tree: BEERSW Media: 438963-11 Type: Smart Matching Record ID Number: MH:SC3452 Page: William H. ECK Event: Smart Matching Role: 11023061 Data: Date: 29 NOV 2012 Text: Added by confirming a Smart Match Quality or Certainty of Data: 3
Source: S288 Record ID Number: MH:S288 User ID: B931533B-9A0D-45D0-A671-F953396D47D2 Author: William Earl Beers Title: Beers Web Site Text: MyHeritage.com family tree CONT Family site: Beers Web Site CONT Family tree: Family tree (gedcom1024) Media: 438963-14 Type: Smart Matching Record ID Number: MH:SC3453 Page: William H. Eck Event: Smart Matching Role: 14003255 Data: Date: 29 NOV 2012 Text: Added by confirming a Smart Match Quality or Certainty of Data: 3
St. Peter's Union Church Cemetery; near Shimersville, Macungie R. 1, Lehigh, Pennsylvania
St. Peter's Lutheran Church, Allentown, Lehigh, Pennsylvania
U.S. Decennial Census, 1900 Berks, Pennsylvania
Morning Call newspaper dated 26 Sep 1897, 14 Oct 1990 7 Jun 1992; Allentown, Lehigh, Pennsylvania
Marriage Licenses: Berks County Courthouse, Reading, Berks, Pennsylvania
Marriage Licenses; Lehigh County Courthouse, Allentown, Lehigh, Pennsylvania
Helen E. Arkey, Eck Families Primarily Listing Descendants of Jacob Egg/Eck and Anna Maria Margaret Kilcher p. 252, 272-273; Allentown, PA, 1992; Data Contributors: Verna (Eck) Bear, Andrew Kerstetter
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with William by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line.
It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with William: