Amandus
G.
Eck
Born in Berks, Pennsylvania, United States
Ancestors 
Son of Josiah Eck
and Sarah Ann (Glassmeier) Eck
Brother of
Fyanna Mary (Eck) Kehs, Maria Ann (Eck) Eltz, Sarah Anna Eck, Milton Sylvester Eck, Amanda (Eck) Aims and Nathaniel Augustus Eck
Husband of
Amanda (Groff) Eck
— married
15 Dec 1888 in Most Blessed Sacrament Church, Bally, Berks, Pennsylvania
Descendants 
Father of
Stanislaus G. Eck, Florence G. (Eck) Leh, Helena Fianna (Eck) Stengel, Ada M. (Eck) Kline, Iremina Marie (Eck) Conway, Charles Paul Eck and Jeremiah Benjamin Eck
Died
at age 72
in Palm, Montgomery, Pennsylvania
Profile last modified
| Created 25 Sep 2018
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Biography
Amandus was born in 1865. He passed away in 1937.
The Amandus Eck family lived near Palm in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania where Amandus worked as a blacksmith for 54 years.
The following article appears in The Morning Call newspaper on 16 Jun 1906: "Amandus G. Eck equipped his blacksmith shop with a new 400 fan. Mr. Eck is very proud with the implement and claims it gives him much comfort in his work." And this article on 7 Feb 1908: " A. G. Eck, the blacksmith, while shoeing a mule belonging to the John Hancock Ice Company, had a narrow escape from being probably seriously injured by a kick of the mule. The animal made two efforts, one of the kicks missed Mr. Eck's face only by a few inches." Copyright1906 and 1908 The Morning Call, Inc., Reprinted with permission of the Morning Call.
Residence in 1910: Montgomery County, Pennsylvania
Burial Place: Most Blessed Sacrament Church, Bally, Berks County, Pennsylvania
Sources
- Unsourced family tree handed down to Amanda (Eck) Hartgrove.
- Goshenhoppen Register (Catholic Church Records) Most Blessed Sacrament Church, Bally Berks, Pennsylvania
- Marriage License Application; Berks county courthouse, Reading, Berks, Pennsylvania
- U.S. Decennial Census: 1910 Montgomery, Pennsylvania
- The Morning Call newspaper dated 16 Jun 1906, 7 Feb 1908, 13 Sep 1937, 2 Nov 1961, 12 Jul 1978, 3 Jan 1990; Allentown, Lehigh, Pennsylvania
- Eck Families Primarily Listing Descendants of Jacob Egg/Eck and Anna Maria Margaret Kilcher pp. 120-121, 130; Helen E. Arkey, Allentown, PA, 1992; Data Contributor: Edgar H. Zimmerman
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Amandus 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 Amandus:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Amandus 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 Amandus:
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