Descendants of Jacob SHENKEL
1761-1834
Parents Henry Shenkel 1718-1785 & Maria Mueller
1 Jacob SHENKEL 1761 - 1834
.. +Susan DANEHOWER 1762 -
......... 2 Maria Polly SHENKEL 1784 - 1865
............. +Henry BARE 1783 -
.................... 3 Catherine BARE 1813 - 1822
.................... 3 Henry BARE 1820 - 1825
......... 2 Hannah SHENKEL 1794 - 1855
......... 2 Jacob SHENKEL 1790 -
......... 2 John SHENKEL 1792 -
......... 2 David SHENKEL 1798 -
1. JACOB SHENKEL was born 1761 in Chester Co Pennsylvania (or 1756?),
and died October 20, 1834. He married SUSAN DANEHOWER,
daughter of GODFREY DANEHOWER DAUENHOUR.
She was born 1762 in Coventry Chester Pennsylvania.
More About JACOB SHENKEL:
Bk: Pg 100 Wills of Chester Co PA 1778-1800 by J Martin
Book: Chester Co Pennsylvania Wills 1713-1825
Burial: Shenkel Cem Covenrty twp Chester Pennsylvania
Emigrated: October 16, 1752, Parents came on Snow Ketty
G: 8 PA
Info-1: April 14, 1806, Received $50 from father –in -law Godfrey Dauenhour
Info-2: August 10, 1835, Estate Orphans Court
Info-3: Rn B
Information: fathers Will 11 March 1784
Parents (Facts Pg): Henry Shenkel 1718-1785 & Maria Mueller
More About SUSAN DANEHOWER
G: 8 PA
Parents (Facts Pg): Godfrey Dauenhour 1740-1795 &
Children of JACOB SHENKEL and SUSAN DANEHOWER are
i. MARIA POLLY SHENKEL, b. January 31, 1784, Chester Co Pennsylvania;
d. September 09, 1865, Chester Co Pennsylvania 81 yrs 7 months 19 days;
m. HENRY BARE b. 1783; d. Chester Co Pennsylvania.
More About MARIA POLLY SHENKEL
Aka (Facts Pg): Mary (marr Baer/Barr? in some records)
Burial: Shenkel Knoll Pottstown Landing Chester Co Pennsylvania
G: 9 PA
Parents (Facts Pg): Jacob Shenkel 1761-1834 & Susan Danehower 1762
More About HENRY BARE
Burial: Shenkel Knoll Pottstown Landing Chester Co Pennsylvania
G: 9 PA
ii. HANNAH SHENKEL, b. January 24, 1794, Chester Co Pennsylvania;
d. October 24, 1855, Chester Co Pennsylvania
Estate sale 1855 #12807
Murdered.
More About HANNAH SHENKEL
Aka-1: Shengle Shingle
Burial: Shenkel Knoll Cem Pottstown Landing Chester Co Pennsylvania
Estate sale: November 1855, # 12807
G: 9 PA
Murdered: never found killer, have lots info
Parents (Facts Pg): Jacob Shenkel 1761-1834 & Susan Danehower 1762
iii. JACOB SHENKEL, b. September 29, 1790, Chester co Pennsylvania.
More About JACOB SHENKEL
G: 9 PA
Parents (Facts Pg): Jacob Shenkel 1761-1834 & Susan Danehower 1762
iv. JOHN SHENKEL, b. December 20, 1792, Chester co Pennsylvania.
More About JOHN SHENKEL
G: 9 PA
Parents (Facts Pg): Jacob Shenkel 1761-1834 & Susan Danehower 1762
v. DAVID SHENKEL, b. March 09, 1798, Chester co Pennsylvania.
More About DAVID SHENKEL
G: 9 PA
Parents (Facts Pg): Jacob Shenkel 1761-1834 & Susan Danehower 1762
Hannah Shenkel / Shingle 1794 1855 Pennsylvania
dau of Jacob Shenkel d 1834 & Susannah Danehower
Hannah born 24 January 1794 Coventry Pennsylvania
Hannah died 24 October 1855 she was murdered
Hannah’s grandparents Henry Shenkel 1718-1785 & Maria Mueller
Hannah buried Shenkel Knoll Chester Co
Pottstown Landing Pennsylvania
Shenkel Cem has d 24 October 1855 age 61 yrs 9 mo 0 days
born 1794
married no
children no
Note from newspaper 22 October 1989 North Coventry Pennsylvania
- IT WAS MURDER - and 134 years later, it is still unsolved.
" North Coventry - on a Thursday afternoon in October 1855, a farmer named John Miller went with his son to gather apples in Hannah Shingle's orchard. Shingle was an unmarried woman about 60 years old. She was a neighbor of Miller in northern Chester County, and she lived alone on her 200 - acre farm near Berks County line, about three miles from Pottstown. Neighbors tilled the land for her. Miller's son went to the farmhouse to visit Shingle. She was said to have had "some mental peculiarities, superinduced by a Love affair which happened in her youth, " according to the newspapers. But she was well known and liked in the area around her home. The boy soon came back to his father and said the door was open and the clock case was broken, and Shingle wasn't there. Miller went to the house to investigate, and found Shingle lying partly on her bed, brutally murdered. The killing never was solved. It is said Shingle's ghost still haunts those steep valley's. Shingle's house had been robbed two or three times before that fatal night, and she had started keeping an axe at her side when she slept at night. Shingle was sitting in a room on the first floor of her home that night, perhaps sewing, perhaps dozing by the fire. Someone came to the window, and saw her there. His footprints remained in the mud the next day. The man then took a ladder from her barn, placed it against the house, and climbed up to the second floor. He broke a window with a grubbing hoe and climbed inside. The sound apparently alerted Shingle. When they found her body the next day, it lay amid signs of a struggle at the top of the stairs, and there were choke marks on her neck of her corpse. The murderer apparently wrested her axe from her, threw her to the floor beside the bed, and crushed her skull with two blows of the weapon. Shingle had recently told someone she kept her money in the clock case. That had been broken open, and whatever money was in it was gone. The murderer also rifled her desk, but misses a $5 gold piece, and $50 in a bureau drawer. Shingle was buried at Shenkel Reformed Church about 300 yards from her house.
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