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- [S888] Social Security Death Index 1935 - Current, (www.ancestry.com).
Name: Edward H. Menkel
SSN: 284-09-0247
Last Residence: 89014 Henderson, Clark, Nevada, United States of America
Born: 8 Jan 1913
Died: 17 Aug 1998
State (Year) SSN issued: Ohio (Before 1951)
- [S927] Obituary.
Edward Herman was born Janurary 8, 1913 and was named for his
father. Ted graduated from Woodsfield High School where he was very
active in sports, quarterbacking the football team and pitching for
the baseball team. After graduation he worked in the monument shop
with his brothers Bill and Clyde. Edward "Ted" married Alice Jones
Feburary 19, 1936 and they moved into an apartment above the monument
shop where their first son Steve was born on Janurary 5, 1937. When
Steve was about 3 months old, March 28, 1937, the family moved to
Canton, Ohio where Edward worked for Timkin. Their other two sons Gary
and David were born in Canton. In 1947 the family moved to San
Bernardino, California where Alice's sister and her husband already
lived.
Pop's dad and his brother Theodore started the Menkel's Monument
Shop in Miltonsburg, Ohio in 1893. The origional site was in a small
building next door to the Menkel family home. Another of Grandpa's
brothers, Charles, had a furnature making business in Miltonsburg. Dad
said all of the different equipment was run by canvas belts, that thru
a system of wheels and pulleys provided power from the motor to the
tool being used. Charles's furnature was of high quality and now
brings premium prices in local Antique shops.
After some years E.H. and T.F. Menkel moved the buisness to
Woodsfield as it was a much larger village. Theodore sold his half of
the business to Edward in 1909 for $ 706.12 and moved his family from
Woodsfield. The shop was on Main street and E.H. and family moved into
a large two story home (built in 1900) at 213 Sycamore street just one
block off of Main. Dad was born in this house on Janurary 8, 1913 the
last of ten children.
Pop's father died when he was very young but he remembers working
in the family's mounment shop. Grandpa would just point at something
and dad was suposed to know what to do without any words said. The
stones arrived in wooden crates and dad would uncrate them and
straighten the nails for later use. Two of his older brothers, Bill
and Clyde, also worked in the shop.
When we were all in Ohio recently (Oct. 1996) we went to the Oak Lawn
Cementery where there are two large stones with only the name "MENKEL"
carved in them. Clyde did one and Bill did the other, pop knew by the
technique who had done which. Clyde left the shop and ran the state
owned liquor store and at one time was the mayor of Woodsfield. Bill
ran the shop until his death in 1968.
Pop said that when he was a small kid he would ride the train (
OR&W ) with his mother to visit her mother in Ozark, Ohio. The train
would stop at a grocery store that had a platform for that purpose.
His grandmothers family owned the property next door to the store.
Dad died today, Aug. 17, 1998 at 2 AM, he had a massive stroke a
month earlier on july 18th.
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1913 - 1998 (85 years)