Franklin Pierce Meckes

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MH:S7 Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 1880 United States Federal Census Ancestry.com Operations Inc @R1@ MH:SC5817 Year: 1880; Census Place: Penn Forest, Carbon, Pennsylvania; Roll: 1108; Family History Film: 1255108; Page: 546C; Enumeration District: 126; Image: 0746 Year: 1880; Census Place: Penn Forest, Carbon, Pennsylvania; Roll: 1108; Family History Film: 1255108; Page: 546C; Enumeration District: 126; Image: 0746 0

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MH:S7 Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 1880 United States Federal Census Ancestry.com Operations Inc @R1@ MH:SC5818 Year: 1880; Census Place: Penn Forest, Carbon, Pennsylvania; Roll: 1108; Family History Film: 1255108; Page: 546C; Enumeration District: 126; Image: 0746 Year: 1880; Census Place: Penn Forest, Carbon, Pennsylvania; Roll: 1108; Family History Film: 1255108; Page: 546C; Enumeration District: 126; Image: 0746 0

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MH:S500016 1880 United States Federal Census MyHeritage The 1880 census contains records of families living in the United States and its territories during the latter half of the Great Westward Migration. Thirty-eight states were included in the 1880 census, plus the territories of: Arizona, Dakota, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming. Non-organized Alaska was also enumerated, but the "Indian Territory" (now Oklahoma) was not enumerated for non-Indians.

Federal census takers were asked to record information about every person who was in each household on the census day. A census taker might have visited a house on a later date, but the information he collected was supposed to be about the people who were in the house on the census day. The basic census enumeration unit was the county. Each county was divided into enumeration districts, one for each enumerator. The completed forms were sent to the Commerce Department's Census Office in Washington, D.C.

Federal censuses are usually reliable, depending on the knowledge of the informant and the care of the census enumerator. Information may have been given to a census taker by any member of the family or by a neighbor. Some information may have been incorrect or deliberately falsified. 10129 Collection MH:SC501019 https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-10129-79121637/franklin-... https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-10129-79121637/franklin-... Franklin Meckes
Gender: Male
Birth: Circa 1860 - Pennsylvania, United States
Residence: 1880 - Penn Forest, Carbon, Pennsylvania, USA
Age: 20
Marital status: Single
Occupation: Laborer
Race: White
Ethnicity: American
Father: Samuel W. Meckes
Father's birth place: Pennsylvania, United States
Mother: Isabella Meckes
Mother's birth place: Pennsylvania, United States
Siblings: James Meckes, Emma J. Meckes, Nathan Kresge, Amillia Meckes, Schillia Meckes, Ellemanda Meckes, Celestia Meckes, Charles Meckes, Anna Meckes, William Meckes, Meckes
Census: p:Penn ForestSeries:T9Line:8ame; Age
Head; <a href="https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-10129-79122101/samuel-w-...">Samuel W. Meckes</a>; 46
Wife; <a href="https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-10129-79121184/isabella-...">Isabella Meckes</a>; 45
Nephew; <a href="https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-10129-79121643/henry-kre...">Henry Kresge</a>; 27
Step-son; <a href="https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-10129-79121639/nathan-kr...">Nathan Kresge</a>; 22
Daughter; <a href="https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-10129-79122099/anna-meck...">Anna Meckes</a>; 21
Son; <a href="https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-10129-79121637/franklin-...">Franklin Meckes</a>; 20
Son; <a href="https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-10129-79121180/james-mec...">James Meckes</a>; 17
Daughter; <a href="https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-10129-79121638/schillia-...">Schillia Meckes</a>; 16
Daughter; <a href="https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-10129-94943401/celestia-...">Celestia Meckes</a>; 13
Son; <a href="https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-10129-79122100/william-m...">William Meckes</a>; 10
Daughter; <a href="https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-10129-79121640/amillia-m...">Amillia Meckes</a>; 7
Daughter; <a href="https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-10129-79121641/ellemanda...">Ellemanda Meckes</a>; 4
Daughter; <a href="https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-10129-79121183/emma-j-me...">Emma J. Meckes</a>; 3
Son; <a href="https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-10129-79121642/charles-m...">Charles Meckes</a>;
Son; <a href="https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-10129-94942216/meckes-in...">Meckes</a>; 4
Son of Samuel W Meckes and Samelia (Amelia) Hawk.

He married Cassanda Kresg (daughter of Levi Kresge and Isabella G Ziegenfuss).

Franklin Pierce Meckes was a Monroe County Commissioner 1919-1923. He was engaged in the lumber, huckleberry, and Christmas tree businesses. He was affiliated with the Democratic party of Monroe County and was a member of the
Lutheran Church at Gilbert.

Franklin and his second wife, Ruth Parker, were married by Rev. Paul L. Rowaldt (Luzerne Co. marriage license #2294). At the time of their marriage in 1924, Franklin was living at Pocono Summit and Ruth at Bangor, PA. He was retired and Ruth was a dress maker. In 1935 he was still living at Pocono Summit. He had no children by either wife.

Franklin died at Kellersville and was buried in Salem Church cemetery by Funeral Director E.M. Kresge of Brodheadsville. (Obit in "The Record",
Stroudsburg, Monday, 16 May 1938, front page and "Times News", Mauch Chunk, Tuesday, 17 May 1938; PA death certificate #47962)

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