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Clement/Clemens ENGLE

SAR Patriot #: P-154879

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State of Service: PA      Qualifying Service: Patriotic Service
DAR #: A202443

Birth: 1748 / / Germany
Death: 22 Feb 1812 / Somerset / PA

Qualifying Service Description:

Paid Supply Tax


Additional References:
  1. Published Pennsylvania Archives
    • Series 3, Volume 22, pg 253-254
    • Series 6, Volume 3.pg 45-46

Spouse: (1) Ann Elizabeth Graeff; (2) Margaret Weimer
Children: Frederick; John; Peter; Susanna; Margaret; Martin Mortimer; Clement; Samuel; Jacob;
Members Who Share This Ancestor
Date Approved Society ACN SAR Member Info Lineage via Child View Application Detail
1978-12-31 VA Unassigned Mel Franklin McBeth (103868) Peter   
2000-06-21 WA 6702 Charles Vance Waid (151183) Peter   
2000-10-24 WA 7389 Robert Jeffery Waid (153505) Peter   
2002-09-24 IL 14427 Jeffrey Eugene Engle (159086) Frederick   
2018-07-27 FL 82223 Andrew Lisle Gates III (208384) Peter   
2020-07-24 PA 92771 Lynn Alan Harding (216291) Martin   
2023-07-28 NC 103802 Dean Alan Deal (227331) Susanna   
2024-01-12 PA 110314 Jax Alynn Martin (228913) Martin/Mortimer   
Burial:
Lowry/Engle Cemetery (C-0174659)
Location:
Salisbury / Somerset / PA / USA
Find A Grave Cemetery #:
2360623
Grave Plot #:
Grave GPS Coordinates:
n/a
Find A Grave Memorial #:
83419131
Marker Type:
SAR / DAR
SAR Grave Dedication Date:

Comments:
  • Gravestone, with bronze SAR marker
  • photo in FInd-a-Grave record


Directions to Cemetery / Gravesite:


Author: Lynn Alan Harding

Johann Clement “Clemens” Engle

Clemens Engle was born at Bas-Rhin, France, December 30, 1748, a son of Johann Peter Engle and Maria Susanna Vautrin.  He died May 28, 1812 at Elk Lick Township, Somerset County, Pennsylvania. 

Oral history suggested that Clemens drove a wagon for General Braddock’s expedition against the French at the age of eight years.

Clemens immigrated to America, arriving at Philadelphia, September 14, 1754 with his parents aboard the ship Barclay out of Rotterdam. 

The earliest record of Clemens in America is found in the German Reformed Church register at Frederick, Maryland.  Clemens is also found in the assessment rolls of Somerset County, Pennsylvania, where in 1775 and 1776, he was assessed as a single freeman residing at Elk Lick Township.

Clemens married Anne Elizabeth Graeff, a daughter of Peter Graeff and Mary, an Elder of the Berlin Lutheran Church of Somerset County, about 1778.  Their known children were:  John Jacob (1782-bef. 1790), Anna Barbara (1783-bef. 1790), Michael (1785-bef. 1790) and John S. (1787-1863).  Anne Elizabeth Graeff died after April 12, 1789 and was buried at the Lowery-Engle farm at Salisbury, Pennsylvania. 

From 1783 to 1790 Clemens was on the Militia Roll in Bedford County, Pennsylvania.  He was an Ensign in the Second Battalion under Lieutenant Abraham Cable, May 12, 1786.  For service during the war, he was awarded 200 acres of land, February 1785.  (The land survey is recorded in the Survey Book of Somerset County:  “336 ½ acres of land on both sides of Piney Run.  The land patent was called “Union.”)

Clemens married Margaretta Weimer, a daughter of Johann Martin Weimer and Catherine Barbara Troutman, about 1790.  Their known children were: Adam (1791-aft. 1830), Martin “Mortimer” (1793-1840), Susanna (1794-1860), Clement (born 1796, died in infancy), Michael (born 1797, died in infancy), Barbara Magdalena (1798-?), Elizabeth (1799-?), Eve Catherine (1800-aft. 1840), Frederick (1802-?), Margaret “Peggy” (1804-1848), Samuel (1809-1888), and Jacob (1812-1859).

Clemens established a successful farm at Elk Lick Township and served in the local militia on the Western frontier.  He built a successful water powered grain mill and sawmill operation.  He fathered 19 children, the last child at the age of 62 years.  Clemens was 65 years old when he died.

Anna Elizabeth and Clemens are buried at the Family Cemetery at the hill of their farm (later known as the George Lowry farm) one mile east of Salisbury.

 

 

 

 


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Additional Information:
  • Find-a-Grave
    • Clement had 19 children, 14 grew to adulthood. Partial list shown.
    • born 30 Dec 1748 in Strasboug / Alsace/ France and died in Salisbury / / PA


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