Young Mack Engels was named for his mother's brother Young Mack. As a young man, Young M. Engels Sr. worked at various jobs. He cut timber and sold stave bolts, sold fruit trees, did carpentry work, blacksmithing, and farmed in the White River bottoms. He was a good neighbor and often called upon to sit up with the sick, "lay out" the dead, make coffins, dig graves, doctor on livestock, butcher hogs, build churches(he helped build both the local churches, Baptist and Methodist). He also built the local one-room school, and served on the school board. He was very "handy" with tools and could fix or make many mechanical and wooden things. But the thing he loved best was farming; in his old age he was heard to remark: "Man is closest to God when he is growing things". As a gardener and truck crop producer he had few equals in his day. Much of the family income came from orchards and truck crops. No visitors or neighbors ever left empty-handed druing the growing season, for they were given some of the bounty.
After an eight-year courtship, Young Mack Engels and Nannie Lee Morgan were married at the home of her Parents, in the presence of a few members of the family, on 17 March 1910, by Rev. C.F. Hively, Methodist Minister. Young Mack engels died at the age of 95.
-"To Hope, To Labour, And So To Live" By: Mary P. Engels his daughter
After an eight-year courtship, Young Mack Engels and Nannie Lee Morgan were married at the home of her Parents, in the presence of a few members of the family, on 17 March 1910, by Rev. C.F. Hively, Methodist Minister. Young Mack engels died at the age of 95.
-"To Hope, To Labour, And So To Live" By: Mary P. Engels his daughter
Young Mack Engels was named for his mother's brother Young Mack. As a young man, Young M. Engels Sr. worked at various jobs. He cut timber and sold stave bolts, sold fruit trees, did carpentry work, blacksmithing, and farmed in the White River bottoms. He was a good neighbor and often called upon to sit up with the sick, "lay out" the dead, make coffins, dig graves, doctor on livestock, butcher hogs, build churches(he helped build both the local churches, Baptist and Methodist). He also built the local one-room school, and served on the school board. He was very "handy" with tools and could fix or make many mechanical and wooden things. But the thing he loved best was farming; in his old age he was heard to remark: "Man is closest to God when he is growing things". As a gardener and truck crop producer he had few equals in his day. Much of the family income came from orchards and truck crops. No visitors or neighbors ever left empty-handed druing the growing season, for they were given some of the bounty.
After an eight-year courtship, Young Mack Engels and Nannie Lee Morgan were married at the home of her Parents, in the presence of a few members of the family, on 17 March 1910, by Rev. C.F. Hively, Methodist Minister. Young Mack engels died at the age of 95.
-"To Hope, To Labour, And So To Live" By: Mary P. Engels his daughter
After an eight-year courtship, Young Mack Engels and Nannie Lee Morgan were married at the home of her Parents, in the presence of a few members of the family, on 17 March 1910, by Rev. C.F. Hively, Methodist Minister. Young Mack engels died at the age of 95.
-"To Hope, To Labour, And So To Live" By: Mary P. Engels his daughter
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