Thursday, August 9, 2007

Does this person belong to us?

Friday April 4, 1879

John G. OPFEL, a German peddler of Niles was killed Tuesday afternoon near Galien, being run over by a railroad train when walking on the tracks.

3 comments:

Becky said...

isnt that the name of our cousin in ohio? but they spell opfel with TWO l's. this guys spelled it like us. hmmm...interesting. did you find this guy on the LDS indexing site?

Texas Country Girl said...

where the heck did you get that from? i just found that yesterday on the internet . . . strange. i imagine he is related. i know we have relatives in michigan.

A Diary of A Mother to An Unruly Kid said...

weird! maybe! wouldn't that be neat... and unfortunate I suppose!

What have we been up to?