1 C92. State Census, year 1892.

2 C90. United States Federal Census, year 1900.

3 CM076. Find-A-Grave (cemetery records) as contributed by the public; published on the internet at http://www.findagrave.com/.

4 N82. The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY), (newspaper) scans on the internet at http://www.newspapers.com and http://fultonhistory.com.

5 N132. "The Daily News" (Batavia, NY), (newspaper) digital scans published on the internet at fultonhistory.com.

6 (Syracuse) Syracuse Journal; (newspaper) digital scans published on the internet at fultonhistory.com.

7 N82. The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY), (newspaper) scans on the internet at http://www.newspapers.com and http://fultonhistory.com, 1912 Jan. 10, page 1. "Young Farmer Suffocated in Snow Drift
Frank Mantel, 24; Meets Strange Death at Noon Near Kirkville.
Blown off the Towpath.
Wind Hurl Driver, Team and Sleigh into Bed of Canal.
Victim Pinned Down.
Discovered Two Hours Later by French Searching for Hat - Gate Aid from Village, but Their Work is Too Late.
Frank Mantel, 34, a Madison county farmhand, lost his life in the bed of the Erie Canal, near Kirkville, at noon yesterday, in what doubtless was one of the storm accidents on record [in] Onondaga county.
Driving home along the towpath, [while] wind was blowing at a 40-mile velocity and a blinding snow was beating down upon the open countryside with a vengeance, Mantel's bob-sleigh, horses and all, was blown into the canal bed, and the young man, with the equipage upon top of him, was suffocated in the snow.
Death in two forms leered at Mantel before he yielded. Upon one side he faced being frozen to death. On the other he faced suffocation. His body embedded firmly in the snow bank and with the weight of the sleigh holding him down, there was no escape for the young man, and eventually he gave up. Suffocation claimed him, but his body was badly frozen long before the last spark of life went out.
Realized His Fate.
For perhaps half an hour before he died, physicians say, Mantel probably realized his fate.
The scene of the fatality is ten miles east of Syracuse. Mr. Mantel, who had been employed on the R. G. Collis farm, between Kirkville and Chittenando, was driving back to the farm after a trip to Mycenae, and on the way home he stopped at Kirkville to warm himself...
No One Saw Accident
No one was in the neighborhood at the time, and Mantel slowly suffocated. An hour later, Gus French, employed at the Green Lake Farm, who was driving to Kirkville, happened to pass a[l]ong this towpath...
Mantel, with his father, John Mantel and three brothers, George, Earl and William Mantel, worked on the same farm....
A few hours after the tragedy, the two horses were taken from the canal, unharmed..."

8 N132. "The Daily News" (Batavia, NY), (newspaper) digital scans published on the internet at fultonhistory.com, 1912 Jan. 10, page 1. "Kirkville Farmhand Suffocated in Snow
Driver and his Rig Blown into the Erie Canal.
Syracuse. Jan. 10. - Frank Mantel, aged 24, a Madison county farmhand, lost his life in the bed of the Erie canal, near Kirkville, yesterday afternoon in what doubtless was one of the strangest storm accidents on record in Onondaga County.
Driving home along the towpath when the wind was blowing at a 40-mile velocity and a blinding snow was beating down with a vengeance upon the open countryside, Mantel's bobsleigh, horses and all, was blown into the canal bed, and the young man with the equipage on top of him, was suffocated in the snow."

Rowley Genealogy Site & Family Charts, compiled by I. Rowley, version of Nov. 10, 2016.

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