The History of the Konkel Families of Long Island New York
The Genealogy of the Konkel Family
Family: Josef Kunkel / Jesse Mildred (born Conklin) Konkel (F25)
m. 2 Jun 1894
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Male
Josef Kunkel
Birth 8 Mar 1861 Germany 
Death 20 Mar 1932 Flanders, New York Burial 22 Mar 1932 Flanders Cemetery, Flanders, New York Marriage 2 Jun 1894 Riverhead, Suffolk County, New York Father August Kunkel | F23 Group Sheet Mother Gertrude Amelia Stein | F23 Group Sheet
Female
Jesse Mildred (born Conklin) Konkel
Birth 14 Feb 1878 Manor or Calverton, New York Death 20 May 1946 Baysore or Brookhaven, Suffolk County, New York Burial 23 May 1946 Flanders Cemetery, Flanders, Suffolk County, New York Father William Sydney Conklin | F67 Group Sheet Mother Dorothy or Dorothea (born Drake) Conklin | F67 Group Sheet
Male
+ Ellis Konkel
Birth 13 Aug 1895 Riverhead, Suffolk County, New York Death 11 Jun 1960 71 Ludlam Avenue, Riverside, Riverhead, Suffolk County, New York Burial 6 Jun 1960 Flanders Cemetery, Flanders, New York Spouse Florence May (born Smith) Konkel | F1 Marriage 18 Aug 1917 Suffolk County, New York
Female
+ Theresa (born Konkel) Furman
Birth 17 Dec 1900 Death Burial Spouse Howard R Furman | F33 Marriage
Female
+ Mary Elizabeth (born Konkel) Newton
Birth 20 Apr 1909 Death 1992 Burial 1992 Lake Ronkonkoma Cemetery, Lake Ronkonkoma, Suffolk County, New York Spouse Jay Nelson Newton | F72 Marriage 1 Mar 1940 Port Jefferson, New York
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Notes - As per information related to me by William O Konkel Sr's cousin Eleanor T Degenring.
Much of this information has not been verified. That which is has an asterisk before it.
Joseph's family were German Catholics.
He had a brother John who may have died from smallpox.
His sister's Rose, Agnes, Theresa, Appolonia married Masterson.Her obituary was in a paper Nesconset, New York 1040-1943.
He had an Uncle in the city in Germany who taught him the tailor trade and who he lived with.
* He repaired repaired clothes for a whaling Captain in Sag Harbor, New York. The Captain had an uncle in Riverhead, New York by the name of John T Perkins. He was the owner of the Henry Perkins Hotel in Riverhead, New York. This is how he came to work for the hotel as a tailor.
He stayed in Germany until his mother died.
It was thought he was married before and had a son Charles and a daughter.
- As per information related to me by William O Konkel Sr's cousin Eleanor T Degenring.