The Elusive Silas

Silas Aumen is buried in Saint Aloysius Catholic Cemetery, Section 1, Lot 11, Grave 4, Littlestown, Adams County, Pennsylvania next to Barnabas Aumen in Grave 2 and Annie Margaret Kintzler Aumen in Grave 3.

Many children who died in infancy were buried next to their parents.  However, while his common surname and close burial proximity definitely make him a relative, it should be reiterated that Silas Aumen is not necessarily a child of Barnabas and Annie Margaret.  Possibly a brother, uncle, father, or cousin to Barnabas.  Probably not a son as Barnabas' obituary states that he had eleven children with ten surviving, leaving no room for Silas.

If in fact Silas is an infant child of Barnabas and Annie Margaret, and not a brother, uncle, cousin, father, or nephew, it is the researcher's opinion that his position in the order of children was between the last two boys, Edward and Sylvester, placing his birth between the years of 1857 and 1861.

If this is so, he would have been born in Two Taverns, near Germany and Gettysburg, in Adams County, Pennsylvania, like the rest of the children who were born in America.