Andreas Knerr Jr.
(1787-1865)
Elisabetha Kocher
(1790-1861)
Owen Knerr
(1817-1885)
Susan Gettz
(1821-1859)
William Andrew Knerr
(1844-)

 

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William Andrew Knerr 1 2

  • Born: 13 Aug 1844, , Lehigh, PA 2
  • Christened: 8 Sep 1844, North Whitehall Twp.: Schlosser's Church, Lehigh, PA 2
  • Died: Fargo, Cass, ND

   FamilySearch ID: L7P7-8JR.

  Christening Notes:

Sponsors were Jonas Knerr, Susanna

  Noted events in his life were:

1. Census in 1860 in Lowhill Twp., Lehigh, PA. 3 The 1860 census recorded 3 Knerr families living as neighbors.

Andrew Knerr, 73, is living with his wife Elizabeth, 73. His real estate is valued at $8700 and personal estate $1350.

Next door is his son, Owen Knerr, 40, tenant farmer, with his wife Mary A., 29; William, 15; James, 13; Elizabeth, 11; Adda, 9; Asa, 5. Also in Owen's home is Alice Beck, 6, and Elizabeth Gedes, 65. Owen has no real estate and his personal estate is worth $1429.

Next to Owen is his older brother, Jonas Knerr, shoemaker, 45, living with wife Susan, 40; Catherine A., 19; Willoughby, 15; and Henry, 10. Jonas' real estate was valued at $1400 and personal estate at $305.

Everyone was born in Pennsylvania. The post office was Schnecksville.

2. Book: Anniversary History of Lehigh County on page 709 published, 1914. 4
William, a miller, of Fargo, N.D., whose sons are Frank and Lloyd.


Sources

1 Ancestry.com I324.

2 Schlosser's Church, North Whitehall Township, Lehigh, Pennsylvania (http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~palehigh/Schlosserschurch.html).

3 1860 United States Census, Year: 1860; Census Place: Lowhill, Lehigh, Pennsylvania; Roll: M653_1130; Page: 151; Image: 156; Family History Library Film: 805130.

4 Roberts, Charles Rhodes, History Of Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, Volume II (Allentown, Pa., Lehigh Valley Pub. Co., 1914. 3 volumes, illustrated, maps. Prepared by a committee appointed by the Lehigh County Historical Society; chapters contributed by various writers.), Page 709.


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