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GENERAL INFORMATION
Hiram N. was born 3 December 1827 in PA and died 18 August 1886 in Clearfield County, PA. He served in
the Civil
War in the 148th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company H as a Private.
Hiram
enlisted in 1862 and was discharged with a disability on 26 June
1863.
According to a family history written by Vinnie
Knappenberger in 1916, "one of the descendants, Hiram, married Emily
HILL and settled in Saltsburg, Indiana County, PA where he became the father
of six children." However, this information about where Hiram
settled relates to his son, U.S.G. (Grant) Knuppenburg and his daughter,
Lucy Turner Byers, and his widow, Emily, who moved to that area after
Hiram's death. Hiram raised his
family in Woodward Township, Clearfield County, PA according to the 1870
and 1880 census. He is listed as a farmer and a
laborer. Hiram died in 1886 in Clearfield County and is buried in Henderson Cemetery
in Clearfield County, PA. His gravemarker shows his last name spelled as "KNUPPENBERG".
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Hiram Knuppenberg's Gravemarker
Henderson Cemetery,
Clearfield County, Pennsylvania
[photo graciously provided by Gail McTavish
Perrone] |
Emily Hill Knuppenburg's Gravemarker
[wife of Hiram Knuppenburg]
Edgewood Cemetery, Saltsburg, Pennsylvania
[photo graciously provided by Allen Knappenberger] |
Hiram was married to Emily HILL, daughter of Joshua Hill and
Alice Allen, in March
1853. Emily was born 25 April 1837 in New York. The census
record indicates her parents were born in Connecticut but her death
certificate indicates they were born in New York. In the census of 1900, Emily
is a widow living with her daughter Lodica "Lucy" Turner [a widow at that time], in Bigler
Township,
Clearfield County, PA. Emily later moved to Saltsburg, Indiana
County, PA area along with her daughter Lodica and her second husband, John F.
Byers. Emily died 3 June 1917 in Saltsburg, Indiana County, PA
and is buried in Edgewood Cemetery,
Saltsburg, PA along with her daughter and her husband, John
Byers. From the 1900 census we learn that Hiram and Emily had 8
children of which 6 lived to adulthood.
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Emily Hill Knuppenburg
About 1912
[photo graciously provided by Gail McTavish
Perrone] |
CHILDREN
WILMER I. KNUPPENBURG (1859-?)
Wilmer was born about 1859 in PA. He is listed in
the 1870 census as 11 years old and the 1880 census as 21 years old working in
a coal mine. By 1910, Wilmer is listed as living in Blair County, PA with his wife Agnes DOYLE, who was born about 1875 in
Maryland, and their two children.
1. Thelma Knuppenburg was born 24 August 1899 and died July 1965 in
Duncansville, Blair County, PA. It appears that she never married.
She was unmarried at the time of her brother's death.
2. Irwin W. Knuppenburg was born 21 April 1904 in Gallitzin, Cambria County, PA and
died 14 February 1954 in Duncansville, Blair County, PA. He married Viola COLBERT, daughter of Webster J. Colbert and Maggie Eugenia
Smouse. Viola later remarried to a Mr. Benner. Irwin and Viola had a
daughter named Cynthia. Irwin's obituary spelled his last name as
"Knuppenberg".
LODICA J. KNUPPENBURG (1861-1930) Lodica J. known as "Lucy" was born
June 1861 in Clearfield County, PA. She married David J. TURNER, son of David Joshua
Turner and Martha Catherine Cowfer, on 8 May 1876 in Clearfield County,
PA. David was born about 1858 in PA and worked as a coal miner.
In 1880, they were living in North Houtzdale, Woodward Township, Clearfield County,
PA. Lucy and David had five children. David died 3
August 1887 in Clearfield County, PA. On 27 June 1900 in Clearfield
County PA, Lucy married John F.
BYERS, son of David and Catherine Byers. John was born about 1876. He was a blacksmith and a widower at the time of their
marriage. His first wife had died 20 June 1899. They
moved to the Saltsburg area [where Westmoreland County and Indiana County meet] sometime between 1901 and 1908. In the 1930 census, Lucy and John were living in Kittanning, Armstrong
County, PA. Lucy died 31 August 1930
and is buried in Edgewood Cemetery in Saltsburg, Indiana County, PA
along with her second husband, John F. Byers who died 1935, and her mother, Emily.
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Lodica [Knuppenburg] Turner Family
LEFT TO RIGHT Melissa [Turner] Miles,
Leroy Turner,
Laura [Turner] Buckwalter,
D. Howard Turner,
Robie [Turner] McTavish
[photo graciously provided by Gail McTavish Perrone]
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1. Laura Letitia Turner was born 3 January 1876 in Clearfield
County, PA and died 30 October 1960 and Cambria County, PA. Laura married Jonas Wesley
BUCKWALTER, son of Christian Henry Buckwalter
and Caltha Gibboney, on 19 January 1896 in Clearfield County, PA.
Jonas was born 19 August 1877 in Clearfield County, PA and died February
1952 in Portage County, PA. They had 7 children: Russell M.
(1896-1980) who married Gladys WABLE (1901-1973), Ruth Mae (1898-c1965) who married Samuel CUNNINGHAM, Leslie Paul (1902-1966) who married
Kathryn CANAVAN (1905-1946), Howard (1903-1979) who married Betty HALL
(1903-1987), Milton Bailey (1905-1960) who married Madelyn
Lois LENHART (1906-1986), Mildred (1907-1981) who married Harold F.
WESLEY, and Margaret (1909-1980) who married Lloyd W. PLUMMER.
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The Buckwalter Family
1927
LEFT TO RIGHT
Laura [Turner] Buckwalter, Russell M. Buckwalter,
Margaret [Buckwalter] Plummer, Milton Bailey Buckwalter,
Ruth Mae [Buckwalter] Cunningham, Howard Buckwalter,
Mildred [Buckwalter] Wesley, Leslie Paul Buckwalter,
Jonas Wesley Buckwalter
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[photo graciously provided by
Mark Buckwalter] |
2. Melissa Delilah Turner was born 29 November 1877 in Clearfield County,
PA and died 25 February 1971 in Florida. Melissa married Joseph D. MILES,
son of Joseph L. and Ella MILES, on 15 July 1896 in Clearfield
County, PA. Joseph was born April 1876 in PA. They had 3 sons
and 4 daughters: Clair (born 1896), Bunny born Oct 1898 and died
as a young child), Robie (born about 1901), Vera (born
about
1903), Edward (1905-1970) who married Mildred, Una Mae (born about 1908),
Delbert (born about 1910).
3. Robie Matilda Turner was born 2 February 1880 in Clearfield
County, PA and died 23 September 1962 in Clearfield County,
PA. Robie married William
Duncan McTAVISH, son of John McTavish and Matilda Root, on 26 September 1900 in
Clearfield County, PA. William was born 20 July 1874 in Clearfield
County, PA and died 2 February 1947 in Clearfield County, PA. They had 6 children of which 5 lived to
adulthood: Beatrice M. (1901-1980) who married George Boyce LEE
(1895-1980), Albert Leroy (1904-1904), Hazel Vera (1905-1997) who
married Ralph E. MICHAELS (1910-2000), James Mirrel (1908-1979) who
married Alberta Elizabeth MOORE (1907-1980), Laura Lodica (1913-1992)
who married Walter Herbert KLOCK (1907-1982), and William Howard (born
1919)
who married Doris Lillian MILLER.
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Laura [Turner] Buckwalter
and Robie [Turner]
McTavish
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Robie [Turner] McTavish and
her two daughters
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[photos graciously provided by
Mark Buckwalter] |
4. David "Howard" Turner was born 3 May 1882 in Clearfield County,
PA. Howard married Lula E. ADAMS who was born about 1883.
This family lived in Westmoreland County, PA in the 1910 census [Avonmore] and then later in Armstrong County, PA
[Kittanning]. David must have moved with his mother, Lucy, and her
second husband, John Byers. Howard and Lula had 6 children:
Velma (born 1906) who married Corbin Wayland WYANT (1896-1961) and then Arda
C. BOWSER (1899-1996), Lois (1908-1995) who married John W. LINDEMAN, Sr.
(died 1986), Sarah known as "Sally" (1910-1984) who married George William
KEPLER, Jr. , Audrey (1914-1986) who married Joseph SAGRETI and then
Charles BARKER, David Howard (born 1918) who married Virginia GILLAM, and
Thomas Adams (1920-1996).
5. Albert "Leroy" Turner was born 29 December 1885 in Clearfield
County, PA. Leroy married Edith who was born about
1884. In 1910, Leroy and Edith were living in Allegheny County,
PA. They had 2 children: Albert Leroy, Jr. (born about 1908)
and Catherine "Isabel" (born about 1910 in Allegheny County,
PA) who
married Wilbert HARE.
ULYSSES SIMPSON GRANT KNUPPENBURG (1864-1955)
Ulysses Simpson Grant Knuppenburg
Avonmore, Pennsylvania
[photo graciously provided by Lois
Ostrosky Minnick]
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Elizabeth Stitt
Knuppenburg's gravemarker
[first
wife of U.S. Grant Knuppenburg]
Alexander Cemetery, Madera,
Pennsylvania
[photo graciously provided by Gail McTavish Perrone] |
Rhoda A. Knuppenburg's
gravemarker
[Elizabeth
Knuppenburg's infant daughter]
buried next
to her mother
[photo graciously provided by Gail McTavish
Perrone] |
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Ulysses Simpson Grant Knuppenburg
and, his second wife, Georgiana Kelley Knuppenburg's gravemarker
Avonmore Cemetery, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania
[photo graciously provided by Gail McTavish Perrone] |
Ulysses Simpson Grant Knuppenburg known as "Grant" was born
in 1864 mostly likely in Clearfield County, PA. He and his family lived in Clearfield County, PA for a time
and then moved to the Saltsburg area, Indiana County, PA and the
Avonmore area, Westmoreland
County, PA in the 1890s. Some of his family moved to Michigan
in the 1920s and 1930s. Sometime after 1900, his sister, Lucy, with her second
husband, John Byers, her two young sons, Howard and Leroy, and their
widowed mother, Emily Hill Knuppenburg, joined him in that area. Grant was first married to Elizabeth STITT about
1887 in Clearfield County, PA. Elizabeth was born in 1868 and died
in April 1891 in Clearfield County. She died a few days after giving
birth to her daughter, Elizabeth, and was buried in Alexander Cemetery outside Madera,
Clearfield County, PA. Elizabeth and Grant had four children. Grant then married
Georgiana C. KELLEY who was born in 1867 in Pennsylvania and died in
1945 most likely in Avonmore, Westmoreland County, PA. They were
married about 1894, and they had six children. Grant and Georgiana were
living in Avonmore, Westmoreland County, PA in the 1930 census with
their two youngest children: Alma and Kermit. Grant moved in the 1950s
to Michigan to live with his youngest child, Kermit, and there he died
in 1955. Grant and Georgiana are buried in Avonmore Cemetery,
Westmoreland County, PA. 1. Grace Irene Knuppenburg
was
the daughter of Grant and Elizabeth. Grace was born 18 February 1887 in
Clearfield County, PA and died 20 June 1967. She married William
Berton ROOF, son of William Harvey Roof and Jenny Catherine Smail, on 26
June 1913 in Westmoreland County, PA. William known as "Bert" was born 15 June 1884 in
Sagamore, Armstrong County, PA. They had 3 children: William
Berton, Jr. (born 1914)
who married Naomi FERGUSON, Audrey Lorraine (born 1918) who married James
STANLEY, and Lois
(born 1921) who married Edward OSTROSKY (1919-1976). 2. Rhoda A. Knuppenburg was the daughter of Grant and
Elizabeth. She was born and died in
1888 in Clearfield County, PA. She is buried next to her mother in
Alexander Cemetery, outside Madera, Clearfield County, PA. 3. George Chalmers
Knuppenburg was
the son of Grant and Elizabeth. He was born 13 September 1889 in Clearfield County, PA and died
12 August 1980 in Lewisburg, York County,
PA. George fought in France during World War I.
George worked for Carnegie Illinois Steel Corporation in Johnstown, PA
in 1936. George married Ethel PARSONS, daughter of Samuel Ernest Parsons and Anna
Mason. Ethel was born 7 May 1898 in PA and died 2 December 1978 in
Johnstown, PA. They had 1 daughter: Elizabeth "Betty"
(born 1922) who married Joseph Ira CONNORS (1918-1961) and had
a son named John Paul. This family
is buried in Richland Cemetery, Cambria County, PA. George Chalmers
Knuppenburg
* photo taken just prior to his leaving for France during World War I *
4.
Elizabeth Knuppenburg was the daughter of Grant and Elizabeth. She was
born 1 April 1891 in Clearfield County, PA and died in May
1977 in Clearfield County, PA. Elizabeth married William Rutherford MINDS who was
born in 1877 and died 1946. Williams was the son of James H.
Minds, Sr. and Julia Ann Doorley. Elizabeth and William are
buried in Beulah Cemetery, outside Ramey, Clearfield County, PA.
***Elizabeth did not move to Westmoreland County, PA with her father and his second wife but
rather remained in Clearfield County,
PA. She was raised by her maternal Stitt
grandmother. The other two children, Grace and George, did
move to Westmoreland County, PA with their father and his second
wife.***
5. Ellen E. Knuppenburg was the daughter of Grant and Georgiana. She
was born born 7 July 1899 in Saltsburg, Indiana
County, PA and died sometime after the 1930 census. She married Lester
J. McCLELLAN, son of H. Lane and Emma McClellan, about 1910.
Lester was born July 1898 and died sometime after the 1930 census.
They had three
sons: Roland McClellan (born about 1920), Thomas Glenn McClellan(13
march 1923-23 Jan 2004) and Lane
Grant McClellan (14 Nov 1925-6 Sept 2009). This family was living in Avonmore,
Westmoreland County, PA in the 1930 census.
6. Walter Earl Knuppenburg was the son of Grant and Georgiana. He was born
29 December 1901 in Avonmore,
Westmoreland County, PA. 7. Orpah Knuppenburg was the daughter of Grant and
Georgiana. She was born 26 November
1904 in Avonmore, Westmoreland County, PA died July 1964 in MIchigan.
She first married Mack
NICHOLS and then Howard INGLES (1906-1975).
8. Alma G. Knuppenburg was the daughter of Grant and Georgiana.
She was born about 1906 most likely
in Westmoreland County, PA. She was a telephone operator in the 1930
census living with her parents in Avonmore, PA. She later married
Everett Ansel FISHEL (1904-1976). 9. Kermit Meredith Knuppenburg
known as "Sandy" was the son of Grant
and Georgiana. He was born about 1908 probably in Westmoreland County,
PA and died 17 October 1969 in Michigan. He married Dorothy E. O'BRIEN (1913-1999) and had 2 children. Descendents
of this family live in Michigan. Kermit was a the co-founder of
Michigan Rivet Corporation. 10. Charles
Knuppenburg died in infancy of
cholera. We are unsure where he fits into the birth order of this
family. He was a son of Grant and Georgiana.
IDA SAVANNAH KNUPPENBURG (1866-?)
Ida Savannah was born December 1866 most likely in
Clearfield County, PA. She married George
Washington HENRY, son of Jim Henry, of Somerset County,
PA. in about 1881. George was born January 1860 in Jerome, Somerset County, PA.
George and Ida were living in Somerset County [Painter Township] in the 1900, 1910
and 1920
censuses. George is listed as a farmer in the 1900 census, but his family
also ran a boarding house in 1910 for three boarders, and they had four boarders
in 1920. Additionally, in the 1920 census, George was listed as a coal miner living in
his daughter's household while Ida continued to run the boarding
house.
They had five children in addition to three children lost as
infants.
1. John W. Henry was born May 1888 in Somerset County, PA.
In the 1900 census, he was 12 years old and listed as a laborer.
2. Raymond Henry was born November 1889 in Somerset County, PA.
3. Emily Henry was born October 1895 in Somerset County, PA.
She married Sam THOMAS who was born about 1883 in Pennsylvania. They had two
sons in the 1920 census: Harold (born about 1916) and Vergil C. (8 July
1917-5 September 1996 in Kansas).
4. Ernest George Henry was born
27 March 1899 in Somerset County and died August 1977 in Wellsburg,
Somerset County, PA. He first married Frances Mae ADAMS and had
three children. He
later married Helen OHLER.
5. Theodore R. Henry was born about 1903 in Somerset County, PA. He was
living with his mother in the 1920 census and was listed as 17 years of
age.
CLEMEN(TINE) KNUPPENBURG (1870-1870)
Clemen(tine) was born and died in Clearfield
County, PA in 1870 at the age of 2 months from measles. Its
possible that this child was a twin of Alice. The records only show
the name Clemen but we believe the full name is Clementine.
ALICE KNUPPENBURG (1870-?)
Alice was born August 1870 in Clearfield County, PA and
died 1918 in Jefferson County, PA. Alice married
James M. TURNER, son of David Joshua Turner and Martha Catherine Cowfer,
about 1888 in Clearfield County, PA. James was born February 1855, worked as a carpenter, and died
between 1900 and 1910. The 1900 census shows this couple living
in Gulich Township, Clearfield County, PA with one daughter from James' first
marriage living with them: Elsie (born September 1881). The 1910 census for Jefferson County shows Alice
as a widow with her stepson, Samuel K. Turner (age 31), living in her
household. It seems Alice and James did not have children.
DELLA A. KNUPPENBURG (1873-?)
Della was born August 1873 in Clearfield County, PA.
She married John
H. BOWMAN who was born December 1866 in Spring Mills,
Center County, PA. In the 1900 census they are living in Gulich
Township, Clearfield County, PA as a farming family. In 1910 census,
they are living in Center County, PA. They seemingly only had one child.
1. Wilhemina Bowman was born March 1893 in Somerset County, PA.
CHILD KNUPPENBURG
Unknown child that died in infancy. The
1900 census indicates that Emily Hill Knuppenburg was the mother of 8
children with 6 still living at that time.
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