Jonas Knerr ¹

  Noted events in his life were:

• Census, 1840, Lowhill Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, USA. ⁶

• Census, 1860, Lowhill Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, USA. ⁷ Jonas (age 45) is the head of a household that includes his wife Susan (40), Catherine (19), Willoughby (15), and E. Henry (10). All are listed as being born in Pennsylvania.

• Occupation: shoemaker, 1860.

• Census, 1870, Lowhill Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, USA. ⁸ The 1870 Census lists him as Jonas Knerr, age 55, occupation shoemaker. Living with him is his wife, Susanna (50); Catherine (28); Willoby (24), occupation shoemaker; and Henry (20), occupation shoemaker.

• Census, 1880, Lowhill Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, USA. ² The 1880 Census lists him as Jonas Knerr, age 65. Living with him is his wife, Susan (60); his granddaughter, Laura Heller (16); a servant Mary Barner (12); and a servant Isabella Handwerk (16). The census listing records that Jonas' father and mother and Susan's mother and father were all born in Prussia! This is true of her parents, but other research indicates Jonas' parents were born in Pennsylvania. Perhaps the census taker wrote it for both by mistake?

• Occupation: farmer, 1880. ²

• Alt. Death, 4 Jan 1898. ⁴

• Book: Anniversary History of Lehigh County, Volume II, 1914. ⁹ Jonas Knerr, son of Andrew, Jr., married Susanna Muehlhaus, a daughter of Henry, from Hesse, Germany. They had three children: Willoughby, married Martha Schlicher and had children: Lillian, George, Robert, John, Sally, Minnie, Eva and Grace; E. Henry, a justice of the peace in Lowhill, married Isabella Diehl and had six children: Daisy; Blaine, of Yonkers, N. Y.; Carrie; Katie; Emma; and Lizzie E.; Catharine, married (first) J. B. Heller, and (second) Chas. Benner, and had two children: Mary, wife of Henry Semmel; and Laura, wife of Oliver Balliet.

Jonas married Susanna Milhouse, daughter of Henry Milhouse and Anna, on 5 Feb 1839 in Lowhill Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, USA. (Susanna Milhouse was born on 8 Oct 1819 in , , Pennsylvania, USA,^{2 3 5} died on 16 Nov 1893 in , Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, USA ^{3 4 5} and was buried in Leather Corner Post: Lowhill Township: Morgenland Church Cemetery, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, USA ⁵.)