Elias Henry Knerr ¹

  Noted events in his life were:

• Occupation: justice of the peace.

• Residence: Lowhill Township: Weidasville, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, USA.

• Census, 1870, Lowhill Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, USA. ⁵ The 1870 Census lists him as Henry Knerr, age 20. His is living in the household of his father, Jonas Knerr (55) with his mother, Susanna (50); sister Catherine (28); brother Willoby (24).

• Occupation: shoemaker, 1870. ⁵ His father, Jonas, and brother, Willoughby were also shoemakers at this time.

• Census, 1880, Lowhill Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, USA. ⁶ Henry Knerr, shoemaker, is listed in the 1880 Census as the head of the household (age 30) that included wife Isabella (26) and daughter Daisey (4). Two other non-family members are listed: Sarah Knerr (20) and Calvin Bear (3), and both have occupations listed as servant.

• Occupation: shoemaker, 1880. ⁷

• Census, 1900, Lowhill Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, USA. ³ He is listed as E. Henry Knerr, age 50, head of the household that included Isabella (46, born March 1854); Carrie S. (19, January 1881); Blaine J. (17, November, 1882); Katie I. (15, December 1884); Emma S. (13, March 1887); Lizzie E. (11, August 1888); and Isabella's mother, Sarah Diehl (73, November 1826). Isabella is listed as having 9 children, 6 still living. Her mother, Sarah, had 13 children and 11 were still living. Henry and Isabella are listed as being married for 27 years. Everyone and everyone's parents are listed as being born in Pennsylvania.

• Occupation: shoemaker, 1900. ³

• Alt. Death, 30 Apr 1909. ²

• Book: Anniversary History of Lehigh County, Volume II, 1914. ⁸ 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.

Elias married Isabella Sarah Diehl, daughter of Solomon Diehl Jr and Sarah Ann George, on 19 Apr 1873 in Lowhill Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, USA. (Isabella Sarah Diehl was born in Mar 1854 in Lowhill Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, USA,^{3 4} died in 1941 in , Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, USA ⁴ and was buried in Leather Corner Post: Lowhill Township: Morgenland Church Cemetery, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, USA ⁴.)