#6266 Lewis Schrock Knepper ( Emanuel L. Knepper • Lewis J. Knepper • John Knepper • Johann Knepper • Johann Gottfried "Gottfried" Knepper◊ • Clemens Knepper◊ • Hans Peter Knepper◊ • Tilmann Knepper◊ )
Lewis was born 11 Sep 1889 in Berlin, Somerset Co., Pennsylvania. He died 2 Sep 1962. He was buried in Brotherton Cemetery, Somerset Co., Pennsylvania.
He was born at Sandy Hollow Farm. Lewis taught school in Brothers Valley Twp. and then attended Juniata College and Winona Lake Theological Seminary in Indiana. He worked several years as a partner on his father's farm and then went into the ministry in the Church of the Brethren. In 1920, he lived in Somerset Co., Pennsylvania.
∞ Lewis married #7643 Grace Hay Berkley.
Marriage notes |
They married 25 Jun 1913 in Grace's Farm, Berlin, Brothersvalley Twp., Pennsylvania. |
Grace was born 20 Nov 1888 in Berlin, Brothersvalley Twp., Somerset Co., Pennsylvania. She died Nov 1967 in Beltsville, Maryland.
She is the daughter of Lewis & Sarah Berkley.
Children of this relationship:
| #7644 | M | i | Wayne Knepper | (14 Apr 1915–15 Apr 1915) |
| #7645 | F | ii | Elizabeth Knepper | (30 Sep 1917–12 Oct 1918) |
| #7646 | F | iii | Beula Knepper |
Clifford T. Wig & Dorothy H. Wig, The Knepper Family Tree, (unpublished, Apr 1997). Ref. as [Wig].
Jerome E. Blough, History of the Church of the Brethren of the Western District of Pennsylvania, (Elgin, Illinois: Brethren Publishing House, 1916), pp. 449-450.
Line Generation: 9
Relationship: Fourth Cousins Two Times Removed through Johann Gottfried "Gottfried" Knepper◊