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Complete Knappenberger
First Generation

Surname Index

Knappenbergers Adopted
By Other Families

 

Complete Knappenberger First Generation

KEY 
First Names (Maiden Name) or [Married Name]

KNAPPENBERGER
Abraham
Adam

Albert J.

Alma (Cover)
Andreas
Anna (Diepach)
Anna (Loyer)

Anna Katharina (?)
Anna Magdalena (Knoepfer)
Anna Margaret/Anna Margaretha (Desch?)
Anna Maria [Detar]

Anna Maria [Eltwein]
Anna Maria (Schmidt)

Anna Rosina [Walther]
Arline (First)

Benjamin

Carol
Catharine [Fair]
Catharine (Hittel)
Catharine Margaret
Catharine Rose (Kleis)
Catherine (Heilig)

Catherine [Waters]
Christian
Cleo Walter

Conrad
Cora Estella (Robinson)
Daniel

Daniel A
Donald
Dorothy
Edith [Doan]
Edward J.
Edward William
Elias Jeremias

Elizabeth

Elizabeth [Gharky]

Elizabeth [Kline]

Elizabeth (Layer)
Elizabeth [Schieber]
Emma L.
Eva "Barbara" (Blose)
Evelyn
Flora ( Rush)
Francis Charles

George Harvey

George W.

Grace V. (Leichtenwalter)

Henry
(1798-1854)
Henry (1806-1863)
Henry
(1836-1910)

"Henry I"
"Henry II"
"Henry III"
Inez L.
Jacob
(1808-1884)
Jacob (1814-1898)
James Henry
Jesse John
Johan Adam

Johan Albrecht

Johan Erhard
Johan Friedrich
Johan Georg (1703-1761)
Johan Georg (1783-1840) 
Johan Georg (1820-1859)
Johan George
Johan George Sebastian
Johan George William
 
Johan Henrich "Henry I"
Johan Jacob
Johan Michael

Johan Philip "Philip Sr"

Johanna
Johannes Kasper
John
(1774-1863)
John
(1809-1885)

John Adam

John Frederick
John George
John Howard

John K.

Jonathan
Joseph

J. Philip

Katharina (?)
Katharina [Durr]
Kathryn Elizabeth

Katie (?)
Kenneth
Lucinda [Allshouse]
Lydia Louisa (Layer)
Margaret (?)
Margaret (Laury)
Maria Anna Barbara [Eigner] Maria Barbara (1731-1731)
Maria Barbara [Kolb] (1699 - 1772)
Maria Barbara [Walthour]
(1772-1854)
Maria Dorothea
Maria Luise
Mary M. ( Rentschler)
Matilda Lenora [Ulmer]
Moses

Pauline "Polly" [Kiess]

"Philip Sr"

"Philip Jr"

Philip Adam
Philip Frederick
Robert E.
Sarah [Lust]
Seuffert
Sophie Helene (Weismeller)
Solomon
Susanna Margaretha

Thomas

Thomas Frederick

Thomas Henry

Walter Benjamin
William

Wolff Albrecht

Surname Index

BAHLER
Johan Georg
Katharina (Aupperle)
Rosina [Knappenberger]

BENFER Family of Tuscarawas County, Ohio

BITTIKOFER
John William
Sarah Anna (Walther)
Talmage
Genevieve May
Arthur
Lelia Belle
Carrie Marguerite
Edward D. Jacob

BLOSE
Eva "Barbara" [Knappenberger]

CORDER

COVER 
Alma [Knappenberger]

DESCH(?)
Anna Margaret/Anna Margaretha [Knappenberger]

DETAR Family of Clarion County, Pennsylvania

DIEFFENDERFER Family of Mercer County, Pennsylvania

DIEPACH
Anna [Knappenberger]

DOAN
Charles
Chester
Doris
Edith (Knappenberger)

DURR 
Bertha A. [Jacobs]
Jesse J.
Joseph Benjamin
Katharina (Knappenberger)

EIGNER
John Mathias
Maria Anna Barbara (Knappenberger)
 

EISENHART Family of Lehigh County, Pennsylvania

ELTWEIN
Anna Maria (Knappenberger)
George Michael

FAIR/FEHR Family of Somerset County, Pennsylvania

FIRST
Arline [Knappenberger]

GHARKY Family of Ohio

HEILIG
Catherine [knappenberger]
J. George Heilig
Margaret

HITTEL
Anna Marie
Catharine [knappenberger]
Michael, Sr.

JACOBS
Bertha A. (Durr)

KEPLINGER Family of Tuscarawas County, Ohio

KIES
Sarah Ann [Knappenberger]

KIESS
Amanda Jan [Leimenstal]
Pauline "Polly" (Knappenberger)
William

KLINE Family of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania

KLEIS
Catharine Rose [Knappenberger]

KNAUSS Family of Lehigh County, Pennsylvania

KNOEPFER
Anna Magdalena [Knappenberger]

KOLB
Anna Barbara 
Anna Catherine (Markle)
Anna Elisabeth
 1726-1732
Anna Elisabeth 1781-?
Anna Elisabeth (Gerichts)
Anna Maria (Kolb) [Kolb]
Catherine
Catherine (Ruebsamin)
Conrad
Elisabeth
Elizabeth (?)
Eva (?)
Eva Catherine [Roth]
Eva Elisabeth
1742-?
Eva Elisabeth 1785-? 
Eva Elisabeth [Stitler]
Gertrude (Fetter)
Henry
Jacob
Jacob Frederick
Jeremias
Johan Adam
Johan Conrad SR
Johan Conrad JR
Johan Rudolph
John Adam
John Henry
John Jacob
Jonathan
Maria Barbara (Knappenberger)
Maria Barbara  [Roth]
Maria Elisabeth [Kraemer]
Maria Magdalena (?)
Maria Margaret [Clader]
Maria Mary (Heinly)
Michael
Peter
1765-?
Peter 1811-?
Susanna (?)
Susanna [Wiant]
 

LAURY
Margaret [Knappenberger]
Michael

LAYER
Barbara (Eppley)
Daniel
Elizabeth [Knappenberger]
John Adam
Lydia Louisa [Knappenberger]
Mary (Green)

LEICHTENWALTER 
Grace V. [Knappenberger]

LEIMENSTAL
Amanda Jan (Kiess)
Reuben

LOYER
Anna [Knappenberger]

LUST
Aaron
Alice Rowena (Kintzer)
Carl R.
Ezra J.
Francis W.
George E. 
Gilbert A.
Gottlieb
Harry
Lillian M.
Rosa C. [Caldwell]
Sarah (Knappenberger)

RENTSCHLER
Mary M. [Knappenberger]

RITTER Family of Lehigh County, Pennsylvania

ROBISON
Andrew Jackson
Cora Estella [Knappenberger]
Dianah Belle (Heller)

RUSH
Flora [Knappenberger]

SCHIEBER
Amelia [Bean]
Elizabeth (Knappenberger)
Ella [Neff] 
Emma Rosanna [Crahl]
Jacob
Pearl Louisa [Caldwell]

SCHMIDT 
Anna Maria [Knappenberger]

SPIEGEL
Amanda (Walther)
Wilfield

ULMER
David
Matilda Lenora (Knappenberger)

WALTHER
Anna Rosina (Knappenberger)
Jacob Philip
George
Sarah Anna [Bittikofer]
Amanda [Spiegel]
Reuben Alfred

WALTHOUR Family of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania

WATERS
Catherine (Knappenberger)
George
Samuel

WEISMUELLER
Hans Adam

Sophie Helene [Knappenberger]

WENTZEL Family of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania

ZIMMERMAN Family of Lehigh County, Pennsylvania

Knappenbergers Adopted By Other Families

KLINGENSMITH
There is a Klingensmith family of Jeannette, Pennsylvania that is actually a branch of the Knappenberger family!  James Harvey Knappenberger, Jr. was adopted by his great aunt, Cordillia Allshouse Klingensmith and her husband Harvey David Klingensmith of Jeannette, Westmoreland County, PA.  Cordillia was the sister of Emma Allshouse Knappenberger who was James' grandmother.  Cordillia and Harvey Klingensmith were childless and, upon the death of James' father in 1925, they adopted him and changed his last name to Klingensmith.  James Harvey Klingensmith (born James Harvey Knappenberger, Jr.) was born 29 August 1920 in Phoenix, Arizona and married Edna "Jane" Thompson.  His true ancestry and that of his descendents is as follows: Johan Michael immigrant (1709-1751), Conrad (1748-1818), John (1774-1863), Henry (1798-1854), Moses (1826-1898), Henry J. (1861-1918), James Harvey Knappenberger, Sr. (1884-1925).