George Rex Jr married into the Knauss family. This was the backwoods idea of a power couple via the mid 1700's. The Knauss family in America took their ancestry seriously. The family genealogists organized an impressive show in the late 1800's in Pennsylvania.
How many people would you consider a complete family reunion? Fifty, seventy-five , even one hundred people? How about twelve hundred people? The Knuass elders leaders organized such a reunion.
Their ability to gather information in the age of candles, horses and poverty impresses the most cynical man. Their pride in America radiates off the pages of their 1903 family report.
Ludwig Johann Knauss came to America in 1723 with his wife, Anna Margaretha Gerlach. Ludwig was born in …show more content…
— I feel that the words of
Lewis B. Clewell, of Bethlehem, one of the authors of the Clewell
Family History, express, in a modified form, my own feelings at the close of our Knauss Family History, and I will repeat the same : "My days of practical usefulness are passing away. I will not much longer mingle in the Reunions of the family. This doubtless is my last effort to serve my kindred. It is my last tribute to my ancestors. My farewell to that loving band of friends and kinsmen, the sons and daughters of our common an- …show more content…
Ludwig Knauss with his family came to America and located in the vicinity of Whitemarsh, near Philadelphia. His two sons, Johannes Heinrich Knauss and Sebastian Heinrich Knauss, and he himself later came to the section of country around present day Allentown, afterwards named their new town Emaus by the Moravian Brethren. (The Knauss and Rex's both moved to the lands around Allentown after living in Philadelphia county for about 15 years).
Most of the early settlers in Pennsylvania took to farming ; but to make a farm in those days was no easy task. It was necessary first to subdue the wilderness, which was an unbroken forest everywhere. There were no roads, and to travel from one part of the country to another was a difficult undertaking.
The Indian trails furnished means to get through the forest, which in many places was practically impenetrable. There were in- numerable streams to be crossed, without bridges. The
How many people would you consider a complete family reunion? Fifty, seventy-five , even one hundred people? How about twelve hundred people? The Knuass elders leaders organized such a reunion.
Their ability to gather information in the age of candles, horses and poverty impresses the most cynical man. Their pride in America radiates off the pages of their 1903 family report.
Ludwig Johann Knauss came to America in 1723 with his wife, Anna Margaretha Gerlach. Ludwig was born in …show more content…
— I feel that the words of
Lewis B. Clewell, of Bethlehem, one of the authors of the Clewell
Family History, express, in a modified form, my own feelings at the close of our Knauss Family History, and I will repeat the same : "My days of practical usefulness are passing away. I will not much longer mingle in the Reunions of the family. This doubtless is my last effort to serve my kindred. It is my last tribute to my ancestors. My farewell to that loving band of friends and kinsmen, the sons and daughters of our common an- …show more content…
Ludwig Knauss with his family came to America and located in the vicinity of Whitemarsh, near Philadelphia. His two sons, Johannes Heinrich Knauss and Sebastian Heinrich Knauss, and he himself later came to the section of country around present day Allentown, afterwards named their new town Emaus by the Moravian Brethren. (The Knauss and Rex's both moved to the lands around Allentown after living in Philadelphia county for about 15 years).
Most of the early settlers in Pennsylvania took to farming ; but to make a farm in those days was no easy task. It was necessary first to subdue the wilderness, which was an unbroken forest everywhere. There were no roads, and to travel from one part of the country to another was a difficult undertaking.
The Indian trails furnished means to get through the forest, which in many places was practically impenetrable. There were in- numerable streams to be crossed, without bridges. The