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George Knittle[1]

Male 1855 - Yes, date unknown

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  • Name George Knittle
    Birth 3 Mar 1855  Sugar Creek Township, Allen, Ohio, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Gender Male
    Death Yes, date unknown 
    Person ID I21117  Bisbee
    Last Modified 31 May 2010

    Family Ida Belle Tester,   b. 20 Feb 1860, , , Ohio, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
    Marriage Y  [2]
    Children 
    +1. Wiliam Bert Knittle,   b. 16 Apr 1875, , , Ohio, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
     2. Charles Frederick Knittle,   b. 5 May 1879, , , Ohio, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
     3. Orlo Guy Knittle,   b. 22 Apr 1889, , , Ohio, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
     4. Beulah May Knittle,   b. 19 Jan 1897, , , Ohio, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 26 Jan 1897, , , Ohio, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 0 years)
    Family ID F8064  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 6 Dec 2009

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 3 Mar 1855 - Sugar Creek Township, Allen, Ohio, USA Link to Google Earth
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  • Notes 
    • (Research):Obituary, source unknows (found on the Internet):
      GEORGE W. KNITTLE. Among the well known farmers of German township, none is more deserving of mention than George W. Knittle, whose farm of 80 acres is located in section 17. He has lived all his life in Allen County. He was born in Sugar Creek township, March 3, 1856, and is a son of Jacob and Eliza Hamilton) Knittle, and a grandson of William and Rebecca (Tester) Knittle. William Knittle came with his wife from Fairfield County, Ohio, to Allen County at a very early day, and here entered 40 acres of land from the government. George W. Knittle was reared on his father's farm and has always been an agriculturalist, the greater part of his life having been passed in German township. On October 21, 1875, he was married to Ida Belle Tester, daughter of Frederick and Sarah Jane (Umpstead) Tester, residents of German township. Mrs. Knittle was born February 20, 1860, and has had four children, only two of whom are now living. The record
      is as Follows: William B., born April 16, 1876, who married Alice Snow, of Elida and is employed in the oil field; Charles Frederick, born May 5, 1879, deceased in infancy; Orla Guy, born April 22, 1889, now a student in the schools of Elida; and Beulah May, born January 19, 1897, who died at the age of seven days. When Mr. Knittle was married he bought his bride to their present home where they have lived continuously except for a period of six years, three of which were spent in Lima and the remainder in Elida. Mr. Knittle is a member of the lodge and encampment, I. O. O. F. at Lima.

  • Sources 
    1. [S2012] Census Population Schedules.

    2. [S2354] Kathy Arnold, Comp., Biographies of Allen County, Ohio Residents Online, (From History of Allen County, Ohio and Representative Citizens, Ed. and Comp. by Dr. Charles C. Miller with Dr. Samuel Baxter Lima, Ohio, published by Richmond & Arnold, Chicago, 1906.), George W. Knittle.