BURIAL: Data extraction of Hostetler Church of the Brethren Cemetery, Greenville Township done by Carol Hepburn of the Somerset County Genealogy website: "No. 51, Hostetler, Jacob S., b. 1854, d. 1919,"
BURIAL: Data extraction of Hostetler Church of the Brethren Cemetery, Greenville Township done by Carol Hepburn of the Somerset County Genealogy website: "No. 52, Hostetler, Sarah, b 1853, d. Feb 20, 1935, age 81y 4m 4d, wife of J.S."
BURIAL: Data extraction of Hostetler Church of the Brethren Cemetery, Greenville Township done by Carol Hepburn of the Somerset County Genealogy website: "No. 47, Hostetler, Elder Edwin K., b 1857 d. ????"
BURIAL: Data extraction of Hostetler Church of the Brethren Cemetery, Greenville Township done by Carol Hepburn of the Somerset County Genealogy website: "No. 48, Hostetler, Mollie b. 1856, d. 19??, wife of E.K."
BIRTH: Record taken from article "Moses Gnagey of Summit Township" in the Laurel Messenger, February, 1995, page 196.
Burial: From listing of Gnagey (Menno Yoder) Burial Ground, Summit Twp. record of Jacob Gnagey, d. 4/16/1883 age 86-8-11
BIOGRAPHY: Extract from article "Summit Twp. Craftsmen Remembered" from Laurel Messenger, dtd Nov 1986, page 245. "Among the Somerset County cabinetmakers were Jacob and Elias Knagy, Amish-Mennonite farmers of Summit Township. The father and son team made extraordinary decorated furnitre between 1840 and 1870. The first Knagy to settle in the county was Christian Knagy, who arrived from Switzerland at the Port of Baltimore, he worked his way to Frederick, Hagerstown, and then through the Cumberland Valley to Somerset County, to settle in Brotherswalle Township (now Summit Township).
In 1774, Christian acquired, by tomahawk claim, a tract of land two and one-half miles west of Meyersdale named Elkton. He cleared the land and erected a house and buildings on what was to remain the Knagy farm for generations to come.
Jacob Knagy was born on this Summit Township farm to Johannes, (son oc Christian) and Elizabeth (Miller) Knagy on August 5, 1796, and spent his life at that place. In addition to being a farmer, Jacob was also a cabinetmaker and cooper. Twelve children were born to him and Veronica (Hocstedler). Their tenth child, Elias (then spelled Gnaegi), began work with his father in the cabinet shop in 1844, at the age of twelve. [This is all the genealogical information in the article. The rest was a description of the furniture they made and sold.)
BIRTH: Record taken from article "Moses Gnagey of Summit Township" in the Laurel Messenger, February, 1995, page 196.
Burial: From listing of Gnagey (Menno Yoder) Burial Ground, Summit Twp. record of Varonica Gnagey, d. 11/5/1870 age 70-9-1 w/o Jacob.
Note: He is the 10th child of 12 children.
Information provided by David Edgecombe, Ontario, Canada.
Information provided by David Edgecombe, Ontario, Canada.