Hij is getrouwd met Louisa R. Trumbauer.
Zij zijn getrouwd op 29 november 1850, hij was toen 26 jaar oud.
Kind(eren):
SEBASTIAN KNOLL (From Dee Stewart):
Since no one living today knew Sebastian Knoll, we have to piece together a biography for him from handed down information and what few facts can be found for him in records.
Sebastian was born in Bavaria, Germany, on 27 May 1824. It seems he was a brother to Valentine Knoll, who arrived from Bavaria in New York on 1 Jul 1839, destined for Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. Valentine Knoll filed first petition to be an American citizen in Allentown, Pennsylvania, on 31 Jan 1842. Sebastian would have been only 15 years old if he came to America with his brother. I think that probably there was another brother or brothers who also came to America later on.
Valentine and Sebastian are both listed as living in Lester Twp, Black Hawk County, Iowa on the 1860 census. At that time Valentine's oldest son, Matthais, was living with the Sebastian Knoll family. The 1869 Black Hawk County land ownership map shows Sebastian living in section one of Barclay township.
It is likely that Sebastian met the Trumbauer family while they were all still in Pennsylvania. Sebastian probably traveled with the Trumbauer family to Stephenson County, IL, where he married Louisa R. Trumbauer in 1850. Sebastian and Louisa moved to Iowa about 1856/57. They purchased land in Black Hawk County on 13 Jun 1857.
Sebastian became a naturalized citizen on 26 Sep 1860, Iowa District Court of Black Hawk County, Probate Book B, p. 173. This would have allowed him to vote in the election in November of 1860, when Lincoln ran against Douglas for president. We picture Sebastian as a kindly, compassionate, fatherly type of man, a little closer to God. He was a minister and farmer and apparently had some mystical power to heal bodies as well as souls. Stories are told of him healing profuse bleeding by the power of his prayer.
Sebastian and Louisa were deeply saddened by the loss of their three year old daughter, Minnetta in 1882. To compensate for their loss they decided to adopt one of the "Orphan Train Children", saying that the money they would have spent on Minetta, had she lived, could be spent on this child. The first one that they took into their home did not work out. They then got a second one, named Emma, whom they raised as their own. "Orphan Train Children" were orphans that were shipped by the train load from the big cities is the East to be adopted by couples in the midwest.
18 Apr 1895, Thursday, Butler County Tribune: "Sabastian Knoll was born in the Kingdom of Bavaria, Germany, May 7, 1824, and came to America in 1846. He was converted to God in 1848 under the preaching of Rev. John Springer. He was united in marriage to Louisa Trumbauer in 1850. This union was blessed with 15 children, eight sons and seven daughters. The youngest child preceded her father into eternity. He was licensed as a local preacher of the Evangelical church in 1859 and served God and the church until his death. He has a sorrowing companion, fourteen children and 37 grandchildren He was 70 years, 11 months and 6 days old at the time of his death. His last words were, 'My work is finished and Jesus is my Savior and my comforter.' With a deep desire to meet all again in heaven, he departed. The funeral of Sabastian B. Knoll was held in the Evangelical Church Friday afternoon and was attended by a large crowd. Rev. Sassman of Belmond preached the sermon in both German and English. J.B. Playter of Bristow had charge of the funeral. The remains were deposited in the Harlan Cemetery." (Later moved to the Dumont Cemetery.)
Grandsons included Larry and Spencer Knoll who were doing family research in 1981 and visited the Vernon Trumbauers in Jesup, Iowa, at that time. They state that Sebastian Knoll met his wife in PA, was married there and settled at Jesup, Iowa, where they farmed for many years before moving to Dumont, Iowa, where he was also a minister. (Their marriage record has since been located in Stephenson County, IL. Spencer and Larry Knoll live in CA and state that there are several hundred descendants of this couple.
Dumont, Butler, Iowa
State of Illinois marriage record, File M2-157; License issured 26 Nov 1850 at Freeport by Clerk William Preston. “I do hereby certify that Sebastian Knoll and Louisa Trumbower were by me legally joined in the State of Matrimony according to the usual custom and the laws of the state of Illinois on th 29th day of Nov. 1850, Samuel Dickover, Minister.”
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