My source for information beyond my ggggrandfather William Francis Samuel Kunkle was taken from the "Kunkel, Fowler Vail and Fletcher Genealogy and Fimily History" by Marilyn Bridge Brown. The copy I found was on loan to the Covington Public Library in Fountain County.
Johann Balthasser Gunkel (Johann Christoffel Gunkel, Conrad Gunkel, Johann Hans Gunkel)
Born: 4 April 1713, Breitenborn, Germany
Immigrated to America via Philadelphia 1732 on the "Loyal Judith"
M: before 1736, Lancaster County, Pa.
John Gunkel/Kunckel/Kunkle2 (Johann1)
Born: ca. 1736, Lancaster County, Pa.
Died: before 1790, will proved 9 Nov.1790, York Co., Pa., lists wife Catherine and children, Jacob and Eve.
M: Before 1765, Catherine Spangler (she died after 1790)
Issue: 1) Jacob Kunkle*
2) Eve, m. George Dahl
3) Balthsar, b. 1773/4, d. 1849, married Elizabeth
4) John, b. 1779, d. 1826, married Margaret Weaver
5) Daniel, b. ca. 1782
6) Barbara, b. ca. 1786, married John Lentz
Jacob Kunkle3 (John2, Johann1)
Born: 1766, York County, Pa.
Died: 1822 Mt. Pleasant Twp., Adams County, Pa.
M: Barbara Geisel (she died possibly before 1830 near Littlestown, Adams Co., Pa.)
Issue: 1) Jacob, b. ca. 1788, married Elizabeth Werner
2) Catherine, b. ca. 1789, married Jacob Christ
3) Nancy, b. 1792, married George Lawrence
4) John Kunkle*
5) Elizabeth, b. 1795, married Jacob Bear
6) Abraham, b. 1799, married Margaret Swartz
7) Barbara, b. 1801, died after 1824
8) Daniel, b. 1802, married 1826 Elizabeth Kohler
9) Christian, b. 1807, married Maria Lair
John Kunkle4 (Jacob3, John2, Johann1)
Born: Ca. 1793
M: 1817 in Littlestown, Adams Co., Pa. to Sarah (Myers?)
Issue: 1) Anthony David Kunkle
Born: 1818, Berwick Twp., Adams Co., Pa.
Died: 1870, Clark Co., Ohio
M: 1848, Adams Co., Pa., Amelia Hildebrand
2) John Kunkle/Kunkel*
3) Joseph, b. 1826, m. 1851, Elizabeth Smith
4) Hannah, b. 1828
5) Sarah, b. 1830, m. 1861 Zachariah Myers
6) Leah, b. 1832
John Kunkle/Kunkel5 (John4, Jacob3, John2, Johann1)
*migrated to Indiana with first five children after the Civil War
Born: 1823, Adams Co., Pa
Died: 1889, Fountain Co., In.
M: 8 March 1849, in the home of William Sadler, Adams Co., Pa., Catherine Elizabeth Shriver and remarried in a
a church on 21 March, 1849. Catherine was the daughter of Jacob Shriver and Elizabeth Reynolds.
"Five of their seven children were born in Adams Co.(Pa.) near Gettysburg. Their son Jacob Adam told of hearing shots of the Battle of Gettysburg while plowing on the family farm. At some point durin gthe War, their horses were stolen, but they were never certain if it was by the Union or Confederate soldiers. Following the Civil War, probably in 1866, John and Catherine Elizabeth migrated to Fountain County, Indiana and settled on a farm in Shawnee Township near Attica, where the last two children were apparently born. John and Elizabeth are listed in the 1870 Fountain County census for Shawnee Township, but they apparently died before the 1880 census records were taken. There is no record of their deaths in Fountain County death records (which go back only to 1887) or in Fountain County cemetery records. They may have been buried in unmarked graves on their own land."
Issue: 1) William Francis Samuel Kunkle*
2) Jacob Adam Kunkel, b. 1851, Adams Co., Pa., d. 1930, m. 1878, Nancy Ann Fowler (1853-1935)
* the "Kunkel, Fowler, Vail and Fletcher Genealogy and Family History" follows this line.
Jacob is buried in the Waynetown Masonic Cemetery in Montgomery Co., In.
3) Sarah M., b. 1854, Adams Co, Pa., d. 1928
4) Ruth Anna, b. 1864, Adams Co., Pa., d. 1936
5) Mary E., b. 1866, Adams Co., Pa., d. 1960
6) Amanda Jane, b. 1869, In
7) Martha Ellen, b. 1872, In., d. 1952
1850 Tyrone Twp., Adams Co., Pa.
John Kunkle 28 M
Elizabeth Kunkle 20 F
William Kunkle 5/12 M
1860 Butler Township, Adams Co., Pa.
John Kunkle 50 M Pa. (wrong age)
Elizabeth Kunkle 48 F. Pa. (wrong age)
William F. Kunkle 10 M Pa.
Jacob Kunkle 8 M Pa.
Sarah M. Kunkle 6 F Pa.
William Francis Samuel Kunkle6 (John5, John4, Jacob3, John2, Johann1)
Born: 12 Dec. 1849, near Gettysburg, Adams Co., Pa.
Died 18 April 1909, Fountain Co., In., Buried in Cold Springs Cemetery, Troy Twp., Fountain Co., In.
Death Records lists him as William S.F. Kunkel
*Served in the 101st Pa. Infantry.
M1) 1/29/1870, Nancy McIntyre, the daughter of John and Barbara Pottorff McIntire, b. 1844, Adams Co., Pa.
Issue: 1) John William Kunkle b. 1871
2) Annie Barbara Kunkle b. 10/6/1873 Adams Co. PA d. 10/19/1891 Adams Co. PA
3) Mary E. L. Kunkle b. 9/25/1876
4) Henry Kunkle b. 10/02/1878
5) M.E.R. Kunkle b. 11/9/1880
M2) Emma Wolf
1870 Union Twp., Champaign Co., Ohio
Kunkle, William 25 M W Farm Laborer Pa.
Kunkle, Emma 19 F W Keeping House Ohio
Blue, Ernst W. 14 M W Farm Laborer Ohio
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