HISTORY OF KREIDER FAMILY FROM THE PEN OF REV. J.G. FRANCIS

Kreiders in that section.

Michael was a director of the Lebanon National Bank. He was a member of the United Brethren Church. He had 10 children, all by the first wife:

• A son, b. Sept, 7, 1829; d. aged 7 days.
• Elizabeth, b. Oct. 31, 1830; d. Aug. 2, 1890.*
• Levii [sic], b. Nov. 6, 1832; d. Oct. 26, 1868.*
• Christian, b. June 23, 1835; d. Oct. 21, 1907.*
• Magdalene, b. Mar. 17, 1838; d. Dec. 25, 1871.*
• Dr. Cyrus, b. May 29, 1840; d. Feb. 22, 1918.*
• Sarah, b. Mar. 17, 1842; d. Jan. 21, 1909.*
• Uriah, b. April 2, 1884; likely d. Apr., 1917.*
• John S., b. Feb. 27, 1846.*
• Ana, b. May 31, 1850.*

-Family Bible in possession of John S.

• ELIZABETH KREIDER, afore, m. Sept. 26, 1850, by Rev. Casper Light, to George Bross, b. April 9, 1825, in East Hanover; d. Feb. 6, 1896; farmer beyond Mt. Zion; Brethren; 5 children:
• Sarah Bross, b. Sept. 25, 1851; m. Adam Light, farmer at the Twin Bridges over the Swatara, beyond Mt. Zion, now resides in Myerstown, acting as engineer in a shirt factory built on the rear of his lot; Brethren; 7 children:
• Clara Light, m. Henry Keeney, farmer at Rehrersburg; Brethren; 9 children.
• Rev. George Light, dec., m. Martha Cassel; school teacher at Hatfield, Montgomery county, minister of Brethren, having acted as assistant Sunday school secretary of Eastern Pennsylvania; 2 children:
• Mary Light, single, at home, to whom we are indebted for records of her grandmother's family.
• Emma Light, m. Harry Merkey, farmer on the Light homestead at Swatara; Brethren; 5 children: Ammon, Sarah, Paul, Manna, Adam.
• Harry Light, m. Alice Geib, daughter of Ephraim of Reistville; farmer near Schaefferstown; Brethren; 4 children: Laura, Mary, Earl and a baby boy.
• Annie Light, m. Elmer Wagner, farmer near Rehrersburg; Brethren; 4 boys.
• Sallie Light, m. Paul Weaver, son of Daniel, recently of Maple street, Lebanon; works in Weaver Bologna Factory at Weaverstown, residence on the Light homestead; Brethren; 3 children: Herman, Harold and Harry.
• Ephraim Bross, April 21, 1853; d. young.
• John Adam Bross, b. Oct. 19, 1854; m. Salenas Boyer; farmer on this side of Rehrersburg; Brethren 4 children:
• Mary Bross, m. Pierce Edris, farmer near Rehrersburg; 1 child: Harvey.
• Sallie Bross, d. single.
• Lizzie Bross, m. Wallace Kline, repairsman on trolley line; residence Myerstown; Brethren; 3 children: Harry, Beulah and Lester.
• John Bross, m. Annie Schlaseman; farmer at Millbach; 2 children.
• Daniel Bross, b. Oct. 24, 1856; m. Sarah Meyer, daughter of Eld. Jacob of near Hamlin; Brethren; 10 children:
• Anna Bross, m. Rev. Jacob Merkey, farmer at Rehrersburg; minister of the Brethren; 2 children.
• Mary Bross, m. John Lentz, farmer near Hamlin; Brethren; 5 or 6 children.
• George Bross, m. Minnie Lebo; farmer near Millersburg; 3 children.
• Sarah Bross, m. David Bashore, farmer near Hamlin; Brethren; no children.
• Jacob Bross, m. Mabel Bricker; farmer near Hamlin; 1 child.
• Samuel Bross, m. Mary Demmy; farmer near Hamlin; 1 child.
• Daniel Bross, m. ---- Demmy, sister of Mary; butcher, with his father-in-law at Greble; no children.
• Rebecca Bross, single at home; Brethren.
• Lydia Bross, single, at home; Brethren.
• Levi Bross, single, at home.
• Elizabeth Bross, b. Aug. 21, 1858; d. Feb. 11, 1863.
• Anna Bross, b. Jan. 21, 1860; d. Feb. 11, 1863.
• Mary K. Bross, b. Feb. 26, 1862; m. Apr. 2, 1881, to Isaac D. Gibble, son of Abraham; teacher in eastern Pennsylvania 16 years, moved west in 1898, later employed in concentrating department of lead and zinc mines, Webb City, Mo., residence Carthage, Mo., in 1915; she said to be now in California; he a deacon of the Brethren; 7 children.
• Laura Ethel Gibble, stenographer.
• Mary Evangeline Gibble, school teacher, stenographer and musician; m. Samuel Roswell Hunter, mechanical engineer in Oshkosh, Wis.; 1 child: Mary Elizabeth.
• Iram B. Gibble, salesman for a cracker company in Berkeley, Cal.
• Eva Jeanette Gibble, stenographer, Berkeley, Cal.
• Naum B. Gibble, student of mechanical engineering in Stanford University, Cal.
• Stella May Gibble; stenographer in San Francisco, Cal.
• Elam B. Gibble, student in Berkeley, Cal.

See writer's History of the Royer Family in America, pp. 359-361, records having been secured in 1915.

• Levi Bross, b. June 18, 1869, m. Katie Gibble, daughter of Joseph of Fredericksburg; farmer at Fredericksburg; Brethren; 5 children:
• Groh Bross, single at home.
• Joseph Bross, m. ---- ----, of Fredericksburg; residence, Annville; 2 children.
• John Bross, single at home.
• Levi Bross, Jr., single at home.
• Earl Bross, single at home.
• LEVI KREIDER, afore, m. Susan Strohm; farmer near Shelby, Ohio, where he died aged 36 years; she now in Pinegrove, Pa., having later m. Andrew Zimmerman, dec., conductor on the Pinegrove train; Levi had 1 child, a son, died aged 13 years, buried in Mt. Lebanon cemetery.
• CHRISTIAN KREIDER, afore, m. twice, each time it was the woman from Missouri; had moved to a place 13 miles from Poplin, Mo., before the Civil War; farmer at Rocky Comfort; died about eight years ago, leaving 1 child:
• Archibald Kreider, m. ---- ----; lives in Missouri; 3 children.
• MARY MAGDALENA KREIDER, afore, m. John Jacob Klick, b. Jan. 18, 1830; d. Nov. 25, 1901, aged 71 years, 10 months and 7 days; shoemaker on S. Ninth street, Lebanon; Reformed; 6 children:
• William K. Klick, b. Apr. 25, 1857; d. Aug. 26, 1918; m. Martha E. Johannesen, of Chicago; b. at Bergen, Norway, from whom a considerable part of the Klick records; carpenter for many years in Chicago, returned to Lebanon for the second time 2 years ago; d. here and is buried in Mt. Lebanon cemetery; family now resides on southeast corner of Fourth and Lehman streets, Lebanon; Lutheran; 7 children:
• Emma Klick, m. William O. Koster, machinist, 112 Cumberland street, Lebanon; Lutheran; 6 children: Kathryn, Harold, William, Lillian, Evelyn, and Ethyl.
• Elizabeth Klick, single at home; clerk in Bon Ton store.
• Carolina B. Klick, d. in 1901, aged 2 years, buried in Chicago.
• William J. Klick, single at home; clerk in office of Bethlehem Steel.
• Irvin C. Klick, single at home; carpenter.
• Cora J. Klick, m. Guernery Moyer, die setter in Bethlehem Steel; residence 750 South alley; 1 child: Marion.
• Myrtle R. Klick, d. Sept. 25, 1917, aged 15 years.
• Emma A. Klick, b. Jan. 14, 1859; d. Jan. 6, 1879.
• Franklin D. Klick, m. Ellen Bohr; he a farmer at Fredericksburg; Reformed, 1 child:
• Martha Klick, m. George Shaw, tinsmith, working in the round house at Rutherford; 3 children: George, Richard and Donald.
• Lizzie A. Klick, b. Sept. 8, 1865; d. nov. 23, 1888, on day set for her marriage.
• Cyrus Klick, m. Mary Cochran; driver of a grocery wagon in Lebanon, but now in hospital; Reformed; 8 children:
• Paul Klick, d. young.
• ---- Klick, likely d. young.
• William Klick, d. aged 20 years.
• Harry Klick, m. ---- ----, of Allentown; chauffeur; no children.
• Clifford Klick, to be married on the day of this writing, June 28, 1919, to a lady also of Allentown; he just returned from France.
• Raymond Klick, single, also just returned from France.
• Mary Magdalena Klick, d. aged 7 years.
• Calvin J. Klick, single, farmer, with brother Franklin.

• DR. CYRUS KREIDER, afore, m. Caroline L. Walter of Phila.; practicing physician in Monroeville, Ohio, near Lake Erie.

  It seems that Dr. Cyrus had intended to settle down in Annville for on April 1, 1867, he bought of Dr. Lorenzo F. Bowers a property in that town. The lot was bounded on the north by Lebanon alley, on the south by Main or Market street, on the east by lot of George Bair, and on the west by lot of John N. Smith, lot formerly owned by Cornelius Smith. Dr. Cyrus sold this lot February 5, 1869, to George Imboden.

  Dr. Cyrus Kreider left 4 children:

• Walter Kreider, single in Chicago; General superintendent of Ball's Engine Co.
• Dr. Edward Kreider, specialist on ear, eye and throat, in Monroeville, Ohio; 1 child, a daughter.
• Mabel Kreider, single, principal of Norwalk High School, about 8 miles from Monroeville.
• Charles Kreider, general superintendent of an iron industry in Chicago; 2 children.
• SARAH KREIDER, afore, m. Edward Ramsey, tailor in Lebanon, now resides in Washington D. C.; 5 children.
• Emma Ramsey, m. Robert Walter, dec., in mail service, Washington, D. C.; no children.
• Edward Ramsey, in departmental service in Washington. "Peep." Ramsey, machinist in California.
• Laura Ramsey, d. single, aged about 20 years.
• URIAH KREIDER, afore, m. Sarah Moyer, of Mill Creek Center; farmer near Knoxville, Tenn., later retired n Knoxville; 5 children:
• Harvey Kreider, m ---- ----; in Miami, Florida; no children.
• Sadie Kreider, dec., m. Dr. Randall of Knoxville.
• Cora Kreider, m. Harry Muth, grain, feed and lumber merchant in Elizabethtown; no children.
• Lillie Kreider, dec., m. ---- ----;Knoxville.
• JOHN S. KREIDER, afore, m. first to Emma Groh, secondly to Mrs. Ella E. Early, nee Baumgardner; operator of a brickyard on Canal street, Lebanon, in hyde and leather business, in real estate business and house building, now in the jewelry business; member of the council of Lebanon for the first 4 years of the city's existence, elected county commissioner in 1892, and rather recently city school controller; to him the main are indebted for the information concerning his father's family; 4 children, all by first wife:
• Harry Kreider, m. Mamie ----, of New York; banker in New York, residence Hoboken, N. J., ; 3 children: Emma, Dorothy and Harry, Jr.
• Anna Kreider, m. Frank Muth, brother and partner of Harry, afore, residence Elizabethtown; no children.
• Carrie Kreider, m. Richard Williams of Chicago; real estate agent; 1 child: Richard, Jr.
• Ralph Kreider, m. Anna Bowman; plumber in the Bethlehem Steel; residence, Lebanon; 5 children: Marion, Ethel, Margaret, Anna and John.
• ANNA KREIDER, afore, m. Cyrus Killian, b. Apr. 7, 1844; d. Nov. 22, 1899; farmer at Midway; Methodist Episcopal; 9 children:
• Ella Killian, m. Samuel Fasnacht, merchant in Palmyra; United Brethren; 4 children: Esther, Walter, Anna and Clarence.
• Tacie Killian, m. Christian Bachman, farmer, 1 mile west of Quentin; she, Methodist Episcopal; 4 children: Irvin, Erma, John and Walter.
• Irvin Killian, m. Alice Risser; farmer near Lawn; United Evangelical; 1 child: John.
• Katie Killian, m. Rev. A. H. Brubacher, school teacher for 30 years; music teacher and composer, painter, minister of Brethren; residence on the Quentin road beyond the Hazel Dyke, just outside the city limits; no children, but recently took a little girl to raise.
• Howard Killian, dec., m. Ruth Yountz, who has m. Lester Shrimp; stenographer; 1 child: Kenneth.
• Anna Kreider Killian had four children that died young: Morris, Annie, Alice and Laura.