The Coble Homestead
Nine Generations and Counting
It was the summer of 1989. Gary and I got married in June, then drove over to Las Vegas where we saw Jerry Lewis and Sammy Davis Jr. before heading to our honeymoon in Jamaica. Shortly after returning, we flew to Pennsylvania to attend the reunion on the Coble Family Homestead. I come from a smaller family so this was quite the experience for me and I really love this photo of many members of the extended family. I have recently been going through Grandma Coble’s genealogy book and have enjoyed seeing the history behind the homestead.
Currently we are at nine generations of family continuously living on the homestead.
It all began with Christian Schneider (Shnyder, Snyder, Sneider). Christian was born in Kennemerland (Kennerland), Holland on May 25, 1725 to John (Johannes) and Susanna Baumann Schneider. (John was born in 1697 in Kennemerland, Holland; his father was Jacob who was born in Germany in 1663; his father was Peter who was born in Switzerland in 1590; his father was Jacob who was born in Berne, Switzerland in 1561; and his father was Hannes who was born in Berne Switzerland in 1534.) Christian and his family immigrated to America 1736 on the ship, The Harle.
Much of the information on the Schneider family comes from the 1564 Schneider Bible which contains “an original German hand-written family register that is badly worn after hundreds of years of deterioration. However, in the 1890’s, Ezra Eby translated what was still decipherable of the original registry and neatly wrote it down in English, along with his own insights (Register).”
According to this Bible:
“After the decease of my father Jacob Schneider February 17th 1727, I received this old bible purchased by Hannes Schneider, my grandfather’s grandfather in 1564.
I, John Schneider the eldest son of the last named family was born June 13th 1697. On the 12th October 1721 I was married to Susanna Baumann, a native of Holland. She was born December 13th 1700 and died in Pennsylvania December 13th 1745. In April 1736 we, my wife and family with others moved or emigrated to America and settled in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania where John Schneider died October 13th 1763. His family consisted of five children. Their names are as follows:
| Christian Schneider was born May 25th 1725. |
| Susanna Schneider was born August 10th 1723, died December 14th 1748. |
| Jacob B. Schneider was born April 2nd 1727, died April 9th 1803. |
| David Schneider was born February 17th 1729, died in 1744. |
| Andrew Schneider was born February 12th 1732, died in 1740.” |
Later, Christian (Gary’s 5th great grandfather) obtained land in Pennsylvania and raised his six daughters.
According to Christian’s will, Christian left his youngest daughter, Veronica (Feronica) his “plantation and tract of land” for her and her heirs.
At the time, Veronica was the only daughter who had not married. Veronica later married Jacob Kobel (Coble) in 1795. Veronica and Jacob’s descendants have resided on and operated this property ever since:
- Christian Schneider
- Jacob Kobel
- Christian Coble
- John H. Coble
- Amos G. Coble
- John Ira Coble
- David S. Coble
- Jonathan Coble
- Jonathan’s children
There is also a Coble cemetery on the property. Gary and I visited the cemetery many, many years ago (before cell phones) and we have no pictures but Grandma Coble provide a list of people buried here along with their locations.
The Coble family homestead has been a place where many special memories were made.
Sources
“Johannes Schneider.” WikiTree, 17 Mar. 2022, https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Schneider-123.
Register of the Schneider Family, http://www3.sympatico.ca/darrenarndt/schneider/bible/register.htm.