BERNARD N. KNAPP - a resident in Blue Sulphur district, Greenbrier County, 
West Virginia, is engaged in the jewelry business in Alderson, Monroe County, 
and his business card is elsewhere given. George L. and Amanda M. (WESTFALL) 
KNAPP, residents in Greenbrier County, are his parents, and he was born in 
this county, at Lewisburg, July 27, 1848. He married Sarah E., daughter of 
David and Nancy (TUCKWILLER) HEDRICK, their marriage solemnized September 29, 
1869. Their children, all at home, were born, Nannie E., October 22, 1870; 
Mason, March 6, 1873; Emma 1., May 5, 1875; Mattie B., June 23, 1877; Ada C., 
August 26, 1879; Bertie N., November 23, 1881. The wife of Mr. KNAPP was born 
in Greenbrier County, July 10, 1846, and her parents are both natives of this 
county, her father born December 19, 1814, and her mother born May 12. 1824. 
Her father resides near Lewisburg. and her mother died October 28, 1861. 
The subject of this sketch has been five years in the jewelry business, at 
his present location, and has been in the business altogether for thirteen 
years. His post office address is Alderson, Monroe County, West Virginia.

Source:  Hardesty, Henry H.  Hardesty's Historical and Geographical
Encyclopedia.  New York: H.H. Hardesty and Company, 1884.
Rpt. in West Virginia Heritage Encyclopedia.  Ed. Jim Comstock.
Richwood: Comstock, 1974.

Transcribed and submitted by Valerie Crook, <vfcrook @trellis.net>