Publisher's Synopsis
Book11 The trees of Michigan - 1870 the Knauss family settles in the wilderness of MichiganAmos and Mary Knauss with their son Edward Knauss (1876 TO 1952, GREAT-GRANDFATHER). When Edward was 20 years old, he married Mary C Long, age. In 1898 their first child Harold Forest Knauss (1898 TO 1983, GRANDFATHER), was born at their farm in Kalamazoo. Edward and Mary gave him the middle name of Forest so they could remember the trees of Michigan that once stood where only stumps remained. When Forest was 31 years old, he married Viva S Satterlee 20 years old in 1929 in Blanchard, and they had three children during their marriage. Raymond Lee Knauss (1929 TO 2006, FATHER), was born on the 4th of July 1929. Raymond Lee Knauss married Caroline June Ostrander (1928 TO 2004, MOTHER) when he was 19, and she was 20 years old. Their parents did not approve so they ran off to Indiana July 24, 1948, and got married.
