Ellis County Texas Archives Biographies.....Coonrod, Peter 1836 - 1915
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Peter C. Coonrod was born  March 20,  1836 in Manlius, N.Y.,
the son of Mathias Conrad (b: 6 APR 1803 in Montbronn,
Moselle, France) and  Magdalene Gottfried (b: 9 APR 1810 in
Montbronn, Moselle, France). 

Peter's grandfather, Caspar Conrad, age 60, left Montbronn,
Moselle, France and arrived in New York City in 1834 with
his wife and two sons. His oldest son, Mathias with wife and
two children, and a daughter with her husband and a son
arrived later in 1834. Caspar with his son-in-law bought 64
acres close to the Erie Canal in Manlius, N.Y. (now a suburb
of  Syracuse), and his son Mathias bought 25 acres nearby.

Between 1857 and 1861, the widow of Caspar Conrad with her
three sons sold their farms in Manlius N.Y. and bought land
in Allen County, in a township south of New Haven Indiana
and west of the farms owned by Huths(family from Somborn,
Hesse, Germany) and Louis Joly (Montdidier, Moselle, France).

In 1861, Peter Coonrod, son of Mathias, married Christina
Huth and bought the farm from Erwein Huth, near the Joly
farm. The Jolys, Schmuckers and Peter Coonrod attended  St.
Louis Besancon Church in the country between New Haven and
the Ohio state border.  

In 1875, The Houston and Texas Central completed a section
from the Oklahoma Indian Territory south to Galveston, and
presumably was searching for people to buy low cost farm
land near the division point, Ennis, Tex. About 1879,
Sebastian Schmucker and his wife Elizabeth Joly, daughter of
Louis Joly, moved  to Ennis and bought a farm south
of town.

In 1883, Charles M. Joly, brother of Elisabeth Joly
Schmucker,  and husband of Josephine Gamet sold their Allen
County farm and moved with some of their children to Ennis
and bought a farm nearby to the Schmuckers.

In 1885, Peter Coonrod, son of Mathias with wife Christina
Huth Coonrod also moved with some of their children to
Ennis, and bought a farm nearby to the Jolys and
Schmuckers. There, Charles Joseph Joly met Clara Coonrod, daughter
of Peter and Christina, and they were married in Ennis in
1887.

The children of Peter and Christina included (all born in
New Haven, Indiana:

 Henry P. COONROD b: 28 DEC 1862 
 Theresa COONROD b: 12 JUL 1864 
 Ervin Lawrence COONROD b: 10 AUG 1866 
 Clara COONROD b: 23 JUN 1868 married Charles J. Joly 2 NOV 1887
 Rosa Ellen COONROD b: 17 JUL 1870 
 Edward F. COONROD b: 1873 
 Emma COONROD b: 20 FEB 1875 married Henry Martin Kelly 18 JAN 1895 
 Warren COONROD b: 1878 
 John COONROD b: 1881 
 Martha Ann COONROD b: 17 DEC 1882  married Francis Desales Herrin 4 NOV 1902 

Peter died  Aug 13,  1915 and Christina May 23, 1926. Both
are buried in St. Joseph Cemetery, Ennis, Texas

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