The History Of John Yost Kern And His Posterity
John Yost Kern, progenitor of the Kern family in Snyder county, Penna., and of those who emigrated to Ohio and other western states, was born in Freischbach, Germany, in the year 1746. He was married there to Eva Marie Weiss; who was born Nov. 17, 1769, died March 21, 1835. He emigrated to America in the year 1771, and settled in the Middlecreek valley, on territory now composing the township of Franklin, Snyder Co., Pa.
EARLIEST INFORMATION - WAGNER LINE
One 1758 source states: "Son Johann Adam Wagner, of Theobald and Barbara Wagner of Kuebelberg, Kreis Kusel, who were married at Schmittweiler....is in the New World".