Johannes Jacob Cunnius

1765 – 1863

Johannes Jacob Cunnius was born October 7, 1765 in Berks Co, Pennsylvania . He married first Esther Yoder on May 25, 1790 in the Schwartzenwald Reformed Church, Oley, PA. He would later relocate to Madison County, Kentucky. Upon the death of his first wife, Ester, he remarried Mary Phelps in about 1808, probably in Kentucky .

On the morning of the death of his first wife, he was said to have made the comment to a neighbor, “well, the old devil is dead.” He lived near a body of water on the creek that is still called The Cunius Hole in Madison County, KY.

He wrote his will on October 17, 1840 and it was probated on January 13, 1863 and lists his second wife and their children.