Reuben Gernert (4)
April 17, 1827 - July 27, 1875
Son
of Catharine Siegfried (Brobst) and John Gernert (3), Reuben married July
3, 1849, Eliza Hinkle, and had:
- Revere (5), born August 3, 1850;
- Emma C. (5), born August 24, 1852;
- Alice Amanda (5), born September 23, 1854, died March 12, 1903; and
- Oliver H., born November 20, 1863.
“They kept the Central Hotel, at Easton, Pa, for
a period of three years, and finding themselves well suited to the business
of entertaining the public, agreeably as well as profitably, they in 1872
purchased the ‘Cross Keys Hotel’ in Allentown, a house that
was very popular with the farmers of that section, and long had the greater
share of their patronage, as well as a goodly share of the support of
the traveling public. They were successful in their venture, and though
he was but forty-eight years old at the time of his death, he left the
family in comfortable circumstances. The hotel was managed by his wife
and children with continued success until 1887” (from Heinrich
Gernhardt and His Descendants, pg. 200).