Birth Name: Robert Lyle Knepper
Place of Birth: Fremont, Ohio, USA
Date of Birth: July 8, 1959
Ethnicity: German (mostly), along with Swiss-German, English, and Scottish
Robert Knepper is an American actor.
Robert’s paternal grandparents are Chester LeRoy Knepper (the son of Charles R. Knepper and Emma Catherine Fought) and Estella June Brubaker (the daughter of John Lester Brubaker and Pansy May Crispen). Chester and Estella were both of German, and some Swiss-German, descent.
Robert’s maternal grandparents were James Carroll Gillespie (the son of Ralph Rainey Gillespie and Carrie Estella Stockdale) and Carrie Henrietta Neeb (the daughter of Henry Neeb and Mary Yeack). Carrie Neeb’s parents were German.
Sources: Genealogy of Robert’s father – http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com
Genealogy of Robert’s maternal grandmother, Carrie Henrietta Neeb (focusing on her own father’s side) – http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com
Obituary of Robert’s maternal great-grandmother, Mary (Yeack) Neeb – http://www.newspapers.com
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