From page 018, History of Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, Volume 2_(E):

John Arner was born in Heidelberg township, March 29, 1793, and moved with his parents to Carbon county. Later he came to South Whitehall township where he worked upon a farm and married Sarah Diehl, born Feb 17, 1792, a daughter of Jacob and Anna (Riebsammin) Diehl. They continued to work and live upon the farm along the Jordan for several years. He then purchased a 16-acre tract of land in Upper Macungie, where his wife died March 13, 1878. He followed her death a year later, on March 28, 1879. They are both buried at the Jordan Reformed Church, of which they were members, and of which he was a deacon and elder for many years. He was also a school director in Upper Macungie for a number of terms. By occupation he was a carpet weaver, and also made linsey-woolsey.

John and Sarah Arner had the following named children: Moses and Judith, who died young; Mary Anna, b. Dec. 16, 1823, (m. Peter Haas); Eliza, b. Dec. 2, 1825, (m. Tilghman Sell); Edward, b. Aug. 13, 1828. (Lived in Upper Macungie and later in South Whitehall. Was a carpenter and later farmer. His wife was Maria Anna Semmel. He died Jan. 12, 1899.); Sarah, b. July 2 1830, (m. Henry M. Larosh); Lucy, (m. Edward Peter); Carolina, was a maiden lady; and Aaron.