1. | WITMER, Abraham was born in Sep 1771 in Manor Township, Lancaster County, PA (son of WITMER, Johannes Christian and SCHALLENBURGER, Maria); died on 4 Sep 1851 in Witmer Homestead, Town of Niagara, Niagara County, NY; was buried in WItmer Memorial Cemetery, Niagara Falls, Niagara County, NY. Notes:
Abraham Witmer was a pioneer settler from Lancaster County, PA, who settled on a farm of several hundred acres about one mile northeasterly from the old suspension bridge in the town of Niagara., NY
Tonawanda News - 7/18/1970
By WILLARD DITTM AR
President
Historical Society
of the Tonawandas
Witmer Road, connecting
Niagara Falls Boulevard
and River Road in North
Tonawanda, was named for
a family of early frontier
settlers.
In 1810, John Witmer and
his family, consisting of his
wife and eight children, left
Lancaster, Pa., and settled
on a 100-acre farm on
Military Road, which he had
purchased from one Isaac
Swain. At that time there
was only one other clearing
on Military Road.
Abram Witmer, a brother
of John, came to the Niagara
Frontier in 1811 from the
same place in Pennsylvania
with his wife and four children.
They settled on a tract
of land purchased from the
Holland Land Co. on
Saunders Settlement Road.
When the War of 1812 broke
out, Abram took his family,
which had grown larger,
back to Pennsylvania. The
Witmer brothers were
Mennonites and had
religious scruples against
war.
Tobias Witmer, one of
Abram's seven sons, was
born in 1816 at Bellevue
(Suspension Bridge) and
became one of the first
surveyors of the region. He
made several maps of early
Tonawanda which are still
the main reliance for lot
lines and street boundaries.
On an 1852 map of Niagara
County there are shown
nine families of Witmers
living at different points in
the Town of Niagara. The
two first Witmers. John and
Abram. reared 17 children,
most of whom survived and
married.
Abraham married HABECKER, Barbara on 8 Oct 1804 in Columbia, Lancaster County, PA. Barbara (daughter of HABECKER, Christian and HERR, Esther) was born on 23 Oct 1782 in Manor Township, Lancaster County, PA; died on 6 Jul 1859 in Witmer Homestead, Town of Niagara, Niagara County, NY; was buried in WItmer Memorial Cemetery, Niagara Falls, Niagara County, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
- WITMER, Abraham was born in 1805; died between 1806 and 1808.
- WITMER, Christian Habecker was born on 29 Mar 1806 in Columbia, Lancaster County, PA; died on 17 Sep 1859 in Niagara Falls, Niagara County, NY; was buried in WItmer Memorial Cemetery, Niagara Falls, Niagara County, NY.
- WITMER, David A was born on 27 Aug 1807 in Lancaster County, PA; died in Sep 1807 in Lancaster County, PA.
- WITMER, Abraham was born on 18 Dec 1808 in Columbia, Lancaster County, PA; died on 22 Jul 1895 in Lockport, Niagara County, NY; was buried in WItmer Memorial Cemetery, Niagara Falls, Niagara County, NY.
- WITMER, David was born on 5 Dec 1810 in Columbia, Lancaster County, PA; died on 5 Jul 1893 in Town of Niagara, Niagara County, NY; was buried in WItmer Memorial Cemetery, Niagara Falls, Niagara County, NY.
- WITMER, Joseph was born on 21 Sep 1812 in Witmer Homestead, Town of Niagara, Niagara County, NY; died on 20 Oct 1898 in Town of Niagara, Niagara County, NY; was buried in WItmer Memorial Cemetery, Niagara Falls, Niagara County, NY.
- WITMER, Esther N was born on 13 Mar 1814 in Town of Niagara, Niagara County, NY; died on 16 May 1834 in Town of Niagara, Niagara County, NY; was buried in WItmer Memorial Cemetery, Niagara Falls, Niagara County, NY.
- WITMER, Elias was born on 6 Oct 1816 in Witmer Homestead, Town of Niagara, Niagara County, NY; died on 23 Feb 1918 in Town of Niagara, Niagara County, NY; was buried in WItmer Memorial Cemetery, Niagara Falls, Niagara County, NY.
- WITMER, Tobias was born on 8 Oct 1816 in Witmer Homestead, Town of Niagara, Niagara County, NY; died on 14 Aug 1897 in Amherst, Erie County, NY; was buried in WIlliamsville Cemetery, Williamsville, Erie County, NY.
- WITMER, Fanny Maria was born on 23 Sep 1824 in Witmer Homestead, Town of Niagara, Niagara County, NY; died in 1913 in Lanagan, MO; was buried in Bethel Church Cemetery, Excelsior, MO.
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