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HILLMAN, Clarence W

Male 1883 - 1987  (103 years)


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Generation: 1

  1. 1.  HILLMAN, Clarence W was born on 16 Sep 1883 in New York (son of HILLMAN, Levant F and WITMER, Ella W); died in 1987; was buried in WIlliamsville Cemetery, Williamsville, Erie County, NY.

    Family/Spouse: Laura C. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. HILLMAN, Llenis

Generation: 2

  1. 2.  HILLMAN, Levant F was born on 17 Nov 1852 in Wilhelm, Lancaster County, NY (son of HILLMAN, Thompson and AYER, Louisa); died on 12 May 1950; was buried in WIlliamsville Cemetery, Williamsville, Erie County, NY.

    Levant married WITMER, Ella W on 18 Apr 1882 in Skinnersville, Town of Amherst, Erie County, NY. Ella (daughter of WITMER, Tobias and FRICK, Anna Long) was born on 20 Sep 1853 in Skinnersville, Town of Amherst, Erie County, NY; died on 14 Aug 1947; was buried in WIlliamsville Cemetery, Williamsville, Erie County, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 3.  WITMER, Ella W was born on 20 Sep 1853 in Skinnersville, Town of Amherst, Erie County, NY (daughter of WITMER, Tobias and FRICK, Anna Long); died on 14 Aug 1947; was buried in WIlliamsville Cemetery, Williamsville, Erie County, NY.

    Notes:

    Living in Wilheim, NY in 1908

    Children:
    1. 1. HILLMAN, Clarence W was born on 16 Sep 1883 in New York; died in 1987; was buried in WIlliamsville Cemetery, Williamsville, Erie County, NY.
    2. HILLMAN, Edith Jean was born in Apr 1886 in New York; died about 1950; was buried in WIlliamsville Cemetery, Williamsville, Erie County, NY.
    3. HILLMAN, Cora V was born on 25 Dec 1892 in New York; died in May 1986 in Arcade, Wyoming County, NY.


Generation: 3

  1. 4.  HILLMAN, Thompson was born about 1814 in New York; and died.

    Thompson + AYER, Louisa. Louisa was born about 1827 in New York; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 5.  AYER, Louisa was born about 1827 in New York; and died.
    Children:
    1. HILLMAN, Adelbert was born about 1849 in New York; and died.
    2. 2. HILLMAN, Levant F was born on 17 Nov 1852 in Wilhelm, Lancaster County, NY; died on 12 May 1950; was buried in WIlliamsville Cemetery, Williamsville, Erie County, NY.
    3. HILLMAN, Howard was born about 1861 in New York; and died.

  3. 6.  WITMER, Tobias was born on 8 Oct 1816 in Witmer Homestead, Town of Niagara, Niagara County, NY (son of WITMER, Abraham and HABECKER, Barbara); died on 14 Aug 1897 in Amherst, Erie County, NY; was buried in WIlliamsville Cemetery, Williamsville, Erie County, NY.

    Notes:

    Born Oct. 08, 1816 in Niagara, NY, he worked on his fathers several hundred acre farm, attended the district school, and took a course of study at the Lewiston Academy. He next engaged to teach district school in what is now (1923) as the Synder District in Amherst, Erie County, NY. While teaching there he met, wooed and won his bride Anna FRICK daughter of Christian FRICK and Elizabeth LONG, who resided in a farm near by opposite the school house.
    Tobias WITMER was a Surveyor and Civil Engineer. he was the author and publisher of maps of the town of Niagra, city of Tonawanda, Village of Williamsville and Deed Atlas of the County of Erie. etc..
    He served for three years as a Sergent in the 50th Regiment of the New York Volunteers (Engineers), and on one occasion was in charge of several companies of the regiment putting in abatis in advance of one of our forts opposite of Petersburg, VA. The emeny observing and not approving of this began cannoning during the war he and his son Christian F. WITMER ( the author of the article) were deatiled to make surveys amont the forts at Washington D.C. and in the vincity of Falmouth VA.
    Returning at the close of the War he resumed his former occupation of Land Surveying and took over the Agency of the Agricultural Insurance company, which has been in the family to the present time (1923),
    He was active in the Church of Christ, also one of the founders of the Williamsville Classical Institute, and at one time its principal teacher, who finally donated their stock for Public School purposes. It was his ambition to equip each of his children with a good education rather than material wealth, on the theory that riches have wings, but that knowledge is life-long capital. Of his sons and daughters ten have served as teachers. He died in the family home Aug. 14, 1897.

    ALSO

    Buffalo NY Morning Express - about 1897

    Pioneer, Patriot, Genius.
    THE LATB TOBIAS WITMER WAS ALL
    OF THESE, AND A MAN OF CHRISTIAN
    LIFE AND GOOD INFLUENCE-
    AN INCIDENT OF THE WAR.
    Tobias Witmer, who died at his home near
    Willamsville, August 14th, was a man whose
    career was so prominently linked with the history
    of Western New-York and Buffalo, that
    it merits a somewhat detailed record.
    He was a genius. There was nothing In
    wood or metal that he could not make. He
    was an inventor, as the records of the Patent
    Office will show. He was the originator of
    the bicycle wheel, and the family still have in
    their possession a model of this wheel, made
    years before the bicycle came into popular
    favor In this model the spikes were made
    from the wires of an old hoop skirt. Unfortunately
    he never applied for a patent. Among
    his inventions were a corn-sheller, a railroad
    switch (automatic), a pile driver, a pall table
    signal tower for use in the army, and a fire-escape,
    of which thr presant Hayes ladder is
    claimed to be an infringement. Another of
    his inventions was a simple contrivance to
    teach the transposition of the scale for the use
    of music teachers.
    He was a writer of considerable ability in
    prose and poetry and was equally at home in
    English. German, or the dialect of the "Pennsylvania
    Dutch." A new system of phonetic
    spenning which received the commendation
    and endorsement of much high authority as
    the late Prof a.0. Haldeman of the University
    of Pennsylvania. was his work.
    He was a patriot, having enlisted on his 45th
    birthday. at which time he had twelve ctilldren.
    A daughter was born on the day he
    was is the Battle.of Fredericksburg and an
    other after his return from the War. The
    latter died after reaching her majority and
    that was the only death in a family of fourteen children.
    Mr Witmer celebrated his golden wedding
    November 13, 1887, and had he lived until
    November 13th this year. he would have celebrated
    the 60th anniversary of his marriage.
    His twin brother, Elias Witmer, still lives on
    the old homestead east of Suspension Bridge
    on which their father settled before the War
    of 1812
    A remarkable circumstance happened in
    connection with Mr. Witmer s departure to
    and return from the War. Accompanied by by
    eldest son, Christian F., they took the old
    Williamsville and Buffalo Octibus (sp?) and found
    nine other recruits from Clarence and sur-
    rounding towns going to the seat of war. Although
    widely dispersed during the three years
    of service on their return home after the close
    of the War the original eleven men found
    themselves traveling on the same omtiibus,
    homeward bound.
    Mr. Witmer was one of the founders of the
    Williamsville Academy, an institution which
    at one time had an attendance of 600 students.
    He was also the principal of the institution
    for a short time.
    But his chief work was in the church For
    many years he was an elder" in the Christian
    Church (Disciples) at Williamsville. He established
    numerous Sunday schools in Niagara
    County and the towns of Amherst and Cheektow
    aga.
    His humble efforts in this direction were the
    direct cause of the establishment of the Christian
    church at Suspension Bridge. Through
    the efforts of Mr. Hensler of Tonawanda and
    himself. St. James Hall in this city wans rented
    and religious meetings were held which finally
    required in the establishment of the Christian
    Church in Buffalo. At first services were held in
    the old French Church at the corner of Tupper
    and Ellicott streets Subsequently the Church of Christ (Disciples) on Tichmond Avenue was built and later a branch on Jefferson Street.
    An artisan, inventor, civil engineer, author, poet, patriot and preacher, his unassuming superiority endeared him to all.

    Tobias married FRICK, Anna Long on 24 Nov 1837 in Skinnersville, Town of Amherst, Erie County, NY. Anna (daughter of FRICK, Christian and LONG, Elizabeth) was born on 18 May 1819 in Skinnersville, Town of Amherst, Erie County, NY; died on 14 Sep 1908 in Skinnersville, Town of Amherst, Erie County, NY; was buried in Williamsville, Erie County, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  4. 7.  FRICK, Anna Long was born on 18 May 1819 in Skinnersville, Town of Amherst, Erie County, NY (daughter of FRICK, Christian and LONG, Elizabeth); died on 14 Sep 1908 in Skinnersville, Town of Amherst, Erie County, NY; was buried in Williamsville, Erie County, NY.

    Notes:

    Anna married a Tobias Witmer, and had fourteen children. Tobias contributed to the information in the FRICK Bio. in George Prowell's book.

    Anna Frick Whitmer (from published story by son Christian F. WHITMER), was born May 18, 1819, the only child of Christian FRICK and Elizabeth LONG FRICK, Their first farm was on a farm of several hundred acres at Skinnersville what is known now as Wolf's Mills, in the town of Amherst, Erie County, NY. Which was purchased by her grandfather (CHRISTIAN H> FRICK) about the year 1807. When she was about five years old the family moved to another farm purchased by Mr. Frick of the Holland Land Co. and situated on the south side of now what is known as Main St., about two miles west of Williamsville. This is where she married Tobias Witmer and raised her five sons and nine daughters, the farm is now know as Audubon Terrace South.

    At the time of her death 11 of the 14 children are still living.

    INTERESTING SKETCH OF HER LIFE.

    Mrs. Anna Witmer, daughter and only child of CHRISTIAN FRICK and ELIZABETH LONG, and widow of TOBIAS WIITMER (who died Aug. 14, 1897), was born at Skinnersville, now commonly known as Wolfs Mill, in the town of AMHERST, Erie County, NY., May 18, 1819, and died at the Witmer homestead where she had lived for eighty-five consecutive years, Sept. 14, 1908.
    About the year 1828, her father purchased of the Holland Land Company by "Article," 136 acres on the south side of Main Street, two miles west of Williamsville, the present WITMER homestead; and moved there with his family. The premises were at that time mostly dense forest which was being slashed, burned or being converted into charcoal; and the subject of this sketch spent many a day in childhood making miniature charcoal pits within sight of what is now Main Street, but at which time was a corduroy road made over a swampy ground. Her father built the house in which she lived for 85 years, in which she was married , as were all her daughters; and which her parents, two of her daughters, her husband and she herself died. In this house also in 1887 was celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of her marriage in the presence of a large company of friends, relatives, children, grand-children of whom there were twenty three living then, and among the guest a number of those present at her marriage fifty years ago , including the original bridesmaid and groomsman.
    She was married November 16, 1887. Her husband TOBIAS WITMER, was born in the town of Niagara, about 3 1/2 miles northeast of the falls. His father Abraham WITMER, emigrated from Pennsylvania and built the house, still standing, where his family was born and reared. Tobias WITMER was a civil engineer, always actively employed. When the call came for volunteers to defend the Union, Mr. Witmer and his eldest son Christian F. WITMER responded and went to the front in the engineering service and continued until the restoration of peace. During their absence Mrs. Witmer evidenced
    her patience by sustaining for three years the burdens of management of the household and farm, and the same day they were taking part in the battle of Fredericksburg, her daughter Clara was born and received the second name of Fredericka in honor of that event.
    Mrs. WITMER was eminently a home keeper. The achievements of her life were all comprised within the realm where woman is divinely ordained to reign. She was the mother of an unusually large family, all of whom were brought up under her wise training to be honorable and useful members of society.
    She was noted for her unvaryingly even temper, cheerful disposition, good sense, charity and hospitality. She was always hopeful and courageous, looking on the bright side and seeing the best instead of the worst.

    Notes:

    Niagara Gazette - 9/13/1882

    Married.
    On Tuesday, September 5, 1882, a t the
    home of the bride's parents, in Amherst,
    Erie county, N. Y „ Rev. Edgar A. Pardee,
    pastor of the Christian Church, in
    Williamsville, N. Y.. with Miss May E.
    Wilmer, daughter of Tobias Witmer,,
    Esq., and Anna Frick Witmer.
    The ceremony was performed by Rev.
    G. L. Wharton, late pastor of the Christian
    Church at Buffalo, on the evening of
    his departure for India as Christian missionary
    to the heathen.
    There were present on this happy occasion
    tho bridegroom's parents; the bride's
    parents; her grandfather and grand-
    mother on t h e mother's side; her uncle
    Eiias Witmer.twin brother of her father;
    besides nieces and nephews " t o numerous
    to mention," with a friendly delegation
    of "cousins," all enjoying the fes-
    tivities of that bright September day,
    long to be remembered in the family
    circle.
    After dinner the party were escorted,
    amid ....... showers of salt, hoes, etc.
    to the station, just in time to take the
    train, and some of the young folk
    wishes they might "go too," but feared
    to launch away. May joy to and return
    with them. W.

    Children:
    1. WITMER, Esther Elizabeth was born on 9 Sep 1838 in Skinnersville, Town of Amherst, Erie County, NY; died on 17 Feb 1919 in Liberty, Chemung County, NY; was buried in WIlliamsville Cemetery, Williamsville, Erie County, NY.
    2. WITMER, Christian Frick was born on 11 Apr 1840 in Skinnersville, Town of Amherst, Erie County, NY; died on 23 Feb 1939 in Williamsville, Erie County, NY; was buried in Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo, Erie County, NY.
    3. WITMER, Anna Barbara was born on 14 Oct 1842 in Skinnersville, Town of Amherst, Erie County, NY; died on 11 Feb 1917 in Seattle, King County, WA; was buried in Lancaster Rural Cemetery, Lancaster, Erie County, NY.
    4. WITMER, Anna was born on 7 Feb 1844 in Skinnersville, Town of Amherst, Erie County, NY; and died.
    5. WITMER, Tobias was born on 7 Feb 1844 in Skinnersville, Town of Amherst, Erie County, NY; died on 26 Dec 1898 in Buffalo, Erie County, NY; was buried in St John's Cemetery Pine Hill, Buffalo, Erie County, NY.
    6. WITMER, Elvira M was born on 27 Nov 1848 in Skinnersville, Town of Amherst, Erie County, NY; died in 1931; was buried in Zion Cemetery, Wainfleet Township, Ontario.
    7. WITMER, Catherine Amelia was born on 25 Nov 1850 in Skinnersville, Town of Amherst, Erie County, NY; died on 17 Jun 1899 in Skinnersville, Town of Amherst, Erie County, NY; was buried in WIlliamsville Cemetery, Williamsville, Erie County, NY.
    8. WITMER, Marie Emmaline was born on 27 Mar 1852 in Skinnersville, Town of Amherst, Erie County, NY; died between 1920 and 1946.
    9. 3. WITMER, Ella W was born on 20 Sep 1853 in Skinnersville, Town of Amherst, Erie County, NY; died on 14 Aug 1947; was buried in WIlliamsville Cemetery, Williamsville, Erie County, NY.
    10. WITMER, Abraham L was born on 18 Jun 1855 in Skinnersville, Town of Amherst, Erie County, NY; died in 1928; was buried in WIlliamsville Cemetery, Williamsville, Erie County, NY.
    11. WITMER, Emily Ann was born on 25 Oct 1857 in Skinnersville, Town of Amherst, Erie County, NY; died on 21 Aug 1950; was buried in WIlliamsville Cemetery, Williamsville, Erie County, NY.
    12. WITMER, Joseph F was born on 25 Nov 1859 in Skinnersville, Town of Amherst, Erie County, NY; and died.
    13. WITMER, Victor Martin was born on 9 Sep 1861 in Skinnersville, Town of Amherst, Erie County, NY; died about 1945 in Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, WI.
    14. WITMER, Clara Fredricka was born on 11 Dec 1862 in Eggertsville, Erie County, NY; died on 27 Oct 1949 in Ithaca, Tompkins County, NY; was buried in Mt. Holly Cemetery, Rochester, Monroe County, NY.
    15. WITMER, Alice Vinne was born on 8 Oct 1867 in Skinnersville, Town of Amherst, Erie County, NY; died on 13 Jul 1887 in Skinnersville, Town of Amherst, Erie County, NY; was buried in WIlliamsville Cemetery, Williamsville, Erie County, NY.


Generation: 4

  1. 12.  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]


  2. 13.  HABECKER, Barbara was born on 23 Oct 1782 in Manor Township, Lancaster County, PA (daughter of HABECKER, Christian and HERR, Esther); 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.
    Children:
    1. WITMER, Abraham was born in 1805; died between 1806 and 1808.
    2. 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.
    3. WITMER, David A was born on 27 Aug 1807 in Lancaster County, PA; died in Sep 1807 in Lancaster County, PA.
    4. 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.
    5. 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.
    6. 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.
    7. 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.
    8. 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.
    9. 6. 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.
    10. 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.

  3. 14.  FRICK, Christian was born on 12 Apr 1794 in Lancaster, Lancaster County, PA (son of FRICK, Christian H and HERR, Elizabeth); died on 27 Mar 1885 in Williamsville, Erie County, NY.

    Notes:

    FRICK - On the 27th of March, near Williamsville, Erie County N.Y., Christian Frick, aged 90 years, 11 months and 16 days. Buried at Eggertsville on the 29th. Funeral services by Jacob Hahn. Text, James 4:14. He was a member of the Mennonite Church.

    Christian married LONG, Elizabeth in 1818 in Lancaster County, PA. Elizabeth was born on 13 Feb 1797 in PA; died on 22 Dec 1883. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  4. 15.  LONG, Elizabeth was born on 13 Feb 1797 in PA; died on 22 Dec 1883.
    Children:
    1. FRICK, John was born in 1810 in PA; died on 5 Feb 1860.
    2. 7. FRICK, Anna Long was born on 18 May 1819 in Skinnersville, Town of Amherst, Erie County, NY; died on 14 Sep 1908 in Skinnersville, Town of Amherst, Erie County, NY; was buried in Williamsville, Erie County, NY.



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