Family/Spouse: CHAPMAN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Abraham married LEHMAN, Maria on 10 Mar 1876 in Excelsior, MO. Maria was born between 1838 and 1860; died between 1881 and 1949. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jacob married WITMER, Fanny Maria on 13 Mar 1849 in Town of Niagara, Niagara County, NY. Fanny (daughter of WITMER, Abraham and HABECKER, Barbara) 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. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Living in Excelsior Missouri at the time of her brothers death.

Abraham married SCHUH, Elizabeth about 1815 in York County, PA. Elizabeth died before 1850. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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]