Notes:

At any rate this is Christian's obit

Niagara Falls Gazette, Niagara Falls, Niagara County, NY
April 7, 1932, P 12:8

RANSOMVILLE, April 7-Mrs. Frank Canfield Sr., received word last week of the
death of her brother Christian Witmer who died in Highland, CA. He
was a Civil War veteran serving in the 10th New York Cavalry in the same
company with Mr. Alexander Irish of this town. Mr. Witmer was in his 91st
year.

ALSO

Niagara Gazette - 4/4/1932

Word has just been received here of
the death of Christian Martin Witmer,
which occurred at his home in High-
land, Calif on Mar. 21. Mr. Witmer
was a native of the town of Niagara
and a Civil War veteran. He was a
son of the late David Witmer and
Fanny Martin Witmer and was born
Apr. 29. 1841, in the old Witmer
Road on the south side of the.
Lockport road, just east of the Tus-
arora road.
During the early part of the Civil
Was, Christian Martin Witmer enlisted
in the 10th New York Cavalry regi-
ment and served to the end of the war
as a bugler. It was said of him that
bore a charmed life for, although
a horse was shot from under him
in three different engagements, the
the battle of Gettysburg, he es
caped unharmed.
Upon his return to the Niagara dls
trict after the war he managed the
Witmer homestead farm for some years
and then moved with his family to
Redlands, Calif., and finally to High-
lands, Calif. His wife and a daughter
died several years ago. Mr. Witmer is
survived by a widowed daughter, Mrs.
Marie Slack, Highland. Calif. He had
many relatives and friends in this lo-
cation. A cousin, Christian Frick Wit-
mer, Willlamsville, N. Y., also survives.
He was 92 years old and also a Civil
Service veteran.

Christian married SCHENCK, Matilda K in 1868. Matilda (daughter of SCHENCK, George and KENDIG, Matilda) was born in Nov 1837 in New York; and died; was buried in CA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

David married MARTIN, Fanny on 1 Jan 1839 in Clarence, Erie County, NY. Fanny (daughter of MARTIN, David and FRICK, Veronica) was born on 9 Jul 1815 in Lancaster, Lancaster County, PA; died on 4 Mar 1904 in Niagara Falls, Niagara County, NY; was buried in WItmer Memorial Cemetery, Niagara Falls, Niagara County, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Cemetery Marker says Fanny Marten

George + KENDIG, Matilda. [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]

David + FRICK, Veronica. Veronica (daughter of FRICK, Christian H and HERR, Elizabeth) was born on 29 Oct 1791 in Lancaster County, PA; died on 11 Nov 1881 in Clarence, Erie County, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]