Edward Earl Stauffer

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-438422

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-438420
• Occupation: 1904, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Laborer

Edward married Elizabeth Clark 5 Oct 1904, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Elizabeth (daughter of John Clark and Mary Ann Justason) was born 1880, , Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada; died 1953; was buried , Mount View Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Elizabeth Stauffer
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-438421

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• Eby ID Number: 00117-7355.4

William — Abigail Overhavisser. Abigail was born 1835; died 26 Jul 1908. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Abigail Stauffer
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-443723

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-443724

John — Mary Ann Justason. Mary died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Mary Ann Clark
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-443725

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• Name: Eli Stauffer
• Eby ID Number: 00117-7355

Notes:

Eli Stauffer, "is married to Lydia Ellenbaum. They reside at Lucknow, Bruce County, Ontario, where he followed farming for many years but now lives retired."

Eby, Ezra E. (1895). A biographical history of Waterloo township and other townships of the county: being a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin: as also much other unpublished historical information chiefly of a local character. Berlin [Kitchener, Ont.]: [s.n.].

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Joel Eli Stauffer was one of the first settlers in Kinloss in 1850 that settled on the "Free Grants". Stauffer is acknowledged as the first man to ever cross the Township of Kinloss.

Township of Huron-Kinloss, Ontario, Canada - Kinloss. (2016). Huronkinloss.com. Retrieved 11 May 2016, from https://www.huronkinloss.com/kinloss.cfm

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The number of settlers that came into the county in 1850 was largely in excess of the preceding year. As these settled principally on " free grant " lands, it is but fair to assume that the advantageous character of the offer made by the Crown was becoming widely known and realized. The greater portion of these settlers found farms to their satisfaction in either Brant or Kincardine, while a few passed into Kinloss, which in 1850 received its first inhabitants, who settled in the vicinity of "the Black Horse," among them being Joel Eli Stauffer, Thomas Hodgins, Thomas Smith, John and William Shel- ton and others. A fair number of settlers located on the Lake Ranges in Huron and Kincardine, largely attracted by the advantage offered of water communication, which gave ready access from the first. Arran received its first settler in this year in the person of Henry Boyle, a squatter who located on his lot in advance of the survey of the township

Full text of "The history of the county of Bruce and of the minor municipalities therein, Province of Ontario, Canada". (2016). Archive.org. Retrieved 11 May 2016, from https://archive.org/stream/countybruce00robeuoft_djvu.txt

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The name Joel Eli is given in the History of the County of Bruce and no where else. It is probably in error and should be just Eli.

Joel — Lydia Ellenbaum. Lydia (daughter of Samuel Ellenbaum and Maria "Polly" Gensemer) was born 1813, Tremont, Schuylkill, Pennsylvania, United States; died 12 May 1874, House of Industry and Refuge, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , House of Industry and Refuge Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Lydia Stauffer
• Name: Lydia Stauffer
• Eby ID Number: 00117-7355.1
• Residence: 1861, Kinloss, Huron Township, Bruce County, Ontario, Canada
• House of Industry and Refuge: 1871, House of Industry and Refuge Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Occupation: 1871, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Inmate of Poor House
• Residence: 1871, House of Industry and Refuge, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1871, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Mennonite
• House of Industry and Refuge: 1874

Notes:

In "Descendants Meet Again, Two Centuries Later" by Deborah Gilbert in the Ontario Genealogical Society's Magazine "Families" Feb 2009, it states, Lydia was taken to an asylum in Berlin, Waterloo Co where she died. Her husband was Joel Eli Stauffer

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Lydia was the daughter of Samuel Ellenbaum and Polly Geismer