Samuel Pannabecker

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• Occupation: Puslinch Twp., Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada; farmer
• Eby ID Number: 00087-5127
• Residence: 1865, Puslinch Twp., Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada
• Elected Office: 1907, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; councillor of Hespeler
• Occupation: 1911, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Carpenter, ?
• Residence: 1911, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Mennonite

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Samuel Pannebecker, "was born November 10th, 1844. He is married to Martha Cober. They reside on lot No. 2, 3rd Concession, Puslinch Township, Wellington County, near Hespeler, Ontario. To them were born six children, namely: Nelson, residing in Petoskey, Michigan, Oliver, residing in Toronto, Ontario, where he is engaged as a street car driver, Gilbert, a tinsmith, residing in Guelph, Cornelia, Arthur, and Della, the three younger, are at home on the farm, assisting their parents in the many duties connected with farm life."


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a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin: as also much other unpublished historical information chiefly of a local character.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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The Blacksmithing needs of the first Mennonite settlers in this district appear to have been attended by Cornelius Pannabecker who came from Pennsylvania in 1810 and some time thereafter set up his forge on the farm at Beaverdale, now owned by Mr. Fred. Lindhorst. David Baer learned the smithing trade with this Cornelius Pennabecker who was his uncle and in 1855 he built the little shop on the Elias Pannabecker farm and started to ply his trade there. Both Samuel Pannabecker and Bernhardt Goebel learned their trades in that shop, and the former succeeded Baer as its proprietor. It is quite probable that David Baer ironed some of the waggons built by John Cober, the waggon maker. Although it is known that Samuel Pannabecker did some ironing for J. N. Cober after he bought his brother John out, and moved to the Tabbert place, it is not likely that this amounted to much because Mr. Cober had his own shop and employed a blacksmith permanently; at first, Thomas Hefferman and later, Barney Goebel. After J. N. Cober moved his carriage business to Hespeler, Mr. Sam. Pannabecker bought that place and continued blacksmithing there along with his farming operations.


Le Rue De Commerce, Other Times Other Customs Other Days Other Ways, Winfield Brewster 1954

Samuel married Martha Cober 5 Dec 1865, , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Martha (daughter of Nicolaus Cober and Nancy Holm) was born 17 May 1848, Puslinch Twp., Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada; died 5 Jan 1931, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , New Hope Cemetery, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

1. Jacob Nelson "Nelson" Pannabecker was born 1866, , Ontario, Canada; died 1942; was buried , Wacousta Cemetery, Wacousta, Clinton, Michigan, United States.
2. Oliver Raymond Pannabecker was born 3 Feb 1869, Puslinch Twp., Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada; died 28 Nov 1934, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , New Hope Cemetery, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.
3. Gilbert Allen Pannabecker was born 17 Jan 1872, Puslinch Twp., Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada; died 2 Feb 1938, , Wentworth Co., Ontario, Canada.
4. Cornelia Winifred Pannabecker was born 1 Aug 1878, Puslinch Twp., Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada; died 11 Feb 1946; was buried , New Hope Cemetery, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.
5. Arthur Truman Pannabecker was born 3 May 1882, Puslinch Twp., Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada; died 16 Aug 1936, , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , New Hope Cemetery, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.
6. Della Irene Pannabecker was born 27 Apr 1888, Puslinch Twp., Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada; died 1965; was buried , New Hope Cemetery, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.

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• Eby ID Number: 00087-5123

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Cornelius Pannebecker, "the youngest son of Cornelius and Anna (Dettweiler) Pannebecker, was born near Hespeler, Ontario, March 18th, 1817. He was married to Veronica Witmer and resided near Hespeler on the farm now in possession of their son, Elias, where they both died. His death took place, March 30th, 1875. To them were born four children"

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.]

Cornelius — Veronica "Fanny" Witmer. Veronica (daughter of Rev Abraham Witmer and Anna Eversole) was born 28 Nov 1817, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 27 Nov 1891, Puslinch Twp., Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada; was buried , Wanner Mennonite Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Veronica "Fanny" Pannabecker
• Eby ID Number: 00135-8339

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Veronica Witmer, "the ninth and youngest child of Abraham and Anna (Eversole) Witmer, was married to Cornelius Pannebecker. They resided about two miles east of Hespeler, on the farm now in possession of their son, Elias. Here they died some years ago, leaving a family of four children, namely: Elias, Esther, Anna, and Samuel."

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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One by one the links that connect the early settlement of this country and the present one are being broken. Seventy-four years ago Mrs. Cornelius Panabaker of Puslinch was born on her father's farm on Preston Road, which is still owned and occupied by her nephew, Levi Witmer. In 1839, in company with her late husband, who preceded her sixteen years, she settled on the farm where she died, which was then in the wild woods of Canada. She was a partaker of all the joys and sorrows of pioneer life. Many were the interesting stories told by her about the early settlement of the township and being possessed of a bright and cheerful disposition, the hardships of life in these days were made to seem easier to her. She was a true Christian and her many virtues too well known to need recital here. She died in Puslinch on November 28, 1891, at the age of 74 years. She leaves two sons, Elias and Samuel and one daughter, Mrs. Daniel Holm, all of Puslinch. The funeral on Monday was very largely attended, interment taking place at Warner's burying ground. Elias Witmer of Hespeler is her brother.

A Celebration of Lives Obituaries of Puslinch Township, Wellington Co., Ontario Vol 2 Anna Jackson & Marjorie Clark

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Hespeler Correspondence.

THE LATE MRS. PANABAKER. One by one the links that connect the early settlement of this country and the present one are being broken. Seventy-four years ago the late Mrs. Cornelius Panabaker of Puslinch, was born on her father's farm on Preston road, which is still owned and occupied by her nephew, Mr. Levi Witmer. In 1839 in company with her late husband, who preceded her 16 years, she settled on the farm she died on, which was then in the wild woods of Canada. She was a partaker of all the joys and sorrows of pioneer life. Many were the interesting stories told by her about the carly settlement of the township, and being possessed of a bright and cheerful disposition the hardships of life in these days made to seem easier to her. She was a true Christian and her many virtues are well known to need recital here. She leaves two sons, Elias and, Samuel, and one daughter, Mrs. Daniel Holm, all of Puslinch, The funeral on Monday Was very largely attended, the interment taking place at Warner's burying ground. Mr. Elias Witmer, of Hespeler, is her brother,

Dec 10, 1891-Guelph Mercury

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• FindAGrave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/29726013
• Historic Building: 655 Blackbridge Rd., Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; 2 story stone house
• Military: War of 1812
• Eby ID Number: 00087-5083
• Land: Bef 1831, Waterloo Township - German Company Tract Lot 128, Waterloo County, Ontario
• Land: Bef 1831, Waterloo Township - Beasley's Lower Block Conc. 2 Lot 09, Waterloo County, Ontario
• Land: Bef 1831, Waterloo Township - Beasley's Lower Block Conc. 3 Lot 08, Waterloo County, Ontario

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"The Pannebeckers (To have a complete history of the Pannebecker family, write to Mr. Samuel W. Pennypacker, Philadelphia, Pa., and get the book, "Historical and Biographical Sketches of the Pannebeckers", edited by Pennybecker. It is well worth the money and one of the most complete works of its kind in existence) were of the first settlers of German origin who settled in Pennsylvania over two hundred years ago. We find them to have been a prominent family in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania as early as 1709."

Cornelius Pannebecker, "a native of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, was born December 8th, 1770. In April, 1792, he was married to Anna Dettweiler, sister to old Rudolph Dettweiler who resided near the Wanner Meeting House at Hespeler. She was born November 16th, 1775, and died October 27th, 1855. In 1810 they, in company with Christian Shantz and family, Jacob Shantz and wife, and others, moved to Canada and settled in Waterloo County, Ontario, near the present village of Hespeler, on the farm now occupied by Peter Wier. Here they resided until their deaths. He died June 22nd, 1855. To then was born a family of thirteen children"


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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About the year 1822, Joseph Oberholtzer, a sawyer, and Cornelius Pannabecker, a blacksmith, both sound men, had come to the conclusion that, having regard to the fact that so many new buildings were being put up by the settlers, a saw mill in this locality would pay.

In 1823, Joseph Oberholtzer bought from Christian Strome (Strohm) 24 acres of land lying both sides of the River Speed at some distance below the present D. W. & W. Buildings and on it they erected a small saw mill building, installed sawing machinery and built a dam on the Speed to furnish power to operate it.

After it had been in operation for a time they discovered to their sorrow that their mill was not big enough to handle the huge logs the farmers were hauling in to be sawn, and so, later, when their frail dam went out in a flood it was not replaced; They salvaged what they could and wrote off the rest to profit and loss. They had made the mistake of building too small and they paid the shot.


Le Rue De Commerce, Other Times Other Customs Other Days Other Ways, Winfield Brewster 1954

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Unwilling participants in the War of 1812

About 20 Mennonite men were conscripted to haul supplies for an 1813 engagement

...No one was exempt from non-combatant duties, although some resisted at times. Some were fined heavily in court. Cornelius Pannebecker removed the wheels from his wagon to save it, although his horse and son were still conscripted. Elizabeth (Gabel) Bechtel was threatened at sword-point by an officer who knew she was hiding oxen, which he sought for a massive-scale transport operation to the Detroit River.

Waterloo Region Region 23 Jun 2012 Jonathan Seiling

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About the year 1840, the third saw-mill in New Hope was erected. It was located just below the Forbes Mill site by a partnership composed of another great-grandfather of the write, the late Cornelius Pannebecker, and one Joseph Oberholtzer, whose sister was married to Bergy.

Cornelius Pannebecker arrived from Montgomery County, Pa. in 1810 and was the son of a Mennonite minister who lived on the Schuylkill River at the present site of Spring City. Joseph Oberholtzer was evidently a native of the same county in Pennsylvania and located here probably in 1826 and information in hand also points to his having been the son of a Mennonite preacher. The family was of Swiss descent, while Pannebecker was descended from a Dutch family which had migrated for a few years into Germany about Kriegaheim near Worms, before participating in the exodus of Quakers and Mennonites to Pennsylvania, about the year 1700.

It would appear that Bergy's first saw-mill was too far up the river and the partnership mill too far downstream to quite meet the tastes or requirements of the times, for within a few years Cornelius Oberholtzer erected the fourth saw-mill about midway between these two points, and with it a small foundry or shop, probably for mill repairs etc. Some particulars of this fourth mill are available.

It continued in operation until sometime in 1864, although it evidently changed ownership, September 27th, 1863, to a partnership composed of George Randall, then of Berlin, Herbert M. Farr of Waterloo and Shubel H. Randall of New Hampshire, the purchase price according to the Galt Reporter files of that time being $8,000. The old mill was used to saw the timber and lumber for the Randall-Farr Woolen Mills, two stone structures erected in 1864, but as the saw-carriage had capacity only for logs up to 16 feet in length, the large timbers for the new Woolen Mills had to be hewn and were not sawn. It had been said with perhaps some little exaggeration, that the process of sawing logs of large diameter with the vertically operated drag-saw then in use was so slow that the operator after starting to log, had time to walk up town a half mile or more to the hotel, for liquid refreshments and return before the cut was finished.

The timbers of white-pine, taken out of this Oberholtzer mill when the woolen-mill buildings crowded it out of its place were used in the construction of the Lewis Kribs saw-mills which in 1865 were located close to the old public school site. When Mr. W. A. Kribs erected his present manufacturing buildings alongside the G. T. R. lines in 1902, these same old timbers were for the third time used and are at the time of writing, as sound as when first used in 1840.


Tenth Annual Report of the Waterloo Historical Society, 1922, pages 213 - 224.

Historic Building:
In 2009 this 2 story fieldstone house was in good condition, still used as a residence and their are still farm buildings on the site. There is a great deal of new construction not far from the house and soon the house will be surrounded with new housing.

Cornelius married Anna Detweiler Apr 1792. Anna (daughter of Abraham Detweiler and Elizabeth Kolb Ziegler) was born 16 Nov 1775, , Pennsylvania, USA; died 27 Oct 1855, , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Wanner Mennonite Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Anna Pannebecker
• Eby ID Number: 00087-5083.1

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• Eby ID Number: 00135-8267
• Land: Bef 1831, Waterloo Township - Beasley's Lower Block Conc. 1 Lot 06W, Waterloo County, Ontario
• Land: Bef 1831, Waterloo Township - Beasley's Broken Front Lot 25NE, Waterloo County, Ontario

Notes:

Abraham Witmer, "Could not obtain any dates in regard to Abraham's birth or death) was married to Anna Eversole. In 1804 he, with his wife and family of three children, moved to Canada and settled on the farm now possessed by their grandson, Mr. Levi Witmer. This farm is situated about one and one-half miles north-east of Preston. Here they resided until their deaths. Their family consisted of nine children"


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.].

Abraham — Anna Eversole. Anna was born 7 Apr 1777, , Pennsylvania, USA; died 7 Mar 1858; was buried , Wanner Mennonite Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Anna Witmer
• Eby ID Number: 00135-8267.5

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In 1851 Anna lived with her son Jacob in Waterloo Township.

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• Eby ID Number: 00139-8409.20

Abraham — Elizabeth Kolb Ziegler. Elizabeth (daughter of Rev. Andreas "Andrew" Ziegler and Elizabeth Kolb) was born CA 1750; died 21 May 1836; was buried , Lower Skippack Mennonite Cemetery, Skippack Twp., Montgomery Co., Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Elizabeth Kolb Detweiler
• Eby ID Number: 00139-8409.8

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• Eby ID Number: 00135-8267.1

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Christian Witmer, "The progenitor of the Witmers of Canada was a native of Switzerland where he was born probably as early as 1735. He emigrated to America and settled in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, about the year 1760. All the information that could be obtained in regard to this old progenitor was that his name was Christian and that his family consisted of nine children. The names of four were David, (One of David's sons (Martin) settled in this county at an early date) Henry, Abraham, and Joseph. (These four sons were of the younger members of the progenitor's family)."


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.].