Henry Wismer, Sr.

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• Eby ID Number: 00133-8157,8163
• Land: Bef 1831, Waterloo Township - Beasley's Old Survey Lot 10, Waterloo County, Ontario
• Occupation: 1851, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; farmer
• Occupation: 1861, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Gentleman
• Residence: 1861, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Mennonite
• Occupation: 1871, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Gentleman
• Residence: 1871, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Mennonite

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Henry Wismer, "was born March 10th, 1794, and died June 11th, 1876. He was married to Mary Cressman. The sixth child of Joseph and Barbara Wismer, was born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, March 10th, 1794, and came to Canada in 1815. He was married to Mary, daughter of Daniel and Esther (Bechtel) Cressman. She was born in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, August 17th, 1792, and came to Canada with her parents in 1806. In January, 1816 (a few weeks after their marriage), they moved on their farm three miles south-east of Berlin. This farm is still known as the old 'Wismer Farm' and is at present owned by John Kercher. Here they resided until their deaths. She died July 12th, 1872, and he died June 11, 1876. They had a family of eight 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a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin: as also much other unpublished historical information chiefly of a local character.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.].

Henry married Mary Cressman Jan 1815. Mary (daughter of Daniel Cressman and Esther Bechtel) was born 17 Aug 1792, , Montgomery Co., Pennsylvania; died 12 Jul 1872, , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

1. Barbara Wismer was born 25 Oct 1816, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 28 Aug 1889, , Clinton Co., Michigan; was buried , Mannheim Mennonite Cemetery, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.
2. Abraham Wismer was born 2 Sep 1818, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 7 Sep 1823, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.
3. Rev. Daniel Wismer was born 29 Jul 1820, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 4 May 1909, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , First Mennonite Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.
4. Jacob Wismer was born 9 Jan 1822, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 9 Sep 1823; was buried , First Mennonite Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.
5. Elizabeth Wismer was born 28 Mar 1824, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 21 Apr 1909, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Bloomingdale Mennonite Cemetery, Bloomingdale, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.
6. Esther Wismer was born 1 Jun 1826, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 20 Nov 1881, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Bloomingdale Mennonite Cemetery, Bloomingdale, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.
7. Mary Wismer was born 12 Jun 1831, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 7 Sep 1909; was buried , Blenheim Mennonite Cemetery, Blenheim Township, Oxford Co., Ontario.
8. Rev. Henry C. Wismer was born 21 Aug 1833, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 15 Mar 1885, Texas.

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• Eby ID Number: 00133-8151

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Joseph Wismer, "son of Joseph Wismer, was born near Hilltown, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, July 23rd, 1753, and died in Chester County, same state, August 20th, 1820. He was married to Barbara, daughter of Henry and Barbara (Lederach) Wismer. She was born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, March 9th, 1766, and died January 28th, 1861. They had a family of ten children" "Most of the descendants of Elizabeth, Barbara, and Catherine are to be found in Montgomery and Bucks Counties, Pennsylvania. Very few, if any, have settled in Canada."


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.].

Joseph — Barbara Wismer. Barbara (daughter of Henry Wismer and Barbara Lederach) was born 9 Mar 1766, , Bucks Co., Pennsylvania; died 28 Jan 1861; was buried , Plains Mennonite Cemetery, Lansdale, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, United States. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Barbara Wismer
• Eby ID Number: 00133-8151.1

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• Eby ID Number: 00133-8149.4

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Henry — Barbara Lederach. Barbara died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Barbara Wismer
• Eby ID Number: 00133-8151.3

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• Eby ID Number: 00133-8149

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Jacob Wismer, "ancestor of the numerous family of that name in Bucks and Montgomery Counties of Pennsylvania, and other states of the United States, and also those that are found in the province of Ontario, Canada, are descendants of the same family. He was born in Germany about the year 1684 and died in Bedminster Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, February 4th, 1787, aged 102 years and a few months. The date of his emigrating to America is not known but may have been as early as 1710 or even before that date. The place of his landing is also uncertain. By some of his descendants it is supposed he landed at one of the Carolina States. Most probably he was one of the number of Germans who, being cruelly persecuted by the State Party in 1709, left their homes on the Rhine and emigrated to the wilds of America. They settled on the Roanoke and head waters of the Neuse River in North Carolina. (From W. W. H. Davis' "History of Bucks County") At the outbreak of the Indian War led by the Tuscaroras, the savages on the night of October 2nd, 1711, fell with such fury upon this German settlement that one hundred and thirty of them perished. No doubt the old progenitor was one of the unfortunate emigrants forming this settlement. Tradition has it that a sister who came with him to America, was one of the number who were killed. He, it is said, was allowed to escape the hands of those savages by means of a small bribe offered to one of the attacking parties. Once away from the settlement he travelled on foot north through Virginia and Maryland to Byberry in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, from whence he, at a later date, moved to Bucks County. It is not positively known when he moved to Bucks County but it is supposed that it was in the year 1726. He settled on a tract of land comprising 210 acres for which he paid Ð100 lawful money. On April 12th, 1773, the old progenitor sold his farm to his son, Henry, for Ð500. He is said to have had three wives, and was married to his third wife after coming north, about the year 1720, with whom he lived 67 years. She was 84 years of age at the time of her death. Her Christian name was 'Nanny' and she was the mother of all his children. Her maiden name is not positively known but may have been 'Souder' as her children and grandchildren received legacies from one Jacob Souder whose daughter it is presumed she was. At the time of his death he had one hundred and seventy children and grandchildren. Although living to the great age of nearly one hundred and three years, he retained his mind until within about two months, and could walk and dress and undress himself within about two weeks of his death. Both his and his wife's remains were, no doubt, laid to rest in the grave-yard of the Old Mennonite Church at Deep Run where for many years they worshipped the God of their fathers and left to their numerous posterity an undying example to 'go and do likewise'. The children of Jacob and Nanny Wismer were eleven in number, all of whom were born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Their names are as follows: Jacob, born in 1721, Mary, born in 1723, Elizabeth, born April 29th, 1725, Joseph, born in 1728, Henry, born in 1730, Mark, born in 1737, died in 1831, Daniel, John, died in 1794, Christian, died February 20th, 1795, Nancy, and Abraham, born February 20th, 1743, died April 27th, 1828."


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.].

Jacob married Nanny Souder Abt 1720. Nanny was born Abt 1684, Of, Bucks Co., Pennsylvania; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Nanny Wismer
• Eby ID Number: 00133-8149.1