Jacob Irvin Kropf

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• Eby ID Number: 00059-3945.6
• Residence: 1891, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Mennonite
• Occupation: 1910, New Hamburg, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; carpenter
• Occupation: 1911, New Hamburg, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Buffer - brass factory
• Residence: 1911, New Hamburg, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelical Association

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Jacob I. Kropf Passes in Stratford

The death of Jacob Irvin Kropf occurred at Stratford General Hospital on Sunday following a stroke suffered the previous Wednesday. He was 66 years of age. The late Mr. Kropf was born in Wilmot Township near Haysville, a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Kropf, and came to New Hamburg in 1908. Since 1920 he had resided in Stratford where he was employed as cashier with the C.N.R. express department up to the time of his retirement a year ago. He was a member of Centennial Evangelical United Brethern Church in Stratford and belonged to Court Silver Leaf, Canadian Order of Foresters, New Hamburg. He leaves in bereavement his wife, the former Etta Beilstein, to whom he was married at New Hamburg in 1910; two sons, Grant and William, Stratford; a brother, Herbert, New Hamburg, one sister, Mrs. H. R. Gerrard, Toronto, and four grandchildren. The funeral was held on Tuesday afternoon with service at the Heinbuch Funeral Home, Stratford, and internment in Avondale Cemetery.


Obituary - New Hamburg Independent, December 25, 1953

Jacob married Etta May Beilstein 1910, New Hamburg, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Etta (daughter of Jacob G. Beilstein and Laura Evelyn Umbach) was born 9 Jul 1891, New Hamburg, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 13 Feb 1958, Stratford, Perth Co., Ontario, Canada; was buried , Avondale Cemetery, Stratford, Perth Co., Ontario. [Group Sheet]

1. Myron Grant Kropf was born 3 Feb 1912, New Hamburg, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 17 Dec 2006, Stratford, Perth Co., Ontario, Canada; was buried , Avondale Cemetery, Stratford, Perth Co., Ontario.
2. James William "William" Kropf was born 4 Jan 1921; died 12 Dec 2007, Stratford, Perth Co., Ontario, Canada.

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• Eby ID Number: 00059-3945.1
• Occupation: 1876, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Carpenter
• Occupation: 1881, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Labourer
• Occupation: 1891, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Residence: 1891, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Mennonite
• Occupation: 1901, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Carpenter

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Sudden Death of Jonathan Kropf

The people of the town were shocked last Sunday to learn that our esteemed townsman, Mr. Jonathan Kropf, died very suddenly at four o'clock that morning. Mr. Kropf had been to Berlin on Saturday, and arriving home in the evening retired apparently in the best of health. About four o'clock he awoke and complained of feeling unwell, passing away a few minutes afterwards. The late Mr. Kropf was in his 64th year and a life long resident of this township, residing for many years on a farm at Pinehill, and was also a well known contractor, making a specialty of moving large buildings, in which he had in late years made himself prominent in this locality. A few years ago he left his farm to a son, and moved to this village. Deceased was of a genial and kindly disposition and beloved by all who knew him. He was twice married; his first wife, (nee Mathilda Hostetler) predeceased him about ten years ago. He is survived by his second wife, one daughter and four sons. The children are: Norman, of Michepecoten; Edwin, of Earl Grey, Sask.; Herbert on the old homestead; Jacob, at home, and Lavina, of Guelph. The funeral took place from his late residence on Wednesday morning to Geiger's Cemetery, Bleam's Road, and was very largely attended.

New Hamburg Independent, December 4, 1908

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J. Krupp's Sudden Death

Friends of Mr. Jonathan Krupp, for years a resident of Berlin, were shocked to hear of his sudden death on Sunday at his home in Wilmot Tp.
Death, which was caused by heart failure, came very suddenly. He was about 65 years old and leaves a widow and grown up family. Mr. Krupp, while in Berlin, did considerable work in moving houses^.

The Berlin News Record, December 1, 1908

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On Sunday Jonathan Kropf died. He was unwell for the past few days, however nobody expected a rapid departure. He left behind his spouse and five grown children. His first spouse was Lavina, daughter of the late Moses Hostetler. About four years ago, he was joined to Leah Gabel in marriage. He was 63 years, 11 months and 23 days old. The burial will be held today Wednesday at Geiger's cemetery. [translated from the original German].

Berliner Journal, December 2, 1908

Jonathan married Matilda Hostetler 1 Feb 1876, New Hamburg, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Matilda (daughter of Moses Hostetler and Margareth, daughter of Moses Hostetler and Margaret Latschaw) was born 23 Sep 1854, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 1 Mar 1890, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Wilmot Mennonite (formerly Geiger) Cemetery, Wilmot, Waterloo Region, Ontario. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Matilda Kropf
• Eby ID Number: 00059-3945
• Residence: 1871, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Mennonite
• Residence: 1891, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Mennonite

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Matilda Hostetler, "was born September 23rd, 1854. She was married to Jonathan C. Crops (now spelled Kropf), a carpenter. They resided near Bleams Road, Wilmot Township, where she died March 1st, 1891, leaving a family of five 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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March 1, 1890 - Mathilda Hochstettler, wife of Jonathan Kropf, died in Wilmot, at age of 35 years^.

Berliner Journal, March 6, 1890

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The community was shocked on hearing the sad news on Sunday last that Mrs. Jonathan Kropf had died after only a day and a half illness. The funeral which was very largely attended took place on Wednesday morning from her husband's residence to the grave yard on Bleam's road. Mrs. Kropf was a daughter of Mr. Moses Hostetler near New Hamburg and leaves five little children and husband to mourn her loss

New Hamburg Independent, March 7, 1890

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Kropf - On the 2d of March, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo county, Ont., Matilda, daughter of Moses Hochstetler and beloved wife of Jonathan Kropp, aged 35 years, 5 months and 8 days. Buried on the 5th at Geiger's meeting house, where a large number of relatives and friends met to sympathize with the bereaved family. Services by Moses Bowman and Noah Stauffer from Isaiah 38: 1 and 1 Thess. 5: 9.

Obituary - Herald of Truth, March 15, 1890

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-30704
• Residence: 1838, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Occupation: 1851, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Residence: 1851, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Mennonitte
• Occupation: 1861, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Yeoman
• Residence: 1861, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Mennonite

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Kropf - On July 13, 1898, at Lancaster, Schuyler Co, Mo., Bro. Christian Kropf, aged 83 years, 6 months, 3 days, of kidney disease. Deceased lived in Canada about 50 years before he moved to Missouri with his family, at which latter place he lived up to the time of his death. He leaves two sons, five daughters, forty-nine grandchildren and thirty-two great-grandchildren to mourn his departure, but not as those who have no hope. Funeral sermon by P. H. Ruhlet, in German.

Obituary - Herald of Truth, October 15, 1898

Christian married Maria "Mary" Koenig 7 Jan 1838, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Maria was born 9 Apr 1815, , Alsace Lorraine, France; died 29 Apr 1891, , Schuyler Co., Missouri; was buried , Darby Cemetery, Lancaster, Schuyler, Missouri, USA. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Maria "Mary" Kropf
• Name: Mary Koenig
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-34387
• Residence: 1838, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1851, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Mennonite
• Residence: 1861, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Mennonite

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Kropf - On the 29th of April 1891, in Schuyler Co., Mo., Sister Mary, wife of Christian Kropf, aged 76 years and 20 days. She lived in Waterloo Co., Ont., Canada, 29 years, then moved with her husband to Fulton Co., Ohio, Davis Co., Iowa, and lastly to Schuyler Co., Mo., where she quietly passed into, as she strongly indicated, a better land. She lived in matrimony 53 years, 3 months and 22 days, and leaves her husband, 7 children, 33 grandchildren and 9 great grandchildren to mourn their loss. Services by Chr. Gardner, from Rev. 14.

Obituary - Herald of Truth, July 15, 1891

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• Historic Building: 1145 Christner Road, Wilmot, Ontario; 2 story stone house
• Interesting: military, building, life story
• Eby ID Number: 00059-3935
• Military: 1837
• Occupation: 1842, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; carpenter
• Occupation: 1851, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Residence: 1852, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Protestant
• Occupation: 1871, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Residence: 1871, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Mennonite
• Occupation: 1881, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Retired: 1901, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

Notes:

Moses Hostetler, "son of Joseph and Maria (Yoder) Hostetler, was born in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, near Johnstown, January 12th, 1813. In the year 1834, he came to Canada. On October 26th, 1836, he settled in Wilmot Township, Waterloo County, where he was married July 5th, 1842, to Margaret, daughter of Isaac and Susannah (Kindig) Latschaw. She was born December 15th, 1814, and died March 3rd, 1887. Soon after their marriage they moved to lot No. 21, Wilmot Township, south of Snyders Road, a few miles north of New Hamburg. Here he still resides with his son, Levi, who has rented the old homestead. Mr. Hostetler was, in his days, one of the most successful farmers of Wilmot Township. He is much esteemed by all classes of the community for his kind, social and pleasing manners which have won for him numerous friends. His family consisted of twelve 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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Death of Moses Hostetler

One by one the old pioneers of the township are being called away, and in the death of Mr. Moses Hostetler, which occurred at his home on Wednesday evening, August 26th, Wilmot loses one of its very earliest settlers, and also one of the few ones of these to remain. Mr. Hostetler reached the ripe old age of 95 years, 7 months and 14 days, and was at the time of his death the oldest man in Wilmot, and perhaps in the County of Waterloo.

The late Mr. Hostetler was born in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, on the 12th of January, 1813, and came to Canada in 1834. He settled in Wilmot township in 1836, when this part of the country was yet a dense forest, and with the ambition of perseverance, characteristic of these early settlers, he yewed out a home for himself adjoining the present village of New Hamburg, and transformed it into one of the best farms in the county. On this he carried on his agricultural pursuits and lived continually thereon until death claimed him on Wednesday last, covering a period of over 70 years. On the 4th of July 1842, he was married to Margaret Latschaw, and the union was blessed with twelve children, eight sons and four daughters, four of who predeceased him. They were Lavina, William, Moses and Matilda (Mrs. Jonathan Kropf). His wife died about twenty-one years ago.

The remaining children are: David, Christian, Levi, Mrs. Solomon Shantz, and Mrs. Emanuel Hamacher, Wilmot; Isaac, of New Hamburg; Daniel, of Berlin, and Henry, of Wellesley. The late Mr. Hostetler was in active service during the rebellion of 1837, and took part in several skirmishes on Pelee Island and in the western peninsula of Ontario. In politics he was a life long Liberal. The funeral will take place tomorrow afternoon at 1 o'clock, from his late residence to Christner's Cemetery.


New Hamburg Independent, August 28, 1908

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DEATH OF MOSES HOSTETLER

The following from the Independent refers to the father of Mr. Henry Hostetler, "Meadow Farm, Fifth line.

One by one the old pioneers of the township are being called away and in the death of Moses Hostetler, which occurred at his home on Wednesday evening, Aug. 25 Wilmot loses one of its very early settlers and also one of the few last ones to remain. Mr. Hostetler reached the ripe old age of 95 years, 7 months and 14 days, and was at the time of his death, the oldest man in Wilmot, and perhaps in the County of Waterloo.
The late Mr. Hostetler was born in Somerset County, Pennsylvania on the 12th day of January, 1813, and came to Canada in 1834. He settled in Wilmot Township in 1836, when this part of the country was yet a dense forest, and with ambition and perseverance, characteristic of those early settlers, he yewed [sic] our a home for himself adjoining the present village of New Hamburg, and transformed it into one of the best farms in the county. On this he carried on his agricultural pursuits and live continually thereon until death claimed him on Wednesday last, covering a period of over 70 years. On the 4th of July 1842 he was married to Margaret Latchaw, and the union was blessed with 12 children, eight sons and four daughters, four of whom predeceased him: they were Lavina, William, Moses and Matilda (Mrs. Jonathan Kropf). His wife died about 21 years ago. The remaining children are: David, Christian, Levi, Mrs. Solomon Shantz and Mrs. Emanuel Hamacher, Wilmot; Isaac, New Hamburg; Daniel, Berlin and Henry, Wellesley. The late Mr. Hostetler was in active service during the rebellion of 1837 and took part in several skirmishes on Pelee Island and in the Western Peninsula of Ontario. In politics he was a life long liberal. His remains were interred in Christner's Cemetery.

Wellesley Maple Leaf, September 3, 1908

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MOSES HOSTETLER.

Before concluding my sketch of the business interests of Hamburg I feel it my duty to pay tribute to this grand old man of the neighborhood. The walk to his home afforded me ample compensation for the time taken up. A stroll of a half mile north on the "Dundas Road" brings you to a long lane that leads down to his residence, a solid stone structure surounded with fruit trees and ornamental foliage. The lane is bordered on both sides by young maples, and it is positively the most inviting approach to a farm home that I have entered for many a day. The farm contains two hundred acres and is one of the most valuable in this section. A greater portion of it was a dense bush when Mr. Hostetler settled on it October 26, 1836. He was born in Pennsylvania on January 12, 1813, being now near the end of his 86th year. His parents and several brothers came here at the same time, but when the Canadian rebellion broke out, the father, being opposed to the Government, induced all the members of his family, but the subject of this sketch, to return to the States. Several of his brothers are now living in the West. The father died here several years ago. Mr. Hostetler says he never regretted remaining in Wilmot as his life here has been crowned with prosperity and his health has been exceptionally good He was married July 5, 1842, to Miss Margaret, daughter of the late Isaac Latchau. She died March 3, 1887, after a happy married life of nearly forty- five years. They raised a family of ten children, all of whom are now well provided for Levi, one of the sons, is now living on the old homestead, and is working the farm. Mr. Hostetler is remarkably active for one of his years and makes almost daily trips on foot to town, a distance of a mile and a half. As a pedestrian he will hustle many of the young men of to-day. His eyesight is yet good with the aid of glasses, and in conversation his mind gives no evidence of weakness usually the case in persons of such an advanced age. He uses the pipe and the weed, but does not indulge to excess in this habit. He also chewed tobacco, but be suddenly abandoned that habit at a moment when his wife was on her deathbed, she having convinced a dislike to his breath on account of the habit. In early days Mr. Hostetler was a hunter of considerable note, and related to the writer several thrilling adventures he had with bear and buck deer. On one occasion he had a close encounter with a large black she bear and her two cubs. Not being armed at the time, he attacked him with a club. The bear suddenly turned upon him, and would undoubtedly have made a subject for a funeral in the neighborhood had it not been for his faithful dog "Smoke," who attacked the enemy in the rear; but "Smoke" was knocked out in the first round by a well directed blow from the paw of bruin. By this time, however, Mr. H. was relieved from his perilous predicament by the arrival on the scene of one of his sons with the old family rifle, and bruin was soon made to bite the dust. The carcass was skinned and the hide afterwards sold to Benjamin Davitt, of Waterloo. Mr. Hostetler has been a member of the old Mennonite creed for the past twenty years, and is a Reformer in politics. He is openly opposed to the prohibition movement. The extent of his drinking is a glass of beer now and then, and while he does not tolerate intemperance he is inclined to the belief that absolute prohibition is contrary to constitutional rights and not in keeping with our much vaunted liberty and freedom. In his home Mr. Hostetler makes the stranger feel at ease by his generous hospitality, and the happy vein in which he recites events of the past.

New Hamburg, The Hub of Wilmot - Waterloo County Chronicle 18 Aug 1898, p. 2,3

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Died In Wilmot, at 9.30 p.m., Wednesday, August 26th, 1908 Moses Hostetler Aged: 96 years, 7 months and 24 days. The Funeral Will take place from his late residence on Saturday, the 29th inst., at 1 o'clock p.m. to Christner's Cemetery.


Funeral Card

Moses married Margaret Latschaw 5 Jul 1842, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Margaret (daughter of Isaac Latschaw and Susannah Kindig) was born 15 Dec 1814, Colebrook, Dale, Berks, Pennsylvania, USA; died 3 Mar 1887, Near New Hamburg, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Wilmot Mennonite (formerly Geiger) Cemetery, Wilmot, Waterloo Region, Ontario. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Margaret Hostetler
• Eby ID Number: 00070-4202
• Residence: 1852, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Protestant
• Residence: 1871, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Mennonite

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Margaret Latschaw "was born December 15th, 1814. She was married to Moses Hostetler and resided near New Hamburg where she died March 3rd, 1887. "



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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Mar. 3, 1887 - Mrs. Moses Hochstettler died in Wilmot, at age of 72 years, 2 months and 17 days of dropsy of the heart.


Berliner Journal, March 10, 1887

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-87116
• Birth: CALC 2 Dec 1784, Epfig, , Alsace, France
• Residence: 1840, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Occupation: 1851, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Retired Farmer
• Residence: 1851, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Mennonite
• Land: 1855, Wilmot Township - Concession North of Snyder's Road Lot 14, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Occupation: 1861, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Retired
• Residence: 1861, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Mennonite
• Residence: 1871, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Mennonite

Notes:

Jan. 29, in Waterloo Co., Canada, Bro Jacob Kropf, at the advanced age of 90 years, 1 month and 26 days. He enjoyed remarkably good health up to the 26th of December, 1874, when he had a stroke of palsy whereby his right side and also his tongue became paralyzed. He served as deacon in the Amish Church in Canada about 50 years, during which time his seat was seldom vacant when he was able to go. He leaves an aged widow about two years his junior, with whom he lived in matrimony 64 years.

Obituary - Herald of Truth, February, 1875

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The Kropf Family

In 1819, Jacob Kropf and his wife Magdalena Rothaker applied for a passport to leave Lower Alsace. The Kropfs had resided in Leacock Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, but in the fall of 1823 they accompanied the Brennemans to Upper Canada. Although Kropf laid claim to a lot next to Joseph Goldschmidt's in the German Block, he took his family to Woolwich Township. When Goldschmidt left for Ohio in 1831, Kropf moved to Wilmot, purchased Goldschmidt's 50 acres and registered his intent to purchase both lots 13 and 14, NSR, with King's College. Goldschmidt had already built a sawmill on his property, and Jacob Kropf and his sons continued to operate it. Although the Kropf family seemed fairly well situated with their sawmill and 400 acres of land, tragedy stalked them on all sides. Daughter Catherine, age 20, died in 1840 and Jacob Jr. in 1848. He had been married to Jacobena Bender, but did not have any surviving heirs. In the spring on 1853, death claimed daughter Elizabeth who was married to John L. Lichti. She left seven young children. In the fall of the same year the Kropf sawmill burned to the ground. Son Henry died in 1855, leaving his wife, Anna Nafziger, and seven young children. In 1855, the Kropfs acquired their deeds from the University of Toronto - David for Lot 13 and Jacob Sr. for Lot 14. Perhaps the expense of building a new mill or an economic slump caused both David and Christian to consider leaving their aging parents to seek their fortunes elsewhere. David, who was married to his neighbour Magdalena Oesch, sold his last piece of land in Wilmot in 1862 and Christian his in 1864. Both of them eventually settled in Missouri. Jacob and Magdalena lived to a ripe old age. Jacob died in 1875 at the age of 90 and Magdalena in 1878 at the age of 91. Their graves on the family farm are unmarked.


The Amish and Their Neighbours, The German Block, Wilmot Township, 1822-1860" by Lorraine Roth, 1998

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Jacob Kropf was the son of Christian Kropf (1736-1802) and Elisabeth Goldschmidt. They were married before 1766, and he was a farmer and lease-manager. After marrying they moved several times, and lived near Bernardswiller, Bas-Rhin (Alsace), in 1767, in Hattstatt, Haut-Rhin (Lorraine), in 1776, in Rouffach, Haut-Rhin, in 1778, and, in the spring of 1779, together with his wife, leased the Gollweilerhof outlying Epfig, Bas-Rhin. Their son Jacob was born there in 1784. Christian died there on Nov. 16, 1802 (25 Brumaire XI in the Republican Calendar). The fate of Elisabeth Goldschmidt is not known, except that she was still alive in 1811. They had eight known children: Joseph (1767), Christian (1768), Heinrich (1772), Anna Maria (1776), Magdalena (1778), Barbara (1780/81), Jacob (1784) and Elisabeth (1787/88).

Excerpt from "French Records About the Kropf Family of Epfig, Bas-Rhin", Mennonite Family History Juky 2001, by Neil Ann Stuckey Levine

Jacob married Magdalena Rothaker 15 Apr 1811, Epfig, , Alsace, France. Magdalena was born 7 Aug 1786, Strassburg, , Alsace, France; died 24 May 1878, Baden, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Family Farm, Wilmot Township, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Magdalena Kropf
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-150320
• Residence: 1851, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Mennonite
• Residence: 1861, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Mennonite
• Residence: 1871, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Mennonite

Notes:

May 24, 1878 Magdalena Kropf in Baden, widow of Jakob Kropf died at the age of 93 years. She was one of the oldest residents in Wilmot.

Obituary - Berliner Journal, June 6, 1878

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Her marriage record from Epfig says she was "nee le sept aout mil sept cent quatre vingt six a Strasbourg" - 7 Aug 1786 at Stasburg, Her surname was Rothaker, daughter of David and Magdalena Boshard

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• Eby ID Number: 00059-3935.1

Joseph — Maria Yoder. Maria was born Abt 1780, Of, Somerset Co., Pennsylvania; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Maria Hostetler
• Eby ID Number: 00059-3935.2

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• Interesting: pioneer, story
• Eby ID Number: 00070-4192.3
• Land: Bef 1831, Waterloo Township - German Company Tract Lot 015N, Waterloo County, Ontario
• Occupation: 1852, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; farmer

Notes:

Isaac Latschaw "We have no means of ascertaining the true ancestry of this family. Some maintain that the old pioneer settler was a native of France and was a descendant of some Hugenot family, while others think he was a native of Holland. We shall begin this family with I Isaac Latschaw who was born January 9th, 1774, in Colebrook, Dale Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania. His boyhood days were quietly spent on the farm of his father. After arriving at maturity he was married to Susannah Kindig who was born July 19th, 1782. During the early part of the present century (1822) they moved to Canada and settled in Waterloo County where they resided at different places. They owned a beautiful farm at Mannheim, Ontario, where they resided many years. The evening of their life was spent with their son-in-law, Mr. Hostetler, where they died. His death took place February 14th, 1857, and she died September 17th, 1859. To them were born ten 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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A-1-126 Isaac Latchar Sr. Probate of the will of Isaac Latschar Sr., of the Township of Wilmot, Gentleman, deceased, on the petition of Isaac Latschar Junior (Jacob Hagey the other executor having duly renounced)…

I, Issac Latshar being in a declining state of health…First, I will that my funeral expenses and all other debts shall be paid out of my estate as soon as may be after my decease…I will that my personal and real estate of whatever property or nature the same may consist at the time of my decease shall all be sold by public or private sale as soon after my decease as my herinafter named executor may then judge suitable. I will that my beloved wife Susana Latschaur[sic] have the one third of all the neat money arising out of my whole real and personal estate. I also give and bequeath unto my said wife two bedsteads and bedding of her choosing also my clock with the case, my stove, my bureau and my kitchen cupboard with its usual contents. And, I will that my said wife shall possess and enjoy all of the property above willed to her during her natural life and I will that the same shall be in lieu of her lawful dower. I give unto my son Jacob Latshar twenty five pounds cr. I will to my son Isaac Latshar twenty five pound cr. To my son Moses Latshar twenty five pounds cr. To be paid to them out of the first payment arising of my estate and of my three sons above mentioned each to have twenty five pounds Cr of the last payment arising of my estate. I will that my wife shall have twenty five pound of the first payment arising of my estate and the remainder of her dower yearly, as the payments come due of my estate. And applicable to the payment of my children not to interfere with any of the herein above ordinance by me maid[sic]. I will that all the residue of my whole estate shall be equally divided share and share like to all my sons and daughters, when the money comes due of my estate. And I do hereby empower my herein after named executors to make sign seal and deliver to any purchase or purchasers of any part of the whole of my real estate all such deeds of conveyance or other instruments as the law may require here in Canada and likewise in the United States and I do hereby declare and acknowledge the same as good and lawful as if I had signed sealed and delivered the same myself personally. And lastly, I do hereby constitute and appoint my son Issac Latshar and Jacob Haygy[sic] to be the true and lawful executors of this my last will and testament….

Witnessed by Geo. B. Bechtel and Abram Bricker
Will dated 7^th November 1856
Probate granted 11^th March 1857
Died 14^th February 1857
Inventory £1425/3/1

Surrogate Court Records Copybook Register A 1853-1871 partial transcript to 1863. Frances Hoffman transcriber.

Isaac — Susannah Kindig. Susannah was born 19 Jul 1782, , USA; died 17 Sep 1859; was buried , Mannheim Mennonite Cemetery, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Susan Kindig
• Name: Susannah Latschaw
• Eby ID Number: 00070-4192.4