Margaret L. Bleam

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• Name: Margaret L. Boeckenhauer
• Eby ID Number: 00010-1111
• Residence: 1861, Stanley Twp., Huron Co., Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1866, Stanley Twp., Huron Co., Ontario, Canada

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Margaret Bleam, "fourth daughter, is married to Joseph Buckenhauer. They reside in Oregon State, U.S., and have 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a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin: as also much other unpublished historical information chiefly of a local character.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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Mrs. Margaret Beckenhauer

Funeral services were conducted at the J. O. Peterson home at 2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon for Mrs. Peterson's mother, Mrs. Margaret Beckenhauer. Dr. J. W. Turner was in charge of the services.

The deceased woman was 86 years of age and had been in poor health for some time.

Margaret L. Bleam was born Oct. 20, 1847 at Hamburg, Canada. Her parents having migrated from Pittsburg, Penn., to Canada. She was married to Joseph Beckenhauer and in 1871 they left Canada, coming to Cumming Co., Nebr. In a short time they came to pioneer in Wayne Co., Nebr.

Their eldest son, Jacob, preceded them in death. Their living children are: Mrs. Mary H. Gorham, Tulare, Calif.; Lucy Peterson, Wakefield, Nebr.; Emory Beckenhauer of Norfolk; and Mrs. Irene Kinney of Seattle, Wash. Ten grandchildren and twenty-seven great grandchildren and one great great grandchild survive besides one brother Jonothan Bleam of Elkton, Mich. and two sisters, Mrs. Henrietta Kalbifleisch, Filer, Idaho and Mrs. Lucy Honstedt of Hiawatha, Kan.

Mrs. Beckenhauer was a member of the Christian Science Church of Sioux City, Ia.

She passed away Sunday, April 29, 1934, at the home of her daugh- ter and husband, Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Peterson with whom she had made her home for about twenty years.

Interment was made in the Wakefield cemetery.

Margaret married Jochim Heinrich Joseph "Joseph" Boeckenhauer 30 Jan 1866, , Huron Co., Ontario, Canada. Jochim (son of Herman Wilhelm Christian Boeckenhauer and Dorothea Elisabeth "Elisabeth" Brasch) was born 31 Jul 1842, , Germany; died 5 Nov 1931, Wakefield, Dixon, Nebraska, United States; was buried , Wakefield Cemetery, Wakefield, Dixon, Nebraska, United States. [Group Sheet]

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• Eby ID Number: 00010-1095
• Residence: 1861, Stanley Twp., Huron Co., Ontario, Canada

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Christian Bliehm, "was born September 20th, 1806. He was married to Mary Campbell. They resided for many years on the farm now occupied by John B. Schneider, German Mills, Ontario. In September, 1877, he died, aged 71 years and a few days. Had a family 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.].

Christian — Mary Campbell. Mary was born 9 Dec 1816, , Scotland; died 9 Jun 1894; was buried , Mt. Hope Cemetery, Bloomington, Osborne, Kansas, United States. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Mary Bliehm
• Eby ID Number: 00010-1095.1
• Residence: 1861, Stanley Twp., Huron Co., Ontario, Canada

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• Name: Philip Bleam
• Eby ID Number: 00010-1093
• Residence: 1830, Bechtel Tract, Waterloo Township, Waterloo County, Ontario
• Land: Bef 1831, Waterloo Township - Bechtel Tract East, Waterloo Township, Waterloo County, Ontario

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Philip Bliehm, "was born in 1780 and was married in 1804 to Esther Bechtel, widow of Daniel Cressman with whom she had three children, namely: Elizabeth, wife of old Abraham Weber; Abraham, married to Mary Schneider; and Mary, married to old Henry Wismer. The widow was a daughter of Abraham Bechtel and was born in July, 1766. Philip Bliehm and his wife came to Canada in May, 1806, arriving at Blair a few days after the great fire had been extinguished. They settled in the vicinity of Doon. They had a family of 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.].

Philip married Esther Bechtel 1804. Esther (daughter of Abraham Bechtel and Mary Hoch) was born Jul 1766, Of, Montgomery Co., Pennsylvania; died 20 Jan 1833, , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , First Mennonite Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Esther Bliehm
• Name: Esther Cressman
• Eby ID Number: 00007-0809

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Esther Bechtel "daughter of Abraham and Mary (Hoch) Bechtel, was born in July, 1766. She was married to Daniel Cressman and had a family of three children, namely: VI Elizabeth, VI Abraham, and VI Mary. After the decease of her first husband she was married to Philip Bleam, with whom she had 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.].

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• Eby ID Number: 00010-1089

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Christian Bliehm, "the old progenitor of the Bliehm family, was born in Canton, Berne, Switzerland, in 1741, and when he was about seventeen years of age he, in company with others, emigrated to America and landed at Philadelphia in 1758. He settled in Montgomery County where he was married to Salome Langenoecker in 1769. They had a family of seven 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.].

Christian married Salome Longenoecker 1769, , Montgomery Co., Pennsylvania. Salome was born 20 Jun 1746, Coventry, Chester, Pennsylvania; died 1811, , Pennsylvania, USA. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Salome Bliehm
• Eby ID Number: 00010-1089.1

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• Residence: 55 Fallbrook Lane, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Eby ID Number: 00007-0736
• Land: Bef 1831, Waterloo Township - Beasley's Old Survey Lot 03, Waterloo County, Ontario

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Abraham Bechtel "son of III Abraham who was first-cousin to III Rev. Martin Bechtel, was born March 7th, 1739. He was married to Mary Hoch who was born February 22nd, 1745, and died July 18th, 1841. In 1800 he with his wife and family moved to Canada and settled near Blair where they both died. He died October 2nd, 1825. Their family consisted of one son and four daughters"

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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Beside the many hardships, labors and sufferings in getting here and making themselves homes, quite a few settlers along where Blair is now situated were visited by a fire this spring of 1806.

On the 6th of May fire was set to a Job [a tract of land with timber slashed down ready to be burned so that the land could be farmed later] of 10 or 15 acres, soon after which a great wind arose, and swept through the new clearings and destroyed fences, houses and barns.

Abraham Stauffer had his barn burnt.
Abraham Bechtel had his house and barn burnt.
Jacob Bechtel's house was saved but his barn and everything else were consumed.
Nathaniel Dodge who was the last of the settlers along the river, had two barns with all their contents burnt.

The fire went on making the most fearful destruction of all kinds of valuable timber. Thus those settlers who were probably the most advanced with their new homes were suddenly left without house, food or clothing, and were obliged to go below Dundas through mud, water, swamp and forest for provisions and other necessaries, which were not obtainable from their neighbors.

MENNONITE IMMIGRATION TO WATERLOO COUNTY - THE MOYER JOURNAL

Attributed to Samuel S. Moyer 1849 - 1941

Abraham — Mary Hoch. Mary was born 22 Feb 1745, Of, Montgomery Co., Pennsylvania; died 18 Jul 1831, Near Blair, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Blair Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Mary Bechtel
• Eby ID Number: 00007-0736.2