Cora Viola "Viola" Dunke

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• Name: Cora Viola "Viola" Ziegler
• Name: Viola Dunke
• Eby ID Number: 00139-8423.1000
• Residence: 1891, Elmira, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Baptist
• Residence: 1954, Parry Sound, Parry Sound District, Ontario

Cora — George Lichty Ziegler. George (son of Aaron Ziegler and Esther Lichty) was born 28 Mar 1883, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 29 May 1955, Parry Sound, Parry Sound District, Ontario; was buried , Elmira Union Cemetery, Elmira, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

1. Maxine Esther Rachel Ziegler was born 25 Dec 1914, Elmira, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 24 Jul 1989, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Elmira Union Cemetery, Elmira, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.
2. Janet Wakefield Ziegler was born 28 Oct 1916, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 18 Jul 1968, Carling, Parry Sound District, Ontario; was buried , Victoria Lawn Cemetery, St. Catharines, Lincoln Co., Ontario.

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• Interesting: business
• Residence: 2 William Street, Elmira, Waterloo, Ontario
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-24489
• Residence: 1861, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Baptist
• Occupation: 1879, 7 Arthur Street N., Elmira, Ontario; merchant
• Occupation: 1881, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Store Keeper
• Occupation: 1891, Elmira, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Gentleman
• Residence: 1891, Elmira, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Baptist
• Occupation: 1901, Elmira, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Merchant
• Elected Office: 1903, Elmira, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; treasurer - Elmira
• Residence: 1903, Elmira, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

Notes:

Mr. Jacob Dunke came to Elmira 39 years ago, entering upon his duties as clerk in the general store of Wenger & Ruppel, for whom he worked two years. After the dissolution of partnership of his employers, he engaged with Mr. Isaac Wenger, where he remained nine years. During this term he laid the foundation of a successful business career and in the year 1875 embarked on his own account in the corner store in Wachsmuth's block. After having experienced unusual success and amassed a large fortune, he sold out to his brother in 1888 and has since lived retired. Mr. Dunke struck Elmira without a dollar to his name and his success is remarkable. He has been treasurer of the Village of Elmira ever since incorporation. It may be said, as a tribute to his ability as collector, as well as to the integrity of the ratepayers of Elmira, that there has never been a time when every cent of the taxes was not paid up on the date required by law.

Enterprising Elmira Souvenir, An historical, descriptive, and illustrated Book of the Village of Elmira, Waterloo County, Ontario, Canada, published by George Klinck, 1903.

Jacob married Rachel Powell 22 Jan 1879, Elmira, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Rachel (daughter of Lemuel B. Powell and Jane Nicol Stewart) was born 24 Jan 1858, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 15 Sep 1901, Elmira, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Elmira Union Cemetery, Elmira, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Rachel Dunke
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-24490
• Residence: 1861, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Church of Scotland
• Residence: 1871, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian
• Residence: 1891, Elmira, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Baptist

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After months of suffering, death, last Sunday, relieved Mrs. Jacob Dunke, a well-known and highly respected lady, whose demise almost in middle age, has cast a gloom over a large circle of friends and acquaintances. Deceased was a daughter of Mr. Lemuel Powell, of Wallenstein, and in the year 1877 was married ot Mrs. Jacob Dunke, then a prosperous young merchant of Elmira. Her gentle and ladylike deportment won for her many friends in the village, who will miss her greatly. Although for several years a sufferer of rheumatic and heart disease, she was until recently able to be about a large portion of the time. Everything that love and forethought could do, was done for her, but during the past summer she became rapidly worse, and a loving husband and three daughters were obliged to see her waste gradually away until death claimed her for a victim, robbing them of their dearest on earth - wife and mother. The bereaved family, have the sympathy of the entire community in their great loss.


Elmira Signet 19 Sep 1901 p. 1, col. 4

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-24486
• Occupation: 1852, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; mason
• Occupation: 1861, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Mason
• Residence: 1861, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran

Peter married Salome Stoltz 19 Apr 1836, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Salome (daughter of Stoltz and Elisabetha) was born 28 Aug 1815, , Germany; died 25 Mar 1866, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Salome Dunke
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-24487
• Residence: 1861, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Baptist
• Residence: 1861, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Baptist
• Misfortune: 1866; killed in sleigh accident

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In the latter part of March, from injuries caused by a fall from a sleigh accidentally thrown over, near Berlin, C. W., wife of Peter Dunke. She died in 24 hours after the accident.

Herald of Truth May 1866 - Vol. III, No. 5

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DUNKE (Berlin) - About ten o'clock on Friday night last, an accident occurred in the neighbourhood of this town by which a woman named Mrs. Dunke lost her life. It appears that Mr. Israel, living near Strasbourg, was attending a protracted meeting held in the German Methodist Church of this place, and when returning home with a load of twelve or fifteen persons in his sleigh, among whom was the woman above referred to, his horses in consequence of another team attempting to pass them became unmanageable and ran off, upsetting the sleigh and all in it on the hard frozen ground.

All except Mrs. Dunke escaped unhurt. The injuries she sustained were such as to preclude all hope of recovery. Besides a dislocated shoulder, a broken arm, and a severe contusion on the temple, she received internal injuries from which she died on the Sunday morning following. From the occurrence of the accident till a short time before her death when she recognized and spoke to her son, she was unconscious.

2 Apr 1866 Hamilton Spectator

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-106361
• Occupation: 1851, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Residence: 1851, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Free Thinker
• Map: 1861, Wellesley Township - East Concession 14 Lot 06, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1861, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; United Presbyterian
• Occupation: 1871, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Residence: 1871, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian
• Occupation: 1881, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer

Lemuel — Jane Nicol Stewart. Jane (daughter of Alexander Stewart and Rachel Kennedy) was born 8 Jul 1827, Glasgow, , Lanark, Scotland; died 28 Jul 1913, Hamilton, Wentworth Co., Ontario, Canada; was buried , Hawkesville Union Cemetery, Hawkesville, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Jane Nicol Powell
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-106362
• Residence: 1851, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Free Thinker
• Residence: 1861, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Church of Scotland
• Residence: 1871, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-56605

— Elisabetha. Elisabetha was born 23 Apr 1775, , Germany; died 7 Feb 1864; was buried , Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Elisabetha Stoltz
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-32671
• Residence: 1852, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-276413P
• Residence: 1851, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Non-Professor
• Occupation: 1861, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Residence: 1861, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; ?

Richard — Lucy Wakefield. Lucy was born CALC 13 Dec 1794, Montpelier, Washington, Vermont, United States; died 13 Mar 1878; was buried , Hawkesville Union Cemetery, Hawkesville, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Lucy Powell
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-276414
• Residence: 1851, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Non-Professor
• Residence: 1861, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; ?

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-28595

Notes:

Alexander Stewart, 1798 - 1852 was born in Stirlingshire, Scotland. Circa 1815, he went to Glasgow and was apprenticed to a merchant in High Street. Later, he had his own shop in the suburbs. In 1819 he married Rachel Kennedy, 1799 - 1885 of Glasgow, by whom he had nine children, all of whom were born in Glasgow. Two, David and Mary died in childhood in Glasgow. In 1842, he and his wife and seven remaining children emigrated to Canada and took up land in Upper Canada in the area north of Guelph known as the Queen's Bush, East 1/2 lot 14, concession 1, Peel Township. He died at this farm between Wallenstein and Macton, January 27, 1852 and was buried in Hawkesville Cemetery.

Alexander married Rachel Kennedy 9 Dec 1820, Barony, Glasgow, Lanark, Scotland. Rachel was born 1798, , Scotland; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Rachel Stewart
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-28596
• Residence: 1851, Peel Twp., Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada