John Henry Johnson

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• Name: Henry Johnson
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-48061
• Residence: 1881, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-48062
• Residence: 1859, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1881, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran

William married Sophie Marie Hedwig "Hedwig" Krug 27 Nov 1859, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Sophie (daughter of Johann Heinrich "Heinrich" Krug and Johanna Luisa Sophia Martens) was born 27 Jun 1839, , Germany; died 1910; was buried , Mount Hope Cemetery, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Hedwig Krug
• Name: Sophie Marie Hedwig "Hedwig" Johnson
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-41887
• Immigration: 1848
• Residence: 1859, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

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• Name: Heinrich Jans
• Name: Henry Janzen
• Eby ID Number: 00061-3998
• Residence: 1837, Blenheim Twp., Oxford Co., Ontario, Canada

Notes:

Henry Janzen, "the eldest in family, was married to Catharine Hunsberger. They resided in Blenheim Township, Oxford County, Ontario, where he died, leaving a family of three 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a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin: as also much other unpublished historical information chiefly of a local character.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 — Catharine Hunsberger. Catharine was born Abt 1800, Of, Blenheim Twp., Oxford Co., Ontario; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Catharine Johnson
• Eby ID Number: 00061-3998.1

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• Name: Henry Krug
• Eby ID Number: 00002-585.2
• Historic Building: 1850, 325 King St. East, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Occupation: 1852, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; innkeeper
• Probate: 3 May 1853, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

Notes:

A-1-10 Henry Krug: Administration with will annexed of the estate of Henry Krug, Innkeeper, of Wilmot Township, granted to his widow Mary Sophia Krug and deceased's Will approved and insinuated the 16^th July 1853…

…I Henry Krug of the Township of Wilmot, Inn Keeper…do make, ordain, and constitute this my Last Will and Testament… (First) I revoke all Wills ever before made by me.. (Secondly) I give, devise and bequeathed to his wife Mary Sophia Krug, four acres of land, joining the road called Huron road, with a house, seventy six by seventy four feet, (frame) a story and a half high, further, the whole benefit of the whole property as long as my beloved wife shall be and remain a widow, to have two good beds. (Thirdly) It is my Will that the Land I now hold shall be sold by auction as follows, the Tavern standhouse, stables, and with fifty acres along the line between the David Scharick and along the Huron road, but the enclosure or grave yard of the deceased Ford's wife excepted, thirty acres of pine bush to be sold in ten-acre lots, the remaining land to be sold in five lots. (Fourthly) It is my will that all the house furniture, with lumbers what is to be spared, shall be sold by public sale. In witness whereof Have herewith set my hand and seal this 3^rd day of May 1853…

Witnessed by Jacob Bettschin, J.P., Jacob Bricker.
Will dated 3 May 1853
Will proved and granted 16 July 1853
Inventory £269/4/4
Died 3 May 1853


Wills of Waterloo County Register A 1853-1871, transcribed by Frances Hoffman

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In 1848 when Heinrich came to Waterloo Region he established an inn at 525 King St. E., Kitchener, Ontario. Later he moved to Wilmot and ran a inn there. Dying young he left a large family. His widow married Moses Biehn who raised Heinrich's children as he own.

Historic Building:
Built in 1850, a frame building it was originally used as a store. In 1978 it was listed in poor condition and much altered from the original. At that time is was covered in insul-brick.

Johann married Johanna Luisa Sophia Martens 8 Oct 1838, Gadebusch, Mecklenburgh-Schwerin, Germany. Johanna was born Abt 1818, of, Gadebusch, Mecklenburgh-Schwerin, Germany; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Johanna Luisa Sophia Krug
• Name: Louise Martens
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-107421

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• Eby ID Number: 00061-3997
• Epidemic: 1834, Blenheim Twp., Oxford Co., Ontario, Canada; Cholera

Notes:

Abraham Janzen, "(now spelled 'Johnson' by most of the descendants) a native of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, to which place his ancestors had moved from Holland about the year 1726. He was married to Nancy, daughter of Henry and Anna (Honsberger) Clemmer. She was a sister to Henry H. Clemmer who resided about two miles east of Berlin where he died April 30th,1851. She was born about the year 1778. Some time during the beginning of the present century they with their family of small children moved, with the Schwartzes and others, to Canada and finally settled in Blenheim Township, Oxford County, where he died of cholera in 1834. After his decease the widow was married to Jacob Bechtel. She died of paralysis while on a visit to Jacob Kolb's near Breslau in 1847. To Mr. Janzen and his wife was born 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.].

Abraham — Nancy Clemmer. Nancy (daughter of Henry Clemmer and Anna Honsberger) was born 1778, , Pennsylvania, USA; died 1847, Breslau, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Nancy Bechtel
• Name: Nancy Janzen
• Eby ID Number: 00024-1969

Notes:

Nancy Clemmer, "sister to Henry H. Clemmer, was born in 1778. She was married to Abraham Janzen. They resided in Blenheim, Oxford County, Ontario, where he died of cholera in 1834. She died of paralysis at Mr. Kolb's at Breslau in 1847. To them were born 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.].

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• Eby ID Number: dnf-43080

Notes:

He was supposedly named Johann Konrad Krug b. Germany