Abraham B. Stauffer^[1]

1816 - 1835  (~ 19 years)

• Name	Abraham B. Stauffer
  Born	CA 1816	Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
  Gender	Male
  Interesting	grave robbery
  Eby ID Number	00117-7368
  Died	1835  [2]
  Buried	Kinzie-Bean Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region. Ontario   [2]
  Person ID	I10174	Generations
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2025

  
  

  Father	Abraham Stauffer,   b. 1 Aug 1788, Near Lititz, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania ,   d. 29 Apr 1860, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 71 years)
  Mother	Catharine Biehn,   b. 1785, , USA ,   d. 1869  (Age 84 years)
  Family ID	F2918	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Abraham B. Stauffer, "died, aged about 20 years." 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a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin: as also much other unpublished historical information chiefly of a local character.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.]. __________ VILLAGE OF DOON The Old Graveyard-A Startling Revelation The Ferry Bros., Estate-Fred Beck, the Father of Doon. In my notes on the old Kinsey graveyard, last week, I neglected to mention a thrilling episode connected with it some forty years ago. A grave, which had contained the remains of one, Abraham Stauffer, for many years, was found to have sunk down several inches. The discovery caused quite a sensation throughout the neighborhood, and the supposition at once gained currency that graveyard ghouls had been at work. A number of neighbors assembled at the graveyard and proceeded to open the grave for the purpose of ascertaining for certain whether the abode of the dead had actually been invaded by body-snatchers, and the diabolical theft committed. As the exhumers reached bottom the horrible. fact was revealed. Nothing remained but a few locks of hair and particles of the burial garments. The theft of the skeleton was evidently the ghastly work of some ambitious doctor, who sought to adorn his office closet with the necessary material for anatomical demonstration.. Waterloo County Chronicle 17 Mar 1898, p. 8

  
  

• Sources

  [S10] Book - Vol II 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..., 510. [S186] Cemetery - ON, Waterloo, Kitchener - Kinzie-Bean CC#5424 Internet Link . Erected To/ The Memory Of/ Abraham Stauffer/ Son Of Abraham And ____ ______STAUFFER/ Who Died_______20, 1835 Aged_______/ [eroded, May 2011] Abraham [B] Salome [C] A.S.

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - CA 1816 - Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Buried - - Kinzie-Bean Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region. Ontario  = Link to Google Earth