Waterloo Region Generations
A record of the people of Waterloo Region, Ontario.

Janet Leah S. "Leah" Wanner[1, 2]

Female 1835 - 1909  (73 years)


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  • Name Janet Leah S. "Leah" Wanner 
    Born 18 Dec 1835  Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
    Gender Female 
    Name Janet Leah S. "Leah" Panabaker 
    Name Leah Wanner  [3
    Residence 1862  Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [4
    Residence 1871  Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [7
    Mennonite 
    Residence 1881  Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [5
    Mennonite 
    Residence 1891  Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [6
    Methodist 
    Eby ID Number 00126-7646 
    Died 15 Oct 1909  [8
    Buried New Hope Cemetery, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [8
    Person ID I14452  Generations
    Last Modified 6 Apr 2024 

    Father Tobias W. Wanner,   b. 16 Mar 1790, , Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 28 Jun 1845, Near Hespeler, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 55 years) 
    Mother Catharine Strycker,   b. 7 Mar 1798, , Cumberland Co., Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 21 May 1882, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 84 years) 
    Family ID F550  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family David Panabaker,   b. 7 Oct 1825, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 3 Jun 1909  (Age 83 years) 
    Married 12 Jan 1862  Germantown, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [4, 6, 7, 9
    Children 
     1. Panabaker
     2. Ephraim Albert Panabaker,   b. 1862, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 7 Nov 1945, Codette, , Saskatchewan, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 83 years)
     3. Arnold Tobias Panabaker,   b. 31 Aug 1863, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1963  (Age 99 years)
     4. Abraham Alfred "Abram" Panabaker,   b. 28 Mar 1867, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 15 Jul 1937, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 70 years)
     5. Elizabeth "Lizzie" Panabaker,   b. 2 Jun 1869, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1966  (Age 96 years)
     6. Rebecca Ellen Panabaker,   b. 17 Dec 1871, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 2 Mar 1873, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 1 years)
     7. Mayor David Norman Panabaker,   b. 5 Feb 1874, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 3 Aug 1939, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 65 years)
     8. Cornelius Arthur "Neil" Panabaker,   b. 13 Jan 1877, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 29 May 1963  (Age 86 years)
    Last Modified 7 Apr 2024 
    Family ID F2856  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • Leah S. Wanner, "the seventh and youngest daughter of Tobias W. Wanner, is married to David Pannebecker. They reside on her father's old place near Hespeler, Ontario. Their family consists 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.].

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      Died In Hespeler, on Friday, Oct. 15th, 1909, at 12.15 o'clock a.m., Leah Wanner, Relict of the late David Panabaker, in her 74th year. Funeral will take place from her late residence, Queen Street East, Hespeler, where services will be held, on Saturday, Oct. 16th, at 2.30 o'clock p.m., to the Hespeler Cemetery for interment. Friends and acquaintances will please accept this intimation.


      Waterloo Historical Society Death Notices Collection - photocopies

  • Sources 
    1. [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..., 564.

    2. [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..., 150.

    3. [S131] Census - ON, Waterloo, Waterloo Twp. - 1851, Div 1 Pg 49.

    4. [S6] Church Records - ON, Waterloo - Bindeman, F. W. - Card Index Kitchener Public Library.
      David Pannebecker, 36, b. Waterloo Twp, r. Waterloo Twp., s/o Abraham Pennebecker & Sally Clemens married 12 Jan 1862 to Leah Wanner 27, b. Waterloo Twp., r. Waterloo Twp. d/o Tobias Wanner and Catherine Stringer. wit: Caroline Bindemann and Henry Meyer both of Berlin.

    5. [S178] Census - ON, Waterloo, Waterloo South - 1881, Waterloo S. Twp. 1881 Div 2 Page 8.

    6. [S2575] Census - ON, Waterloo Township - 1891, Sect. 3 Page 44.

    7. [S2767] aaaWaterloo Township 1871 South, Sect. 2 Page 41.

    8. [S3231] Find A Grave, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/23644689/leah-panabaker.

    9. [S20] News - ON, Waterloo, Kitchener - Berlin Telegraph (title varies: Berlin Telegraph, Berlin Daily Telegraph) (1853-1922), 17 Jan 1862.
      "Pennabecker - Allen: Mr. Edward Johnston, of Carrick to Miss Janet Lea Wanner of Waterloo Township." by rev. Mr. Bindeman at Germantown or Berlin

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBorn - 18 Dec 1835 - Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - 1862 - Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - Mennonite - 1871 - Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - Mennonite - 1881 - Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - Methodist - 1891 - Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBuried - - New Hope Cemetery, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
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