Jacob Bleam^{[1, 2, 3]}

1810 - 1836  (25 years)

• Name	Jacob Bleam
  Born	20 Jan 1810	Doon (Kitchener), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [1, 4]
  Gender	Male
  Interesting	crime, murder, misfortune, life story
  Misfortune	Jan 1836	Dundas, West Flamborough Twp., Wentworth Co., Ontario, Canada
  	murdered
  Name	Jacob Bliehm  [5]
  Eby ID Number	00010-1097
  Died	Jan 1836	Dundas, West Flamborough Twp., Wentworth Co., Ontario, Canada   [4]
  	Cause: murdered
  Person ID	I20521	Generations
  Last Modified	25 Apr 2024

  
  

  Father	Philip Bliehm,   b. 1780, , Montgomery Co., Pennsylvania ,   d. 1847, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 67 years)
  Mother	Esther Bechtel,   b. Jul 1766, Of, Montgomery Co., Pennsylvania ,   d. 20 Jan 1833, , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age ~ 66 years)
  Married	1804  [6]
  Family ID	F4126	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth Scheirich,   b. 1 May 1816, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 17 Dec 1890, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 74 years)
  Married	3 Nov 1835	Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [5]
  Last Modified	26 Apr 2024
  Family ID	F3011	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Jacob Bliehm, "was born January 20th, 1810. He was married to Elizabeth, daughter of John and Barbara Scheirich who resided on the old "Hiestand Farm" two miles south of Berlin. Having to meet a payment of several hundred dollars in the bank at Dundas, he left home in January, 1836, and drove to Dundas where he had his horse put up in the stables of the McEwen hotel. This was the last of him. A few days afterwards his horse was still in the stable, his overcoat was hanging in the hotel, but no deposit was made in the bank. All trace of him since then has been lost. Rumor has it that he was murdered in the McEwen Hotel that night for his money and his body hid in an old well near by the hotel. A year or so after this occurrence there were a number of bodies (in a half decomposed state) found in this well, all supposed to have been murdered in this hotel, one of which bodies is said to have favored that of Bliehm's." 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a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin: as also much other unpublished historical information chiefly of a local character.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.].

  
  

• Sources

  [S3] Book - Vol I 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..., 278. [S3] Book - Vol I 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..., 796. [S3] Book - Vol I 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..., 223. [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..., 226. [S9] News - ON, Waterloo, Kitchener - Canada Museum und Allgemeine Zeitung (1835-1840), 5 Nov 1835:11. last Tuesday By Wm Ellis, Jacob Bliehm m. Miss Elisabeth Scheirich, both are of Waterloo. [S3] Book - Vol I 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..., 485.

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - 20 Jan 1810 - Doon (Kitchener), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Married - 3 Nov 1835 - Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Misfortune - murdered - Jan 1836 - Dundas, West Flamborough Twp., Wentworth Co., Ontario, Canada Died - Cause: murdered - Jan 1836 - Dundas, West Flamborough Twp., Wentworth Co., Ontario, Canada  = Link to Google Earth