Susannah Cressman^[1]

1879 - 1948  (69 years)

• Name	Susannah Cressman
  Born	4 Oct 1879	Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
  Gender	Female
  FindAGrave	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/28023196
  Name	Susannah Bauman
  Residence	1881	Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [4]
  	Mennonite
  Residence	1891	Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [6]
  	Mennonite
  Eby ID Number	00028-2086.6
  Died	7 Dec 1948	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [5]
  	Cause: heart attack following a stroke
  Buried	First Mennonite Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [5]
  Person ID	I22316	Generations
  Last Modified	28 Jan 2025

  
  

  Father	Cyrus Cressman,   b. 13 Jun 1845, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 9 Feb 1928, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 82 years)
  Mother	Maria M. "Mary" Horst,   b. 26 Apr 1851, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 26 Apr 1909, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 58 years)
  Married	24 Dec 1871  [2]
  Family ID	F4925	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Enoch M. Bauman,   b. 7 Dec 1882, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 10 Aug 1980, Elmira, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 97 years)
  Married	11 Mar 1907	Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
  Children	1. Irene C. Bauman,   b. 28 Mar 1908,   d. 8 Jul 1989  (Age 81 years)   2. Viola Bauman,   b. 8 Aug 1909,   d. 16 Aug 1986  (Age 77 years)   3. Melvin Bauman,   b. 24 Oct 1910,   d. 23 Aug 1998  (Age 87 years)   4. Alson Carl Bauman,   b. 21 Mar 1913, , Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada ,   d. 8 Nov 2002, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 89 years)   5. Salinda Bauman,   b. 8 Jan 1915,   d. 23 Apr 1935, Freeport (Kitchener), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 20 years)   6. Salome "Sally" Bauman,   b. 25 Oct 1920,   d. 9 Oct 2006, Guelph City, Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada  (Age 85 years)
  Last Modified	29 Jan 2025
  Family ID	F22007	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Susannah Cressman," born October 4th, 1879." 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a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin: as also much other unpublished historical information chiefly of a local character.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.]. ________________ Bauman. -- Susannah Bauman was born in Waterloo Twp., Ont., Oct. 4, 1879; died at the K. W. Hospital, Kitchener, Ont., Dec. 7, 1948; aged 69 y. 2 m. 3 d. Death resulted suddenly from a heart attack following a stroke. On March 17, 1907, she was united in marriage to Enoch M. Bauman, who survives. Also surviving are 5 children (Irene, Hamilton, Ont.; Viola - Mrs. Edwin Bowman, Yatton, Ont.; Melvin, Heidelberg, Ont.; Alson, Kitchener, Ont.; Salome - Mrs. Elmer Brubacher, Wallenstein, Ont.), 9 grandchildren, 2 brothers (Noah Cressman, Breslau, Ont.; and Allen Cressman, Guernsey, Sask.), and one sister (Maryann - Mrs. Lloyd Shantz, Didsbury, Alta.). An infant son (Enoch) predeceased her in 1916 and a twenty-year-old daughter (Salinda) in 1935. In her youth she joined the Mennonite Church, of which she was a member at the time of her death. She was a faithful wife and a kind mother. Funeral services were held Dec. 9 in the First Mennonite Church, Kitchener. Burial was made in the adjoining cemetery. Reuben Dettweiler and Oscar Burkholder officiated. Text: Ruth 1: 16,17. Gospel Herald - Volume XLII, Number 2 - January 11, 1949 - pages 46, 47

  
  

• 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..., 819. [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..., 482. [S132] Census - ON, Waterloo, Waterloo North - 1901, Waterloo C-5 Page 9. [S224] Census - ON, Waterloo, Waterloo North - 1881, Div 3 Page 27. [S8] News - Gospel Herald, January 11, 1949 - Obituary of Susannah Bowman. [S1573] Census - ON, Waterloo, Waterloo City - 1891, Section 1 Page 7.

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - 4 Oct 1879 - Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - Mennonite - 1881 - Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - Mennonite - 1891 - Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Married - 11 Mar 1907 - Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Died - Cause: heart attack following a stroke - 7 Dec 1948 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Buried - - First Mennonite Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  = Link to Google Earth