Elizabeth Klopfenstein^[1]

1810 - 1888  (78 years)

• Name	Elizabeth Klopfenstein
  Born	1810	, , Switzerland   [2, 3, 4, 5]
  Gender	Female
  Name	Elizabeth Bettschen
  Residence	1861	Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [5]
  	Protestant (CE)
  Eby ID Number	Waterloo-25195
  Died	1888  [4]
  Buried	Rosebank Community Cemetery, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [4]
  Person ID	I25195	Generations
  Last Modified	12 May 2024

  
  

  Family	Mator Jacob Bettschen,   b. 8 May 1808, , Switzerland ,   d. 24 Jul 1869, New Dundee, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 61 years)
  Children	1. Jacob Bettschen,   b. 1830, , Ontario, Canada ,   d. Yes, date unknown   2. Susanna Bettschen,   b. 1836, , Ontario, Canada ,   d. Yes, date unknown   3. Gottlieb Bettschen,   b. 3 Sep 1841, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 11 Oct 1914, New Dundee, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 73 years)   4. Hercules Bettschen,   b. 1844, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. Bef 1878  (Age < 33 years)   5. Frederick Bettschen,   b. 27 Oct 1846, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 29 Nov 1922, , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 76 years)   6. Judith Bettschen,   b. 4 Oct 1848, New Dundee, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 4 Mar 1930, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 81 years)   7. David Bettschen,   b. 1850, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 1850, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 0 years)   8. Elizabeth Bettschen,   b. 1850, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 1850, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 0 years)
  Last Modified	13 May 2024
  Family ID	F6454	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Pioneer Wedding The wedding of Jacob Bettschen and Elizabeth Klopfenstein on May 29, 1830, is a typical wedding of pioneer times. They took the oven on the cart without springs, drove to Preston, twelve miles distant, and there were married by Squire Wm. Scollic, a magistrate. No minister was within twelve miles so it was legal for a magistrate to officiate. From Preston they drove all the way to Dundas with cart outfit. There they visited the parents and then returned home, driving over stony, newly-made roads, through swamps, over hills, passing between stumps, in some places driving through forests. Thus one hundred miles were travelled in going and coming The newly married couple then started in hope to clear the land and build better buildings in the vicinity of Vineyard Farm. Jacob Bettschen was the first tax collector appointed in this section because of his reputation for honesty. In these days institutions for the safe deposit of money were remote from the settlements and as a consequence when he returned late in the evening with the results from his collections during the day he would pull out the large wooden pins in logs of the cabin which were used for hanging up clothes, put the money in the holes and replace the pins. He was the first man appointed constable in this district and while acting in this capacity made the first arrest. It was also for the first murder committed among the white people in the district. The murderer was apprehended at Haysville and the charge of murdering a child and concealing its remains under a culvert. Jacob Bettschen arrested this man single-handed and on foot conveyed him to the Hamilton jail, a distance of about forty-five miles. The greater portion of the distance was through dense forest. Thus was the life history of the pioneers of Rosebank Section. Waterloo Chronicle 16 Apr 1943, p. 2

  
  

• Sources

  [S4] Vit - ON - Marriage Registration. Frederick BETTSCHEN, 27, farmer, Wilmot Twp, Roseville, s/o Jacob & Elizabeth married Hannah CLEMENS, 23, Roseville, Roseville, d/o Jacob & Eve, witn: Jacob & Isabella BECKER of Baden, 24 May 1874 in Baden. [S190] Census - ON, Waterloo, Wilmot - 1871, Div 2 pg 6. [S134] Census - ON, Waterloo, Wilmot - 1851, Div 2 Pg 6. [S213] Cemetery - ON, Waterloo, Wilmot - Rosebank Community CC#4565 Internet Link. In memory of / Jacob Bettschen / 1808-1869 / Elizabeth Klopfenstein / his wife / 1810-1888 / David and Elizabeth / twins / 1850-1850 / Bettschen / [S844] Census - ON, Waterloo, Wilmot - 1861, Sect. 7 Page 42.

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - 1810 - , , Switzerland Residence - Protestant (CE) - 1861 - Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Buried - - Rosebank Community Cemetery, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  = Link to Google Earth