Abraham B. Stauffer

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• Eby ID Number: 00117-7368

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a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin: as also much other unpublished historical information chiefly of a local character.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.].

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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. Another incident connected with this burying ground that formed an exciting topic of neighborhood gossip, was the interment of several victims of the cholera, which visited this section in 1828. The deadly epidemic was brought in by a circus that pitched its tents in Galt some time during that year.

Waterloo County Chronicle 17 Mar 1898, p. 8