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Esther Cressman (Wismer)

Also Known As: "Hester"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Plumstead, Bucks, Pennsylvania, United States
Death: September 02, 1881 (91)
New Dundee, Wilmot Township, Waterloo Regional Municipality, Ontario, Canada
Place of Burial: Breslau Mennonite Cemetery, Breslau, Waterloo Regional Municipality, Ontario, Canada
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Joseph Wismer and Barbara Wismer
Wife of John Schowalter Cressman
Mother of Anna W. Shantz; Joseph Cressman; John Cressman; Barbara Cressman and Henry Wismer Cressman
Sister of Elizabeth Ruth; Barbara Wismer Fretz; Catharine Wismer Althouse; Henry Wismer; Jacob Wismer and 3 others

Occupation: House Keeper
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About Esther Cressman

A Brief History of Jacob Wismer and a Complete Genealogical Family Register With Biographies of His Descendants from the Earliest Available Records to the Present Time By A J Fretz, Eli Wismer

http://books.google.com/books?id=nwBgAAAAMAAJ

Page xiii, 7, 117, 120, 124, 333

I. Jacob Wismer, (...) was born in Germany about 1684, and died in Bedminster Township, Bucks Co., Pa., Feb. 4, 1787 in his one hundred and third year.

(...)

The children of Jacob and Nanny Wismer, as near in the order of birth as could be placed were: ---Jacob, Mary, Elizabeth, Joseph, Henry, Mark, Daniel, John, Christian, Nanny, Abraham.

II. Joseph Wismer, bn. in Bucks Co., ---; died before his father made his will. His portion of his father's estate, was paid to his two sons in 1791. Mrd. ---. Children: Jacob, Joseph.

III. Joseph Wismer, bn. in Bucks Co., Pa., July 23, 1753; died in Chester Co., Pa., Aug. 30, 1820, aged 67 yrs., 1m., 7d. Married Barbara Wismer, daughter of Henry Wismer of Hilltown, Pa. ---. Farmer in Bedminster Twp. Children: Elizabeth, Barbara, Catharine, Esther, Henry, Henry, Joseph, Jacob, Mary, Anna.

IV. Esther Wismer, bn. in Bucks Co., Pa., Jan. 12, 1790; died in Waterloo Co., Ont., Sept. 2, 1881. Mrd. John Cressman, Oct. 3, 1818. He was bn. in Bucks Co., Pa., May 15, 1795; died in Waterloo Co., Ont. Farmer. Menn's. Children: Joseph, Anna, John, Barbara, Henry.

Daughter of Joseph & Barbara (Wismer) Wismer, wife of John Cressman.

Herald of Truth - Volume XVIII, Number 10 - October 1881, Page 173, 174, 179, 180 CRESSMAN - Sept. 2nd, in Waterloo Co., Ont., Sister Esther Cressman, widow, at the advanced age of 91 years, 7 months and 20 days. During the last nine months she suffered greatly from a fall. Buried the 5th at Cressman's.

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Esther Cressman's Timeline

1790
January 12, 1790
Plumstead, Bucks, Pennsylvania, United States
1819
August 4, 1819
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
1821
November 18, 1821
Waterloo, ON, Canada
December 23, 1821
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
1823
July 8, 1823
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
1825
February 27, 1825
Waterloo, Waterloo Regional Municipality, Ontario, Canada
1881
September 2, 1881
Age 91
New Dundee, Wilmot Township, Waterloo Regional Municipality, Ontario, Canada
September 5, 1881
Age 91
Breslau Mennonite Cemetery, Breslau, Waterloo Regional Municipality, Ontario, Canada