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Abraham Honsberger[1,2]

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Birth  3 May 1782    [3
Sex  Male 
Eby ID  00057-3860 
Died  6 Dec 1857  Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Co., Ontario  [4
Person ID  I11056 
Last Modified  18 Sep 2004 
 
Father  Abraham Honsberger 
Mother  Esther Tyson 
Group Sheet  F3106 
 
Family 1  Catharine S. Bergey, b. 3 Dec 1786 
Children 
 1. Jonas Honsberger, b. 23 Sep 1808
 2. William Honsberger, b. 1 Mar 1810
 3. Abraham Honsberger, b. 17 Jan 1812
 4. Samuel Honsberger, b. 6 Sep 1814
 5. Isaac Honsberger, b. 8 Nov 1816
 6. Jonas Honsberger, b. 17 Sep 1819
 7. Maria Honsberger, b. 13 Jun 1821
 8. Catharine Honsberger, b. 16 Mar 1824
 9. Esther Honsberger, b. 16 Oct 1826
 10. Veronica Honsberger, b. 17 Feb 1829
 11. Jacob Honsberger, b. 6 Mar 1831
Group Sheet  F3105 
 
Notes  Abraham Honsberger, "son of Abraham and Esther (Tyson)(Esther was aunt to the father of Abram Tyson of Berlin) Honsberger, was one of the early settlers of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. He was born May 3rd, 1782, and was married to Catharine, daughter of Abraham and Esther (Shantz) Bergey (Esther was sister to old Isaac Shantz who was the father of the old Shantzes of this county and mother to old John Bingeman and grandmother to Mr. Jonas Bingeman of Berlin). She was born in the same county, December 3rd, 1786. In 1824 they moved to Canada and settled in Waterloo County, Ontario. Several years after their arrival in this county they settled in Wilmot Township, near New Dundee where they died. His death took place December 6th, 1857, and she died November 2nd, 1874. To them were born eleven children, viz:"
 
Sources  1. [S1]   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..., Ezra E. Eby, (Berlin, Ontario, 1895), 230   [View page(s) from the 1895-96 edition]
2. [S2]   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..., Ezra Eby, 366   [View page(s) from the 1895-96 edition]
3. [S1]   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..., Ezra E. Eby, (Berlin, Ontario, 1895), 811   [View page(s) from the 1895-96 edition]
4. [S1]   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..., Ezra E. Eby, (Berlin, Ontario, 1895)   [View page(s) from the 1895-96 edition]
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