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Married:
- Rudolph Dettweiler was born in Pennsylvania and came to Canada with his parents in 1810.The family settled on a farm near the Wanner Meetinghouse (Wanner Mennonite Church), near Hespeler (Cambridge), Ontario.Rudolph married to Susannah Bingeman in 1832. Like Rudolph, Susannah was born in Pennsylvania. She came to Canada with her parents in 1825 when she was 14 or 15. The Bingeman family first settled near Bridgeport - now part of Kitchener, Ontario.Shortly after their marriage, Rudolph purchased 101 acres from Abraham Oberholtzer at the price of L.80. The deed was dated Dec 21, 1832, and mentions buildings on the property. The census of 1851 shows the family living in a 1 1/2 story round log house. An apple orchard of several acres was planted behind the house reaching to the edge of a cedar swamp. The rear of the property bordered on the Grand River.In 1839, a further 50 acres were purchased a further 50 acres for L125.In 1853 a large 2 story sone house and bank barn were constructed. The bedrooms on the second floor opened into each other so that there was no need for a hallwayRudolph and Susannah had a family of 14 children all of whom reached adulthood. The 3 oldest children -John, Hannah and Henry, married and in time moved to the U.S. living in Indiana, Virginia and Michigan. The remaining 11 children remained in Ontario.When Rudolph was no longer able to carry on with the farm, son Noah took over for a number of years. In Rudolph's will, he left an acre of land for his widow on which a story and a half frame house had been erected. The will stipulated that at the expiration of one year after his decease, the executors were to sell either by Public Auction or Private bargain all the remainder of the Conveyance. The Executors agreed by Private Bargain to sell the property, 149 acres, for $10,000.00 to Isaac E. Weber a neighbour.
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