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- Hiram Teetzel is also listed as a parent on a Monument at Palermo United Cemetery, Halton County. [whose?]
. 1841 Trafalgar Township Census,
Note1: "Originally written by Hazel Chisholm Mathews 28 September 1965
Warning relative to the 1st & 2nd Concessions N.D.S. & S.D.S.
Except in a few instances the enumerator failed to distinguish between North & South of Dundas Street. It has therefore been impossible for the copyist to be certain of the location of a large proportion of those lots lying in the 1st & 2nd Concessions.
Any question is best answered by referring to the Trafalgar Township Abstract Index at the Halton County Registry Office at Milton, Ontario. The first census of the Province of Upper Canada was taken in the year that it became Canada West, 1841.
About 1948 when the researching for the Oakville history was going forward, the 1841 Census of Trafalgar Township was discovered in the Public Archives of Canada at Ottawa. Unlike its successors which were recorded in ledgers, the data for this first census was written on a tremendous sheet of paper some 6 or 8 feet square.
Having seen little use, this sheet was then in very good condition & my sister, Dr. Juliet Chisholm, took a copy of much of the essential data. The names run down the left hand side, the headings across the top & these are divided perpendicularly & horizontally by lines forming a grid. The last time this census was seen it was so torn as to be almost unreadable. For this reason the following transcript was made of the data."
. 1856 Jun 5 - Berrien County. We lean from the St. Joseph Traveler that the following officers were chose at the corporation election in that village on the 5th: Trustee: Hiram Teetzel. At a meeting of the citizens of St. Joseph, after discussion relative to the proposed extension of the Grand Trunk road across the State, $20,000 were subscribed & a committee appointed to canvass the town for further subscriptions.
Ref: Detroit Advertiser & Tribune Newspaper, published 1856 Jun 20.
. 1856 Oct 10 - The undersigned citizens of Berrien Co. Clear the Truck - The Response! One Hundred Democrats In Berrien County Declare For John C. Pierce in 1852. Believing in the great principles of Jefferson, Madison, Monroe & Jackson, than to adopt a policy which has resulted, so far as it has been tried, in civil war & bloodshed, we invite your cooperation ...to election the champion of Freedom John C Fremont, Republican party, in State of Michigan... against slavery. 00 names, including Hiram Teetzel.
Ref: Albany Evening Journal.
* 1860 Aug 7 Census St. Joseph, Berrien Co., Michigan,
Hiram Teetzel, Age 42, B1818, New Jersey, blacksmith,
Elizabeth, age 38, b 1822, Canada, Lorenzo, 1841, Canada, Mary A, 1843; Adella, 1846 Canada; Hiram, 1848, Canada
Charles, aged 8, b 182, Michigan, Elizabeth age 6, 1854, Michigan; William E Teetzel, 1857 in Michigan.
. 1867-8 Michigan Gazette, Hiram Teetzel, Grocer, St. Joseph, MI. 2,200 inhabitants Daily mail.
. 1870 Census Saint Joseph, Berrien Co., Michigan.
. 1880 History of Berrien Co., Michigan,
Taverns. The first house of entertainment in Watervliet as a boardinghouse for mill hands, opened by W W McKee in a building which stood opposite the site of Walden's store. This building was afterwards answered in two, & is still doing duty. on-half as Brat's blacksmith shop & the other as Mr. Teetzel's residence.* Primarily intended as a boarding-place for the millhands, but as both places accommodated travelers, they were taverns, although not call so.
Ref: History of Berrien Co., Michigan, 1880.
Note2: Which Mr. Teetzel of Watervliet is not stated.
. 1861 Feb 27 - Federal Officers, An election held for the purpose, on Wed last, … Hiram Teetzel was chosen for Light House Keeper.
Ref: Grand Haven News, Michigan.
. 1868 Sep 12 Sat. - School Meeting - the Annual school meeting of the District School # 1, stituated in this village at Union School House on Monday evening …School Trustees. The meeting then proceeded to the election of a second trustee in place of Hiram Teetzel.
Ref: St. Joseph Herald.
. 1889 Jul 7, Sunday. Obituary: Hiram Teetzel , St. Joseph, Mich. July 6 , special Telegram. Hiram Teeter died this morning, aged, 73 years [b. 1816].
He has been a citizen of S. Joseph for 40 years. He leaves 4 sons & 2 daughters.
Research & transcriptions by PJ Ahlberg. Thank you. - - -
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1817 - 1889 (71 years)