Individual Details
Barbara Wittwer
(30 Mar 1810 - 8 Apr 1876)
My mother told me that her parents - Christian and Barbara Bride emigrated to America from Switzerland and settled in Sugar Creek Township, Stark County Ohio. I do not know the date. They had six children, the youngest being my other Mary Ann Bride. My grandfather died while quite young and left my grandmother with the children to raise. She worked very hard in the fields or did anything she could to provide a living. She spun her own flax and wove it into linen, made her own tallow candles and clothing, baked bread in outside brick ovens. She was true to the reputation of the Swiss doing fine needlework. My mother remembered that there was still an Indian chief living in the vicinity.
At the age twenty-nine he married Mary Ann Bride who was twenty-four. Her parents had sailed from Switzerland and settled in the vicinity of Sugar Creek (township). Shortly after settling there my grandfather died and left a family of six children, two boys and four girls. Elizabeth died from diphtheria at the age of twenty one. My grandmother raised the family by working in the fields like a man. She made candles (their only way of light) spun flax and wool for their clothing baked in an outdoor oven. They wore white caps so I think they were Mennonites.
Events
| Birth | 30 Mar 1810 | Switzerland |  | ||
| Alternate Birth | 8 Apr 1810 | Switzerland | | ||
| Christen | 8 Apr 1810 | Thun, Bern, Switzerland | | ||
| Marriage | 4 Oct 1833 | Y - Steffisburg, Switzerland - Christian Bride | | ||
| Immigration | 24 Jun 1843 | Sugar Creek Township, Stark, Ohio, United States |  | | |
| Census | 1850 | Sugar Creek Township, Stark, Ohio, United States | | | |
| Occupation | Aft Aug 1857 | Worked as farm laborer after death of Christian. - Tuscarawas Township, Stark, Ohio, United States | | ||
| Census | 27 Aug 1860 | Tuscarawas Township, Stark, Ohio, United States | | | |
| Census | 1870 | Tuscarawas Township, Stark, Ohio, United States | | | |
| Death | 8 Apr 1876 | Tuscarawas Township, Stark, Ohio, United States | |||
| Alt name | Barbe Breit | | |||
| Burial | Crossroads Union Cemetery, Stark, Ohio, United States | | |||
| Religion-shared | (Christian Bride) Mennonite | |
Families
| Spouse | Christian Bride (1805 - 1857) |
| Child | Christian Bride (1835 - 1836) |
| Child | Barbara Anna Bride (1839 - 1912) |
| Child | Anna Elizabeth Bride (1842 - 1863) |
| Child | Frederick Warner Bride (1844 - 1909) |
| Child | Godfrey Bride (1846 - 1924) |
| Child | Catharine "Katie" Bride (1848 - 1931) |
| Child | Henry Bride (1858 - 1870) |
| Spouse | John W Elliott (1814 - 1879) |
| Child | Mary Ann Bride (1852 - 1934) |
| Father | Johannes "Hans" Wittwer (1775 - 1815) |
| Mother | Catharina Wyler (1773 - 1834) |
| Sibling | Elizabeth Wittwer (1803 - ) |
| Sibling | Anna Wittwer (1807 - ) |
| Sibling | Joannes Wittwer (1808 - ) |
| Sibling | Christian Wittwer (1811 - 1876) |
| Sibling | Susanna Wittwer (1813 - 1884) |
| Sibling | Maria Wittwer (1815 - ) |
Notes
Immigration
Christian is listed as "Carl". Barbara Anna is listed as Anna. Ages and children fit. Ship Cahawba. Place of origin Switzerland.Census
Next door to John W Elliott. Husband is missing.Census
Listed as B Birds, age 40, born in Ohio. Children match.Census
With Gotleib, Barbara and Catharine.Endnotes
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2. , Find A Grave (N.p.: n.p., n.d.), http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=75490538.
3. , https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:68VG-S3K6.
4. Switzerland, Select Marriages 1532-1910, http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=FS1SwitzerlandMarriages&h=492399&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt&ssrc=pt_t53911924_p13650576996_kpidz0q3d13650576996z0q26pgz0q3d32768z0q26pgplz0q3dpid.
5. , https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FVN6-76B.
6. , https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:68VG-S3K6.
7. Switzerland, Select Marriages 1532-1910, http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=FS1SwitzerlandMarriages&h=492399&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt&ssrc=pt_t53911924_p13650576996_kpidz0q3d13650576996z0q26pgz0q3d32768z0q26pgplz0q3dpid.
8. , https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FVN6-76B.
9. New York, Passenger and Immigration Lists, 1820-1850.
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11. Letters of Ruby Holm.
12. New York Passenger Lists 1820-1957, https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?dbid=7488&h=1022818408&indiv=try&o_vc=Record:OtherRecord&rhSource=60174.
13. United States Census for 1850, https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/14594612:8054.
14. United States Census for 1850, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MX76-L32.
15. Letters of Ruby Holm.
16. 1860 Census, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MCPW-XHQ.
17. 1860 Census, https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/42103122:7667.
18. 1870 Census, http://search.ancestry.com/Browse/view.aspx?dbid=7163&path=Ohio.Stark.Tuscarawas.59.
19. 1870 Census, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M6V1-MGH.
20. New York, Passenger and Immigration Lists, 1820-1850.
21. , Find A Grave (N.p.: n.p., n.d.), http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=75490538.
22. Letters of Ruby Holm.