Anna Wismer Moyer

Brief Life History of Anna Wismer

When Anna Wismer Moyer was born on 8 February 1843, in Clinton, Huron, Canada West, British North America, her father, Joseph Bechtel Moyer, was 28 and her mother, Barbara High Wismer, was 26. She married Abraham Clemmer Moyer on 28 March 1872, in Clinton, Lincoln, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Clinton, Lincoln, Ontario, Canada in 1871 and Hilltown, Hilltown Township, Bucks, Pennsylvania, United States for about 20 years. She died on 29 January 1910, in Perkasie, Bucks, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in Blooming Glen, Hilltown Township, Bucks, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Family Time Line

Abraham Clemmer Moyer
1844–1935
Anna Wismer Moyer
1843–1910
Marriage: 28 March 1872
Harvey M. Moyer
1872–1898
Franklin M. Moyer
1874–1874
Madilla Moyer
1875–1923
Lillie Moyer
1877–1878
Leidy M. Moyer
1877–1952
Granville M. Moyer
1879–1959
Melvin Moyer
1881–1881
Isaiah M. Moyer
1882–1892
Ada Moyer
1883–

Sources (17)

  • Anna Moyer in household of Abraham C Moyer, "United States Census, 1900"
  • Anna W Moyer, "Ontario Marriages, 1869-1927"
  • Annie W. Moyer, "Find A Grave Index"

World Events (7)

1846

U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

1867 · Ontario Founded

On July 1, 1867, the province of Ontario was founded. It is the second largest province in Canada. A third of the population of Canada live here. Before it was Ontario it was called Upper Canada and had a Governor.

Name Meaning

Americanized form of German Meyer or Mayer .

French: status name for a sharecropper, from an angent derivative of Old French moie ‘half’.

In some cases also an Americanized form of Dutch Mooijer: surname associated with Maaijer, an occupational name for a mower or reaper (see Maier ). However, almost all bearers come from Volendam (North Holland), where the surname originated as Pooijer, possibly a metonymic occupational name for a fisherman (peurder) or a nickname for someone carrying a ponjaard ‘dagger’. The surname was changed to Mooijer due to the connotation with Dutch pooier ‘bully, fancy-man’.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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