John WITWER

                   Witwer genealogy of America by Ananais Clime Witwer and Rev. Geo. Witwer  1909 So. Bend Indiana
Weaver Diller Witwer, born February 1, 1825, in Lancaster Co., Pa.; married in Erie Co., N.Y.; was a farmer, resided at Williamsville, Erie Co., N.Y., until 1854, when he moved to Rockford, Ill., where he farmed until 1879, when he moved to Topeka, Kansas, where they resided as good, respectable citizens and worthy members of society, and the father died in June, 1907, aged 82 years.
                  

                   Witwer genealogy of America by Ananais Clime Witwer and Rev. Geo. Witwer  1909 So. Bend Indiana
Esther C. Witwer Shaver was an exemplary fine woman, highly respected and loved by all who knew her; she was an ideal Christian woman.
                  

                   Witwer genealogy of America by Ananais Clime Witwer and Rev. Geo. Witwer  1909 So. Bend Indiana
                  

                   Witwer genealogy of America by Ananais Clime Witwer and Rev. Geo. Witwer  1909 So. Bend Indiana
                  

                   Witwer genealogy of America by Ananais Clime Witwer and Rev. Geo. Witwer  1909 So. Bend Indiana
                  

                   Witwer genealogy of America by Ananais Clime Witwer and Rev. Geo. Witwer  1909 So. Bend Indiana
Frances Augusta Witwer, born May 27, 1834, at Williamsville, Erie County, New York, was brought up to womanhood in the City of Williamsville, New York, and was united in marriage to Peter Clark Garret in Jule 1854.  She was an extraordinary woman, of such a lovely character, of such great devotion to her husband and family.  Her life was so remarkably sweet and pure, and she was a very beautiful woman, and was beloved by everybody.  All her brothers and sisters speak of her in an endearing manner, as to her ever kind ways and her goodness in and out of her home.  SHe was remarkably generous, and in the year of 1867 they removed to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where the loving mother of the the above respected family was called away by the grim reaper of death, on October 8, 1870.  She was just in the prime of life; she was much needed by her family, but He that knoweth all things for the best, saw fit to remove her, and she was laid to rest at Cedar Rapids cemetery.  Peter Clark Garret died in February, 1904.
                  

                   Witwer genealogy of America by Ananais Clime Witwer and Rev. Geo. Witwer  1909 So. Bend Indiana
Nancy E. WItwer was born June 13, 1836, at Williamsville, Erie Co., New York, and the Rev. J.P. Watson was born Jun 29 1838, at Lempster, New Hampshire.  THey united in marriage on October 13, 1859, at Rockford, Ill.  The husband, Elder J.P. Watson, is a minister in the Christian church at Troy, Ohio, having labored for and with this church at this place for 16 years, thus giving the best of evidence as to his worth and usefulness as a devoted, faithful and esteemed minister of the Gospel.  He is secretary of the Children's Mission Work, that began October, 1878 with one dime in its treasury.  It has in its emply 23 missionary preachers and teachers in sixteen different states and has under its control a literary and theological department.  Its missionaries in four years visited 749 neighborhoods, organized and assisted in organizing 65 churches and 69 Sunday Schools; preached 6467 sermons;  witnessed 1241 conversions; received 2487 members; baptized 363 persons; called on 9170 families; traveled 59,948 miles in their work.  Ti has no paid agents or salaried officers; every dime received goes to the work in the field.  Its workmen need to be multiplied.  Its calls are more than can be answered, before the year 1886 ends they hope to enter the foreign field.
                  

                   Witwer genealogy of America by Ananais Clime Witwer and Rev. Geo. Witwer  1909 So. Bend Indiana
John J. Witwer and Frank R. Witwer, his nephew, compose the firm of J.J. and F.R. Witwer, spice mills and retail grocers, Cedar Rapids, Iowa.  This was the record of 1886, and having received nothing further will have to let it go at this, and all I can add is that F.R. Witwer is a traveling salesman for the Witwer Brothers' Wholesale Grocery Co., of Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
                  

                   Witwer genealogy of America by Ananais Clime Witwer and Rev. Geo. Witwer  1909 So. Bend Indiana
                  

                   Witwer genealogy of America by Ananais Clime Witwer and Rev. Geo. Witwer  1909 So. Bend Indiana
Benjamin Herhey Witwer started in the grocery business in Rockford, Ill., in 1864, and in the year 1881 formed the partnership with his brother, Henry E., of the firm of Witwer Brothers Co., Wholesale Grocers, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa.   Benjamin H. has been in the grocery business for 45 years, and they have been very successful, and I wish to mention here that the information received from Benjamin H. has been highly interesting and has been given with such a good Christian spirit that it has been a great pleasure in receiving his letters which prove him to be a Christian in the full and true sense of the word.  And I find that he is quite a prominent member of the Christian chruch at his home city and very highly respected and influential.
                  

                   Witwer genealogy of America by Ananais Clime Witwer and Rev. Geo. Witwer  1909 So. Bend Indiana
Henry E. Witwer is a wholesale grocer of the firm of WItwer Brothers, on Front St., Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and according to the Sunday School Journal of the Christian Chruch, is in very high standing "especially among the young ladies of Cedar Rapids, Iowa" and we, therefore, deem it to suffice in saying that his standing is at the "top."  Louis H. and Percy P., the twin sons of Henry E. Witwer, are salesmen for the wholesale firm.