Rudolph Detweiler

1771 - 1837  (66 years)

• Name	Rudolph Detweiler  [1]
  Birth	13 Feb 1771	Montgomery Co., Pennsylvania   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	18 Mar 1837	Waterloo Township, Waterloo County, Ontario   [1]
  Person ID	I12123	All
  Last Modified	28 Dec 2006

  
  

  Father	Rudolph Dettweiler,   b. Abt 1733, Switzerland d. Sep 1797 (Age ~ 64 years)
  Family ID	F3276	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Anna M. Wanner,   b. 9 Nov 1776, Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania d. 2 Jan 1814, Waterloo County, Ontario (Age 37 years)
  Children	1. Rudolph W. Dettweiler,   b. 9 Aug 1807, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania d. 15 Dec 1889 (Age 82 years)
  Family ID	F3275	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Death - 18 Mar 1837 - Waterloo Township, Waterloo County, Ontario  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Notes

  Allan Dettweiler is studying Ezra Eby's work and extending the mennonite tree at ezraeby.com. He indicates the following. (Research): Newspaper Obituary, it is from the Canada Museum and is dated March 16, 1837. It reads as follows: "Suicide: Last Friday afternoon, Rudolph Dettweiler gave himself such a terrible cut in the throat with a pocket knife, presumably in a fit of madness, that he died the following Sunday, despite all measures to save him, in the home of Samuel Eby (the older). He was in his 67th year. (translated from German -perhaps not perfectly). According to Ezra Eby, the father of Rudolph is Heinrich Dettweiler[Eby 2200] . However, there are 2 reasons to doubt this information. Firstly, no records have been located in Pennsylvania which would support this, and secondly, an obituary for the son of the above Rudolph, also named Rudolph, states that his father AND GRAND-FATHER were also named Rudolph (not Heinrich). Records located in Pennsylvania show that one Melchior Dettweiler had a son and grandson, both named Rudolph. It is thought that Melchior's grandson is the same Rudolph (Canada Rudolph) who, with his wife Anna Wanner, and their family, arrived in Canada in 1810. Eby also states that Anna Dettweiler, the wife of Cornelius Pannebecker was a sister to Canada Rudolph. However the Pennsylvania records do not show that Canada Rudolph had a sister Anna. Hopefully, information will be found which will clear up this matter.

  
  

• Sources

  [S065344] Ezra Eby Book.