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John

Metzler
Birth Date:

January 9, 1786

Birth Location:

Germany

Death Date:

October 1, 1857

Death Location:

Iroquois County, Illinois

Burial:

Jones Cemetery (Beaver Creek)
Rural Papineau, Illinois

Parents
Father
Not known.
Mother
Not known.
Siblings (in birth order)
Not known.
 
Marriage

Not known.

Children (in birth order)
John Metzler may have had a number of children.
His only known child is Catharine Metzler (1823-1887).
Notes

John Metzler appears on the 1851 Canadian census in the home
of his son-in-law and daughter.  At the time, they lived in Ontario.

1851 Canadian Census

 

Name
Stephen
Catherine
Mary
George 
Hannah
Stephen
John
Ebenezer
John Metzler
John Williams
Jane Adzit

Occupation
Farmer








Laborer
Servant
Birthplace
York State
Canada West
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"
"
"
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Germany
Canada West
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Age
36
29

12
9
8
6
3
1
66
21
23
 


The Benjamin family moved from Kingston, Ontario, Canada to Iroquois
County, Illinois in the spring of 1857, and John Metzler came with them.

John died in the fall of 1857, and he was buried in the Beaver Creek Cemetery.
 

John Metzler shares a gravestone with three of his
grandchildren:  Ebenezer, Sarah, and Catharine Benjamin.

 

 

 

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