George Wandel Walter Meyers [35597]

  General Notes:

From the Maybee Society files. Not all data is verified. Say dates are estimates and are probably within 20 years. The Maybee Society keeps its data on The Master Genealogist�, and has been modified by Gary Hester?s WIT2NOTE� to form the GedCom file. This information is also available in a TMG file.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Residence: Lot 4/5 Con 3, Sidney Township, , Ontario, Canada. ⁴³³ very affluent farm

• No Name, 1861, Sidney Township, Hastings County, Ontario, Canada. ⁸⁹⁷⁰ George Wandel Walter Meyers appeared on the census of 1861 in
the household of Mary McGilvray Sidney Township, Hastings
County, Ontario, Canada

• Land, 1869, Thurlow Township, , Ontario, Canada. ⁴³³ owned Lot 11 Con 1

• No Name, 1871, Sidney Township, Hastings County, Ontario, Canada. ⁸⁹⁶⁹ George Wandel Walter Meyers and Ann Elizabeth Mabey appeared on
the census of 1871 Sidney Township, Hastings County, Ontario,
Canada8, George W. Meyers, M, 41, M, Ontario, Episc Meth,
Farmer
9, Ann E. Meyers, F, 34, M, Ontario, Episc Meth
10, Ida L. Meyers, F, 10, S, Ontario, Episc Meth, Student
11, Samuel Meyers, M,, 9, S, Ontario, Episc Meth, Student
Residing Lot 4, Concession 3; 75 acres; 1house; 1 barn 2
carriages, 2 wagons, 2 ploughs, 3 horses, 1 colt, 6 cows, 4
other horned cattle, 20 sheep, 4 swine

• Anecdote, 1904. ⁸²³⁸ George Wandel Meyers, is another respected fourth generation
descendant of the Meyers family of Sidney. He was born in 1829,
Sidney and of all the other pioneer boys who attended the old
Number Two School he is one of the few still living. At an
early age he apprenticed to the tailor's trade in Belleville.
After hiring out for farm work for several years he went to
Wisconsin in 1858. staying there only 18 months, he returned
with a hundred dollars of gold in his pocket. By industry and
economy he saved sufficient to purchase a farm, in Rawdon,
which he later sold, to rent the Mabey farm, Eventually he
purchased his present home, Lot 4 3rd Con. of Sidney. In 1859;
he married Annie E., daughter of Samuel Maybey, a granddaughter
of the pioneer John Mabey. They had a family of two (1) Ida who
married Daniel Stevens and had children Annie, Lelia, Frank,
John & Edith and (2) Samuel, who married Hannah Stickle, and
has a son, Frederick Earl. The fine Property of this branch of
the family is the fruit of very hard work, The farm consists of
166 acres, the house is of good brick and supplemented by barns
and other outbuildings replete with modern appliances.

• No Name, 1904. ⁸²³⁸ George Wandel Meyers, is another respected fourth generation
descendant of the Meyers family of Sidney. He was born in 1829,
Sidney and of all the other pioneer boys who attended the old
Number Two School he is one of the few still living. At an
early age he apprenticed to the tailor's trade in Belleville.
After hiring out for farm work for several years he went to
Wisconsin in 1858. staying there only 18 months, he returned
with a hundred dollars of gold in his pocket. By industry and
economy he saved sufficient to purchase a farm, in Rawdon,
which he later sold, to rent the Mabey farm, Eventually he
purchased his present home, Lot 4 3rd Con. of Sidney. In 1859;
he married Annie E., daughter of Samuel Maybey, a granddaughter
of the pioneer John Mabey. They had a family of two (1) Ida who
married Daniel Stevens and had children Annie, Lelia, Frank,
John & Edith and (2) Samuel, who married Hannah Stickle, and
has a son, Frederick Earl. The fine Property of this branch of
the family is the fruit of very hard work, The farm consists of
166 acres, the house is of good brick and supplemented by barns
and other outbuildings replete with modern appliances.

• Memo, 1910. ⁴³³ on voter's list

George married Ann Elizabeth Mabey [35630] [MRIN: 2997], daughter of Samuel Mabey [35652] and Mary McGilvray [35631], on 1 Sep 1859 in Sidney Township, Hastings County, Ontario, Canada.⁵⁴ (Ann Elizabeth Mabey [35630] was born on 11 Nov 1837 in Sidney Township, , Ontario, Canada,⁴³³ died on 9 Apr 1908 in Sidney Township, , Ontario, Canada ⁴³³ and was buried in Bayside Cemetery, Sidney Township, Hastings County, Ontario, Canada ⁴³³.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Census, 1871, Sidney Township, Hastings County, Ontario, Canada. ⁸⁹⁶⁹ 8, George W. Meyers, M, 41, M, Ontario, Episc Meth, Farmer
9, Ann E. Meyers, F, 34, M, Ontario, Episc Meth
10, Ida L. Meyers, F, 10, S, Ontario, Episc Meth, Student
11, Samuel Meyers, M,, 9, S, Ontario, Episc Meth, Student
Residing Lot 4, Concession 3; 75 acres; 1house; 1 barn 2
carriages, 2 wagons, 2 ploughs, 3 horses, 1 colt, 6 cows, 4
other horned cattle, 20 sheep, 4 swine

  Marriage Notes:

George W. D. Wonegens, 30, of Sidney, born in Sidney, parents
dead, and Ann Elizabeth Maybee, 20, of Sidney, born in Sidney,
father dead, mother Mary.