Sources: Family Bible, The "living" Steiss descendants of Neidenstein, Daisbach, Germany, 1997. Claudia Steiss and Thomas Grab and the 1861 Census
Hawkesville is small farming community to this day, located outside of Kitchener, down the road from the small town of Heidelberg. Occupied by Mennonite farmers now. John F. Steiss was a merchant in this newly founded town in the 1850's & '60s
He is married to Mary Ann Weber.
They got married Oct 28, 1857 at Heidelberg, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, he was 21 years old.
Child(ren):
John Frederick Steiss | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1857 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Mary Ann Weber |
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