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From Fisherville Trinity Lutheran Cemetery Book:
WINGER
The Wingers who settled in Rainham and Walpole, coming here from Bertie Township, Welland County area, were all children of Abraham Winger and Catherine Troup (daughter of John Troup). They were of the Tunkard faith. They had 8 known children: Jacob (md. Elizabeth Benner, Elizabeth Smelser), Esther, David (md. Margaret Baxter), Abraham (md. Elizabeth Shoup), John (md. Elizabeth Johnston), and Peter (md Abigail Shoup). The Canada Company purchased a lot of land in Rainham from the Crown around 1837. Benjamin Troup, a cousin [should say brother] of Catherine Troup, and his wife Magdalena bought 400 acres from the Canada Company in 1847, being lots 5 and 6, concession 4, Rainham. They almost immediately turned the land over to Abraham Winger N ½ and Jacob Winger S ½. The Wingers discovered, however, that there were three families (Ullman, Nauman, Sitter) firmly entrenched on this property, having settled there in the mid 1830s while it was still Crown Land. The Wingers arranged to sell the property to these settlers. The Sitters on the N ½ , and John Nauman on the SW ¼ paid for their property in 1850, and Jacob Ullman on the SE ¼ signed a bond to purchase and pay for the land as soon as he had the money. This did not happen until 1863 when Jacob's son Benjamin finally paid for the property and quit claimed the farm over to his father all except for 2 acres sold to his brother-in-law Peter Phillips. So, technically, Jacob Ullman's SE ¼ farm was owned by Jacob Winger. He was the one who sold in 1849 the ½ acre lot to the Trustees of the Evangelical Church of German and Dutch (where Trinity cemetery is located) on land where Jacob Ullman had already established a family burial plot and where he allowed other burials to take place. By the wording on the 1849 deed, it is thought Jacob Ullman may also have allowed a small church, possibly a Union Church, to be built earlier on this property. Likely sometime after 1849, the first all Lutheran Church (Holy Ghost) was built on this site, a board and batten structure.
From Surrogate Registry - Will of Jacob Winger
The land equally divided among sons John, William and Jacob, the crops to son in law Alfred Bowman
In 1896 the Executors John D. Winger and Frederick Otterman sell the land to a Nauman. John W. Winger releasing and approving. Mentioned in Will are Fidelia Bowman, Margaret Lounsbury, Ellen Moyer, Catherine Winger, Jacob Winger, William Winger and John Henry Winger.
From Cayuga Registry Office:
No. 2129
Township of Rainham
Copy Will
of
Jacob Winger
I certify that the within Instrument is duly
entered and registered in the Registry Office for
the County of Haldimand in Book 7
for the Township of Rainham
at 12:45 PM
on the 29th day of March A.D. 1888
Number 1219
George S. Colter, Depty Registrar
This is the Last Will and Testament of me Jacob Winger of the Township of Rainham in the County of Haldimand and Province of Ontario, Farmer.
My Will is first that my Just debts and funeral expenses shall be paid by my Executors hereinafter named and the residue --------? of my real and personal property which shall not be required for such purpose
I give devise dispose of as follows
I will that after my decease my executors shall dispose of by Auction Sale all the Stock on the place belonging to me consisting of two Horses, three Cows, three Sheep, eight Pigs and about Twenty five Chickens, also all the farm implements of every kind and description harness & a belonging to me and from the proceeds of said Sale my executors shall pay out the following Sums: viz One Year after my decease they shall pay unto my daughter Fidelia Bowman the sum of Three Hundred Dollars two Years after my decease the sum of One Hundred Dollars to my daughter Margaret Lounsberry, and one thereafter shall pay unto my daughter Ellen Moyer the sum of One Hundred Dollars and one Year thereafter the sum of Three Hundred Dollars to my Daughter Catherine Winger.
Should the proceeds of the Sale not be sufficient to pay the above bequests the executors to rent the farm and out of said rent make up the deficiency.
The Crop at present growing on the farm to be the property of my son in law Alfred Bowman he to maintain the family till next fall in the ususal way.
The Executors not to rent the farm to be taken possession of till next fall.
I hereby devise and dispose of my real estate which is composed of seventy three acres be the same more or less being part of West part of Lot Number Five in the fourth Concession of the Township of Rainham to my three sons Jacob, William and John to be divided equally between them if they can mutually agree to a division of the same, but if they cannot so agree the land to be sold and the proceeds thereof to be equally divided between them on the youngest coming of age.
The household furniture to be divided so nearly equal as possible between my two daughters Fidelia Bowman and Catherine Winger and my three sons Jacob, William and John
The Carpenters tools to be sold at the Sale.
And I do nominate and appoint John D. Winger and Frederick Otterman to be the sole Executors of this my last Will and Testament.
In Testimony whereof I the Testator have hereunto set my hand this Thirteenth day of March in the year of our Lord One thousand Eight Hundred and Eighty eight.
Sgd. Jacob Winger
Signed Published and declared
by the said Jacob Winger
to be his last Will and
Testament in the presence of us
who in his presence and at his
request and in the presence of
each other have hereunto Sub-
scribed our Names.
sgd Henry Winger
sgd Gordon Paterson
Jacob was given the responsibility of looking after his mother, Catherine (Troup) Winger, upon the death of his father, Jacob being the eldest child. We hear absolutely nothing more of Catharine after this, however a story circulated among the family was that she moved to Dunnville area and remarried. Jacob and his brothers were taken under the wing of their Uncle Benjamin Troup. He looked after their finances and saw that each of the five boys received a down payment for a farm. They settled in the area of Rainham Township known as Fisherville. Jacob's farm was 100 acres and was in Lot 5, Concession 4 of Rainham Township, Haldimand County, immediately west of the village. Jacob lived there until he died in 1888. He had 5 children by his first wife and 6 by his second wife. They were all of the Tunkard faith, including the Troup family.
Jacob and his first wife Elizabeth Benner are on the 1852 Census of Rainham where it lists the five children as born Canada West. Jacob's first wife Elizabeth Benner was the younger sister of his Uncle Benjamin Troup's second wife, Mary Benner.
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Rainham Builders
Abt 1817 - 1888 (~ 71 years)