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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.
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Rainham Builders
1820 - 1883 (63 years)