Born 1780-1790 in Pennsylvania, Abraham was part of the great migration of Mennonites between the late 1700's and early decades of the 1800's into Ontario province, where their dream was to build a religious community founded on their Anabaptist beliefs.
The scarcity of English-language records in the Mennonite community and most records in early Michigan make tracing Abraham's life story difficult. However, he does appear (as GINGLY) on the 1860 US Census for Greenwood Township in St. Clair County, Michigan along with his wife, Mary, and sons Absalom, Josiah, and Levi.
Immediately adjoining him on the census is the family of John & Nancy Gingrich, and on the other side of John are Abram & Lydia Gingrich who, (judging by their ages and later census records which give the birthplace of both their parents as Pennsylvania), are both married sons of Abraham. On the previous census page, very close to Abraham's farm, is the family of Isaac and Susanna Gingrich.
The 1876 plat map for Section 2 of Greenwood Township shows these three 40-acre farms, still contiguous, owned separately by J. A. and D. Gingrich, Isaac by then having moved to Kansas. However, "A. Gingrich" is likely Absalom and not this patriarch, Abraham.
Abraham appears to have passed away in St. Clair County, Michigan, sometime after the 1860 census was taken as there is no further record of him to be found anywhere.
The scarcity of English-language records in the Mennonite community and most records in early Michigan make tracing Abraham's life story difficult. However, he does appear (as GINGLY) on the 1860 US Census for Greenwood Township in St. Clair County, Michigan along with his wife, Mary, and sons Absalom, Josiah, and Levi.
Immediately adjoining him on the census is the family of John & Nancy Gingrich, and on the other side of John are Abram & Lydia Gingrich who, (judging by their ages and later census records which give the birthplace of both their parents as Pennsylvania), are both married sons of Abraham. On the previous census page, very close to Abraham's farm, is the family of Isaac and Susanna Gingrich.
The 1876 plat map for Section 2 of Greenwood Township shows these three 40-acre farms, still contiguous, owned separately by J. A. and D. Gingrich, Isaac by then having moved to Kansas. However, "A. Gingrich" is likely Absalom and not this patriarch, Abraham.
Abraham appears to have passed away in St. Clair County, Michigan, sometime after the 1860 census was taken as there is no further record of him to be found anywhere.
Born 1780-1790 in Pennsylvania, Abraham was part of the great migration of Mennonites between the late 1700's and early decades of the 1800's into Ontario province, where their dream was to build a religious community founded on their Anabaptist beliefs.
The scarcity of English-language records in the Mennonite community and most records in early Michigan make tracing Abraham's life story difficult. However, he does appear (as GINGLY) on the 1860 US Census for Greenwood Township in St. Clair County, Michigan along with his wife, Mary, and sons Absalom, Josiah, and Levi.
Immediately adjoining him on the census is the family of John & Nancy Gingrich, and on the other side of John are Abram & Lydia Gingrich who, (judging by their ages and later census records which give the birthplace of both their parents as Pennsylvania), are both married sons of Abraham. On the previous census page, very close to Abraham's farm, is the family of Isaac and Susanna Gingrich.
The 1876 plat map for Section 2 of Greenwood Township shows these three 40-acre farms, still contiguous, owned separately by J. A. and D. Gingrich, Isaac by then having moved to Kansas. However, "A. Gingrich" is likely Absalom and not this patriarch, Abraham.
Abraham appears to have passed away in St. Clair County, Michigan, sometime after the 1860 census was taken as there is no further record of him to be found anywhere.
The scarcity of English-language records in the Mennonite community and most records in early Michigan make tracing Abraham's life story difficult. However, he does appear (as GINGLY) on the 1860 US Census for Greenwood Township in St. Clair County, Michigan along with his wife, Mary, and sons Absalom, Josiah, and Levi.
Immediately adjoining him on the census is the family of John & Nancy Gingrich, and on the other side of John are Abram & Lydia Gingrich who, (judging by their ages and later census records which give the birthplace of both their parents as Pennsylvania), are both married sons of Abraham. On the previous census page, very close to Abraham's farm, is the family of Isaac and Susanna Gingrich.
The 1876 plat map for Section 2 of Greenwood Township shows these three 40-acre farms, still contiguous, owned separately by J. A. and D. Gingrich, Isaac by then having moved to Kansas. However, "A. Gingrich" is likely Absalom and not this patriarch, Abraham.
Abraham appears to have passed away in St. Clair County, Michigan, sometime after the 1860 census was taken as there is no further record of him to be found anywhere.
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