Alexander Poapst ^{1 2 3 4}

   Other names for Alexander were Alexander Popst, Alexander Paupst and Alexander Poaps.

  Research Notes:

His surname was spelled "Poaps" in the 1881 Canada census. It is spelled "Popst" in a Poapst family Bible.

Alexander may have been the "A. Poapst" who owned 50 acres in Osnabruck Township in 1879 (H. Belden county map). This has not been confirmed. See http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/countyatlas/showrecord.php?PersonID=38856.

Source http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~poaps/FamilyTree.htm, etc. obtained info from tombstone inscription, Waterdown Cemetery, Osnabruck Twp., Stormont Co., Ontario.
Also:
http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:3047155&id=I582506413

  Death Notes:

A typewritten family tree from a Poapst family Bible has his death date as 8 Nov 1910. Other sources have 15 Nov 1910.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Built: the family house in 8th Concession, 1854, Cornwall Twp, Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry, Canada West (Ontario), Canada. The house was inherted by his second son, Edson.

• Owned: (probably) Lots 36 & 37 in Concession VIII, 123 + [ ] acres, 1879, Cornwall Twp, Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry, Ontario, Canada. ^{6 7} "Alex. Poapst" on the H. Belden county map. To his east was E. Poapst (his son). To the north was Jes. A. McEwan and H. Poapst. To the south was Jos. McEwan.
(Indexed incorrectly as Alexander Poast.) Ron Poapst describes the property as being "on the north side of the 8th concession."

• Census: Canada, 1881, Cornwall, Cornwall Twp, Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry, Ontario, Canada. ⁸ Alexander Poaps
Male, 52, 1829 Ontario, Married, Farmer, Dutch, Lutheran, Head of Household

Alexander married Emmeline Wereley, daughter of Peter Henry Wereley and Ester Froom, on 24 Jan 1856 in <Wesleyan Methodist Church>, Cornwall Twp, Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry, Canada West (Ontario), Canada.¹ (Emmeline Wereley was born on 5 Nov 1834 in Cornwall, Stormont, Eastern District (Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry), Upper Canada (Ontario), Canada, died on 9 Dec 1915 in Osnabruck Twp (South Stormont), Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry, Ontario, Canada and was buried in Waterdown Cemetery, Lunenburg, Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry, Ontario, Canada ⁹.)

  Marriage Notes:

Married in Cornwall Township in the Eastern District by John Howes of the Wesleyan Methodist Church in Canada. Witnesses were Alexander Werely, Ann Papst.