Born 1810 in Michelfeld, Baden, Germany. Immigrated in 1848. Farmer. Died 1880 in Ontario, Canada.
This Walter family migrated from Germany to Buffalo, New York, about 1845 with their older children.
The first documentary evidence of Johann (AKA Peter) and Katharine’s arrival in the New World is found in the 1851 census for Waterloo County, Ontario. Peter is located in the agricultural census where he was occupying about 175 acres of wood or wild land (not cultivated or under pasture) and living in a one-story log cabin. At that time Peter and Katharine were 42 years old and had five children born in Germany and one born in the New World living with them. One of the children was named Peter Junior.
In the 1861 census, Peter Senior is listed as a farmer and evangelist; one of the children has died, and two more have been born. The log house, 23’ x 25’ was crowded with the large family.
In the later years of this generation, “Vader und Mutter” Walter (Johann Peter and Katharine) lived with Peter Junior until the death of Johann and Katharine.
