WITTER, Ebenezer ^1612,1781

  Noted events in his life were:

• His obituary was published. ¹⁷⁸¹ "Brother Witter was a native of Connecticut. When a child his parents moved into Cayuga County, N. Y., then a wilderness in the 'far West,' where he lived and grew up to manhood, when the Lord, in the exercise of his rich grace, called him by his Spirit into the vineyard and kingdom of Christ . . . Fifteen years ago he became a resident of La Grange and a member of the Baptist church in this place . . He enjoyed the confidence and esteem of his brethren and sisters in the church, and of the entire community in which he lived . . at the last covenant meeting . . he remarked . . 'I am one of the old trees of the forest -- . . I shall soon fall and be no more. I feel that God is good --- God is good,' and before three weeks elapsed he did 'fall.' -- he was gone"
This Obituary ic copied from the Bible in which it was pasted by the descendants of Ebenezer who inherited this old Bible, which was handed down to Florilla Witter Norton, daughter of Erastus Witter.
Reverend William Ellsworth Witter, of Rochester, New York, writes: "My father, Ebenezer Witter, had driven down to La Grange from his farm several miles away the morning of his father's death, and his father walked out to the carriage and talked with him about some business matter, and then, when they had finished their talk and he had left, his father walked back to the house and dropped down with his boots on and suddenly the heart stopped and he was gone. He referred many tiimes to this passing of his father, of whom he was very fond. His father died in July, before my birth in December of the same year." Ebenezer was survived by his widow and six of their children.

• Buried: La Grange Cemetery, Jul 1853, La Grange, Wyoming County , New York. ¹⁷⁸¹

Ebenezer married Lovisa REED, daughter of Daniel REED and Reliance [--?--], on 31 Jan 1813.¹⁷⁸¹ (Lovisa REED was born on 20 Oct 1794 in Hillsdale, Columbia County, New York ¹⁷⁸¹ and died on 18 Apr 1877 in Maple Grove, Cayuga County, New York ¹⁷⁸¹.)