David E. Bergey

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From Ezra Eby Book

David E. Bergey, "was born July 3rd, 1845. He is a farmer and resides near New Dundee. Some years ago he was ordained as a deacon of the Mennonite Church. He is married to Louisa, daughter of Rev. Moses S. Bowman. Their family consists of seven children."

Found at http://grebel.uwaterloo.ca/mao/Manuscript%20Collections/HM1.16.htm on October 26, 2006

David Bergey (1845-1932) lived all his life in Ontario. He was born near Preston and grew up on his father's farm near Mannheim. In 1872 he married Louisa Bowman. They had seven children.

Bergey attended Normal School (teacher's college) in Toronto and taught in the following Waterloo County schools from 1866-1890: Pinehill, Manheim, Williamsburg, New Dundee and Waterloo Central. From 1876-1890 he served on the Board of Examiners of Public School teachers for Waterloo County. He was elected to the board of trustees of the New Dundee Public School in 1900.

Bergey purchased a farm West of New Dundee in 1885. He was ordained deacon of Blenheim Mennonite Church in 1889, in which capacity he served until 1921. Previous to his ordination he had been active in the work of the Mennonite Conference of Ontario, which was known until 1909 as the Mennonite Conference of Canada. He assisted in organizing a Sabbath School at Latschar's Mennonite meetinghouse in 1874 and at Blenheim Mennonite meetinghouse in 1885. After his ordination he gave leadership to the formation of a Waterloo County Meeting of Mennonite Sunday Schools, which was the forerunner of the Sunday School Conference and then the Christian Nurture Conference. In 1894 he moderated the annual meeting of the Mennonite Conference in Canada. In 1901 he was appointed District Member of the Mennonite Evangelism and Benevolent Board of America, forerunner of the Mennonite Board of Missions and Charities. From 1906-1921 he served as Secretary of the Mennonite Conference of Ontario. He promoted systematic financial giving by church members to support those ministers in need of assistance and to pay ministers' travelling expenses.

Bergey was a charter member of the New Dundee Rural Telephone Company in 1908 and was patrons' auditor for the New Dundee Cooperative Creamery accounts for about ten years. He served the community as conveyancer, executor and legal advisor. He was a life member of the Upper Canada Bible Society and president of the New Dundee Branch of the Society. He was also active in the temperance movement.

Custodial history: Donated to the Mennonite Archives of Ontario by Lorna Bergey and others at undetermined dates.

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Found at http://www.mcusa-archives.org/MHB/LoewenR-TwoPeoples.html on October 26, 2006

Bergey was a Swiss Mennonite, a third-generation Canadian whose descendants had come north after the American Revolution. He spoke the South German dialect “Pennsylvanian Dutch”; his house was a stone construction detached from a massive, wooden, two-storeyed barn; his wife wore a white cap; his kinship network reached into the eastern United States. Important, too, is the fact that the specific socioeconomic and physical settings in which Plett and Bergey lived were significantly different. Bergey was from Waterloo County in southern Ontario

David married Louisa Bowman on 31 Dec 1872 in New Hamburg, Wilmot Township, Waterloo County, Ontario. Louisa (daughter of Moses S. Baumann and Anna Cressman) was born on 28 Nov 1845 in Wilmot Township, Waterloo County, Ontario; died on 11 Jan 1931 in Wilmot Township, Waterloo County, Ontario; was buried on 14 Jan 1931 in Blenheim Mennonite Cemetery, Blandford-Blenheim Township, Ontario. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Amelia Bergey was born on 20 Sep 1873 in Wilmot Township, Waterloo County, Ontario; died on 19 Apr 1939; was buried in Nith Valley Mennonite Cemetery, Waterloo County, Ontario.
2. Eva Bergey was born on 12 Sep 1875 in Waterloo County, Ontario; died on 12 Jun 1914 in Wilmot Township, Waterloo County, Ontario.
3. Gilbert Bergey was born on 13 Sep 1877 in Waterloo Township, Waterloo County, Ontario.
4. Milton Bergey was born on 25 Aug 1880 in Waterloo Township, Waterloo County, Ontario; died on 19 Mar 1956 in Waterloo County, Ontario; was buried in Blenheim Mennonite Cemetery, Blandford-Blenheim Township, Ontario.
5. Ezra Bergey was born on 19 Feb 1883 in Waterloo Township, Waterloo County, Ontario; died on 25 Sep 1907 in Wilmot Township, Waterloo County, Ontario.
6. Ida Bergey was born on 16 Jun 1885 in Wilmot Township, Waterloo County, Ontario.
7. Herbert Bergey was born on 9 Jul 1887 in Wilmot Township, Waterloo County, Ontario.

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From Ezra Eby Book

Jacob Bergey, "the second son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Wagner) Bergey, was born in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, September 1st, 1818, and came to Canada with his parents in 1822. They settled near Preston, on the farm known as "Henry Brower's." Here young Jacob was raised. On April 11th, 1844, he was married to Elizabeth, daughter of Moses and Barbara (Pannabecker) Eby. She was born January 27th, 1824. On May 2nd, 1849, they moved on Lot No. 4, Bleams Road, Wilmot Township, near Mannheim, where they have resided ever since. They are quite smart for their age. Their family consisted of ten children, of whom two died in infancy.

Jacob married Elizabeth Eby on 11 Apr 1844. Elizabeth (daughter of Moses Eby and Barbara Pannebecker) was born on 17 Jan 1824 in Ontario; died on 19 May 1911 in Wilmot Township, Waterloo County, Ontario. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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From Ezra Eby Book

Elizabeth Eby, "the eldest of Moses Eby's family, was born January 17th, 1824. She was married, April 11th, 1844, to Jacob Bergey who was born September 1st, 1818.

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Joseph Bergey, "was born in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, about the year 1792. He was married to Elizabeth Wagner. They had a family of eight children.

Joseph married Elizabeth Wagner. Elizabeth was born in 1788 in USA; died on 18 Apr 1824. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Moses married Barbara Pannebecker. Barbara (daughter of Cornelius Pannebecker and Anna Dettweiler) was born on 24 May 1801; died on 19 Jan 1842. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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From Ezra Eby Book

Isaac Bergey, "the eldest son of old Hans Bergey, was born about the year 1740. He resided at first near Germantown, but after his marriage to Mary Hunsicker he moved to Montgomery County where quite a number of his co-religionists had already formed several small communities. Here he lived until about the year 1791 when he died. With his first wife he had three children, namely: III John, III Jacob, and Isaac. None of the descendants of the three sons reside in Canada. Their descendants are to be found in Montgomery and other counties of Pennsylvania and in some of the Western States. After the decease of his first wife he married to Veronica Hunsberger, with whom he had ten children.

Isaac married Veronica Hunsberger. Veronica died in 1806. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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(2005). "Hunsberger." Canadian Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Mennonite Historical Society of Canada. Retrieved 23 Feb 2005

Hunsberger is a Mennonite family name, evidently Swiss in origin, found in the Franconia (PA) and Ontario districts of the Mennonite Church (MC). Bishop Henry Hunsberger (1768-1854) of the Blooming Glen, PA Mennonite congregation (MC) was assistant moderator of the Franconia Conference in 1847 by virtue of being second in seniority in years of service as a bishop. Because the moderator, Bishop John Hunsicker (d. 17 November 1847), sympathized with the vision and concerns of John H. Oberholtzer and sat with the Oberholtzer party in the Franconia meetinghouse on 7 October 1847 when the final secession of the Oberholtzer group occurred, Hunsberger served as moderator of the October 1847 session of the Franconia Conference. Jacob B. Hunsberger (1836-1919) served as preacher in the Coventry and Vincent congregations of the Franconia Conference from 1877 until his death over 41 years later. Christian R. Hunsberger (1823-1906) was a preacher in the Upper Skippack congregation (MC) of the Franconia Conference from 1879 until 1906. The Ontario Mennonite (MC) preachers included Abraham K. Hunsberger (1827-1889) of the Moyer congregation, and Noah Hunsberger, who was ordained preacher in 1903 and served in Sherkston and Waterloo. Bishop Ephraim Hunsberger (1814-1904) of the Eastern District Conference of the General Conference Mennonite Church (GCM) served as preacher in the Hereford congregation (GCM) beginning in 1849. In 1852 he moved to Wadsworth, Medina Co., Ohio, where he organized a congregation which he served for 50 years.

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From Ezra Eby Book

Samuel Eby, "(known as "Indian Sam") the second son of George Eby, was born February 20th, 1772, and died February 10th, 1840. He was married to Magdalena Erb who was born February 2nd, 1777, and died December 26th, 1864. In company with his brother, George, and a few others he left Pennsylvania in the spring of 1804 and moved to Canada. He took up north-west part of lot No. 1, German Company's Tract, in the township and county of Waterloo, Ontario. At that time there were but few white settlers in this beautiful county and the Indians were his next neighbors. He spent much of his time among the Indians and taught them many good things, in fact he was their law-giver, minister, interpreter and peace-maker. He had a family of one son.

Samuel married Magdalena Erb. Magdalena was born on 2 Feb 1777; died on 26 Dec 1864. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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From Ezra Eby Book

"The Pannebeckers (To have a complete history of the Pannebecker family, write to Mr. Samuel W. Pennypacker, Philadelphia, Pa., and get the book, "Historical and Biographical Sketches of the Pannebeckers", edited by Pennybecker. It is well worth the money and one of the most complete works of its kind in existence) were of the first settlers of German origin who settled in Pennsylvania over two hundred years ago. We find them to have been a prominent family in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania as early as 1709."

Cornelius Pannebecker, "a native of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, was born December 8th, 1770. In April, 1792, he was married to Anna Dettweiler, sister to old Rudolph Dettweiler who resided near the Wanner Meeting House at Hespeler. She was born November 16th, 1775, and died October 27th, 1855. In 1810 they, in company with Christian Shantz and family, Jacob Shantz and wife, and others, moved to Canada and settled in Waterloo County, Ontario, near the present village of Hespeler, on the farm now occupied by Peter Wier. Here they resided until their deaths. He died June 22nd, 1855. To then was born a family of thirteen children.

Cornelius married Anna Dettweiler in Apr 1792. Anna was born on 16 Nov 1775; died on 27 Oct 1855 in Waterloo County, Ontario. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]