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Matches 901 to 920 of 2,970

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901	From Ezra Eby Book Christian Baumann, "second son of Christian Baumann, was born in Berks County on October 21st 1753, where he died on May 26th, 1807. He was a miller by trade. His family consisted of eight children.	Baumann, Christian (I12587)
902	From Ezra Eby Book Christian Hallman, "was born in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, October 25th, 1822. On March 4th, 1845, he was married to Leah Bechtel who was born June 23rd, 1823. After their marriage they resided in Wilmot Township, Waterloo County, where he was engaged as a contractor and builder, and during the winter months in weaving. In the year 1875 they moved to Hanover, Grey County, Ontario, where they now live retired. To them were born eleven children. Federal Census of 1871 (Ontario Index) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- HALLMAN , CHRISTIAN Sex: Male Age: 48 Birthplace: USA Religion: Mennonite Origin: GERMAN Occupation: CARPENTER District: WATERLOO SOUTH ( 031 ) Sub-district: Wilmot ( A ) Division: 4 Page: 13 Microfilm reel: C-9942 Reference: RG31 — Statistics Canada	Hallman, Christian (I10678)
903	From Ezra Eby Book Christian Schlichter, "(from some source of the Schlichter family the writer was informed that the father of old Christian, Daniel and John was Daniel and that they were members of the Mennonite Church), was a native of Switzerland, where he was born in 1761. He emigrated to America with his two elder brothers, Daniel (none of the descendants of Daniel and John are in Canada) and John, and settled in Franklin County, Pennsylvania. His brother, Daniel, who was born in 1759, settled in the same locality but the descendants of John settled in New York State. Christian was married to Mary Wanderbach and had a family of five children. Some time during the beginning of the present century he, together with his wife and family, moved to Canada and settled in Waterloo County, Ontario, a little north of Preston on the place known as "Green's Farm" where they died not many years after their coming to this country.	Schlichter, Christian (I16758)
904	From Ezra Eby Book Christian Shantz, "son of old Jacob Shantz and his second wife, was born in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, near Pottstown, July 11th, 1769. In 1791 he was married to Hannah Paul who was born in the same county September 10th, 1772, and died in Waterloo County, Ontario, July 10, 1845. In 1810 they with their family and others moved to Canada and settled at Freeport, Ontario, on the farm known as the 'Rev. Abraham C. Weber Farm'. He died April 7th, 1857. His family consisted of ten children, eight of whom were born in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.	Shantz, Christian (I02935)
905	From Ezra Eby Book Christian Shantz, "the second son of Isaac Shantz, was born on the old 'Schantzen Homestead' near Pottstown, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, February 13th, 1779. On October 19th, 1800, he was married to Magdalena, daughter of old 'Hannes' Cressman of Chester County, Pennsylvania. She was born January 30th, 1783, and died in Waterloo County August 13th, 1866. In May, 1806, he, in company with his wife and family of three children, Philip Bliehm and family, his brother, Abraham, and family, Abraham Cressman, and others, moved to Canada. Mr. Shantz arrived in safety at his farm, being composed of lots Nos. 52 and 55, German Company's Tract. The land is still in possession of three of his grandsons. Here they resided until their deaths. He died November 9th, 1856. They had a family of twelve children. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From Guelph Mercury, Saturday May 27, 2006 Peter Etril Synder is a descendent.	Shantz, Christian (I02919)
906	From Ezra Eby Book Christian Weber," was born in Earl Township, Lancaster County, December 25th, 1731. On September 30th, 1749, he was married to Magdalena Rutt who died in 1804. He died February 13th, 1820. They had a numerous family consisting of seventeen children.	Weber, Christian (I14357)
907	From Ezra Eby Book Daniel Shoemaker, "was born June 15th, 1811. In 1829 he came to Canada with his parents. On March 22nd, 1836, he was married to Nancy Miller who was born March 11th, 1816, and died May 20th, 1846. They resided in different places of the county. A few years ago he went to Filion, Michigan, with one of his children where he died August 23rd, 1892. Their family consisted of five children.	Shoemaker, Daniel D. (I14321)
908	From Ezra Eby Book Daniel Stauffer, "was born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, February 20th, 1796. When a young man he came to Canada and settled in Waterloo County, Ontario. In 1818 he was married to Susannah Kinzey who was born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, June 1st, 1798, and came to Canada with her parents in 1800 and died February 11th, 1881. Soon after their marriage they moved on north half of lot No. 5, Biehn's Tract, near Strasburg school house, where he died July 22nd, 1846. To them were born eight children.	Stauffer, Daniel (I17216)
909	From Ezra Eby Book David Devitt, "was born January 7th, 1838. He was first married to Barbara Shantz who died in February, 1879. They resided at Port Elgin, and had a family of seven children, all of whom are dead except one daughter, named Barbara, who is now about twenty-one years of age. After the decease of his first wife, he was again married to Susannah Shantz. This union was blessed with two children, one of whom is dead. The one living, a son named Isaiah, is about thirteen years old. After the decease of his second wife he was married to Nancy Hallman. They have one daughter named Myra. They still reside on a farm near Port Elgin, Bruce County, Ontario."	Devitt, David (I17266)
910	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. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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	Bergey, David E. (I17408)
911	From Ezra Eby Book David R. Weber," was born November 2nd, 1800, and emigrated to Canada when quite a young man while the others of the family remained in Pennsylvania. Here he was married to Mary Lyons who was born May 19th, 1803, and died July 10th, 1871. They resided on a farm near Strasburg, now in possession of their son Noah. Their family consisted of fifteen children.	Weber, David B. (I02788)
912	From Ezra Eby Book Elizabeth Bergey, "was born May 6th, 1860. She is married to Menno Heckedon, a farmer. They reside in Maryborough Township, Wellington County, near Moorefield P.O. They have one daughter..."	Bergey, Elizabeth (I17414)
913	From Ezra Eby Book Elizabeth Biehn, "the seventh and youngest child of John and Nancy (Bechtel) Biehn, was married to Abraham Binkley. They resided on the mountain near Dundas where he was engaged in farming. To her were born four children.	Biehn, Elizabeth (I17341)
914	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.	Eby, Elizabeth (I10392)
915	From Ezra Eby Book Elizabeth Hallman, "was born February 28th, 1836. She was married to John Schmidt, a farmer. They resided in Michigan where she died, leaving a family as follows, namely..."	Hallman, Elizabeth (I04594)
916	From Ezra Eby Book Elizabeth Hallman, "was born February 3rd, 1851. She is married to Philip Zeller, a farmer. They reside in St. Clair County, Michigan.	Zeller, Philip (I00435)
917	From Ezra Eby Book Elizabeth Shoemaker, "second daughter of George Shoemaker, was born in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, March 5th, 1805, and died August 5th, 1846. She was married to Jacob Schatz who was born January 11th, 1798, and died March 7th, 1872. They resided in Lower Salford Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, where they had a family of eleven children. John and George, two of their sons, lived in Canada for some time but returned to their native state many years ago. Michael, another son, came here some thirty years ago and at present resides at Wallaceville, Perth County, Ontario. He is a shoemaker by trade but at present he is engaged in farming. They have a small family of grown children."	Shoemaker, Elizabeth (I14318)
918	From Ezra Eby Book Elizabeth Shoemaker, "was born October 12th, 1828, and died April 4th, 1854. She was married to John Schiedel February 27th, 1853, and had one child named Mary Ann who was born March 13th, 1854, and died at her grandfather Shoemaker's place, August 5th, 1860."	Shoemaker, Elizabeth (I14334)
919	From Ezra Eby Book Emmaline Hallman, "was born December 6th, 1869. She is married to Joseph Smith, a farmer. They reside in St. Clair County, Michigan."	Hallman, Emmaline (I16831)
920	From Ezra Eby Book Ephraim Hallman, "is married to Magdalena Sararas. They reside near New Dundee where he is engaged in farming. Their family consists of one child."	Hallman, Ephriam (I17177)