Harry Yost

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• Eby ID Number: 00137-8381.2

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• Eby ID Number: 00137-8381
• Residence: 1882, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Occupation: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Grocer
• Residence: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelical
• Occupation: 1901, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Grocer

Notes:

Simon Yost, "was born April 29th, 1845. He is married to Mary Ann Schiedel. They reside in the town of Berlin where he is engaged in the grocery business. To them was born one son... who died young."¹

Eby, Ezra E. (1895). A biographical history of Waterloo township and other townships of the county: being a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin: as also much other unpublished historical information chiefly of a local character. Berlin [Kitchener, Ont.]: [s.n.].

Simon married Mary Ann Schiedel 15 Jan 1882, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Mary (daughter of Joshua Schiedel and Elizabeth "Eliza" Hewitt, daughter of Joshua Schiedel) was born 30 Mar 1849, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 23 Dec 1918; was buried , Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Mary Ann Yost
• Eby ID Number: 00102-5709
• Residence: 1871, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; C. C. Baptist
• Residence: 1882, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelical

Notes:

Mary Ann Shiedel, "is married to Simon Yost, a grocer. They reside in Berlin."


Eby, Ezra E. (1895). A biographical history of Waterloo township and other townships of the county: being a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin: as also much other unpublished historical information chiefly of a local character. Berlin [Kitchener, Ont.]: [s.n.].

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• Eby ID Number: 00137-8375
• Occupation: 1852, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; farmer

Notes:

Tobias Yost, "was the earliest settler of the Yost family in Waterloo County. In 1831, he, in company with others, left his native home in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and moved to Canada. Early in May of the same year he arrived at Waterloo, Ontario, where he made his home for a short time with old Abraham Erb who assisted him in procuring a position to work at his trade, namely, that of shoemaking, which he followed for two or three years after his arrival in the country of his adoption. In 1832 he was married to Elizabeth, daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth (Cressman) Erb. She was born January 28th, 1813, and died February 8th, 1868. Soon after their marriage they moved to Woolwich Township, about a mile east of St. Jacobs, Ontario, on the farm now possessed by John M. Weber where he followed farming several years. When pretty well advanced in years he entered into the mercantile business in partnership with Rev. Philip Winkler and transacted business in St. Jacobs for several years. Mr. Yost was born February 9th, 1805, and died November 6th, 1856, leaving a family"


Eby, Ezra E. (1895). A biographical history of Waterloo township and other townships of the county: being a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin: as also much other unpublished historical information chiefly of a local character. Berlin [Kitchener, Ont.]: [s.n.].

Tobias married Elizabeth Erb 1832. Elizabeth (daughter of Daniel S. Erb and Barbara Cressman) was born 28 Jan 1813, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 8 Feb 1868; was buried , Calvary United Brethern Cemetery, St. Jacobs, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Elizabeth Yost
• Eby ID Number: 00032-2922

Notes:

Elizabeth Erb, "the third in family, was born January 28th, 1813. She was married to Tobias Yost, a farmer. They resided in Woolwich Township, about a mile east of St. Jacobs. She died February 8th, 1860. To them were born ten children"


Eby, Ezra E. (1895). A biographical history of Waterloo township and other townships of the county: being a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin: as also much other unpublished historical information chiefly of a local character. Berlin [Kitchener, Ont.]: [s.n.].

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• FindAGrave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/203424530
• Eby ID Number: 00102-5708
• Occupation: 1848, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; shoemaker
• Residence: 1851, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Baptist
• Occupation: 1852, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; shoemaker

Notes:

Joshua Shiedel, "the eldest was married to Eliza Hewitt. They resided in Wilmot Township, about two miles south of Petersburg, Ontario, where he died about the year 1870. She is still living and resides with her son, Elijah. To them were born seven children"


Eby, Ezra E. (1895). A biographical history of Waterloo township and other townships of the county: being a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin: as also much other unpublished historical information chiefly of a local character. Berlin [Kitchener, Ont.]: [s.n.].

Joshua married Elizabeth "Eliza" Hewitt 5 Mar 1848, Greenbush (Kitchener), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Elizabeth (daughter of Elisha Hewitt and Rachel Cress) was born 13 Dec 1826, , Ontario, Canada; died 29 May 1907, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Eliza Hewitt
• Name: Elizabeth "Eliza" Schiedel
• Eby ID Number: 00027-2015.3
• Residence: 1848, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1871, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; C. C. Baptist
• Residence: 1891, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Baptist

Notes:

Eliza Hewitt, "was married to Joshua Schiedel. They resided near New Dundee where he died some years ago."


Eby, Ezra E. (1895). A biographical history of Waterloo township and other townships of the county: being a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin: as also much other unpublished historical information chiefly of a local character. Berlin [Kitchener, Ont.]: [s.n.].

Elizabeth Hewitt, " no report received of her neither do we know anything of her family."


Eby, Ezra E. (1895). A biographical history of Waterloo township and other townships of the county: being a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin: as also much other unpublished historical information chiefly of a local character. Berlin [Kitchener, Ont.]: [s.n.].


In 1901 Eliza was living with her son Elisha in Port Elgin, Ontario.

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• Eby ID Number: 00032-2910
• Land: Bef 1831, Waterloo Township - German Company Tract Lot 012W, Waterloo County, Ontario
• Land: Bef 1831, Waterloo Township - German Company Tract Lot 125S, Waterloo County, Ontario

Notes:

Daniel Erb, "the eldest son of Peter and Anna (Schãeffer) Erb, was born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, January 11th, 1784. He, in company with his brother Peter, Benjamin Eby, Joseph Schneider, and others, came to Canada in 1807 and settled a little north of Bridgeport, Ontario, on the plantation now owned by Dilman G. Moyer and Levi P. Snyder. He was married to Barbara, daughter of John and Anna (Schowalter) Cressman. She was born May 22nd, 1786, and died October 20th, 1831. He died June 21st, 1845. To them was born a family of nine children"

Eby, Ezra E. (1895). A biographical history of Waterloo township and other townships of the county: being a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin: as also much other unpublished historical information chiefly of a local character. Berlin [Kitchener, Ont.]: [s.n.].

Daniel — Barbara Cressman. Barbara (daughter of John Cressman and Anna Schowalter) was born 22 May 1786, , Pennsylvania, USA; died 20 Oct 1831; was buried , First Mennonite Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Barbara Erb
• Eby ID Number: 00028-2063
• Grave Photograph - Find A Grave: Gravestone Image

Notes:

Barbara Cressman, "the second daughter, was born May 22nd, 1786. She was married to Daniel Erb who was born January 11th, 1784, and died June 21st, 1845. She died October 20th, 1831. To them were born nine children,"

Eby, Ezra E. (1895). A biographical history of Waterloo township and other townships of the county: being a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin: as also much other unpublished historical information chiefly of a local character. Berlin [Kitchener, Ont.]: [s.n.].


Ezra Eby's book has her misidentified as Elizabeth in Tobias Yost's section.

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• FindAGrave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/14456670
• Eby ID Number: 00102-5707
• Occupation: 1851, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Residence: 1851, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Baptist

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John Schiedel, "was born in Wurtenberg, Germany, September 28th, 1802. When thirteen years of age he with his parents came to America and settled in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, where he was raised. In 1824 he was married to Mary Kuehler, a native of Montgomery County. In 1841 they moved to Canada and settled in Waterloo County, a few miles east of Elmira where they resided until 1861 then they moved to Caledonia, Kent County, Michigan, where they followed farming. She died in 1881 and he died January 25th, 1885. To them was born a numerous family"


Eby, Ezra E. (1895). A biographical history of Waterloo township and other townships of the county: being a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin: as also much other unpublished historical information chiefly of a local character. Berlin [Kitchener, Ont.]: [s.n.].

John married Mary Kuehler 1824. Mary was born 1803, , USA; died 27 Mar 1881, Caledonia, Kent, Michigan, USA; was buried , Lakeside Cemetery, Caledonia, Kent, Michigan, USA. [Group Sheet]

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• FindAGrave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/14456671
• Name: Mary Schiedel
• Eby ID Number: 00102-5707.1
• Residence: 1851, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Baptist

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• Eby ID Number: 00027-2015.1
• Immigration: 1819, , Canada
• Residence: 1823, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Occupation: 1852, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; farmer
• Residence: 1860, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1860, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1861, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer

Notes:

Elisha Hewitt, came from New York State in 1819 at age of 19, his wealth consisted of one half dollar and an extra pair of socks; he sold the socks for fifty cents and with the dollar bought an axe; settled on his farm 1823, died Oct 1863, owning several hundred acres of land.


A Few Notes on the Early History of Chalmers' Church, Winterbourne" - by Rev. A. M. Hamilton, M. A.

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At this corner, where the road divides, several of the earliest settlers made: their homes. The first to take up land near Capt.. Smith's was Elisha Hewitt, who was born in Cayuga, in northern New York State, in January 1800. His mother was a native of Maryland. He came to Canada in 1819, giving a jacknife to get across the Niagara River at Black Rock. He first worked for John Brubacher, near Berlin, and after that, for four years, at any job he might find. When he came to the township of Waterloo his capital consisted of half a dollar and an extra pair of socks. He sold his socks and then he had enough to buy an axe. From this small beginning he acquired several hundred acres of land. Not only this, but he was married three times and raised a family of fifteen children.

In the fall of the year 1823 Elisha Hewitt took up his farm in the township of Woolwich and in the same year married Rachel Cress, who, with her father, mother, two brothers and a sister, had come along with Mr. Erb in 1806. The Cress family settled at what is now St. Jacob's, in Woolwich, while Mr. Erb was in Waterloo township. One thing that is remembered of Elisha Hewitt is that he made large quantities of maple sugar.

Rachel Cress, Hewitt's first wife, died Dec. 2nd, 1846, at the age of 49 years and eight months. In the first family were: Ephriam married Jane Wright, moved to Wisconsin. Eliza married to Josh. Scheidel, lives in Berlin. Elisha married Catherine Benner, lived on the next farm north of C. D. Bowman's near West Montrose, and is now living in Berlin. Elizabeth married to Alex. Singer, moved to Michigan. Mary married to James Woolner, lives in Peel' township. Peter married Margaret Donaldson ; their home was in Winterboume. Rachel, who is Mrs. Pollock, now living near the old home.It is a remarkable fact that of the first family of seven all are yet living but Elizabeth and she was killed by a runaway accident.

Hewitt's second wife was Elspet Meldrum, who died Jan. 28th, 1860, at the age of 48 years and 3 months. In this family were: Margaret married to John Hillcock, Peterborough. Charlotte married to Daniel Kennedy, 'Toronto. Annie married in Tonawanda, 'N. Y. Jessie married to Joseph Benner, moved to Culross towmship where she died. Helen married Rev. Mr. Groff, lived near Breslau. Alexander died when a young man.

The third wife was Ann Hamilton, and their two children were Elsie and Wilhelmina, who with their mother, who married again, went to live at Ripley, near Kincardine.

Elisha Hewitt died October 8th, 1863, at the age of 63 years and 9 months.

The Early History of Elora, Ontario, and Vicinity by John R. Connon

Elisha married Rachel Cress 1823, , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Rachel (daughter of Simon Cress and Catharine) was born 6 May 1797, , Pennsylvania, USA; died 2 Dec 1846, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Winterbourne Presbyterian Cemetery, Winterbourne, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Rachel Hewitt
• Eby ID Number: 00027-2015

Notes:

Rachel Cress, "the third member of old Simon Cress' family, was married to Elijah Hewitt. They resided on the old 'Hewitt Farm', half way between Winterbourne and Conestogo, in the township of Woolwich, where they both died. To them was born a family of seven children"


Eby, Ezra E. (1895). A biographical history of Waterloo township and other townships of the county: being a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin: as also much other unpublished historical information chiefly of a local character. Berlin [Kitchener, Ont.]: [s.n.].