Magdalena "Mattie" Albrecht

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• Church Membership: Poole Mennonite Church, Mornington Twp., Perth Co., Ontario
• FindAGrave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/50226566
• Name: Magdalena "Mattie" Boshart
• Name: Mattie Albrecht
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-163527
• Residence: 1911, Crosshill, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Mennonite
• Residence: 1980, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

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BOSHART, Mrs. Ezra (Mattie) 1993 Peacefully, on Saturday, Sept. 18, 1993, at Nithview Home, New Hamburg, Magdalena Boshart, formerly of Wellesley and Milverton.

Mattie was born in Shakespeare 93 years ago, a daughter of the late John Albrecht and the late Elizabeth Erb.

Mrs. Boshart was a faithful member of the Poole Mennonite Church, where she was active in the WMSC. Loving mother of Mildred and her husband Ivan Ropp of Wellesley, Marjorie and her husband Wesley Steckly of Milverton, Norma and her husband Merlin Lichty of Wellesley; daughter-in-law of Ionabell Boshart of Wellesley; sister-in-law of Florence (Mrs. Sam Boshart) of Milverton and Mary (Mrs. Menno Albrecht) of Wellesley.

Lovingly remembered by 14 grandchildren and 27 great grandchildren.

Predeceased by her husband, Ezra, November 1, 1968; by one son, Ralph, 1983; one granddaughter, Carol Steckly, 1984; one great granddaughter, Ginger, 1982; five brothers and five sisters.

Visitation at the Futher Bros. funeral Home, 40 Henry St., Wellesley today (Monday) from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. At noon on Tuesday, Sept. 21, 1993 removal will be made to the Poole Mennonite Church for the service at 2: 30 p.m. Pastor David Rogalsky and Rev. Gerald Schwartzentruber will officiate. Burial will follow in the church cemetery.

The Kitchener-Waterloo Record 20 Sep 1993

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Magdalena "Mattie" Boshart died on Saturday, Sept 18, 1993. She was born in Shakespeare 93 years ago, a daughter of the late John Albrecht and the late Elizabeth Erb. She was a faithful member of the Poole Mennonite Church. She is survived by her children Mildred, Marjorie, and Norma. She was predeceased by her husband Ezra, November 1, 1968, one son, Ralph, in 1983, five brothers and five sisters. Burial will be in the Poole Mennonite Church cemetery.

Magdalena — Ezra Boshart. Ezra (son of Rev. Peter Boshart and Annie "Nancy" Schultz) was born 1896, Ellice Township, Perth Co., Ontario, Canada; died 1 Nov 1968, Listowel, Wallace Twp., Perth County, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Poole Mennonite Cemetery, Mornington Twp., Perth Co., Ontario. [Group Sheet]

1. Mildred Boshart
2. Norma Boshart
3. Ralph Lavern Boshart was born 1931, Mornington Twp., Perth Co., Ontario, Canada; died 1 Aug 1983, RR2, Wellesley, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Poole Mennonite Cemetery, Mornington Twp., Perth Co., Ontario.

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• FindAGrave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/44138801
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-163525
• Residence: 1861, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Mennonite
• Occupation: 1871, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Residence: 1871, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Amish
• Occupation: 1911, Crosshill, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Residence: 1911, Crosshill, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Mennonite
• Occupation: 1921, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer, Farm
• Residence: 1921, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran

John — Elizabeth Erb. Elizabeth (daughter of Christian S. Erb and Anna Maria Litwiller) was born May 1868, , Ontario, Canada; died 5 Apr 1955, RR2, Petersburg, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Mapleview Mennonite Cemetery, Wellesley Twp., Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Elizabeth Albrecht
• Name: Elizabeth Erb
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-108865
• Residence: 1871, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lot 10 Con. 2 Wellesley Township
• Residence: 1871, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Mennonite
• Residence: 1881, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Mennonite
• Residence: 1921, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran

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In Remembrance [poem - Crossing the Bar] Passed Away On Tuesday, April 5th, 1955, at the home of her son, Christian E. Albrecht, R.R.2, Petersburg Elizabeth Erb Widow of the late John H. Albrecht Aged 86 years, 10 months and 6 days Funeral Service Resting at the residence of her son, Lot 10, Con.1 and 2, Wilmot Township, where a short service will be held on Friday, April 8th, at 1:00 o'clock p.m., followed by a memorial service in Maple View Amish Mennonite Church, 3rd line of Wellesley at 2:00 p.m. Interment in the adjoining cemetery.

Funeral Card

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• Nationality: , Canada
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-119073
• Immigration: 1853, , Canada
• Occupation: 1861, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Yeoman
• Residence: 1861, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Mennonite
• Occupation: 1871, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Residence: 1871, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Amish
• Occupation: 1921, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Income
• Residence: 1921, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Amish Mennonite

George — Maria Hammer. Maria was born 1833, Hesse, Germany; died Abt 1900; was buried , East Zorra Amish Mennonite Cemetery, East Zorra Township, Oxford Co., Ontario. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Maria Albrecht
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-119074
• Residence: 1861, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Mennonite
• Residence: 1871, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Amish

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• FindAGrave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/44910299
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-51626
• Occupation: 1871, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Residence: 1871, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lot 19 Con. 2 Wellesley Township
• Residence: 1871, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Mennonite
• Occupation: 1881, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Residence: 1881, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Mennonite
• Retired: 1901, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

Christian — Anna Maria Litwiller. Anna (daughter of Rev. Peter Litwiller and Elizabeth Lichti) was born 16 Aug 1833, , Ontario, Canada; died 1 Aug 1911, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Maple View Mennonite Cemetery, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• FindAGrave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/44910387
• Name: Anna Maria Erb
• Name: Maria Litwiller
• Name: Mary Litwiller
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-51627
• Residence: 1852, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Amish
• Residence: 1871, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lot 10 Con. 2 Wellesley Township
• Residence: 1871, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Mennonite
• Residence: 1881, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Mennonite
• Residence: 1911, Wellesley Village, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Mennonite

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• FindAGrave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/59514170
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-239561
• Occupation: 1852, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Yeoman
• Residence: 1852, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Amish
• Occupation: 1861, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Not given
• Residence: 1861, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Mennonite

John — Veronica S. Schwartzentruber. Veronica (daughter of Jacob Schwartzentruber and Catherine Schmucker) was born 12 Dec 1805, , Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania; died 27 Jul 1863, , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Kropf/Baden Cemetery, Baden, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Veronica S. Erb
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-239562
• Residence: 1852, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Amish
• Residence: 1861, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Mennonite

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-24854
• Occupation: 1852, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Yeoman
• Residence: 1852, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Amish
• Occupation: 1861, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Yeoman
• Residence: 1861, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Mennonite
• Hall of Fame - Waterloo Region: Bef 2012, , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Religious leader

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Litwiller, Peter (1809-1878)

Peter Litwiller was born 8 January 1809, in Illfurth, Upper Alsace. His parents were Anna Maria (the name she went by) Maurer and Jacob Litwiller. Jacob died in 1814. Widow Maria, three married daughters and their families, two single daughters and Peter left France and arrived in New York on 12 July 1827.

On their arrival in Waterloo, they selected lots in the newly-surveyed centre block in Wilmot Township and set to work. Young Peter selected Lot 7, on the north side of Erb's Road, but did little work on his own lot until after his marriage to Elizabeth Lichti in 1830. By 1835, however, he had completed his settlement duties and received his patent for the front fifty acres from the Crown.

In 1838 Peter bought a little notebook which he called his "Notizbuch." It illustrates the settlers' system of bartering goods and services. Litwiller frequently hired persons by the day or to do certain tasks. This may have been the labourer's only way to get a little needed cash as much as Litwiller's need for assistance. Goods supplied in exchange for work might be yarn for stockings, material for a coat, a pound of "dubock" (tobacco), or postage for a letter. A study of the names appearing in Litwiller's notebook is a veritable "who's who" of new Amish-Mennonite arrivals in Canada. Litwiller also had dealings with his non-Amish neighbours, most of whom were Roman Catholic.

Peter's compassionate business acumen won for himself the respect of his co-religionists and, at the age of 28, he was chosen for the ministry in the Wilmot Amish Mennonite congregation in 1845. That was also the year that he served as one of the trustees who purchased the school site which the Amish had established at the site of the present St. Agatha Mennonite Church.

Peter's brother-in-law, Rudolph Roth, a gifted preacher, had been ordained minister in 1835 and bishop in 1843. Family relationships during the next few years must have been very trying for Peter and his sisters and in-laws when Rudolph Roth, his wife Maria (nee Litwiller), Jacob and Barbara (Litwiller) Gardner, and Veronica (Litwiller) Gingerich (but not her husband) joined the Reformed Mennonites . Rudolph's early demise in 1853 removed him from any conflict which Peter might have had with him.

Rudolph's leaving the Amish-Mennonite fold and the deaths of both Bishop John Oesch in Hay and Bishop Christian Miller in Wilmot, left the aged Bishop Christian Wagler, recent immigrant from Alsace, as the only bishop for the whole Amish-Mennonite constituency. It must have been Bishop Wagler who ordained Peter Litwiller that same year, and after Wagler's death the following year, Peter was left with bishop oversight over the whole Amish-Mennonite community from Wilmot to Lake Huron.

Joseph Ruby was ordained bishop for the South Easthope-East Zorra congregation in 1853 and John Jantzi for the North Wilmot-Wellesley congregation in 1859. The Hay congregation, however, did not ordain a bishop, and were served by those in East Zorra or Wilmot for the next 100 years.

Peter Litwiller's farm buildings were across the street and up the road a short distance from the Catholic Church. In 1857, a dedicated young man by the name of Eugene Funcken arrived in St. Agatha to serve in the Congregation of the Resurrection. Father Funcken was full of zeal and energy. These two men might have had good reasons to ignore each other, at best, or engage in a running feud, at worst, but they did neither. According to family tradition, they met with each other regularly to discuss topics of a religious nature. They set the stage for a peaceful community, rather than one where various factions are in conflict.

Peter Litwiller died 7 July 1878. It is said that when the funeral cortege passed the Catholic church on its way to the Amish cemetery, Father Funcken had the bells tolled. A broadside printed at the time of his death is also attributed to Father Funcken. In it he extolled the bishop's character and his ministry.<sup>1

1</sup>Roth, Lorraine. "Litwiller, Peter (1809-1878)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. October 2004. Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 13 Nov 2005

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Herald of Truth - Volume XV, Number 8 - August 1878, pages 141, 143 and 144

LITZWILER.-July 8th, of long suffering with rheumatism, PETER LITZWILER, bishop of the Amish Mennonite church, at the age of 69 years, 5 months and 27 days. He was beloved by all who knew him.

Peter married Elizabeth Lichti 1830. Elizabeth (daughter of Johannes F. "John" Lichti and Magdalena Joder) was born 2 Oct 1808, , France; died 25 Feb 1882; was buried , Saint Agatha Mennonite Cemetery, St. Agatha, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Elizabeth Litwiller
• Name: Lizzie Lichty
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-24855
• Immigration: 9 Jul 1825, New York City, New York, USA.
• Residence: 1852, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Amish
• Residence: 1861, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Mennonite
• Residence: 1881, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Mennonite

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Immigration:
Departed Le Harve, France on the passenger ship "Elizabeth" arrived New York City 9 Jul 1825"
John Leichy, age 67, farmer, from France
Madelina Leichty, age 52
Joseph Leichty,, age 26
Maria Leichty, age 18
Elizabeth Leichty, age 16
Nicholas Leichty, 1