Kenneth Clare Wildfong

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-183945
• Residence: 1965, 120 Donald St., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

Kenneth — Mary Louise Jones. Mary was born 1927; died 1 Jul 2004; was buried , Saint Peter's Lutheran Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

1. Derek Wildfong
2. Elizabeth Ann Wildfong
3. Doraine Louise Wildfong
4. David Kenneth Wildfong

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-93060

John married Edna Minette Tabbert 1 Feb 1922, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Edna (daughter of William Tabbert and Emma Caroline Holzschuh) was born 14 Jun 1904, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 5 Feb 1963, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Memory Gardens Cemetery, Breslau, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Edna Minette Wildfong
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-224407
• Residence: 1911, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran

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• Eby ID Number: 00056-3841.4
• Occupation: 1901, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farm Laborer

John married Mary Louisa Sophia Lisso 3 May 1892, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Mary (daughter of John Lisso and Mary Krampien) was born 23 Jan 1871, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 12 Apr 1954, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , New Hope Cemetery, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Mary Louisa Sophia Wildfong
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-93056
• Residence: 1881, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-85718
• Occupation: 1911, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Superintendant, Sash & Door
• Residence: 1911, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran

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TABBERT, WILLIAM

At the residence of his daughter, Mrs. E. Connell of George St. in Hespeler, on Monday evening,, in his 91^st year, formerly of Puslinch Township. Husband of the late Emma Holzschuh. Father of Dora (Mrs. Wilfred Faehrenbach) of Windsor; Irene (Mrs. W. Main) of Kitchener; Edna (Mrs. Herb Wildfong) of Guelph; Emma (Mrs. Clarence Brown) of Burlington; Hilda (Mrs. Ernest Connell) of Hespeler: Viola (Mrs. Walter Karn) of Guelph; and William of Galt. Stager Funeral Home, Galt St. in Hespeler. Funeral service, at St. James' Lutheran Church in Hespeler on Thurs. , Nov. 28 at 2: 30, was conducted by the pastor, Rev. J. A. Arbuckle. Pallbearers: Jack Connell and Donald Laurence of Hespeler; James Wildfong and Kenneth Wildfong of Guelph; Jack Faehrenbach of Windsor; and James Brown of Burlington. Interment Hespeler Cemetery.

William married Emma Caroline Holzschuh 2 Nov 1898. Emma (daughter of Samuel Holzschuh and Magdalena Dammeier) was born 29 Nov 1876, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 5 May 1948, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , New Hope Cemetery, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Emma Caroline Tabbert
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-125776
• Residence: 1911, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran

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Suddenly, in Hespeler, on Wednesday, in her 72^nd year. Wife of William Tabbert Sr. of R. R. #1, Puslinch. Mother of William of Puslinch Township; Mrs. Walter Main of Puslinch Township; Mrs. Ernest Cornell of Hespeler; Mrs. Clarence Brown of Burlington; Mrs. Wilfred Fehrenbach of R. R. #7, Guelph; Mrs. Walter Kern and Mrs. Herbert Wildfong of Guelph. Sister of Mrs. William Axt, Mrs. Regina Denstedt, August and Edmond Holzschuh, all of Linwood. There are eleven grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Mrs. Tabbert dropped dead in a Hespeler funeral home, while attending the service for an old neighbourhood friend, Mrs. Henry Baumgartner. She was a native of Wellesley Township, having been born near Linwood. Service at St. James' Evangelical Lutheran Church in Hespeler on Sat. at 2: 30. Rev. A. Baetz officiated. Pallbearers were eight nephews: Lawrence, Elwood, Samuel and Ivan Holzschuh; Stanley Harold Denstedt; Helmer Axt and Grant Schneider. Interment Hespeler Cemetery.

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• Name: John Wildfang
• Eby ID Number: 000131-8102
• Occupation: 1872, Puslinch Twp., Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada; farmer
• Occupation: 1891, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Residence: 1891, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Dunkard
• Occupation: 1901, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Residence: 1911, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Dunkard

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John Wildfong, "a farmer,is married to Catherine Holm. They reside near Hespeler, Ontario. Some time ago he was ordained as a minister of the (Dunkard) River Brethren denomination."


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 Catherine Ann Holm 1 May 1864, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Catherine (daughter of Rev. Peter Niles Holm and Susannah Gingerich) was born 21 Mar 1844, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 10 Jul 1924; was buried , Crossroads Brethren in Christ Cemetery, Puslinch Township, Wellington Co., Ontario. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Catherine Ann Wildfong
• Eby ID Number: 00056-3841
• Residence: 1861, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Tunker
• Residence: 1891, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Dunkard
• Residence: 1911, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Dunkard

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Catharine Holm, "is married to John Wildfong, a farmer. They reside about a mile east of Hespeler. Their family consisted of five 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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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-410029
• Occupation: 1861, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Laborer
• Residence: 1861, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran
• Occupation: 1871, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Labourer
• Residence: 1871, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran
• Occupation: 1881, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Residence: 1881, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran
• Occupation: 1891, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Gentleman
• Residence: 1891, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran

John married Mary Krampien 1852. Mary was born 1825, , Germany; died Bef 1891. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Mary Krempir
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-410030
• Residence: 1861, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran
• Residence: 1871, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran
• Residence: 1881, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-70693
• Immigration: 1857, , Ontario, Canada
• Occupation: 1871, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Naturalization: 1872
• Occupation: 1881, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; farmer
• Occupation: 1901, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Residence: 1911, Linwood, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran
• Retired: 1911, Linwood, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

Christian — Dorothea Sophia "Sophia" Retzlaff. Dorothea was born 17 Sep 1827, Zühlsdorf, , Brandenburg, Germany; died 10 Apr 1917, Linwood, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Saint Peter's Lutheran Cemetery, Linwood, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Dorothea Sophia "Sophia" Tabbert
• Name: Sophia Retzlaff
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-70716
• Immigration: 1857, , Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1911, Linwood, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran

Notes:

Translated from German

Zühlsdorf, October 14^th, 1860

Much beloved daughter and son-in-law.

We received your letter of September 10^th, 1860, which is very delightful to us, on October 2^nd. How much we enjoyed this letter, we cannot write you with a pen. We already supposed you beloved ones dead, [because:] We wrote you a letter on September 14^th, 1858, answering your sorrowful letter of October 22^nd, 1858. We were very sorrow for the bad conditions you have been in. Our letter came back last year, so we almost certainly supposed you to have been died. Now that is not the case, but you are still alive and well and healthy, too, so let us both thank God very humbly for his merciful providence. From far we call to you, too: "Remain in the ways of the Lord; he will keep us."

My dear children, those who are in "Groß-Silber" [perhaps a name of a village], got your letter. They wrote a letter back, but they did not post the letter because they had not the money and unpaid they did not want to the post the letter. They are still in the same conditions as in the year your left, they in good health.

Theodor Künger (?) of Liebenow: his matter of the "Spierilus" (?) is still quiet; he is still there, is now married, they already have two children. Wilhelm is still in Stettin [Pommerania], he is still in good health. Friederike works in Warchin (?) as a cook, they both are unmarried.

On the Holy Pentecost - Feast of this year I visited Wilhelm in Stettin. There I also took a steamer [for a short trip], which I like very much.
Louise did not behave well, she got with a child. On Oct. 2^nd, 1860, when we got your letter, she got a little son. He lover was willing to marry her, but he had (publicly) announced his will to marry her there were objections by another woman who says she conceived a child from him too. So there will be no wedding, most likely. He is a "Klatt" from Reetz.

This year the grain-crop is very good, better than in many other years. All over the summer we had fresh and wet weather, the grain did not suffer from it only the potatoes are a bit ill.

To Kürtow (name of a village?) I came (?) on Sunday; Jochen Garr and all the other acquaintances and relatives are still good health. Schmidt's in Heinrichswalde are in good health, too. Jochen Fritz, Jochen Schimmel, Karl Schmidt, are with their wives and children in good health and asked me to greet you heartily. Liegtow with his wife is still in good health, Harder with his family too. Harders have already three children; they asked me to greet you too.

We are still living in the house we were in when you left: I only moved. from the room of Pachstein [propername] into the room of the brick-layer who bought Peterlückens [propername] lot and lives, now there. Pachstein has sold his apartment, which be formerly bought from Brüâe, to the tailor Friedrich Schmidt from Lötzin. Friedrich Schmidt is now my neighbour, he is married, too, and has two children with his wife, he asked me to greet you best. Mrs. Streitzen and Mrs. Schröder of the tavern asked me to greet you and your husband best, Marien greets very heartily. Friederike and August Schwandt greet you, Friederike has been my neighbour for two years, also, but moved around Michaelis of this year, when Schmidt came in, to Blackens [propername].

I myself am still in my old work in Lötzin , the Baron of the Marwitz of Lötzin is married a year now, they have already a little son.
Around this place we had the scarlet-fever among the children this summer, here Zühlsdorf many children died. More news I cannot write.
We recommend you to the mercy of almighty God. Keep closely to his word, so he certainly will not leave you.

Do not blame us for our not having paid the postage, we think it is a more secure this way. We ask your heartily to write at least one a year, do not the postage either, it is better because of the security.

Now we want to finish our letter, we greet you with all our heart and remain until the death your you loving old ones -

Retzlow.


P.S. When you write back, write how you like the country there and how you are, that you did not write at all, whereabout we feel very sorry.
You wanted to invite us to the baptism of your child, but I invite you, if you like to come, too. Sunday, October 21^st, I am willing to take Louise's child to baptism [as a god-parent probably].

Letter from the father of Dorothea Sophia Retzlaff to Dorothea, translated from German in the 1950's, original location of letter unknown

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Linwood - One of the oldest residents of Linwood, passed to her rest on Tuesday, April 10th, when Mrs. Christian Tabbert died at her home here after suffering from chronic bronchitis. Mrs. Tabbert whose maiden name was Dorothea Ratzlauf, was born at Zulsdorf, Germany, and came to Canada when a young woman. She married in 1853, and is survived by her husband and a family of three sons and two daughters, namely: Mrs. C. Koenig, Mrs. W. Burnett, Mr. c. Tabbert, Mr. J. Tabbert and Mr. W. Tabbert. The funeral took place from the residence of her daughter, Mrs. Koenig, on Friday, April 13, to the Linwood Cemetery.

Elmira Signet Apr 19 1917

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-50702P
• Occupation: 1874, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Residence: 1874, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Occupation: 1881, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Occupation: 1901, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Occupation: 1911, Linwood, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Residence: 1911, Linwood, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran

Samuel married Magdalena Dammeier 24 Nov 1874, Heidelberg, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Magdalena (daughter of August Dammeier and Judith, daughter of August Dammeier and Judith Greybiehl) was born 24 Apr 1853, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 11 Aug 1916, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Saint Peter's Lutheran Cemetery, Linwood, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Magdalena Holzschuh
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-50703P
• Residence: 1874, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1911, Linwood, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran