Lenora Anna Stever

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• Name: Lenora Anna Shields
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-200638
• Residence: 1921, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran

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SCHIEL, Mrs. Lenora - At K-W Health Centre of Grand River Hospital, on Tuesday, April 13, 1999, Lenora Anna Schiel (nee Stever), age 78 years, of Kitchener.

Mrs. Schiel was a member of St. Matthew's Lutheran Church.

Beloved wife of the late George W. Schiel, who predeceased her in 1969.

Dearly loved mother of Sherry and her fiancé Paul Charlton of Stroud; dear grandmother of Bonnie, David and his wife Faith; sister of Stanley Stever and his wife Betty of Hanover, Ervin Stever and his wife Betty of Doon, Ken Stever of Midland, Helen Rohr and her husband Arnold of Kitchener, Shirley Schmidt and her husband Fred of Cambridge.

Predeceased by her parents; daughter, Diane and her brother, Henry.

Friends and relatives may call at the Ratz-Bechtel Funeral Home, 621 King St. W., Kitchener on Thursday from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. The funeral and committal service will be held in the Ratz-Bechtel Chapel on Friday at 2: 30 p.m., with Rev. Harold Brill officiating.

Reception to follow in the Ratz-Bechtel Family Centre.

Interment Kitchener Mount Hope Cemetery.

Lenora — W. George Shields. W. (son of Henry Shields and Margaret Diehl) was born 17 Dec 1917, Milverton, Mornington Twp., Perth Co., Ontario; died 27 Jan 1969; was buried , Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-50137
• Residence: 1911, Crosshill, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran
• Occupation: 1921, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer, own farm
• Residence: 1921, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran
• Residence: 1965, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

Emanuel — Anna Catherine Tabbert. Anna (daughter of John Friedrich Tabbert and Katherine Koenig) was born 1898, Mornington Twp., Perth Co., Ontario, Canada; died 1983; was buried , Memory Gardens Cemetery, Breslau, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Anna Catherine Stever
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-300200
• Residence: 1921, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-50129
• Immigration: 1863, , Ontario, Canada
• Immigration: 1867
• Naturalization: 1867
• Occupation: 1901, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Occupation: 1911, Crosshill, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Residence: 1911, Crosshill, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran

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LINWOOD, Nov. 27, - The funeral of Frederick W. Stever, who died at the home of his son, Emmanuel, one mile west of Linwood, was held this afternooon from the son's residence to St. Peter's Lutheran Church, Linwood. The deceased had been ill for a week prior to his death with bronchial pneumonia. He was in his 81st year and came to Canada withn 17 years old. He settled near Wellesley where he was married in 1872 to Margaret Fink who predeceased him some years ago. For the past 35 years he farmed three miles west of Linwood.

He is survived by four sons and six daughters, as follows: Mrs. John Stable, Waterloo, Mrs. Amend, Kitchener, Mrs. George Eidt, Waterloo, Joshua, of Kitchener, Mrs. Henry Gerth, Kitchener, Mrs. Morris Danels, Kitchener, Mrs. Morris Danels, Dorking, Mrs. Charles Giles and Emmanuel of Linwood, and Solmon of Garrington, Alterta.

1aKitchener Daily Record 27 Nov 1930

Frederick — Margaret Fink. Margaret (daughter of Heinrich "Henry" Fink and Elizabeth Kaufman) was born 16 Dec 1856, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 24 Aug 1921, 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: Margaret Stever
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-50130
• Residence: 1861, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran
• Residence: 1871, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelical
• Residence: 1871, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lot 10 Con. 3 Wellesley Township
• Residence: 1911, Crosshill, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-70717

John — Katherine Koenig. Katherine (daughter of George Conrad Koenig and Catherine Hett) was born 1867, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died Yes, date unknown; was buried , Saint Peter's Lutheran Cemetery, Linwood, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Katherine Tabbert
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-85714

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• Name: Henry Fink
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-364891
• Occupation: 1848, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; shoemaker
• Occupation: 1851, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Residence: 1851, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelical Lutheran
• Occupation: 1861, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Residence: 1861, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran
• Occupation: 1871, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Residence: 1871, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelical

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Died:
Event Description: Dropsy

Heinrich married Elizabeth Kaufman 5 Oct 1848, Greenbush (Kitchener), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Elizabeth (daughter of John Kaufman and Barbara) was born 1831, , Germany; died 22 Dec 1913, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Elizabeth Doersam
• Name: Elizabeth Fink
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-81532
• Residence: 1848, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1851, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelical Lutheran
• Residence: 1861, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran
• Occupation: 1871, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Residence: 1871, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelical
• Residence: 1871, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lot 10 Con 3 Wellesley Township
• Residence: 1906, Gretna, , Manitoba, Canada
• House of Industry and Refuge: 1913, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

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Elizabeth may be buried in Freeborn cemetery in Wellesley where his first husband and two daughters are buried. Elizabeth is thought to be the sister of Henry Kaufman who married Elizabeth Henkel.

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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

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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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• FindAGrave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/60199432
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-51258

George — Catherine Hett. Catherine (daughter of Jost John Hett and Elizabeth Marie "Eliza" Groening) was born 2 Feb 1832, Alsfeld, , Hessen, Germany; died 3 Jul 1915, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Saint Peter's Lutheran Cemetery, Linwood, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• FindAGrave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/60188179
• Name: Catherine Koenig
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-51257
• Immigration: 1844