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Generation: 1

  1. 1.  James "Jim" Reist

Generation: 2

  1. 2.  Robert Stanley Reist was born 1926 (son of Levi Stanley Reist and Ida Shiry); died 2004; was buried , Zion United Church, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.

    Other Events:

    • Eby ID Number: Waterloo-213054

    Robert — Hazel G. Willems. Hazel (daughter of Sgt. Garret Willems and Nellie Fry) was born 1927; died 1993; was buried , Zion United Church, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]


  2. 3.  Hazel G. Willems was born 1927 (daughter of Sgt. Garret Willems and Nellie Fry); died 1993; was buried , Zion United Church, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.

    Other Events:

    • Name: Hazel G. Reist
    • Eby ID Number: Waterloo-213055

    Children:
    1. Bonnie Reist
    2. 1. James "Jim" Reist
    3. Gail Reist
    4. Jeff Reist
    5. Eleanor Reist


Generation: 3

  1. 4.  Levi Stanley Reist was born 11 Oct 1891, , Ontario, Canada (son of Dr. Owen S. Reist and Mary Ellen Baer); died 9 Apr 1953; was buried , Zion United Maple Grove Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.

    Other Events:

    • Name: Stanley Reist
    • Eby ID Number: 00090-5215.3
    • Occupation: 1911, Breslau, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer Son
    • Residence: 1911, Breslau, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist

    Levi — Ida Shiry. Ida (daughter of Menno Shiry and Melvina Gehl) was born 22 Jan 1894, , Ontario, Canada; died 6 Jan 1953; was buried , Zion United Maple Grove Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]


  2. 5.  Ida Shiry was born 22 Jan 1894, , Ontario, Canada (daughter of Menno Shiry and Melvina Gehl); died 6 Jan 1953; was buried , Zion United Maple Grove Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.

    Other Events:

    • Name: Ida Reist
    • Name: Ida Scheirich
    • Eby ID Number: 00100-5579.3
    • Residence: 1911, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist

    Children:
    1. Mildred Ruth Reist was born 29 May 1924.
    2. 2. Robert Stanley Reist was born 1926; died 2004; was buried , Zion United Church, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.

  3. 6.  Sgt. Garret Willems was born 27 Jul 1902; died 23 Apr 1960; was buried , Zion United Maple Grove Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.

    Other Events:

    • Eby ID Number: Waterloo-25097

    Garret — Nellie Fry. Nellie was born 14 Dec 1896; died 19 Sep 1988; was buried , Zion United Maple Grove Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]


  4. 7.  Nellie Fry was born 14 Dec 1896; died 19 Sep 1988; was buried , Zion United Maple Grove Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.

    Other Events:

    • Name: Nellie Willems
    • Eby ID Number: Waterloo-93269

    Children:
    1. 3. Hazel G. Willems was born 1927; died 1993; was buried , Zion United Church, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.


Generation: 4

  1. 8.  Dr. Owen S. ReistDr. Owen S. Reist was born 4 Feb 1866, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada (son of Deacon Peter Reist and Mary Shantz); died 21 Sep 1931; was buried , Zion United Maple Grove Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.

    Other Events:

    • Eby ID Number: 00090-5215
    • Residence: 1871, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Mennonite
    • Occupation: 1901, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
    • Elected Office: 1906, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Reeve for Waterloo Township
    • Occupation: 1911, Breslau, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
    • Residence: 1911, Breslau, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist

    Notes:

    Owen Reist, "was born February 4th, 1866. He is married to Ellen, daughter of Samuel Bear. They reside at home with his father. Their family consists of one son named Levi Stanley."


    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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    OWEN REIST, V.S., of Kossuth. was born in Woolwich in 1866. After passing through the public school of Kossuth he took his second-class teacher's certificate at the Galt Collegiate in 1886, afterward attending the Ontario Veterinary College, where he received the degree of V. S. in 1888, and has successfully practised his profession ever since. In 1892 he assumed his father's farm, later acquiring more farm property, in all nearly 300 acres. Mr. Reist held the position of Sanitary Inspector for Waterloo Township from 1891 to 1900, when he resigned to accept a seat in the township council, being elected reeve in 1906. He was appointed a justice of the peace in 1902 and reappointed in 1905. He has held the office of school trustee and is recording steward for the Zion circuit of the Methodist Church.

    Chronicle-Telegraph Newspaper, 100 Years of Progress in Waterloo County Canada Semi-Centennial Souvenir 1856-1906 (Waterloo, Ontario, Canada: Chronicle-Telegraph Newspaper, 1906) pg 32

    Owen married Mary Ellen Baer 19 Nov 1890, , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Mary (daughter of Samuel Baer and Hannah Snyder) was born 18 Jun 1866, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 14 Jan 1939, Hamilton, Wentworth Co., Ontario, Canada; was buried , Zion United Maple Grove Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]


  2. 9.  Mary Ellen Baer was born 18 Jun 1866, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada (daughter of Samuel Baer and Hannah Snyder); died 14 Jan 1939, Hamilton, Wentworth Co., Ontario, Canada; was buried , Zion United Maple Grove Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.

    Other Events:

    • Name: Ellen Bear
    • Name: Mary Ellen Reist
    • Eby ID Number: 00003-604.7
    • Residence: 1871, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Mennonite
    • Residence: 1881, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Mennonite
    • Residence: 1911, Breslau, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist

    Notes:

    Mrs. O. Reist \endash Kossuth \endash Well attended funeral services were conducted Tuesday at Zion United Church for Mary Ellen Baer, widow of the late Dr. Owen Reist, who died in Hamilton on Saturday. In her 70th year, the late Mrs. Reist lived for many years on the farm in Kossuth. Services were held at the H.K. Stager Funeral Parlors, Preston, and Zion United church, conducted by the Rev. Douglas Gordon, pastor of the church and Rev. Oscar Burkholder, pastor of Cressman Church, Breslau. Interment was in the Zion Cemetery. Pallbearers were: Norman Markle, Levi Bowman, Aaron Baer, Bailey Springer, all of Kossuth, and Lawrence Snyder and Norman Reist of Hespeler.

    The Waterloo Chronicle Jan 17 1939 pg 3

    Children:
    1. 4. Levi Stanley Reist was born 11 Oct 1891, , Ontario, Canada; died 9 Apr 1953; was buried , Zion United Maple Grove Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.
    2. Owen C. Reist was born 2 Jun 1895, , Ontario, Canada; died Yes, date unknown.
    3. Dr. Claude Owen Reist was born 12 Jun 1895, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 29 Jan 1936, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried 31 Jan 1936, Preston Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.
    4. Peter Verne Reist was born 16 Feb 1899, , Ontario, Canada; died 1956; was buried , Zion United Maple Grove Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.
    5. Gertrude Ellen Reist was born 3 Jun 1913, , Ontario, Canada; died 1986; was buried , Breslau Mennonite Cemetery, Breslau, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.

  3. 10.  Menno Shiry was born 5 Apr 1865, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada (son of Samuel Scheirich and Susannah Snyder); died 25 Oct 1946, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Hagey Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.

    Other Events:

    • Name: Menno Scheirich
    • Eby ID Number: 00100-5579
    • Residence: 1871, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Mennonite
    • Occupation: 1901, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
    • Occupation: 1911, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
    • Residence: 1911, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist

    Notes:

    Menno Scheirich, "was born April 5th, 1865. He is a farmer and resides home with his father and manages the farm. He is married to Melvina Gehl and has a family of two children, namely: Harvey (dead) and Ida."


    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.].

    Menno — Melvina Gehl. Melvina (daughter of Richard Gehl and Rebecca B. Tohman) was born 27 Jan 1868, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 25 Sep 1921, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Hagey Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]


  4. 11.  Melvina Gehl was born 27 Jan 1868, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada (daughter of Richard Gehl and Rebecca B. Tohman); died 25 Sep 1921, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Hagey Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.

    Other Events:

    • Name: Melvina Shiry
    • Eby ID Number: 00100-5579.1
    • Residence: 1881, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Mennonite
    • Residence: 1911, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist

    Notes:

    In/ Memoriam// Died/ At Riverbank, on Sunday, September 25th, 1921,/ Melvina Gehl/ beloved wife of Menno Shiry in her 54th year.// The Funeral/ Will take place on Wednesday, September/ 28th, at 2 p.m., from her late home at/ Riverbank to the Hagey Cemetery, Preston./ Friends and acquaintances will please accept this intimation


    Funeral Card

    Children:
    1. Harvey Shiry
    2. Harold Shiry was born 13 Jan 1892; died 5 Feb 1892; was buried , Hagey Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.
    3. 5. Ida Shiry was born 22 Jan 1894, , Ontario, Canada; died 6 Jan 1953; was buried , Zion United Maple Grove Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.
    4. Alfred Shiry was born 11 Nov 1896, Of, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 30 Jan 1963; was buried , Breslau Mennonite Cemetery, Breslau, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.
    5. Herbert Shiry was born 27 May 1900, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 1988; was buried , Zion United Maple Grove Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.


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