Louis F. Bernhardt

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• Military: WW2 - overseas in the army
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-379737

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BERNHARDT, Louis F.

Of 133 Woodside Ave., Cambridge. on Tuesday, July 28, 1992, at Cambridge Memorial Hospital, in his 67th year. Beloved husband of the late Gwendolvne Eagling (1977). Loving brother of Isabel (Mrs Stan Debrusk) and Ruth (Mrs. Clinton Dale), both of Cambridge; dear father of Thomas McQuitty of Cambridge, Kenneth Albert of Kitchener. Darryl Albert and Charles Albert, both of Cambridge. Lovingly remembered by nine grandchildren. Predeceased by his parents; two brothers, Irvin and Harold; two sisters, Edna Braun and Rose Wood and one son, Christopher Albert in 1971. Mr. Bernhardt was born in Preston and was a life long resident. He was a long time employee of Clare Brothers, retiring in 1981. He served overseas in the army in the Second World War and was a member of St. Peter's Lutheran Church, Cambridge. The family will receive friends at the Barthel Funeral Home, 586 Queenston Rd., Cambridge, today (Wednesday) from 7-9 p.m. The funeral and committal service will be conducted by Rev. Norris Heubner at the funeral home on Thursday, July 30,1992, at 1.30 p.m.

The Record Newspaper 29 Jul 1992 pg A15

Louis — Gwendolyne "Gwen" Eagling. Gwendolyne (daughter of Eagling) was born 1921, , England; died 31 Aug 1977, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Parklawn Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Charles Bernhardt
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-380762
• Occupation: 1911, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Moulder, Foundry
• Residence: 1911, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran

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Henry Bernhardt

PRESTON - Henry H. Bernhardt, 70, well-known lifelong resident of Preston, died suddenly at his home, 305 Hamilton St., Preston, early Friday morning. Mr. Bernhardt had been ailing for a year and seriously ill for a week. A moulder by occupation he was employed with Clare Bros., in that capacity for some 40 years and for a short time with Shantz Foundry. He retired from moulding in 1948. An active member of St. Peter's Lutheran Church, Mr. Bernhardt was a member of the church board and secretary-treasurer of the Sunday school. He was financial secretary of the Preston Independent Order of Foresters. A member of the Moulder's Union, he was secretary-treasurer of that organization until a short time after his retirement in 1948. As a hobby he was a member of the Preston crokinole club. He was married in Preston in 1908. His wife, the former Rose Marie Wehrle, survives with four daughters, Mrs. H. (Edna) Braun of Preston, Mrs. C. (Ruth) Dale of Galt, Mrs. S. (Isobel) Debrusk of Preston, Mrs. N. (Rose) Wood of Galt; three sons, Harold, Irvin and Lewis of Preston; two brothers, George of Galt and Jake of Toronto and a sister, Mrs. H. Davis of Madison, N.J. Twelve grandchildren and an aunt, Mrs. George Haller of Preston, also survive. The body is at the Stager-Pass Funeral Home, where the funeral will be held Monday, at 2 p.m. Interment will be in Park Lawn Cemetery, Preston. Rev. J. S. Dauphinee of St. Peter's Lutheran Church will officiate.

Kitchener-Waterloo Record 26 Dec 1953 pg 5

Henry married Rose Marie Wehrle 12 Oct 1908, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Rose (daughter of Franz Andreas "Frank" Wehrle and Barbara Elisabeth "Elizabeth" Koch) was born Mar 1883, , Ontario, Canada; died 1965; was buried , Parklawn Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Rose Marie Bernhardt
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-380763
• Residence: 1891, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran
• Residence: 1911, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran

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• Name: Louis Bernhardt
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-111904
• Residence: 1861, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran
• Residence: 1871, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1882, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Occupation: 1911, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Laborer, ?
• Residence: 1911, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran

Peter married Caroline Zimmer 9 May 1882, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Caroline (daughter of Jacob Zimmer and Caroline Young) was born Jun 1861, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 1942; was buried , Preston Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Caroline Bernhardt
• Name: Carrie Zimmer
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-70581
• Residence: 1882, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1911, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Roman Catholic

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• Name: Frank Wehrle
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-352931
• Occupation: 1852, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Music Master
• Residence: 1864, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Occupation: 1871, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Occupation: 1881, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Musician

Franz married Barbara Elisabeth "Elizabeth" Koch 12 Jun 1874, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Barbara was born 18 Jul 1844, , Prussia, Germany; died 28 Sep 1909, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Preston Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Birth: , Hessen, Germany
• Name: Barbara Elisabeth "Elizabeth" Wehrle
• Name: Elisabeth Koch
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-352932
• Residence: 1874, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Occupation: 1891, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Washerwoman
• Residence: 1891, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran

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• Business: Rock Brewery, 1580 Queenston Rd., Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Business: 1251 King St. E., Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Brewery
• FindAGrave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/102180859
• Name: Heinrich Bernhardt
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-35118
• Immigration: 1833, , Ontario, Canada
• Misfortune: 1850, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; strike by lighting - blinded
• Residence: 1850, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Occupation: 1852, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Brewer
• Occupation: 1861, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Brewer
• Residence: 1861, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran
• Occupation: 1871, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Brewer
• Residence: 1871, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Occupation: 1891, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Gentleman
• Residence: 1891, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran
• Occupation: 1901, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; ?

Notes:

Among the early settlers may be named Mr. Isaac Salyerds, of Irish descent. Brought up among Pennsylvanians, he married a daughter of John Erb and with her obtained considerable landed property. Isaac was a man of energy. He built a tavern (now owned by Mr. Alfred Thomson,) owned two large farms near Preston and became the owner of a small tannery, near the Grand River, built by one Andrew Smith. Mr. Salyerds erected a large store, built a tannery on those premises and carried on the business of tanning for a number of years. Owing to sickness and other causes his business declined; he discontinued the tannery and died in embarrassed circumstances. (Having neglected to make a will, his property went into the Court of Chancery where it remained for a number of years, until the greater portion of it had been consumed by law costs. The tannery premises were purchased by Henry Bernhardt who converted them into a brewery and added a number of buildings as they now stand.

Fifth Annual Report Of The Waterloo Historical Society, 1917, pg 25

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Dreadful Accident from Lightning at New Hope

It falls this week to our lot as public journalists to record one of the most awful, sudden and frightful catastrophes, by which in the twinkling of an eye, unthinking mortals are occasionally hurried off the busy scene of human life, which we recollect as happening in our immediate neighbourhood. On Sunday last, about 5 o'clock in the afternoon, and when the heavy thunder storm which visited this quarter on that day, was raging at its height, just as three men, Frederick Long, Henry Barnhart and a German known as the "Little Waggoner" were in the act of leaving the stoop of the tavern in the Village of New Hope, kept by Mr. Adam Scott, a terrific flash of lightning struck the party and felled them all instantaneously to the earth.

Melancholy to relate, Long was found to have been killed on the spot, his shirt and skin across the breast being most severely burned and singed and part of his clothes rent and torn into shreds by the fearful, yet incomprehensible violence of the electric shock. Barnhart was discovered to have been struck completely blind and has remained so ever since, besides being otherwise severely stunned, burned and injured. The other person, who seems only to be known by the cognomen of the "Little Waggoner" (being a wagon maker in New Hope), was only slightly affected in the foot, in which, however, he experienced a strange, yet painful sensation. Dr. Ebert and Mr. Klotz soon arrived from Preston, but all attempts at reviving Long were tried in vain. Barnhart, who is a brewer in Preston, has since been conveyed home, but notwithstanding every attention medical and otherwise, the poor fellow enjoys little hope of recovering his eyesight, if indeed, his life be spared as he now lies in a precarious condition. Long was 24 years of age, and son-in-law of old Mr. Barnhart and head cooper to Mr. Hespeler, of Preston and had lately been employed at Mr. H's Mills at New Hope. He leaves a wife and child to lament his untimely end, and the bereavement of a kind husband and fond father.

At the time and place where the lightning struck, an extremely strong, sulphurous and suffocating smell pervaded the surrounding atmosphere and even clung to the bodies of the killed and injured, so much so that for some time there was great difficulty in breathing in the vicinity of the spot where the dire calamity occurred.

The Niagara Chronicle of 8 Aug 1850
Picked up and reprinted from The Dumfries Reformer, Galt Ont

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Died at Preston, on Sunday, January 27th, 1907, at 7.50 o'clock a.m. Henry Bernhardt Aged 81 Years, 10 Months and 17 Days. Funeral Will take place from the residence of Peter Bernhardt, where Service will be held, on Tuesday Afternoon, 29th Jan., at 2 o'clock to the Preston Cemetery for Interment. No Flowers. Friends and acquaintances please accept this intimation. Preston, Jan. 28th, 1907.

City of Cambridge Archives Funeral Card Collection

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HENRY BERNHARDT

Preston, Ont., Jan. 28. Henry Bernhardt, one of Preston's oldest residents, died on Sunday in his 82nd vear. Deceased founded the Rock
Brewery, and has been a resident of Preston for over fifty years.

The Chronicle Telegraph, 31 Jan 1907, p. 12

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DEATH OF RESPECTED PRESTONITE.

Preston Progress: There passed away into the great beyond on Sunday morning, January 27th, at 7.50 o'clock, one of the town's oldest citizens, in the person of Henry Bernhardt, at the ripe old age of 81 years, 10 months and 17 days. Deceased has been alling for some time and his demise was not unexpected.

Mr. Bernhardt was born in Alsace, when at the age of four years emigrated to America with his parents, who settled in Buffalo. For four years they remained in that city, then removed to Kossuth, where the farm upon which they settled, now cleared of its forest, and in a high state of cultivation, stands as a monument to their industry and patience. The deceased remained on the farm until he was about 22 years of age, when he came to Preston and founded the Rock brewery, which business is now successfully conducted by his son, Peter.

As proprietor of the brewery Mr. Bernhardt achieved success, which, however, was marred by an accident, of which he was the victim when 23 years old. At Hespeler he was struck by lightning and his eyesight was greatly impaired, so that later in life he worked under that disadvantage, and besides suffered reverses which he, however, successfully overcame. Since the death of his wife, 10 years ago, deceased has resided with his son, ex-Mayor P. Bernhardt, at whose home he peacefully passed away.

Four sons survive, Peter of Preston: George of Galt; Louis of Preston; and Martin of Chicago.

William Bernhardt, of Galt, is a brother, and Mrs. Krouse, of Baden; Mrs. Kratzmeyer, of Preston, and Mrs. John Beck, of Preston, are sisters.

The funeral took place from the residence of Peter Bernhardt on Tuesday at 3 p. m. Services were held at the house by Rev. J. C. C. Maas, pastor of St. Peter's Lutheran Church, who also officiated at the grave.

The cortege was quite lengthy, many old friends being present from Galt, Berlin, Hespoler and Guelph. Among the relatives present from out of town were Mr. and Mrs. Krause of Palmerston, Mr. and Mrs. Murray of Patis, Mrs. Goebel of New Hamburg, Mrs. Krause, of Baden, and Mrs. Steifelmeyer, of New Hamburg.

The pall-bearers were: Henry Bernhardt of Galt George Bernhardt Henry Bernhardt, Valentine Bernhardt, Arthur Bernhardt, and Irwin Bernhardt. Preston, all grandsons of the deceased.

The Weekly News-Record 14 Feb 1907, Thu Page 9

Business:
Address: 1251 King St. E. Cambridge, Ontario formerly Preston. Demolished

Henry Bernhardt operated his brewery here during the 1850s. The business moved and the Bernhardt Brewery later became the Rock Brewery.

Henry married Dorthea Rahn 1 Jan 1850, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Dorthea was born CALC 15 Mar 1827, , Hessen, Germany; died 31 Mar 1897, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Preston Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Dorthea Bernhardt
• Name: Phebe Rahn
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-35119
• Residence: 1850, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1861, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran
• Residence: 1871, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1891, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran

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Died. In Preston, on Wednesday, March 31st, 1897, at 7.30 o'clock p.m., Dorathe Rahn, Beloved wife of Henry Bernhardt, aged 70 years, 2 weeks and 2 days. The Funeral Will take place on Friday afternoon, April 2nd, at 2 o'clock, from her husband's residence, King street, to the Lutheran Church, where services will be held, thence to the Preston cemetery for interment. Friends and acquaintances will please accept this intimation. Preston, April 1st, 1897.

City of Cambridge Archives Funeral Card Collection

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Wednesday night another old resident of Preston completed life's journey,in the person of Mrs Bernhardt, wife of Mr Henry Bernhardt, and mother of Mr Peter Bernhardt, brewer. For the past month Mrs Bernhardt has been struggling with la grippe, which despite all that medical aid and tender care could do, resulted fatally. Deceased was in her 71st year and has spent over fifty years in Preston, she having come here in 1845. She was born in Germany and was a devoted adherent of the Lutheran church. She leaves a family of eight among whom are Mr George Bernhardt, Galt, and Mr Peter Bernhardt, Preston, The funeral will take place tomorrow at 2 o'clock.

Berlin News-Record 2 Apr 1897 pg 6

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-34962
• Occupation: 1852, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Mason
• Occupation: 1871, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Mason
• Occupation: 1881, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Mason
• Occupation: 1891, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Gentleman
• Residence: 1891, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Roman Catholic

Jacob — Caroline Young. Caroline was born CALC 11 Nov 1825, , Bavaria, Germany; died 19 Dec 1894; was buried , Preston Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Caroline Zimmer
• Name: Karolina Jung
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-34963
• Residence: 1891, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Roman Catholic

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-35849
• Residence: 1815, Breisach, , Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Franz — Skolastika Wipf. Skolastika was born Abt 1870, of, Breisach, , Baden-Württemberg, Germany; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Skolastika Wehrle
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-141978
• Residence: 1815, Breisach, , Baden-Württemberg, Germany