Mary Lourene Ellis

Other Events:

• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-386832

Notes:

ELLIS, Mary Lourene

March 30, 1900 to January 1,1999. Lourene was born and grew up on a farm near Hespeler. Most of her life was spent in Waterloo, where she managed the cafeteria in the head office of the Mutual Life. She moved to St. Luke's Place in Cambridge, in 1995. She is a sister to the late Carl Ellis and the late Elena Gingrich. Her younger sister, Ella, still lives in St. Luke's Place. The date and location of a memorial service will be announced later.

The Record 6 Jan 1999 pg B4

Other Events:

• Eby ID Number: 00023-1704.1
• Residence: 1861, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist
• Residence: 1871, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; NC Methodist
• Occupation: 1881, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Residence: 1881, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist Canada
• Occupation: 1891, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Agricultural Laborer
• Residence: 1891, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist
• Occupation: 1901, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Occupation: 1911, Breslau, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Residence: 1911, Breslau, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist

Notes:

Alfred G. Ellis

HESPELER, In his 99th year, Alfred G. Ellis of RR 1, Hespeler, died Saturday, at K-W Hospital. He was a retired farmer and lived his whole life on the farm where he was born. He was a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. David Ellis and was married, in 1893. His wife died in June, 1945. Mr. Ellis was an honorary elder of Hespeler United Church. Surviving are one son, Carl, RR 1; three daughters, Mrs. Alvin (Alena) Gingerich, both of Hespeler; Miss Lourene Ellis and Miss Ella Ellis, both of Waterloo: one brother, Thomas, Clifford: one sister, Mrs. E. J. Mott, Willowdale and two grandchildren. The body is resting at the Stager Funeral Home, where service will be conducted, Tuesday, at 3 p.m., by Rev. M. G. McFarlane. Burial will be in Wanners Cemetery, near Hespeler.

Kitchener-Waterloo Record 8 Feb 1954 pg 5

Alfred married Mary Jane Clemens 8 Feb 1893, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Mary (daughter of Aaron Clemens and Nancy Snyder) was born 10 May 1864, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 8 Jun 1945, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Wanner Mennonite Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Name: Mary Jane Ellis
• Eby ID Number: 00023-1704
• Residence: 1871, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; W. Methodist
• Residence: 1881, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Church of England
• Residence: 1891, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist
• Residence: 1911, Breslau, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist

Notes:

Mary Jane Clemens, "was born May 10th, 1864. She is married to Alfred Ellis, a farmer. They reside near Kossuth, Ontario. Have one child."

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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Mary Jane Clemens, "was born May 10th, 1864. She is married to Alfred Ellis, a farmer. They reside near Kossuth, Ontario. Have one child."

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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MRS. ALFRED ELLIS

HESPELER, June 8. A well-known resident of Waterloo Township for many years, Mrs. Alfred Ellis, passed away at her home this morning, at the age of 81 years. She had been ill for only one week. Born in Plattsville, Mrs. Ellis came to the Hespeler district as a child with her parents, when her father purchased the mill at Fisher Mills. The family resided there for a number of years and then moved to, Kitchener. Following her marriage. Feb. 8, 1893, she and her husband took up residence at their present abode. Mrs. Ellis' maiden name, was Mary Jane Clemens. Surviving are her husband: 3 daughters, Misses Lourena and Ella Ellis of Kitchener and Mrs. A. Gingrich, Hespeler and one son, Reeve Carl Ellis of Waterloo Township and two grandchildren.

Kitchener Daily Record 8 Jun 1945 pg 21

Other Events:

• FindAGrave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/110826498
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-27270
• Residence: 1837, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1842, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Occupation: 1851, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; farmer
• Residence: 1861, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Residence: 1861, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist
• Occupation: 1871, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Residence: 1871, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; NC Methodist
• Occupation: 1881, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; farmer
• Occupation: 1881, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Residence: 1881, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist Canada
• Occupation: 1891, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Residence: 1891, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist

Notes:

Died. In Waterloo Tp., on Saturday, Feb'y 5th, 1898, at 9.30 o'clock a.m., David Ellis, Aged 86 Years, 1 Month and 16 Days. Funeral. Will take place from his late residence Waterloo Tp., on Tuesday Feb'y 8th, 1898, at 1.30 o'clock p.m., thence to Warner's [sic] Church, where services will be held. Interment in Warner's Cemetery. Friends and acquaintances will please accept this intimation. Waterloo Tp., Feb'y 5th, 1898.

Funeral Card

David married Ann Winter 1841, Greenbush (Kitchener), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Ann (daughter of Ambrose Winter and Mary Ewing) was born 23 Feb 1825, , England; died 12 Mar 1904, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Wanner Mennonite Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• FindAGrave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/110826649
• Name: Ann Ellis
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-27271
• Residence: 1841, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1861, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist
• Residence: 1871, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; NC Methodist
• Residence: 1881, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist Canada
• Residence: 1891, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist

Other Events:

• FindAGrave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/20625118
• Eby ID Number: 00023-1697
• Occupation: 1871, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Residence: 1871, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; --
• Occupation: 1881, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Residence: 1881, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Church of England
• Business: 1887, Winterbourne, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Winterbourne Roller Mills
• Occupation: 1888, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; miller

Notes:

Aaron Clemens, "second son of Abraham C., and Elizabeth Clemens, was born near Hespeler, February 26th, 1828. On October 30th, 1849, he was married to Nancy Snyder, sister to his brother Moses' wife. She was born April 30th, 1830. The resided at Fisher's Mills, near Hespeler, where he died March 21st, 1888. Their family consisted of ten children, all born near Hespeler"

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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Died, In Waterloo Township, on Wednesday morning, 21st March, at half-past 9 o'clock, Aaron Clemens, Aged 60 Years & 24 Days. Funeral On Saturday, 24th inst., at 2 o'clock p.m., from his late residence, (Fisher's Mills) to Warner's [sic] Burying Ground. Friends and acquaintances are respectfully invited to attend. Waterloo Township, March 21st, 1888.

Waterloo Historical Society Death Notices Collection - photocopies

Business:
The Winterbourne Mills (flouring) have been established 30 years, and contain eight sets of rollers and three runs of
stones, with a capacity of 75 barrels a day, A saw mill in connection manufactures lnmber, staves and heading. Clemens & Wells.

Waterloo County Gazetteer Directory for 1884-1885- William W. Evans, Guelph

Aaron married Nancy Snyder 30 Oct 1849. Nancy (daughter of John C. Snyder and Catharine Shantz) was born 30 Apr 1830, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 4 Oct 1897, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Wanner Mennonite Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• FindAGrave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/36083033
• Name: Nancy Clemens
• Eby ID Number: 00106-5962
• Residence: 1871, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; --
• Residence: 1881, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Church of England
• Residence: 1891, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist

Notes:

Nancy Snyder, "was born April 30th, 1830. On October 30th, 1849, she was married to Aaron Clemens who died March 21st, 1888. "

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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Died. At the Residence of her son-in-law, Dr. W.L. Hilliard, Erb Street, Waterloo, on the 4th of October, 1897, Nancy Snider, wife of the late Aaron Clemens, Aged 67 Years, 5 Months and 4 Days. The Funeral will take place on Wednesday, October 6th, 1897. There will be a short service at the house at 12 o'clock; thence to Warner's [sic] Church, near Hespeler, for service at 3 p.m. Friends and acquaintances will please accept this intimation. Waterloo, Oct. 4th, 1897^.

Funeral Card

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The late Mrs Aaron Clemens, whose husband predeceased her, and who died at the residence of her daughter, Mrs (Dr.) Hilliard, was married in 1849, her name being Nancy Snider. Mr and Mrs Clemens resided at Fisher's Mills, near Hespeler, where the husband died in 1888. A family of several children are left to mourn the loss of a kind and devoted mother, viz: Rebecca, married to John A Markle, of Birtle, Man; Elizabeth, married to Jacob Solon, of Bay City, Mich.; David S., of Guelph; Mary Jane, married to Alfred Ellis, near Kossuth; Margaret, unmarried, residiug at Guelph; Ida, married to Dr William L Hilliard, of Waterloo, and John S., of Birtle, Man.

The Weekly News-Record Thu, Oct 14, 1897 Page 1

Other Events:

• Interesting: law, public service, pioneer, story
• Military: War of 1812 -
• Name: Squire Ellis
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-27269
• Immigration: 1810, , Ontario, Canada
• Assessment: 1829, Waterloo Township - Beasley's Lower Block Conc. 2 Lot 10, Waterloo County, Ontario
• Land: Bef 1831, Waterloo Township - Beasley's Lower Block Conc. 2 Lot 10, Waterloo County, Ontario

Notes:

In 1810 Jacob Shantz & wife & one child and Christian Shantz with wife & 8 children (he was distinguished as River Shantz) and half brother to Jacob's late father (Isaac) and Cornelius Pannebecker & family came in one company.

In this same year 1810 came Henry Wanner with 3 sons and 6 daughters from Cumberland Co. Pa. He had two 4 horse teams and brought 6 cows along. In this came also one William Ellis (D. Feby. 28, 1848 and wife Martha D. Sept. 29, 1864) originally from Ireland, came from Pa. and settled near Hespeler of the present. Henry [Ellis] one of those sons was drafted and as he was not a member in the Mennonite church had to go in the War of 1812. On his return from battle he had all his cartridges left yet so he was asked why he did not shoot, to which he replied, why I looked & looked for a chance. He was too much of a Mennonite for a good soldier.

This William Ellis, (who became a Captain of a company in the War of 1812), and John Erb were the two first Magistrates in this Waterloo settlement. As yet no Post Office was nearer than Dundas, and all legal business, such as Recording of Deeds, reports & returns of Tax collectors, had to be made at Little York (Toronto).

Mennonite Immigration to Waterloo County, The Moyer Journal, Atributed to Samuel S. Moyer 1849-1941, Waterloo Region Branch, Ontario Genealogical Society

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His Excellency Major General Sir Peregrine Maitland Knight Commander of the Most Honorable Military Order of the Bath. Lieutenant Governor of the Province of Upper Canada.

May it please your Excellency

We the undersigned inhabitants of the Township of Waterloo and the adjacent Townships beg leave respectfully to represent - That in many instances they are put to great inconvenience in consequence of not having two resident Magistrates in this part of the District of Gore - And that it would greatly contribute to the general accommodation of the Inhabitants if in addition to the present magistrate William Ellis Esq. it would please your Excellency to name some other person to act in conjunction with him in discharge of the very important Office of Justice of the Peace.

We therefore humbly petition your Excellency that you would please appoint Mr. William Scollick of the township of Waterloo as Magistrate for the District of Gore. And we confidently assure your Excellency that from the circumstances of the person herein nominated being a native of the County of Westmorland in England and his having already purchased an Estate in the Township of Waterloo. And since his residence amongst us uniformly conducted himself as a respectable and truly loyal subject. We think no other person in this vicinity could be named to discharge the duty of the appointment with greater satisfaction to the Inhabitants.

And your petitioners are in duty bound will ever pray

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Waterloo
April 23^rd 1824

Walter B. Davis
Andrew Serares
Jacob Holt
Henry Panndeker
D. Sharp
Richard Ferguson
William Ellis, J.P.
John McCarther
John Erb
Abraham Panebaker
William Bedntetr
Jacob Gabel
John Tasinbarger
Sylvenus Cornell
Ebocham Tasenbarger
Ward Smith
Christian Swartz
John Erb Jn.
Thomas Smith
George Clemens
James Henery
Jacob C. Snyder
John Bearty
? Zingler

Upper Canada Sundries, Archives of Canada. Original, Film C4612, vol. 66, pages 3505-35007. Index, Film C9822, 1824, p. 27

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William Ellis was born in Ireland in 1776, and emigrated to the U. S. in 1804 with his younger brother. 6 years later, he moved to U. C. and settled in Waterloo Twp. where he was appointed Justice of the Peace. He died survived by his wife and 8 children.

The Christian Guardian 17 May 1848 pg 123

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In these early times there was not much need of magisterial supervision, but, as much probably as a matter of compliment as anything else, in the fall of 1827 Dr. Dunlop, Messrs. Pryor, Brewster, Hodgert and Col. Lamprey received the Commission of the Peace, to which Mr. Strange was afterwards added. Previous to this, disputes were adjusted and petty crimes punished by the magistrates elsewhere, 'Squires Leppard and Smith being the magistrates in Woolwich, and 'Squire Ellis, of Fisher's Mills, and 'Squire Scollick, of Preston, in Waterloo. From what is stated by those settlers who were here at the time, these magistrates' courts were conducted more on the principles of equity than on the basis of law, the legal knowledge of their worships on the bench being of the most crude and limited nature, and their decisions being given as the result of their innate feelings of justice and their bard common-sense views of right and wrong; and who shall say that there was not as much even-handed justice meted out then as now, when, through the multiplicity of apparently conflicting statutes, law and justice do not always seem to go hand in hand? When the Guelph magistrates were appointed, however, a quantity of law books were procured, and being men of considerable education and ability, they at once assumed a high place in the estimation of the other justices of the peace, who were accustomed to refer unusually knotty points to them for decision.

The annals of the town of Guelph, 1827-1877 By Charles Acton Burrows pg. 60

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ELLIS FAMILY HISTORY

Mr. Alfred Ellis of Maple Grove Farm near Hespeler, who observed his 92nd birthday on September 15th, reveals some hitherto unrecorded tails of early days in the country shedding sidelights on conditions in Canada in the early days.

Mr. Ellis's grandfather, according to the former's reminiscences, Was the man who fired the first shot in the historic battle of Beaver Dams. A captain in the army, he went into active service immediately after the outbreak of the war of 1812-13-14 and when the men he was directing faced the enemy at Beaver Dams, so keen was the young officer to fight that he fired a shot before the general order to fire had been given.

Captain Ellis was better known in this vicinity as Squire Ellis. He was the country's first magistrate and in addition was employed by the government to pay the Indians the wolf-pelt bounty.

Although the times were troublous Squire Ellis lost no time in getting into action when Canada was invaded. As he bade farewell to his wife and young family before mounting his horse to ride to Niagara, he planted a staff in the ground. If it stood upright it was to be a sign that he would return unharmed from the War, he told his wife. Whether or not this superstition had any foundation is unknown. But it is known that the staff remained upright all the time its owner was away. It was still in position on the night at midnight when a noise at the door startled as she sat spinning, and without any other announcement her husband stood unharmed before her with his job of soldiering done. It is of interest that the old musket and bayonet used by Squire Ellis in 1812-14 are still valued possessions of the Ellis family.

In Squire Ellis's time Indians were much dreaded. The Squire, however, did not appear to share the general fear. Indeed he seemed to have a special influence over the red men. One night when he was returning through the Woods on horseback, a little to the west of where Preston now stands., he heard cries of distress. On turning his horse and investigating he found an Indian white men whipping him.

The Squire jumped off his horse, routed the men and untied the Indian He then gave his horse to the latter and took him home Where Mrs. Ellis cared for him until his wounds were healed.

One morning the Indian attempted by means of signs to give his benefactors a message but they failed to understand. Shortly afterwards he left the farm. A year later a b and of Indians approached the house with 2 Indian ponies. Since he did not know what they wanted the Squire put his children in the house, took out his gun and went out to meet them. The Indian he had rescued the previous was in the front rank. He came forward, three this arms about the Squire while two other Indians presented him with the span of Indian ponies.

In telling the story the Squire's grandson reported that it was a legend in the family that the ponies were kept on the farm until they died and that in the year 1885 a matched span of Indian ponies - probably offspring of the original pair - were shown by the Ellis family at Harley Fair and took first prize for being the "fastest walkers".

Interest in horses came naturally to the country's first magistrate. The chronicle of his family shows that he was a born in County Cavan, Ireland, a gentleman farmer who was educated, in good circumstances and who maintained a stable of good horses and kept his own hounds.

Squire Ellis was born in 1776 and married in 1799. When his first two children were still small tots he and his wife crossed the ocean and had the grief of having their first son die during the hazardous voyage.

At first they settled in Pennsylvania but in 1810 with other Loyalists they came north to Canada and settled on 230 acres which they bought from the Crown (George IY) near what is now Idylwild.

Their first home was built of logs on the side of a hill facing the south with an everlasting spring near by. (The Spring is now in existence). The house was a three storey structure with cellar, kitchen and fireplace, in front of which the Squire joined many hand in wedlock. As much as seven hundred pounds of maple sugar was often stored in the old attic. The house old is still standíng and is in good repair.

Mr. Ellis recalls that his grandparents had eight children, one of whom, David, was his father. The latter settled a few miles north of the original home on a farm which is the home of his nonagenarian son.

On Feb 8, 1892, Mr. Alfred Ellis married Mary Jane Clemens, daughter of Aaron Clemens of Fisher's Mills. Mr.s Ellis died June 8, 1945. The four children of this marriage are still living. Carl, who was the reeve of Waterloo Township, is now the farmer instead of his father. Elena, now Mrs. Alvin Gingrich lives in Hespeler, and Lourene and Ella are employed in Kitchener.

(Adapted in part from Pieces of Eight - New Record Sept. 18, 1940)

Waterloo Historical Society 1947 Annual Volume

Military:
Served in the Flank company of the 2nd York Militia Regiment under Captain Applegarth. Militia rolls names on him and petitions for compensation after the war listing their homes as being in Block 2 or Waterloo

William — Martha Elliott. Martha was born 1773, , Ireland; died 29 Sep 1861, , Ontario, Canada; was buried , Wanner Mennonite Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Name: Martha Ellis
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-27268
• Residence: 1861, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist

Notes:

In 1851 Martha was living in Waterloo Township with her son William.

Other Events:

• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-27278
• Residence: 1829, Beeston next Mileham, Norfolk, England
• Occupation: 1851, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; labourer
• Occupation: 1861, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Gentleman
• Residence: 1861, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist
• Occupation: 1871, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Gentleman
• Residence: 1871, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; NC Methodist

Ambrose married Mary Ewing 11 Nov 1817, Longham, Norfolk, England. Mary was born CA 1800, of, England; died 1828, , Norfolk, England. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Name: Mary Winter
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-42275

Other Events:

• Land: Waterloo Township - Beasley's Lower Block Conc. 2 Lot 13, Waterloo County, Ontario
• Land: 4045 Maple Grove Rd., Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Eby ID Number: 00023-1683
• Residence: 2 Dec 1838; elected deacon
• Occupation: 1861, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Gentleman
• Residence: 1861, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Mennonite

Notes:

Abram C. Clemens, "the third son of Abraham and Rebecca (Miller) Clemens, was born in Chester County, Pennsylvania, February 7th, 1803, and when six years of age his parents moved to Canada and settled in Waterloo County, Ontario, near Hespeler where young Abram was raised. When a young man he was married to Elizabeth, daughter of Christian and Polly (Ruth) Strohm, who was born August 25th, 1802, and died October 8th, 1864. After their marriage they moved on the farm now in possession of their son, John who resides near Hespeler. After the decease of his first wife he was married to Nancy Bowman. When married second time he lived retired near the old homestead. Some twenty years before his death he was appointed deacon of the Mennonite Church. To him and his first wife were born 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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Michael Bergy erected in 1830 the first saw-mill and small foundry which he located a little north of the present R. Forbes Co. site, near where a small spring creek joins the Speed. This streamlet was in those days considerably larger than its present volume. The writer's father told of having fished trout from it in his boyhood. The ruins of the old saw-mill, which has been described by some as a pail-factory and foundry, was a favorite playhouse for the boys a few decades back. Mr. W. A. Kribs, ex M. P. P. recalls the presence of old foundry patterns lying about the place of his boyhood days.

We must continue with the activities of Mr. Bergy who brought the second saw-mill in Bergy-town into existence. it was perhaps with the commencement of this second venture that the name of the place was changed to New Hope, but by the year 1840, Mr. Bergy's hope or interest in the second mill had faded to such an extent that he resold the property to Abram C. Clemens, from whom he had purchased the land. This second saw-mill was the one included in Jacob Hespeler's purchase. it was situated where another streamlet enters the Speed, the site being afterwards occupied by Mr. Hespeler's grist-mill near the stone dam which Hespeler placed in front of Bergy's wooden dam..


Tenth Annual Report of the Waterloo Historical Society, 1922, pages 213 - 224.

Abraham married Elizabeth Strome 30 Mar 1824. Elizabeth (daughter of Christian Strome and Mary Rutt) was born 25 Aug 1802, , Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania; died 8 Oct 1864, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried 11 Oct 1864, Wanner Mennonite Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Name: Elizabeth Clemens
• Eby ID Number: 00120-7461
• Residence: 1861, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Mennonite

Notes:

Elizabeth Strome, "the eldest daughter, was born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, August 25th, 1802, and came to Canada with her parents when eight years old. She was married to Abram C. Clemens, a deacon of the Mennonite body. They resided on a farm near Fisher's Mills, a little north of Hespeler, now in possession of their son John. 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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On the 9th of October Waterloo Township, Waterloo Co., C. W. Elizabeth Clemens, wife of Abraham C. Clemens, whose maiden name was Strohm. She suffered from Palsy for more than a year,being unable to walk or speak and sometimes, as it seemed unconscious. Her pilgrimage in this world extended itself to 62 years, 1 mo. and 13 days. Her remains were laid to rest at Wanners Meeting house on the 11th, where a funeral sermon was preached in the English language from Rom. 8: 18. "For I reckon that the sufferings" &c., and in the German from Num. 23: 10. "Let me die the death of the righteous and let my last end be like his! JOHN BEAR.


Herald of Truth Volume I, No. 11, November 1864 Page 76

Other Events:

• Eby ID Number: 00106-5905
• Grave Photograph - Find A Grave: Gravestone Image
• Epidemic: 1834, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Cholera

Notes:

John C. Snyder, "was born in Franklin County, Pennsylvania, February 1st, 1792. In 1806 he came to Canada with his parents and was raised at Doon, Ontario. In September, 1814, he was married to Catharine, daughter of Christian and Hannah (Paul) Shantz. She was born in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, September 5th, 1792, and died in Waterloo County, Ontario, February 27th, 1854. They resided near Kossuth, where he died of cholera, July 31st, 1834. To them was born a family of nine 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.].

John married Catharine Shantz Sep 1814. Catharine (daughter of Christian Schantz and Hannah Paul) was born 5 Sep 1792, , Montgomery Co., Pennsylvania; died 27 Feb 1854, , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Wanner Mennonite Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Name: Catharine Snyder
• Eby ID Number: 00110-6909
• Grave Photograph - Find A Grave: Gravestone Image

Notes:

Catharine Shantz, "was born September 5th, 1792. In September, 1814, she was married to John C. Schneider and died February 27th, 1854."

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.].