Isobel Rife

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• Name: Isobel Leirsch
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-420987

Isobel — James J. Leirsch. James was born 1915; died 24 Sep 1989, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried 27 Sep 1989, New Hope Cemetery, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

1. Robert Leirsch
2. Douglas Leirsch

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-203148

George — Gladys Arlene Whitmore. Gladys was born 1894, , Grey Co., Ontario, Canada; died 1970; was buried , New Hope Cemetery, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Gladys Arlene Rife
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-203149

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• Name: Abram Rife
• Name: Abram Samuel Rife
• Name: Samuel Rife
• Eby ID Number: 00092-5301
• Residence: 1861, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Christian
• Occupation: 1871, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Occupation: 1880, Walkerton, Brant Twp., Bruce Co., Ontario, Canada; liver keeper
• Residence: 1880, Walkerton, Brant Twp., Bruce Co., Ontario, Canada; Methodist

Notes:

Abram Samuel Rife, "the second son, resides in Dillon City, Montana, U.S., Where he is engaged in the dairy and ranching business. He is married to Mary Jardine."


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a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin: as also much other unpublished historical information chiefly of a local character.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.].

Abraham married Margaret Adeline Hartley 13 Oct 1880, Chinquacousy Twp., Peel Co., Ontario, Canada. Margaret (daughter of Joseph Hartley and Margaret) was born 1860, Walkerton, Brant Twp., Bruce Co., Ontario, Canada; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Margaret Adeline Rife
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-47159
• Residence: 1880, Chinquacousy Twp., Peel Co., Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1880, Chinquacousy Twp., Peel Co., Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian

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• Honoured: Rife St., Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Rife Street in old Hespeler name for David Rife.
• Interesting: politics, honoured, life story,
• Eby ID Number: 00092-5294
• Elected Office: 1859, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; councillor of Hespeler
• Occupation: 1861, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Residence: 1861, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist
• Occupation: 1871, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Occupation: 1881, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; farmer

Notes:

David Rife, "the second son of Samuel Rife, was born in Adams County, Pennsylvania, August 28th, 1820. When five years of age his parents moved to Canada and settled on the farm now in possession of his brother, Samuel Rife, Jr. Here he was raised. He was married to Mary, daughter of Abraham and Sarah (Clemens) Pannabecker. They resided on a farm now within the corporation of Hespeler, Ontario. Here he died April 29th, 1888. His widow is still living and is quite active for a person of her age. She resides in the village of Hespeler. Their family consisted of seven 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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St. Luke's United Church

Meetings began in homes with the arrival of a Methodist New Connexion missionary in 1837. In 1844 New Hope (formerly Bergeytown) was on the Trafalgar Circuit and was ministered to by the Rev. W. Bothwell and two local preachers. Land was donated in 1849 by David Rife Sr. for a stone church called the New Hope Chapel which was located on Queen Street at Hungerford Road. This Chapel was constructed jointly by the New Connexion Methodists and the Evangelicals, who were to build their own church in 1863. In 1851 the congregation was on the Nassagaweya Circuit. Membership continued to grow with the resultant formation in 1858 of a new circuit, the New Hope Circuit. The name of New Hope was changed to Hespeler in the same year with the subsequent renaming of the circuit to the Hespeler Circuit. Early pastors were Revs. James Bell (1858), James Hall (1859-1860), James White (1861-1863), Elias Williams (1864-1866) and James Hill (1867-1870).

In 1874 at the 46th Annual Conference of the Methodist New Connexion Church it was reported that the Hespeler Circuit, which was described as being a Mission of Galt, in the Guelph District, had 4 Chapels, 1 parsonage, 1 Circuit preacher, 2 local preachers, 2 Sunday Schools and a congregation totalling 580 individuals. In the same year, 1874, the Wesleyan Methodists and the New Connexion Methodists united to form the Methodist Church in Canada.

Hespeler became a single charge c.1892 when the Rev. Dr. George H. Cornish was the minister, and from that date the church was considered to be self-supporting. Union with the Congregationals and some Presbyterian congregations resulted in the formation of the United Church of Canada on June 10, 1925; the Hespeler Methodist Church became known then as Hespeler United Church.

The 1849 stone church was torn down in 1868 to make way for a newer, larger stone church which was to remain the place of worship until 1961 when a new church was built on Franklin Boulevard. The final service was conducted in the old stone Hespeler United Church on October 8, 1961, and dedication of the new St. Luke's United Church was held a week later on October 15, 1961. The congregation celebrated its 150th Anniversary in 1987.

Waterloo County Churches A Research Guide To Churches Established Before 1900 By Rosemary Ambrose


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In 1874 J. N. Goebel bought a car load of Red Herring on track at Guelph. A load some merchant had ordered, then refused. And he got them cheap. He disposed of part of the shipment off the car to local merchants and others and arranged with David Rife Sr. to haul the rest to Hespeler.

It was the dead of winter, deep snow, roads badly drifted and only a single track to Guelph. Jack Limpert, then 16, who was working for Mr. Rife (and who, by the way, told me the story) was sent with a hay rack on a bob sleigh to do the hauling. The fish were cleaned and smoked, and packed, with heads and tails on, in flat wooden boxes containing about a dozen.

Jack went to Guelph and got his fish loaded after some delay, and by noon was coming along through the hills near Squire Phin's when he saw another rig coming and turned off to give him half the road; which was the thing to do. His load upset and there he was. It happened that the approaching rig was a load of soft drinks. The driver, a decent chap about Jack's own age, anchored his team with the weight and pitched in to give Jack a hand to get going again.

By the time they got back on the road and the fish reloaded both boys were warm and tired and they sat down on a hard snow bank to rest. The hour was something after one and both boys were hungry so Jack broke open a box of Herrings, the other boy a couple of bottles of pop and they sat there and had a lunch. Red Herring and Ginger Ale.

And Jack said it tasted good.

Le Rue De Commerce, Other Times Other Customs Other Days Other Ways, Winfield Brewster 1954

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In Memory of David Rife, Sr., Born in Adams County, Pennsylvania, U.S., August 28th, 1820, Came with his Parents to Canada in 1825, settled in Hespeler, (then New Hope) County of Waterloo, Ontario, in 1842. Died, At his Residence, in that Village, on Sunday, April 29th, 1888, Aged 67 Years, 8 Months and 1 Day. Interred in Hespeler Cemetery, Tuesday, May 1st, 1888. "I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: "Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them that love his appearing."

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Rife Avenue

This street was named in honour of David Rife, Senior and his son David Rife, Junior. David Rife, Senior was born in Pennsylvania in 1822. His father Samuel had immigrated to the American Colonies aboard the ship "Richard & Mary" in 1753. Samuel served in the American Revolutionary War prior to moving his wife Elizabeth, and young family, to Canada in 1822. They moved to Preston the following year, before settling in Guelph Township in 1825. David Rife, Senior settled on a Waterloo Township farm near Hespeler (now Avondale, Gerard, and Elizabeth Street area) in 1844. In 1849, he donated land to build the Methodist Church and parsonage at the corner of Hungerford Rd. and Queen St. East (replaced by an apartment building). He often served as minister, and was a strong adherent of the Temperance Movement. In 1874 he became a preacher when the New Connection and Wesleyan Methodist Churches merged. He also served on the Hespeler Village Council from 1859 to 1867. He died on April 29, 1888. David Rife, Junior was born in 1848 on the family homestead (known as Sunnyhill Farm). For many years he operated a dairy, supplying milk and related products to many of Hespeler's residents. He also enjoyed a well earned reputation for breeding quality Holstein cattle. He followed his father into public life, serving on the Hespeler Village Council from 1877 to 1884 and again from 1901 to 1904. He was also Hespeler's reeve from 1885 to 1887. David Rife, Junior died April 13, 1913 and is buried, as is his father, in New Hope Cemetery, Hespeler.

Lary Miller 15 May 2011 The Company of Neighbours

David — Mary Pannabaker. Mary (daughter of Abraham "Abram" Pannabecker and Sarah Ann "Sally" Clemens) was born 16 Nov 1823, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 12 Sep 1906, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , New Hope Cemetery, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Mary Rife
• Eby ID Number: 00087-5087
• Residence: 1861, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist
• Residence: 1891, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist
• Residence: 1906, Cooper St., Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

Notes:

Mary Pannebecker, "was married to Daniel Rife who died April 29th, 1888. They resided in Hespeler. She is still living and his a family of seven 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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Died In Hespeler, on Wednesday, September 12th, 1906, at 6 o'clock a.m., Mary Panabaker, Relict of the late David Rife, In her 83rd year. Funeral Will take place from her late residence, Cooper Street, Hespeler, where services will be held, on Friday, September 14th, at 2.30 o'clock p.m., to the Hespeler Cemetery for interment. Friends and acquaintances will please accept this intimation. Hespeler, September 12th, 1906.

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-55534

Joseph — Margaret. Margaret was born Abt 1830, Of, Walkerton, Bruce Co., Ontario; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Margaret Hartley
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-55537