Elizabeth Jane Ross

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-83412

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-42097

Hugh married Annie Eleanor Bretz 10 Oct 1883, East Wawanosh Twp., Huron Co., Ontario. Annie (daughter of Gerhard Bretz and Rebecca Jacobs) was born 8 Aug 1856, Blenheim Twp., Oxford Co., Ontario, Canada; died 4 Jul 1893, Puslinch Twp., Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada; was buried , New Hope Cemetery, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Annie Eleanor Ross
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-42397
• Residence: 1861, Blenheim Twp., Oxford Co., Ontario, Canada

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-42095

William — Isabella Dunbar. Isabella was born 1839, , Inverness, Scotland; died 2 May 1894; was buried , New Hope Cemetery, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Isabella Ross
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-42096

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• Eby ID Number: 00015-1207
• Residence: 1861, Blenheim Twp., Oxford Co., Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1900, Prairie, Canadian, Oklahoma, United States

Notes:

Gerhard Bretz, "is married and resides in one of the western states, place of residence unknown, neither is there anything known of their family."

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a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin: as also much other unpublished historical information chiefly of a local character.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

Gerhard — Rebecca Jacobs. Rebecca was born Jan 1833, , Wayne Co., New York, USA; died 2 Apr 1888, East Wawanosh Twp., Huron Co., Ontario; was buried , Brandon's Cemetery, Belgrave, Huron Co., Ontario. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Rebecca Bretz
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-152337
• Residence: 1861, Blenheim Twp., Oxford Co., Ontario, Canada

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BRETZ, REBECCA (Nee Jacobs)

In East Wawanosh Township, on Monday, April 2, 1888, in her 56^{, h}( 55 years and 3 months) year. Wife of Gerhard Bretz. She suffered for several months with consumption and was reduced to a mere skeleton. Her body was interred in Brandon's Cemetery on Wednesday, the funeral being well attended, considering the roads. She leaves her husband and four children to mourn the loss of a loving wife and affectionate mother.

-Daughter of Robert Jacobs and Ann Bailey of Morriston.

-One of her children was Annie (Mrs. Hugh Ross), Two other children may have been Will and Bessie Bretz of Oklahoma.

-Information from Brandon Cemetery in Belgrave: Born in Wayne County, New York.

A Celebration of Lives Obituaries of Puslinch Township, Wellington Co., Ontario Vol 1, Anna Jackson & Marjorie Clark
Used with kind permission of Marjorie Clark

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• Eby ID Number: 00015-1206
• Occupation: 1861, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Residence: 1861, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Mennonite

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Jacob Bretz, "son of Jacob and Maria (Strickler) Bretz, was married to Nancy Wiehler and resided on the old homestead where they had a family of eight 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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Aug. 17th near Plattsville, ON, Pre. Jacob Bretz, at the age of 79 years, 7 month and 6 days. He frequently manifested a desire to depart this life and be with the Lord, which is far better. On the morning of his death, his prayer was that the Lord would take him to Himself very soon, if it was the divine will and before 11 o'clock his spirit was gone, and the family left to mourn their loss; but their loss is his eternal gain. He was in the ministry 40 years. He was buried on the 20th. Funeral services by George Smith & ______ Fisher, from the latter part of the seventh chapter of Revelation.


Herald of Truth Obituary - January 1880

Jacob — Nancy Weiler. Nancy (daughter of Gerhard Wieler and Agnes Classen) was born CALC 1 Jun 1809, , USA; died 1 May 1894, Washington, Blenheim Twp., Oxford Co., Ontario, Canada; was buried , Blenheim Mennonite Cemetery, Blenheim Township, Oxford Co., Ontario. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Anne Weiler
• Name: Nancy Bretz
• Eby ID Number: 00015-1206.1
• Residence: 1861, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Mennonite

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BRETZ.-On May 1st, 1894, at Washington, Oxford Co., Ontario, of the infirmities of age, sister Nancy (Wieler) Bretz, widow of the late Pre. Jacob Bretz, aged 84 yrs., 11 months. She was a faithful member of the Mennonite denomination for many years, and leaves, to mourn her loss, seven sons and one daughter. She survived her husband for 15 years. Buried in the Blenheim Mennonite cemetery on May 4th, where funeral services were conducted in German by Jos. Nahrgang, and in English by Pre. Kennedy, from Phil. 1: 21. During her last years she expressed herself as waiting for the summons.


HERALD OF TRUTH , Vol. XXXI, No. 11, June 1, 1894 - pp 174,175