Elizabeth Fordney

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• Name: Elizabeth Shupe
• Eby ID Number: 00035-3013

Notes:

Elizabeth Fordney, "daughter of Michael Fordney and sister of Jacob Fordney, was born in Virginia. When a young girl her parents moved to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, where she made her home with Abraham Erb who brought her to Canada in 1806. Some time after her arrival in this county she was married to Daniel Shupe. After their marriage they moved to Blenheim Township, Oxford County, where he was accidentally killed by his team running away in July, 1842. Soon after her husband's decease she took sick and in order to have her proper nursing they had her taken to her brother Jacob's home (Her brother, Jacob Fordney, resided near the "Toll Bridge", Freeport) where she died in November 1842."


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a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin: as also much other unpublished historical information chiefly of a local character.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

Elizabeth — Daniel Shupe. Daniel (son of John Shupe and Elizabeth Diefenbach) was born Abt 1782, , Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania; died Jul 1842, Blenheim Twp., Oxford Co., Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

1. Samuel Shupe was born Abt 1807, Of, Freeport, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died Yes, date unknown.
2. Joseph Shupe was born Abt 1809, Of, Freeport, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died Yes, date unknown.
3. Mary Shupe was born 9 Jul 1811, Freeport (Kitchener), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 16 Feb 1900, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , First Mennonite Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.
4. Moses Shupe was born Abt 1813, Of, Blenheim Twp., Oxford Co., Ontario; died Yes, date unknown.
5. Magdalena Shupe was born Abt 1815, Of, Blenheim Twp., Oxford Co., Ontario; died Yes, date unknown.
6. Christian Shupe was born Abt 1817, Of, Blenheim Twp., Oxford Co., Ontario; died Yes, date unknown.
7. Simon Shupe was born Abt 1820, Of, Blenheim Twp., Oxford Co., Ontario; died Yes, date unknown.

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• Eby ID Number: 00035-3002

Notes:

Michael Fordney, "a native of France and a descendant of the old Hugenots or French Protestants, was born probably as early as 1745. In 1768 he, with others moved to America and settled in Virginia while others of his father's family settled in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Not finding the new settlement altogether to his wishes, besides being far removed from his co-religionists, he, in later years, moved to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, where he died a middle aged man. Not much information pertaining to his family could be obtained. We know of two children who in later years came to Canada and settled in Waterloo County, Ontario. Their names were Jacob and Elizabeth."


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.].