Amos Alexander "Alexander" Wildfong

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• Name: Alexander Wildfong
• Occupation: Employee of B. McDougall Co.
• Eby ID Number: 000131-8122.13
• Occupation: 1911, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Laborer, Horse Stable
• Occupation: 1911, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Teamster, Cartage Co.
• Residence: 1911, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Baptist
• Residence: 1911, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Baptist

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Amos Wildfong

Amos A. Wildfong, 60, of Galt, died late Friday, at the Galt General Hospital, following an illness of three weeks. Born in Strasburg he later moved to Galt, where he was employed at the B. McDougall Co. He was a member of Court Manchester, Canadian Order of Foresters. Surviving are his wife, four daughters, Mrs. Arnold (Wiihelmina) Wilkinson of Galt, Mrs. Lavern (Evelyn) Beggs of Elmira, Mrs. Harry (Helen) Hill of Ottawa and Mrs. Wilfred (Clara) Roland of Oshawa; three sons, Gordon, Lorne and Elton, all of Galt; two sisters, Mrs. Nelson Esch of Preston and Mrs. Norman Schoenau, both of Preston and three brothers, Irvine, of Preston, and Edward and Sidney, both of Detroit. Fifteen grandchildren also survive. Funeral will be held from the T. Little and Son Funeral Home, 39 Grand Ave., Galt, on Tuesday, at 2 p.m. Burial will be made in Mount View Cemetery, Galt.

Kitchener-Waterloo Record 21 Mar 1949 pg 5

Amos married Florence Emily Tuffin 25 Dec 1909, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Florence (daughter of Charles F. Tuffin and Elizabeth Gurney) was born Oct 1890, , Ontario, Canada; died 21 Mar 1930; was buried , Mount View Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

1. Wilhelmina Wildfong
2. Evelyn Wildfong
3. Helen Wildfong
4. Clara Wildfong
5. Lorne Wildfong
6. Elton Wildfong
7. Gordon Alexander Wildfong was born 7 Feb 1911, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died Yes, date unknown.

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• Eby ID Number: 000131-8122
• Residence: 1861, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Dunkard
• Residence: 1866, , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Occupation: 1871, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Residence: 1874, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Occupation: 1876, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; farmer
• Occupation: 1881, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Residence: 1881, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Dunker
• Occupation: 1888, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; butcher
• Occupation: 1891, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Laborer
• Residence: 1891, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran
• Occupation: 1901, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Laborer

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Amos S. Wildfong, "was born February 22nd, 1847. On December 28th, 1866, he was married to Sarah Guyer who was born January 9th, 1845. After his marriage he moved on his father's old place at Strasburg where she died April 20th, 1874. On September 15th, 1874, he was again married to Sarah Witmer who was born February 21st, 1843, and died December 1st, 1884. On February 12th, 1885, he was again married to Wilhelmine Radke who was born December 10th, 1857. His family consists of twelve 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.].

Rsrch. Note:
. Amos S. Wildfong (Joseph Wildfong4, Jacob Wildfong3, Georg Michael Wildfang2, Johannes Woolfang1) was born 22 FEB 1847 in Strasburg, Ontario, Canada. He married Sarah Guyer 28 DEC 1866. She was born 9 JAN 1845, and died 20 APR 1874 in Strasburg, Ontario, Canada. He married Sarah Witmer 13 SEP 1874. She was born 21 FEB 1843, and died 1 DEC 1884 in Strasburg, Ontario, Canada. He married Wilhelmine Radke 12 FEB 1885. She was born 10 DEC 1857.

Children of Amos S. Wildfong and Sarah Guyer are: 2 i. Joseph C. Wildfong was born ABT. 1867.
3 ii. David Wildfong was born AFT. 1867.
4 iii. Elizabeth Wildfong was born AFT. 1868.


Children of Amos S. Wildfong and Sarah Witmer are: 5 i. Oliver Wildfong was born ABT. 1875 in Strasburg, Ontario, Canada, and died BEF. 1895 in Strasburg, Ontario, Canada.
6 ii. Norman Wildfong was born AFT. 1875.
7 iii. Lorne Wildfong was born AFT. 1876.
8 iv. Irwin Wildfong was born BEF. 1884.


Children of Amos S. Wildfong and Wilhelmine Radke are: 9 i. Almina Bertina Wildfong was born ABT. 1885.
10 ii. Eliza May Wildfong was born AFT. 1885.
11 iii. Amos Alexander Wildfong was born AFT. 1886.
12 iv. August Gordon Wildfong was born AFT. 1887.
13 v. Alton Sidney Wildfong was born ABT. 1890.

Amos married Wilhelmine Radke 12 Feb 1885, New Dundee, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Wilhelmine (daughter of August Radke and Justina Zimmerman) was born 10 Dec 1857, , Germany; died 29 Jul 1919, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , First Mennonite Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Birth: Maryhill (New Germany) Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario
• Name: Wilhelmine Wildfong
• Eby ID Number: 000131-8122.3
• Immigration: 1881, , Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1891, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1891, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran
• Residence: 1901, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Baptist
• Residence: CA 1916, 61 Albert St. S., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

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• FindAGrave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/26445075
• Eby ID Number: 000131-8100
• Historic Building: 1851, 324 Huron Rd., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; stone Georgian cottage
• Occupation: 1852, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; farmer
• Occupation: 1861, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Residence: 1861, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Dunkard

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Joseph Wildfong, "was born December 23rd, 1796. He was first married to Christina Groh and after her decease to Elizabeth Strycker who was born April 14th, 1808, and died February 3rd, 1877. They resided on a farm at Strasburg where they both died. He died June 23rd, 1870. His family consisted of twelve children, nine of which were born unto his first wife.."


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.].


Joseph's death record indicates that he was born in North Carolina, this may be in error.

Historic Building:
Property was purchased by Joseph Wildfong in 1823. According to the 1851 census the previous house was and in the 1861 census the current (2009) stone had been built. Behind the home is a small stone smokehouse made also of fieldstone.

Joseph — Elizabeth S. Strycker. Elizabeth (daughter of Arnold Strycker and Unknown) was born 14 Apr 1808, , Ontario, Canada; died 3 Feb 1877; was buried , Pioneer Park Mennonite Cemetery, [formerly Weber Mennonite Biehn Drive Cemetery] Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Elizabeth S. Wildfong
• Eby ID Number: 000131-8100.2
• Residence: 1861, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Dunkard

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-37228
• Immigration: 1881, , Ontario, Canada
• Naturalization: 1884
• Occupation: 1901, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Day Labourer

August — Justina Zimmerman. Justina was born 7 May 1835, , Germany; died 14 Mar 1909, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , First Mennonite Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Augusta Zimmerman
• Name: Justina Radke
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-37229
• Birth: 21 May 1836
• Immigration: 1881, , Canada
• Residence: 1909, 121 Hoffman St., Kitchener, , Ontario, Canada

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• Interesting: pioneer, story, slavery
• Eby ID Number: 000131-8078
• Land: Bef 1831, Waterloo Township - Biehn's Tract, Waterloo County, Ontario

Notes:

Jacob Wildfong, "was born in 1753. After he had attained the age of twenty years he was married to Susannah Ruth. During the latter part of the last century when the question of slavery was brought up and sanctioned by the state government, these Moravians were strenuously opposed to the measure, so much so that numbers of them left the state (North Carolina) and moved to Pennsylvania, "the Quaker State", while others left some years later after the independence of the thirteen colonies was declared. Among the latter number was old Jacob Wildfong, the pioneer settler (of that name) in this country. About the year 1796 he, with his wife and family of three or four children, moved north to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, where he resided for six years, then he, in company with others, moved to Canada in 1802 and settled in Waterloo County, Ontario, on the west band of the Grand River a little below the Toll Bridge, on the farm now owned by Ferdinand Miller. Here he resided until his son, Jonas, took possession of the farm then he moved a little west of what is now Strasburg where he died probably as early as 1830. His 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.].

Jacob — Susan Ruth. Susan was born Abt 1760, Of, Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Susan Wildfong
• Eby ID Number: 000131-8078.1

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• Name: Arnold Stricker
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-73843P
• Land: Bef 1831, Waterloo Township - Beasley's Lower Block Conc. 3 Lot 12, Waterloo County, Ontario

Arnold — Unknown. Unknown was born CA 1765; died Bef 1810. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Unknown Strycker
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-97173