Samuel Furtney

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• Eby ID Number: 00113-7199.5
• Occupation: 1871, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Occupation: 1893, Plattsville, Blenheim Twp., Oxford Co., Ontario, Canada; farmer
• Residence: 1893, Plattsville, Blenheim Twp., Oxford Co., Ontario, Canada; baptist
• Occupation: 1895, Blenheim Twp., Oxford Co., Ontario, Canada; labourer
• Occupation: 1901, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Occupation: 1911, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Laborer, Woolen Mill
• Residence: 1911, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Baptist

Samuel married Magdalena Goetz 4 Dec 1877, New Hamburg, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Magdalena (daughter of Conrad Goetz and Elizabeth, daughter of John Conrad Goetz and Elisabeth Reichard) was born CALC 2 Jan 1855, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 8 Jun 1892, Blenheim Twp., Oxford Co., Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

1. Roy E. Furtney was born 4 Jan 1880, , Ontario, Canada; died Yes, date unknown.
2. Wellington James Furtney was born 10 Apr 1881, Plattsville, Blenheim Twp., Oxford Co., Ontario, Canada; died 1951; was buried , Parklawn Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.

Samuel married Rebecca Kitchen 23 May 1864, Blenheim Twp., Oxford Co., Ontario, Canada. Rebecca (daughter of Isaac Kitchen and Sarah Bray) was born 1846, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 13 Jan 1873, Blenheim Twp., Oxford Co., Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

1. Isaac Furtney was born 27 Jan 1866, Plattsville, Blenheim Twp., Oxford Co., Ontario, Canada; died 21 Jan 1949, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried 24 Jan 1949, Mount View Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.
2. Cyrus Green Furtney was born 15 Mar 1868, Blenheim Twp., Oxford Co., Ontario, Canada; died 1948.
3. Edwin Furtney was born Jul 1870, , Ontario, Canada; died Yes, date unknown.

Samuel married Mandana Morse 20 Sep 1893, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Mandana (daughter of James Morse and Sarah) was born 12 Mar 1854, Southwold Township, Elgin Co., Ontario; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

1. Alice Goldie "Goldie" Furtney was born 24 Feb 1895, Blenheim Twp., Oxford Co., Ontario, Canada; died 1979; was buried , Woodland Cem., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.
2. Alfred R. Furtney was born 18 Sep 1895, Plattsville, Blenheim Twp., Oxford Co., Ontario, Canada; died Yes, date unknown.

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• Name: Daniel Fordney
• Eby ID Number: 00035-3005
• Residence: 1836, Blenheim Twp., Oxford Co., Ontario, Canada

Notes:

Daniel B. Fordney, "the eldest son of the first wife, was first married to Elizabeth, daughter of Jacob Shupe, and after her decease to Sarah Armstrong. They resided near Plattsville, Oxford County, where his second wife died. He is still living on his old farm. He has had quite a 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.].

Daniel married Elizabeth Shupe 15 Sep 1836, Blenheim Twp., Oxford Co., Ontario, Canada. Elizabeth (daughter of Jacob Shupe and Eva Scheirich) was born 15 Nov 1817, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 23 Dec 1852; was buried , Blenheim Mennonite Cemetery, Blenheim Township, Oxford Co., Ontario. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Elizabeth Furtney
• Eby ID Number: 00113-7191.2
• Residence: 1836, Blenheim Twp., Oxford Co., Ontario, Canada

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• Name: Jacob Fordney
• Name: Jacob Fortney
• Name: Jacob Furtney
• Eby ID Number: 00035-3003
• Land: Bef 1831, Bechtel Tract, Waterloo Township, Waterloo County, Ontario
• Residence: 1842, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1852, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

Notes:

Jacob Fordney, "son of Michael Fordney, was born in Virginia, May 18th, 1781. When a young boy his parents moved to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, where he was raised. At about the close of the last century he was married to Catharine Baker and after her decease to Elizabeth Muma who was born December 12th, 1794, and died December 15th, 1840. Some time during the beginning of the present century they, with others, moved to Canada and settled in Waterloo County, Ontario, on the west bank of the Grand River, (Their old farm is now in possession of Robert Bricknell) a little below the 'Toll Bridge' where he died May 14th, 1852. His family consisted of nine children, of whom the eldest two 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.].

Residence:
Lived with Conrad and Elisabeth Gates.

Jacob — Catharine Baker. Catharine was born Abt 1780, of, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Catharine Fordney
• Eby ID Number: 00035-3003.1

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• Eby ID Number: 00113-7191
• Residence: 1841, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Occupation: 1850, Benton, Lake, Illinois; farmer
• Residence: 1850, Benton, Lake, Illinois

Notes:

Jacob Shupe, "was born in April, 1795, and was married to Eva Scheirich who was born November 16th, 1799, and died July 13th, 1841. They resided in Wilmot Township, a little west of New Dundee, where he [she] died. To them was born a family of eight children, namely:... No information in regard to old Jacob's family further than names of children has been received with the exception of Samuel and Jacob."


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 — Eva Scheirich. Eva (daughter of Mathias Scheirich and Catharine Mooney) was born 16 Nov 1799, , Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania; died 13 Jul 1841, Blenheim Twp., Oxford Co., Ontario, Canada; was buried , Blenheim Mennonite Cemetery, Blenheim Township, Oxford Co., Ontario. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Eva Shupe
• Eby ID Number: 00100-5592

Notes:

Eva Scheirich, "another daughter of Mathias Scheirich, was born November 16th 1799, and died July 13th, 1841. She was married to Jacob Shupe."


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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• 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.].

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• Eby ID Number: 00113-7169.9
• Land: Bef 1831, Waterloo Township - Beasley's Broken Front Lot 16, Waterloo County, Ontario

Notes:

John Shupe, "Among the early pioneer settlers of this county was old John Shupe. He was a native of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, to which place his grandparents had moved from the Palatinate, Germany, as early as 1715 if not earlier. Mr. Shupe was born in 1759. When a young man he was married to Elizabeth Diefenbach. In 1801 he, with his wife and family moved to Canada and settled in Waterloo County, on the east bank of the Grand River, near Freeport, where he died November 8th, 1812, and she died March 21st, 1825. To them was born 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.].

John — Elizabeth Diefenbach. Elizabeth was born 1763, , Pennsylvania, USA; died 21 Mar 1825, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , First Mennonite Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Elizabeth Shupe
• Eby ID Number: 00113-7169.10

Notes:

A POEM ON THE LIFE AND DEATH OF ELIZABETH SHOOP

The following verses were written in memory of the late Elizabeth Shoop, who was an inhabitant of the township of Waterloo, in the District of Gore, Upper Canada, where she resided with her family until the day of her death. The time of her living in that place, was something like twenty-four years, which about one-half of that time, in the latter part of her life, she lived in a state of widowhood with her children. The following poem is a true and short history of her holy life and death. The late Elizabeth departed this mortal life, March 21, 1825; and the following remarks were made a few days after her death, by JOHN A. CORNELL, an intimate acquaintance with her person, life, death and character, who had the great satisfaction to preach her funeral sermon to a numerous concourse of people, from the following words, taken from Heb. 4: 9, "There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God."

Ye nations of the earth give ear
To what I here relate;
Your Maker learn to love and fear,
Prepare to leave this state.

The sacred truth I now indite,
God print it in your minds;
Strong memory on your hearts to write,
With letters more divine.

Oh! cruel death, how dreadful bold,
He bears a mighty sway;
He calls away both young and old,
To long eternity.

The Lord his messenger did send,
The Widow Shoop hath died,
She was the poor, the orphan's friend,
Likewise the Pilgrim's guide.

Religion is a glorious prop,
Surely it is the best:
We have a consolating hope,
Her soul has gone to rest.

She was a soldier of the cross,
Her duty she'd fulfill;
No toil, no pain she counted loss,
To do her Master's will.

The church of God, she lov'd to meet,
To see her brethren there;
That they might fall at Jesus' feet
And join in holy prayer.

The place of praise, the house of prayer,
It was her chief delight;
She was a constant member there,
She kept the end in sight.

She never left the house of God,
But like Anna of old;
She marked the steps her Savior trod,
Bro't fruit an hundred fold.

Her heart to church and God was true,
Her soul was sanctified;
Her happy spirit never knew,
What it was to backslide.

That hateful sin. call'd dressy pride,
Her soul it did abhor;
Such vain and foolish sins as these,
She kept at open war.

What others took to paint their clay,
And dress their bodies fine;
Unto the poor she gave away,
To cheer the feeble mind;

The lame, the sick, naked and poor,
They were her constant care --
Were always welcome at her door,
With her they had a share.

She often borrowed of the rich,
To give it to the poor:
Her love and charity was such,
She gave them all her store.

She laid her own advantage by,
To do the needy good;
Yet all her hopes they did rely,
Upon her Savior's blood.

Third of March she was taken ill,
And to her bed confin'd ;
Yet to her heavenly Father's will,
Appeared to be resigned.

She seemed to think her morning sun,
Was then about to set;
She thank'd the Lord her work was done,
In Christ was made complete.

While she could use her feeble tongue,
Her Maker she ador'd;
By exhorting both old and young,
To seek and serve the Lord.

Her friends and children she did teach;
From Scripture truth was drawn,
Hoping her words would louder preach,
When she was dead and gone.

Twenty-first of March, on that day,
She bid this world adieu;
Her longing spirit left its clay,
The age of sixty-two.

At God's great and sovereign will,
Resigned her fleeting breath,
Without a doubt, without a fear,
She pass'd the gates of death.

She bid the church farewell below,
To join the church above;
Where all the happy spirits go,
To sing Redeeming Love.

Come sick, come Christians mourn your loss
Of your departed friend;
And learn to bear an equal cross,
As she unto the end.

Oft at her tomb, my heart shall rove,
To drop a sacred tear;
In token of that Christian love,
While she was with us here.

Whatever we may count our loss,
Shall be her greatest gain;
She now can say, farewell to cross,
Farewell to grief and pain.

A life so holy, true, and just,
Example so divine;
Must not be buried in the dust
Before the world must shine.

Now I'll refrain, why should I weep?
Since she has gone to rest;
She's only laid her down to sleep,
Upon her Savior's breast.

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• FindAGrave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/44341979
• Name: Matthias Shiry
• Eby ID Number: 00100-5559
• Land: Bef 1831, Waterloo Township - German Company Tract Lot 051, Waterloo County, Ontario

Notes:

Mathias Scheirich, "the ancestor of the family, was a native of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, where he was born December 6th, 1751. In 1805 he emigrated to Canada and settled in Waterloo County, nearly two miles south of Berlin. His old homestead is now possessed by George Histand. He was married to Catharine Mooney who was born in 1762 and died December 10th, 1825. He died February 6th, 1835. They had a family of eight (maybe they had more than 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.].

Mathias — Catharine Mooney. Catharine was born 1762; died 10 Dec 1825; was buried , First Mennonite Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• FindAGrave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/202167033
• Name: Catharine Scheirich
• Eby ID Number: 00100-5559.1