Rev. Noah Stauffer^{[1, 2, 3]}

1842 - 1928  (86 years)

• Name	Noah Stauffer
  Prefix	Rev.
  Born	13 Feb 1842	Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14]
  Gender	Male
  Interesting	pioneer, story, religion
  Occupation	1861	Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [12]
  	Laborer
  Residence	1861	Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [12]
  	Tunkard
  Residence	1867	Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [14]
  Occupation	1871	Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [9]
  	Farmer
  Occupation	1881	Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [10]
  	Farmer
  Occupation	1891	Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [13]
  	Farmer
  Residence	1891	Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [13]
  	Mennonite
  Occupation	1901	Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [5]
  	Farmer
  Occupation	1911	Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [11]
  	Income
  Residence	1911	Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [11]
  	Mennonite
  Eby ID Number	00117-7385
  Died	20 May 1928	Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [15, 16, 17]
  	Cause: age and pneumonia
  Buried	Erb Street Mennonite Cemetery, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [15]
  Person ID	I10224	Generations
  Last Modified	6 Apr 2024

  
  

  Father	Daniel Stauffer,   b. 20 Feb 1796, Near Lititz, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania ,   d. 22 Jul 1846, Strasburg (Kitchener) Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 50 years)
  Mother	Susannah Kinzie,   b. 1 Jun 1798, , Bucks Co., Pennsylvania ,   d. 12 Jan 1881, Near Strasburg, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 82 years)
  Married	1818  [18]
  Family ID	F1018	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Father	Stauffer,   b. Abt 1799, of, Ontario ,   d. Bef 1871  (Age ~ 71 years)
  Mother	Susannah,   b. 1799, , USA ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F34796	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Barbara Betzner,   b. 9 Dec 1844, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 22 May 1928, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 83 years)
  Married	12 Nov 1867	, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [3, 14]
  Children	1. Ida B. Stauffer,   b. 9 Aug 1868, Strasburg (Kitchener) Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 5 Feb 1966, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 97 years)   2. Mills Stauffer,   b. 1870, , Ontario, Canada ,   d. Yes, date unknown   3. Obal Betzner Stauffer,   b. 9 Mar 1870, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 24 Jun 1956, Burnaby, , British Columbia, Canada  (Age 86 years)   4. Jacob B. Stauffer,   b. 11 May 1871, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 20 Jan 1940, Edmonton, , Alberta, Canada  (Age 68 years)
  Last Modified	7 Apr 2024
  Family ID	F2823	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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• Notes

  Rev. Noah Stauffer, "was born February 13th, 1842. He is married to Barbara Betzner and resides on the farm formerly owned by his grandfather, near Strasburg. On November 9th, 1876, he was ordained to the ministry of the Mennonite church for the Weber field of labor. The bishops that were present on day of ordination were Joseph Hagey, Amos Cressman and Abraham Martin. As a minister he is faithful to the dictates of his conscience and preaches the Word of God and not the laws and regulations of the church of the past, but the needs and requirements of the church of the present. His preaching is plain, practical and impressive, and in the delivery of his sermons he is earnest and brief. His style of preaching is clear and his sermons are so worded that the audience cannot help but be deeply impressed by the same. His family consists of three 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.]. ______________________________ Mr. and Mrs. Noah Stauffer The loss sustained by the county in the death of Noah Stauffer on Sunday was increased this morning when Mrs. Noah Stauffer died at her home, 131 William street, in her 84th year. Mr. And Mrs. Stauffer celebrated the 60th anniversary of wedding last November. The late Mrs. Stauffer, whose maiden name was Barbara Betzner, is survived by two sons O. B. Stauffer of Arcola, Sask., J. B. Stauffer of Lethbridge, Alta., and one daughter, Mrs. J. S. Snider of Waterloo. Three brothers, A. F. Betzner of Kitchener, Moses B. Betzner of Baden an Samuel Betzner of Dawson, Yukon Territory, and two sisters, Mrs. Ephraim Cressman and Mrs. Aaron Cressman of Kitchener also survive. A double funeral will be held from their late residence 131 West William street on Friday afternoon at 3 o'clock to the Waterloo Mennonite church for service followed by internment at the Erb street cemetery Kitchener Daily Record, May 22, 1928 _________________ Rev. Noah Stauffer In the death late last evening of Rev. Noah Stauffer, at his home 131 West William street, Waterloo and the county at large lost one of its best known and highly respected citizens. Ordained in Strassburg the late Rev. Mr. Stauffer had given 53 years of his life as a minister of the gospel. Ordained in Strassburg in 1876 Rev. Noah Stauffer served the Mennonite congregation there until he moved to Waterloo about 18 years ago. He was in his 87th year. He is survived by his wife, who is in a very critical condition due to old age infirmities, two sons O. B. Stauffer of Arcola, Sask., and J. B. Stauffer of Lethbridge, Alta., and one daughter Mrs. J. S. Snider of Waterloo. Funeral announcements will be made later. Kitchener Daily Record, May 21, 1928 ____________________________ Stauffer, Noah (1842-1928) Noah Stauffer (1842-1928) was a prominent minister in the Ontario Mennonite Conference (Mennonite Church). He served in the Weber congregation (now Pioneer Park Christian Fellowship) near Strasburg (now part of Kitchener, ON). He was one of the first to advocate evangelism and missions, was a leading promoter of the Mennonite General Conference, and was probably the first to use English regularly in his preaching over the course of half a century Bender, Harold S. "Stauffer, Noah (1842-1928)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1959. Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 13 Nov 2005 <https://www.gameo.org/encyclopedia/contents/S7280ME.html> ___________________________________ Pioneer Park (Weber/Strasburg) Christian Fellowship Mennonite Church Early services were held in the homes of the first settlers, perhaps as early as 1833. Services often were held at the home of David Weber who lived across from where the church would be located. David Sherk was ordained deacon to serve the group in 1837, and in the next year, 1838, he was ordained minister. He was followed in 1840 by John Steckle (Stoeckle). In 1842, David Weber donated one acre of land for a meeting house and burial ground. The deed was dated March 23, 1854, although the meeting house had been built in 1843. A new yellow brick church was built in 1894 on the same site. Noah Stauffer, who had been ordained in 1876 to assist John Steckle, was minister at the time. A Sunday School was organized in the 1890s; Sunday School records date from 1898. In 1899 the first Bible Conference to be held in an Ontario Mennonite church was held in the Weber church. In 1971-1972 the church was enlarged and completely renovated. During that time - from October 17, 1971 to January 23, 1972 - the congregation met in the Herbert Feick home on Doon Village Road. On September 24, 1872 the congregation celebrated the 130th Anniversary of the building of the first meeting house. The name of the church was changed to Pioneer Park Christian Fellowship Mennonite Church in 1972. In 1951 the congregation had purchased from Clifford Snider an additional acre of land located behind the church. In 1976, for the sum of $1, the congregation acquired a sixty-five foot strip of land along the south edge of the church property from Major Holdings & Development Co. A new church was built within several feet of the old yellow brick one which was removed; the date on the cornerstone is 1980. The 150th Anniversary of the construction of the first meeting house is to be celebrated in 1993. Waterloo County Churches A Research Guide To Churches Established Before 1900 By Rosemary Ambrose ____________________________ Stauffer. - Pre. Noah Stauffer was born in Waterloo Co., Ont., Feb. 13, 1842; died in his late home in Waterloo Co., Ont., May 20, 1928; aged 86 y 3 m. 7 d., of the infirmities of age and pneumonia. Barbara Betzner, wife of Pre. Noah Stauffer, was born near Breslau, Ont., Dec. 19, 1844; died in Waterloo, Ont., May 22, 1928 (twenty-nine hours after the departure of her husband) of the infirmities of her age, aged 83 y. 5 m. 3 d. Brother Stauffer was the only survivor of a family of four brothers and four sisters. There remain of sister Stauffer's family, of half-brother and sisters; Moses, Aaron, and Samuel Betzner. Mrs. Aaron Cressman and Mrs. Ephraim Cressman. Of the immediate family of their children, all survive: Mrs. Ida Snyder (who resided with and cared for her parents for the past seven years) Obal Stauffer, and Jacob Stauffer. After a union of sixty years and six months, in which they shared the sorrows and joys in the labors of life, and engaged in the service of the Lord for nearly fifty-two years, blessed with joy of Christian labor and fellowship they laid down their life together to enter the long expected, and earnestly looked for, rest of the servants of the Lord. Brother Stauffer was ordained to the ministry if the Mennonite Church for the Strassburg congregation, near the place of his birth, Nov. 9 1876, by bishops Joseph Hagey, Amos Cressman, and Abram Martin. Early in his ministry he was active in building up the Church, in strengthening the spiritual life of the membership. In company with the ministering brethren - Solomon Gehman, Jacob Gingerich, and Joseph Nahrgang - evangelistic services were conducted in the homes of the brotherhood in Christ, in evening services at which the unsaved were admonished to repentance and faith in Christ, and many were led to Christ in these first evening evangelistic efforts. Brother Stauffer is said to have preached the first English sermon in the Waterloo Mennonite congregation, at the Hagey Church, near Preston, Ont. His services were much in demand on account of his ability in this language. He was nominated for the office of bishop at least on three different occasions - at the ordination of Elias Weber, Jonas Snider, and Abram Gingerich. His labors and influence in the conference work were invaluable, and his counsels were deliberate and wholesome. In his duties and service for the Church in general his efforts were appreciated in the organization of the first evangelizing Board, organized at Elkhart, Indiana. He with Bro. Jonas Snider, were the Canadian representatives at the preliminary meeting leading to the organization of the General Conference. His heart was in the growth and progress of the Church. He labored constantly and faithfully for the young and the old in the kingdom of Christ as long as the Lord gave him strength. His labors are ended. His co-laborers will miss him, the Church will honor his memory, the Lord alone will reward His servant. Funeral services were conducted May 25, from the home, where brief services were conducted by Bro. C. F. Derstine, and thence to the Waterloo Mennonite Church, services were conducted by the brethren, Jonas Snider, S. F. Coffman, and C. F. Derstine. An assembly which filled all the available space in the audience room, lobbies and basement, and some waiting outside the building, gave silent and impressive testimony to the esteem in which Brother and Sister Stauffer were held by the many who knew them. The remains were laid to rest side by side in the Mennonite cemetery. They wait the day of their resurrection, when they shall be like Him who redeemed them and for whose love they served their Lord and coming King. Gospel Herald - Volume XXI, Number 10 - June 7, 1928, pages 206, 207, 208

  
  

• Sources

  [S3] Book - Vol I 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..., 248. [S3] Book - Vol I 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..., 844. [S7] News - ON, Waterloo, Kitchener - Berliner Journal (1859-1917), 21 Nov 1867. Married 12 Nov 1867 By Rev. Wurster, Noah Stauffer was married to Barbara Betzner, both of Waterloo Township. [S10] Book - Vol II 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..., 513. [S86] Census - ON, Waterloo, Waterloo South - 1901, Waterloo (South/Sud) G-1 Page 8. [S8] News - Gospel Herald, Obituaary of Noah Stauffer - June 7, 1928. Obituary of Noah Stauffer. [S214] Census - ON, Waterloo, Waterloo North - 1911, 4 Waterloo / page 12. [S131] Census - ON, Waterloo, Waterloo Twp. - 1851, Div 5 Pg 9. [S604] Census - ON, Waterloo, Waterloo South - 1871, Div. 3, Pg. 37. [S178] Census - ON, Waterloo, Waterloo South - 1881, Waterloo S. Twp. 1881 Div 3 Page 32. [S214] Census - ON, Waterloo, Waterloo North - 1911, Div. 4 Page 12. [S1946] Census - ON, Waterloo, Waterloo Twp. - 1861 (South Division), Div. 2 Page 13. [S2560] aaaWaterloo Township South 1891, Sect. 1 Page 47. [S5] Vit - - ON, Waterloo - 1858-1869 Marriage Register. Noah Stauffer, 25, res. Waterloo, b. Waterloo, son of Daniel and Susanna (Kenzie), married 12 Nov 1867 Barbara Betzner, 20, res. Port Elgin Bruce Co, b. Waterloo, daughter of Jacob and Magdalena (Schurick) [S350] News - ON, Waterloo, Kitchener - Kitchener Daily Record 1919-1947, May 22, 1928. Obituary of Noah Stauffer and Barbara Betzner [S350] News - ON, Waterloo, Kitchener - Kitchener Daily Record 1919-1947, May 21, 1928. [S8] News - Gospel Herald, June 7, 1928. Obituary of Noah Stauffer. [S10] Book - Vol II 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..., 511.

  
  

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  Born - 13 Feb 1842 - Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Occupation - Laborer - 1861 - Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - Tunkard - 1861 - Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - 1867 - Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Married - 12 Nov 1867 - , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Occupation - Farmer - 1871 - Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Occupation - Farmer - 1881 - Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Occupation - Farmer - 1891 - Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - Mennonite - 1891 - Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Occupation - Farmer - 1901 - Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Occupation - Income - 1911 - Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - Mennonite - 1911 - Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Died - Cause: age and pneumonia - 20 May 1928 - Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Buried - - Erb Street Mennonite Cemetery, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  = Link to Google Earth