Waterloo Region Generations
A record of the people of Waterloo Region, Ontario.

Mariah Rife[1, 2, 3]

Female 1817 - 1897  (80 years)


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  • Name Mariah Rife 
    Born 1817  , Adams Co., Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location  [4, 5, 6, 7, 8
    Gender Female 
    FindAGrave https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/258274730 
    Name Maria Rife 
    Name Mariah Hilborn 
    Name Mariah Hilborn 
    Residence 1861  Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [7
    Dunkard 
    Residence 1871  Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [8
    Mennonite 
    Residence 1891  Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [6
    Methodist 
    Eby ID Number 00092-5280 
    Died 2 Apr 1897  [5
    Buried Hagey Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [5
    Person ID I10595  Generations
    Last Modified 6 Apr 2024 

    Father Samuel Rife,   b. 15 Apr 1788, , Adams Co., Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 10 Mar 1856, Guelph Township, Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 67 years) 
    Mother Elizabeth Hoke,   b. 7 Jan 1793, , Chester Co., Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 21 Aug 1873, Guelph Township, Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 80 years) 
    Family ID F3033  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Thomas Hilborn,   b. 1 Feb 1815, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 7 Jun 1847  (Age 32 years) 
    Children 
     1. David Hilborn,   b. 15 Sep 1837, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 19 Feb 1914, Grand Rapids, Kent, Michigan, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 76 years)
     2. Elizabeth Hilborn,   b. 1838, , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
     3. Samuel Hilborn,   b. Dec 1840, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 18 Jun 1918, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 77 years)
     4. Mary Hilborn,   b. 1841, , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 20 Sep 1914  (Age 73 years)
     5. Sarah Ann Hilborn,   b. 1845, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
     6. Maria Hilborn,   b. 1859, , Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
    Last Modified 7 Apr 2024 
    Family ID F3038  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Jesse Hilborn,   b. 8 Jan 1809, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 8 Mar 1875, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 66 years) 
    Children 
     1. Mary Hilborn,   b. 1843, , Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
     2. Jane Hilborn,   b. 1844, , Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
     3. Maria Hilborn,   b. 1860, , Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
    Last Modified 7 Apr 2024 
    Family ID F3039  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Photos
    Rife,Mariah-Hilborn-WellingtonCountyMuseumandArchives.jpg
    Rife,Mariah-Hilborn-WellingtonCountyMuseumandArchives.jpg
    Sitting left of table Mariah Hilborn (nee Rife, daughter of Samuel Rife of Guelph)(b.1815 Adams Co., PA, d. 3 April 1897, Preston, Ont.); sitting right of table daughter of Mariah, Sarah Ann Johnson (nee Hilborn) (b. 1845 d.1899); standing, granddaughter of Mariah and daughter of Sarah Ann, Julia Kuhn (nee Johnson) b. 19 December 1863 d. 24 Oct. 1936, Springport, MI); on table great granddaughter of Mariah, grandaughter of Sarah Ann and daughter of Julia, Belva Kuhn (b.August 6 1889 d. April 1985, Eaton, MI).

    "A2000.37 - Rife Family Photograph Of Three Women And A Baby, Guelph, Ontario, 1890. | Wellington County Museum & Archives". 2022. Wcma.Pastperfectonline.Com. https://wcma.pastperfectonline.com/Archive/87BAFFBD-DB36-4386-9428-932624124227.

  • Notes 
    • Mariah Rife, "the third daughter, was first married to Thomas Hilborn and after his decease she was married to Jesse Hilborn, brother to her first husband. She resides in Preston. Her family consisted of six 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.].

  • Sources 
    1. [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..., 182.

    2. [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..., 213.

    3. [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..., 212.

    4. [S131] Census - ON, Waterloo, Waterloo Twp. - 1851.
      gives age and country of birth

    5. [S146] Cemetery - ON, Waterloo, Cambridge - Hagey Mennonite CC#5431 Cemetery Internet Link .
      [eroded] Maria Rife/ wife of/ Thomas Hilborn/ died April 3' 18(9)7/ aged 82 years/ Thy/ will be/ done/ Thomas Hilborn/ died June 7, 1847/ aged 32 years/ 4 mos. & 6 dys./ at rest

    6. [S2575] Census - ON, Waterloo Township - 1891, Sect. 3 Page 14.

    7. [S894] Census - ON, Waterloo, Waterloo Twp. - 1861, Sect. 11 Page 77.

    8. [S2767] aaaWaterloo Township 1871 South, Sect. 2 Page 43.

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBorn - 1817 - , Adams Co., Pennsylvania Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - Dunkard - 1861 - Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - Mennonite - 1871 - Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - Methodist - 1891 - Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBuried - - Hagey Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
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