Rebecca Eby^[1]

1872 - 1849

• Name	Rebecca Eby
  Died	17 Dec 1849	Watrous, , Saskatchewan, Canada   [2]
  Born	17 May 1872	Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
  Gender	Female
  Name	Rebecca Good
  Residence	1891	Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [5]
  	Mennonite
  Eby ID Number	00031-2405
  Person ID	I20938	Generations
  Last Modified	12 May 2024

  
  

  Father	Elias B. Eby,   b. 19 Sep 1829, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 1 Mar 1906, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 76 years)
  Mother	Rachel Shantz,   b. 19 Jul 1833, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 26 Jun 1900  (Age 66 years)
  Married	11 Dec 1853  [6, 7]
  Family ID	F4999	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Noah M. Good,   b. 21 Jan 1866, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. Aug 1950  (Age 84 years)
  Married	17 Mar 1895  [1, 8]
  Children	1. Vera Good,   b. 21 Mar 1896, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 21 Jan 1950, Humboldt, , Saskatchewan, Canada  (Age 53 years)   2. Alvin Good,   b. 21 Dec 1899, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. Yes, date unknown   3. Laura M. Good,   b. 1903, Floradale, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. Yes, date unknown   4. Myrl Florence Good,   b. 17 Mar 1908, Didsbury, Alberta, Canada ,   d. 19 Mar 2000, Lanigan, , Alberta  (Age 92 years)
  Last Modified	13 May 2024
  Family ID	F5164	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Rebecca Eby, "was born May 17th, 1872. She is married to Noah Good, a carpenter. They reside at Floradale, Ontario." 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a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin: as also much other unpublished historical information chiefly of a local character.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.]. ___________________ Good. --- Rebecca, daughter of Elias and Susannah (Shantz) Eby, was born near Floradale, Ont., May 17, 1872; passed away Dec. 17, 1949, a patient in the Watrous Union Hospital; aged 77 y. 7 m. Death was caused by a broken leg which she suffered in a fall eleven days previously. On March 17, 1895, she was married to Noah M. Good, Floradale, Ont., who survives. To this union were born 6 children (Vera-Mrs. Irvin Gingerich, Alvin , Ivan, Laura, Myrl-Mrs. Alfred Bowman, and Violet-Mrs. Lincoln Shantz). One son (Ivan) died in infancy; the other children reside near Guernsey, Sask. Surviving besides her husband and 5 children are 11 grandchildren, one sister (Mrs. Rachel Morrison, Calgary, Alta.), and one brother (Jacob Eby, British Columbia). In 1906 the family moved from Floradale to Didsbury, Alta., where they lived fourteen years before moving to Guernsey, Sask. She was a faithful member of the Sharon Mennonite Church, Guernsey, having been baptized at the age of thirty-three in Ontario. Funeral services were conducted by Stanley D. Shantz. Text: Matt 13: 44. Gospel Herald - Volume XLIII, Number 5 - January 31, 1950-page 118, 119.

  
  

• 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..., 545. [S8] News - Gospel Herald, January 31, 1950 - Obituary of Rebecca Eby. [S148] Census - ON, Waterloo, Woolwich - 1901, Woolwich F-5 Page 14. [S130] Census - ON, Waterloo, Woolwich - 1881, Div. 2 Page 26. [S1821] Census - ON, Waterloo, Woolwich - 1891, Section 5 Page 9. [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..., 543. [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..., 433. [S8] News - Gospel Herald, August 22, 1950 - Obituary of Noah M. Good.

  
  

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  Died - 17 Dec 1849 - Watrous, , Saskatchewan, Canada Born - 17 May 1872 - Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - Mennonite - 1891 - Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  = Link to Google Earth