Rev. Lloyd E. Eby^[1]

1891 - 1969  (78 years)

• Name	Lloyd E. Eby
  Prefix	Rev.
  Residence	1891	Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [2]
  	Mennonite
  Born	2 Mar 1891	Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [2, 3, 4, 5]
  Gender	Male
  Residence	1960	, Sierra Leone, Africa
  Eby ID Number	00031-2610.3
  Died	27 Nov 1969	Fort Wayne, Allen, Indiana, USA   [5]
  Buried	Pilgrims Rest Cemetery, Huntington, Huntington, Indiana, United States   [5]
  Person ID	I21623	Generations
  Last Modified	6 Apr 2024

  
  

  Father	Solomon M. Eby,   b. 7 Apr 1864, St. Jacobs, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 4 Mar 1944  (Age 79 years)
  Mother	Christena Eby,   b. 15 Aug 1863, Saugeen Twp., Bruce Co., Ontario, Canada ,   d. 4 Oct 1934, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 71 years)
  Married	25 Mar 1884	Amabel Township, Bruce Co., Ontario, Canada   [1, 6, 7]
  Family ID	F5273	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Rev. Eby was of PA. Dutch ancestry. His father was of the Mennonite faith, although later his parents joined the Evangelical Church. His own conversion was in 1908 with the Salvation Army at age 17 at a street meeting. In 1913 (at 22) he married Lizzie Thornton, born in London, but as a child had moved to Canada. They moved to Toronto, and started 3 churches. In 1918 Lizzie died in childbirth. The child died too. Eula Sherk, an outgoing young woman from the Sherkston UB church, was doing mission work in Toronto. A relationship developed, and Eula and Lloyd were married April 5, 1920. The next year they headed off to Huntington College to prepare for the mission field. During their 18 months in Huntington, he pastored the Etna Avenue U.B. church. He received his D.D. from H.C. in 1950. He was ordained in 1926 by Bishop Hoskins. In 1923, they traveled to Sierra Leone. Lloyd became principle of the 50-student Danville School for Boys at Gbangbaia. They served just one term. The next 17 years were spent in the Detroit area, pastoring the Warrendale UB church and starting five more churches. Lloyd became somewhat of an authority on urban ministry. Core groups from Warrendale would begin an outreach in a community, meeting in a school or strip mall or anything else available. Lloyd coordinated the groups and met regularly with the leaders. In 1944, with World War II in progress, Lloyd was asked to return to Sierra Leone, this time as field superintendent, the person in charge of the entire field. From the city to the African bush. Again, the Ebys served just one term. In 1947, Lloyd became superintendent of the Ontario and Detroit conferences. In 1949, he was elected bishop and spent the next eight years serving the West District. Then it was back to Africa for one more term, again as field superintendent. He was now 67 years old, but told people, "The call of my church is the call of my God." Lloyd and Eula retired in 1962 in Fort Wayne, IN. where they attended the Third Street U.B. church (now called Anchor) until his death in 1969. It had been an amazing life, full of diversity. But it was far from over. He served the United Brethren churches in Toronto, Ontario, and Detroit, MI. and in Ohio. He served as conference superintendent and as Bishop (1949 - 1957). He had a vision and a call to start churches in large cities, mainly Detroit (17 years) and Toronto (8 years). He also served the Etna Avenue Church for 1 1/2 years. But probably the most important part of his life was spent on the mission field in Sierra Leone, West Africa. He and his wife were there for about 10 years. He challenged his staff to meet with him at 5 a.m. for prayer, when the muslin drums sounded a call to prayer. Later in his life he corresponded with about 400 missionaries in over 60 countries and prayed for them each day...often for hours. His humility regarding his service, his selflessness, his dignity, his white hair, and his German accent, gave him a patriarchal air befitting a Bishop Emeritus. Lloyd and Eula enjoyed 49 years together\endash years of diverse ministry which included three missionary terms in Sierra Leone, planting six churches in the Detroit area, and eight years in the bishopric. They retired in Fort Wayne, Ind. Lloyd passed away in 1969, Eula in 1988. Information supplied by Mary Lou Funk, in a church Sunday School paper for the U.B. Church. E, Rev, Pilgrims Cemetery, North America, Huntington County, and Pilgrims Cemetery. 1891. "Rev Lloyd E. Eby (1891-1969) - Find A Grave...". Findagrave.Com. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/51568957/lloyd-e.-eby.

  
  

• 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..., 591. [S1821] Census - ON, Waterloo, Woolwich - 1891, Section 3 Page 32. [S57] Vit - ON - Birth Registration. [S148] Census - ON, Waterloo, Woolwich - 1901, Woolwich F-3 Page 14. [S3231] Find A Grave, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/51568957/lloyd-e.-eby. [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..., 593. [S4] Vit - ON - Marriage Registration. Christina Eby Born: Waterloo Age: 21 Father: Peter Eby Mother: Catherine Eby Born: abt 1863 Spouse: Solomon Eby Age: 20 born: Waterloo Father: Benjamin Eby Mother: Barbary Eby married 25 Mar 1884

  
  

• Event Map

  Residence - Mennonite - 1891 - Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Born - 2 Mar 1891 - Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Died - 27 Nov 1969 - Fort Wayne, Allen, Indiana, USA Buried - - Pilgrims Rest Cemetery, Huntington, Huntington, Indiana, United States  = Link to Google Earth