Charles Herbert Rife

1875 - 1953  (78 years)

• Name	Charles Herbert Rife
  Born	5 Jan 1875	Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
  Gender	Male
  FindAGrave	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/57538860
  Occupation	1891	Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [5]
  	Agriculyural Laborer
  Residence	1891	Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [5]
  	Evangelical
  Occupation	1901	Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [2]
  	Farmer
  Eby ID Number	Waterloo-23907
  Died	7 Apr 1953	Wawa, Delaware, Pennsylvania, United States
  Buried	Sellersville Cemetery, Sellersville, Bucks, Pennsylvania, United States
  Person ID	I23907	Generations
  Last Modified	25 Apr 2024

  
  

  Father	David Rife,   b. 30 Apr 1848, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 14 Apr 1913, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 64 years)
  Mother	Ophelia Lochhead,   b. 14 May 1853, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 3 Mar 1958  (Age 104 years)
  Married	24 Jan 1871	Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [5, 6]
  Family ID	F3058	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Charles returned from the West and, in 1907, in answer to an advertisement, was accepted as herdsman at a large dairy farm in Wawa, Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia. He was put in charge of 500 head of cattle which had been imported from the Isle of Guernsey. Very happy in the land of his forefathers, he later became state dairy inspector and resided in Wawa until his death in April, 1953. In 1935 I accompanied him to his home presumably for a vacation. As I took my first trip down the beautiful Susquehanna Trail into the fertile fields of Lancaster, Oxford and Delaware counties, I was thrilled again and again with the kinship of that part of Pennsylvania to our own beautiful Waterloo County. I could almost feel the challenge the northward journey must have presented to those first early settlers as they saw the possibility of clearing and developing a new land so like their own had once been. Thus it did not seem strange that my vacation should become a three-year sojourn in a land which became very dear to me as I found myself happy and contented in a way of life so similar to that of my own home. Many times since then I have travelled the Susquehanna Trail, never tiring of its beauty and always feeling strongly the link between the past and the present and its relation to my own life. Mrs. Ophelia Rife A Warm And Tender Tribute By Carol Dunnett, Forty-Fourth [1956] Annual Report Of The Waterloo Historical Society _______________ Charles Rife HESPELER - Charles H. Rife died yesterday at his home at Wawa, Pa. Mr. Rife was born in Hespeler, a son of Mrs. Orphelia Rife and the late David Rife. For the past 46 years he has lived in Wawa. Surviving are his wife; his mother, Mrs. O. Rife; two sisters, Misses Margaret and Walker Rife, Hespeler; three brothers, Lester of Orinda, Calif., David of Edmonton and William of Galt. The funeral will be held Friday in Wawa Kitchener-Waterloo Record 8 Apr 1953

  
  

• Sources

  [S143] Census - ON, Waterloo, Hespeler - 1901, Hespeler (Village) D-2 Page 22. [S143] Census - ON, Waterloo, Hespeler - 1901, Hespeler (Village) D-2 Page 22. [S57] Vit - ON - Birth Registration. [S299] Census - ON, Waterloo, Hespeler - 1881, Page 9. [S2208] Census - ON, Waterloo, Hespeler - 1891, Section 1 Page 47. [S4] Vit - ON - Marriage Registration. David Rife Junr (farmer of Hespeler) b. Hespeler Ont Age: 22 born abt 1849 father: David Rife mother: Mary Rife married Ophelia Lockhead (resident of Hespeerl) Age:: 17 born abt 1854 b. Galt Ont father: James Lockhead mother: Alzina Lockhead married 24 Jan 1871 Marriage Place: Waterloo, Hespeler

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - 5 Jan 1875 - Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Occupation - Agriculyural Laborer - 1891 - Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - Evangelical - 1891 - Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Occupation - Farmer - 1901 - Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Died - 7 Apr 1953 - Wawa, Delaware, Pennsylvania, United States Buried - - Sellersville Cemetery, Sellersville, Bucks, Pennsylvania, United States  = Link to Google Earth