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Rev. Frederick Strasser Spies

Rev. Frederick Strasser Spies

Male 1856 - 1940  (84 years)

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  • Name Frederick Strasser Spies 
    Prefix Rev. 
    Born 21 Mar 1856  , Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3, 4] 
    Gender Male 
    FindAGrave https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/117850013 
    Name F S  [5] 
    Name F. S. Spies 
    Name Fred S. Spies 
    Residence 1861  Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [4] 
    Other Methodist 
    Residence 1871  Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    Dutch Methodist 
    Occupation 1886  Tillsonburg, Dereham Twp., Oxford Co., Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Reverend 
    Occupation 1891  Hawkesville, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [6] 
    Reverend 
    Occupation 1901  Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Merchant 
    Occupation 1911  Hawkesville, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Merchant General Store 
    Residence , Alberta, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Rev. Spies in Alberta    		 Rev. Spies in Alberta
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    Residence 1911  Hawkesville, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Evangelical 
    Residence 1916  Saint Lina, , Alberta, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [7] 
    Residence 1918  Sugden, , Alberta, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [8] 
    Residence 1921  Saint Lina, , Alberta, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Eby ID Number Waterloo-49430 
    Died 9 May 1940  Vegreville, , Alberta, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Buried Didsbury Cemetery, Didsbury, Alberta, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I49430  Generations
    Last Modified 6 Apr 2024 

    Father Johann Michael "Michael" Spies,   b. 8 Sep 1815, Dühren, , Baden-Württemberg, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 28 Sep 1885, Hawkesville, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 70 years) 
    Mother Christina Strasser,   b. Mar 1824, Metzingen, , Baden-Württemberg, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 5 Sep 1915, St. Jacobs, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 91 years) 
    Married 16 Sep 1845  , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [9] 
    Family ID F18753  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Sophia Mary Privat,   b. 9 Dec 1860, Hanover, Bentinck Twp., Grey Co., Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 13 Sep 1945, New Dundee, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 84 years) 
    Married 18 Aug 1886  Holland Twp., Grey Co., Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Esther Christina Spies,   b. 5 Jul 1888, Colborne Twp., Huron Co., Ontario Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 21 Dec 1969, Roseville, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 81 years)
     2. Lilly May Spies,   b. 27 Feb 1890, Hawkesville, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 7 Nov 1894, Hawkesville, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 4 years)
     3. William Frederick Spies,   b. 26 Aug 1891, Hawkesville, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 20 Dec 1914, Brazeou, , Alberta, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 23 years)
     4. Mahlon Alvin Ezra Spies,   b. 28 Feb 1893, Hawkesville, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 9 Apr 1917, Vimy Ridge, Pas De Calais, France Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 24 years)
     5. Reuben Privat Spies,   b. 11 Oct 1894, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 22 Aug 1973, Kelowna, , British Columbia, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 78 years)
     6. Eleanora Olivia Spies,   b. 8 Dec 1896, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 5 Jul 1959, Edmonton, , Alberta, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 62 years)
     7. Mildred Sophia Spies,   b. 21 May 1898, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 18 Jun 1997  (Age 99 years)
     8. Herbert Theodore Spies,   b. 15 Nov 1899, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 28 Sep 1939, Elk Point, , Alberta, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 39 years)
     9. Celestine Anna Spies,   b. 17 Dec 1902, Hawkesville, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 21 Jul 1936, Dovercourt, , Alberta Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 33 years)
    Last Modified 7 Apr 2024 
    Family ID F12864  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Photos
    Frederick Strasser Spies    		Frederick Strasser Spies
    melpaints67 originally shared this to Ancestry Public Member Trees

  • Notes 
    • F. S. Spies.

      In the largest brick business block in either Woolwich or Wellesley Tp., is where this gentleman holds forth. This massive building is 40 x 45 feet in dimensions and is over three stories in height; at a great distance viewed from every direction it looms up conspicuously above all the surrounding structures of the village. It was erected in the years of 1868-69 by John Wesley Oakes, who died after a brief yet repeated illness of the lungs on May 29, 1890. He was a prominent figure in the business interest of this section, and his death was a lamentable event and a serious loss not only to his family, but to the entire community. Mr. Spies was born near Winterbourne, Woolwich township, 1856. He was the only son of the late Michael Spies of this place and brother of the late Mrs. Catharine Oakes. He came with his parents when but one year of age to "Queens Bush" about 1 mile south of the village, Heidelberg road, where he enjoyed a quiet farm life until 1877 He finally became dissatisfied with his position, assured he might be of greater usefulness somewhere else he concluded to go to Naperville, Illinois, 30 miles west of Chicago, where he attended the North Western College for a term of about 4 years, with a view of increasing his knowledge store. After completing a general course of study in German, English and some Greek, he entered the ranks of the ministry of the Canada Conference, Evangelical Association, in which active capacity he was engaged 8 years at different points throughout the province. Since then he has not been in active work as a Minister of the Gospel but has frequently occupied pulpits in a local way, and even at present while following his business pursuits he is occasionally compelled to decline to conduct services in different churches. The cause of his abandonment of the ministry was partly owing to the urgent request of his sister, Mrs. J. W. Oakes, to assist her in settling up the estate of
      her deceased husband, who very unfortunately left his heirs without a will.

      To undertake this critical task he finally consented, and after considerable litigation the many wearisome and trying affairs of the estate were by the assistance of kind friends in spite of opposition, in a way settled up, and Mr. Spies was induced by their legal authorities to purchase the remaining unsold portion of the real estate, a part of which be now occupies. He was married in Holland, Grey County in 1886, to Sophia, daughter of Louis Joseph Privat, of near Hanover, Grey Co. They are blessed with three healthy boys and girls and live in connection with the main building. Mr. Spies is an enterprising business man and has a very extensive mercantile establishment occupying nearly the entire lower flat of the two capacious stores and part of the upper stories. He deals in dry goods, groceries, hardware, stationery, wall paper, crockery, glassware, tinware, stoves, binder twine, etc., in fact, everything usually found in the general mercantile line. To look over the endless variety of articles necessary and useful in the household or on the farm displayed in his establishment leads me to designate him the Wanamaker of Hawksville. He pays the highest market price for farm produce, which he takes in in marked quantities throughout the year in exchange for his goods. He has his full share of the public patronage and has bad fairly good success since he commenced business here. His motto shall ever be, ever to do good through his business deals in administering to the wants and necessities as well as Iuxury of his customers. H. N.

      Waterloo County Chronicle 23 Jun 1898, p. 8

  • Sources 
    1. [S160] Census - ON, Waterloo, Wellesley Twp. - 1901, Wellesley E-3 Page 11.

    2. [S504] Census - ON, Waterloo, Wellesley Twp. - 1911, Hawkesville Div 8 Page 11.

    3. [S269] Census - ON, Waterloo, Wellesley Twp. - 1871, p 58.

    4. [S855] Census - ON, Waterloo, Wellesley Twp. - 1861, Div. 10 Page 57.

    5. [S7] News - ON, Waterloo, Kitchener - Berliner Journal (1859-1917), 9 Mar 1893.
      26 Feb 1893 The wife of Rev. F. S. Spies, in Hawksville, a son.

    6. [S57] Vit - ON - Birth Registration.
      William Frederick Spies Born: 26 Aug 1891 County: Waterloo Father: Fred S Spies Mother: Sophia Privat

    7. [S157] Military - Canada - World War I - Attestation papers.
      Name:Mahlon Ezra Spies
      Age:21
      Birth Date:27 Feb 1893
      Birth Location:Hawkesville, Ontario
      Residence:St Lina, Alberta
      Military Date:1914-1918
      Father:Frederick Strasser Spies
      Next of Kin:Frederick Strasser Spies - res: St. Lina, Alberta
      Next of Kin Relationship:Father
      Occ: Musician
      Regiment Number:204872

    8. [S157] Military - Canada - World War I - Attestation papers.
      Name:Reuben Privat Spies
      Age:20
      Birth Date:10 Oct 1894
      Birth Location:Hawkesville, Ontario
      Residence:Sugden Via Vegreville, Alta
      Military Date:1914-1918
      Father:Frderick Spies
      Next of Kin:Mr Frderick Spies
      Next of Kin Relationship:Father
      Regiment Number:3207503

    9. [S13] Vit - - ON, Waterloo - Wellington District Marriage Register Part 1 1840-1852, Rev'd Jacob Huttner, Lutheran Minister, Preston report 53.
      Michael Spiess, married to Christina Strassers, both of Woolwich. 16 Sept. 1845

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBorn - 21 Mar 1856 - , Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - Other Methodist - 1861 - Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - Dutch Methodist - 1871 - Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsOccupation - Reverend - 1886 - Tillsonburg, Dereham Twp., Oxford Co., Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarried - 18 Aug 1886 - Holland Twp., Grey Co., Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsOccupation - Reverend - 1891 - Hawkesville, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsOccupation - Merchant - 1901 - Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsOccupation - Merchant General Store - 1911 - Hawkesville, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - - , Alberta, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - Evangelical - 1911 - Hawkesville, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - 1916 - Saint Lina, , Alberta, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - 1918 - Sugden, , Alberta, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - 1921 - Saint Lina, , Alberta, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDied - 9 May 1940 - Vegreville, , Alberta, Canada Link to Google Earth
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