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

William K. Eby[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]

Male 1831 - 1910  (79 years)


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  • Name William K. Eby 
    Born 11 Jul 1831  , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
    Gender Male 
    Occupation 1853  Markham Twp., York Co., Ontario Find all individuals with events at this location  [13
    potter 
    Occupation 1861  Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [9
    Residence 1861  Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [9
    Mennonite 
    Occupation 1871  Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [8
    Potter 
    Residence 1871  Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [8
    Mennonite 
    Occupation 1891  Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [10
    Potter 
    Residence 1891  Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [10
    Mennonite 
    Occupation 1901  Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [7
    Farmer 
    Eby ID Number 00031-2691 
    Died 27 Oct 1910  Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [11, 12, 14
    Buried Martin Meeting House Cemetery, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [12, 14
    Person ID I53744  Generations
    Last Modified 26 Feb 2024 

    Father Samuel W. Eby,   b. 18 Aug 1805, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 11 Oct 1847, New Hamburg, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 42 years) 
    Mother Susannah Capplen,   b. 8 Nov 1810, , Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 18 Jun 1875, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 64 years) 
    Married 10 Mar 1830  [1
    Family ID F5294  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Susannah Detweiler,   b. 8 Aug 1832, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 2 May 1914, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 81 years) 
    Married 31 Jul 1853  Greenbush (Kitchener), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 13
    Children 
     1. Mary Eby,   b. 16 Apr 1854, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 4 Nov 1920, Brutus, Emmet, Michigan, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 66 years)
     2. Eby,   b. 1857, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1857  (Age 0 years)
     3. Jeremiah Eby,   b. 21 Feb 1859, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 20 Oct 1866, , Kent Co., Michigan Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 7 years)
     4. Aron D. "Aaron" Eby,   b. 10 Apr 1861, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 7 Aug 1885, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 24 years)
     5. Amanda Eby,   b. 29 Apr 1863, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 28 Mar 1930  (Age 66 years)
     6. Henry D. Eby,   b. 27 Aug 1864, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 25 Mar 1947, , Orange Co., California Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 82 years)
     7. Cyrus D. Eby,   b. 31 Oct 1866, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 28 Dec 1951, New Paris, Elkhart, Indiana, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 85 years)
     8. Susannah Eby,   b. 29 Nov 1868, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 7 Jan 1935  (Age 66 years)
     9. Annie D. Eby,   b. 3 Mar 1871, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 14 Oct 1962, Churchtown, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 91 years)
     10. William D. Eby,   b. 26 Mar 1877, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 4 Apr 1943, Jackson, Jackson, Michigan, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 66 years)
    Last Modified 2 Mar 2024 
    Family ID F13899  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • William K. Eby, "the eldest son, was born July 11th, 1831. He is married to Susannah Detweiler who was born August 8th, 1832, and resides in the village of Conestogo, Ontario, where he carries on the potter trade. They have a family of nine 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.].

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      Probably the best-known Mennonite potter of the region was William K. Eby. Eby, whose father Potter Sam taught the trade to him and his brother Cyrus, bought 10 acres of land with an existing pottery on it a half-mile south of Conestoga where he established the region's longest-running pottery business, Conestogo Pottery.

      Your Waterloo Heritage 2010

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      Death of William Eby - Mr. William Eby an aged and respected resident of the County passed away Thursday evening at 6:30 o'clock at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Tobias Martin, near Waterloo, aged 80 years.

      The funeral was held on Sunday morning at nine o'clock from the residence of Mr. Tobias Martin, 4 miles west of Waterloo, to Martin's meeting house for service and burial.

      The late Mr. Eby, who is a brother of Mrs. Adam Klippert, Waterloo was born July 11th, 1831 and was married to Susannah Detweiler who survives. Until a few years ago he carried on a potter trade near Conestogo, when he retired and has since made his with his daughter, Mrs. Martin who survives. Of a family of nine children seven survive, viz: - Mary (Mrs. Owen B. Snyder); Amanda (Mrs. Tobias Martin); Henry, Cyrus, Susannah (Mrs. Menno B. Hoffman); Annie and William.

      Elmira Advertiser Nov 3 1910

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      WILLIAM K. EBY.

      Here is a familiar character in this section. He was born on the old Eby homestead (now the property of William Scheifle and where the latter lives), on July 31, 1831. He has lived in the vicinity of Conestogo all his life excepting two yeara that he was working at his trade in Markham. He learned the pottery trade with his father, the late Samuel Eby in Waterloo, years before he had reached maturity. At that time Waterloo contained only one store kept by Daniel Snider. He also recollects the time when not a building stood upon the present site of Conestogo. His father was familiarly known as "Potter Sam" to distinguish him from other relations of the same name. Another was called "Indian Sam," he being a popular trader among the Indians. The subject of my sketch was married, when twenty two years of age, in 1853, to Susinnah Detweiler, who was born August 8, 1832 They had nine children. He is of Swiss descent, his grandfather, the late George Eby, coming from Pennsylvania to Canada, where his father, Samuel M. Eby, was born in 1805. Mr. Eby has been a resident of Conestogo for about forty years. Here he has conducted his pottery and tilled his small farm of ten acres. He is an expert mechanic in his trade and can turn out almost anything in the pottery line, has now on hand quite a number of fine specimens of his handiwork, and disposes of a large amount of his work in the course of a year. His memory is remarkably keen and he is not averse to imparting information regarding the early days of this section to an interested listener.

      Waterloo County Chronicle, 12 May 1898, p. 8

  • Sources 
    1. [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..., 600.

    2. [S173] Ancestry.com.

    3. [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..., 55.

    4. [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..., 511.

    5. [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..., 362.

    6. [S64] Cemetery - ON, Waterloo, Waterloo City - Martin's Mennonite CC#4521 Internet Link.
      William's first name is given as Wilhelm on his tombstone.

    7. [S148] Census - ON, Waterloo, Woolwich - 1901, Woolwich F-2 page 2.

    8. [S144] Census - ON, Waterloo, Woolwich - 1871, Div. 4, Pg. 26.

    9. [S915] Census - ON, Waterloo, Woolwich - 1861, Township of Woolwich 1861 Div. 1 Page 6.

    10. [S1821] Census - ON, Waterloo, Woolwich - 1891, Div. 2 Page 20.

    11. [S956] News - ON, Waterloo, Elmira - Elmira Advertiser, "Death of William Eby," Nov 3 1910.

    12. [S3231] Find A Grave, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/36302528.

    13. [S6] Church Records - ON, Waterloo - Bindeman, F. W. - Card Index Kitchener Public Library.
      William Eby, potter of Markham married 31 Jul 1853 in Greenbush by lic. to Susanna Dettweiler of Woolwich. wit: Franz Bussenberger of Waterloo & Joseph Dettweiler of Woolwich

    14. [S64] Cemetery - ON, Waterloo, Waterloo City - Martin's Mennonite CC#4521 Internet Link.

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBorn - 11 Jul 1831 - , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsOccupation - potter - 1853 - Markham Twp., York Co., Ontario Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarried - 31 Jul 1853 - Greenbush (Kitchener), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsOccupation - ? - 1861 - Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - Mennonite - 1861 - Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsOccupation - Potter - 1871 - Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - Mennonite - 1871 - Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsOccupation - Potter - 1891 - Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - Mennonite - 1891 - Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsOccupation - Farmer - 1901 - Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDied - 27 Oct 1910 - Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBuried - - Martin Meeting House Cemetery, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
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