Mary Bechtel^[1]

1833 - 1903  (70 years)

• Name	Mary Bechtel
  Born	29 Mar 1833	Blair (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [2, 3, 4, 5]
  Gender	Female
  FindAGrave	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/86295258
  Name	Mary Barlow
  Residence	1849	Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [6]
  Residence	1880	Grand Rapids, Kent, Michigan, United States   [3]
  Residence	1880	Grand Rapids, Kent, Michigan, United States   [4]
  Eby ID Number	00007-0796
  Died	9 May 1903	Grand Rapids, Kent, Michigan, United States   [5]
  Buried	Oakhill Cemetery, Grand Rapids, Kent, Michigan, USA   [5]
  Person ID	I15261	Generations
  Last Modified	10 Jul 2025

  
  

  Father	John G. Bechtel,   b. 18 Sep 1806, Blair (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 25 Aug 1848, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 41 years)
  Mother	Sarah Brower,   b. 21 Jan 1809, , Montgomery Co., Pennsylvania ,   d. 2 Aug 1842, Blair (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 33 years)
  Family ID	F4106	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	William Wilson Barlow,   b. 14 Sep 1823, , Ontario, Canada ,   d. 11 May 1901, Grand Rapids, Kent, Michigan, United States  (Age 77 years)
  Married	27 Feb 1849	, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [7]
  Children	1. Heman Gates Barlow,   b. 27 Mar 1850, Rockton, Beverly Twp., Wentworth Co., Ontario ,   d. 6 Aug 1916, Grand Rapids, Kent, Michigan, United States  (Age 66 years)   2. John Bechtel Barlow,   b. 3 Jul 1854, Rockton, Beverly Twp., Wentworth Co., Ontario ,   d. 11 Dec 1925, Walker, Kent, Michigan, United States  (Age 71 years)   3. Dr. Agnes Barlow,   b. 18 Oct 1860, Rockton, Beverly Twp., Wentworth Co., Ontario ,   d. 24 Mar 1949, Eastsound, San Juan, Washington, United States  (Age 88 years)   4. Caroline D. Barlow,   b. 10 Aug 1863, Rockton, Beverly Twp., Wentworth Co., Ontario ,   d. 10 Oct 1946, Eastsound, San Juan, Washington, United States  (Age 83 years)   5. William H. Barlow,   b. 27 Dec 1866, Grand Rapids, Kent, Michigan, United States ,   d. 28 May 1934, Grand Rapids, Kent, Michigan, United States  (Age 67 years)
  Last Modified	10 Jul 2025
  Family ID	F4117	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Mary Bechtel "was born March 29th, 1833. She is married to William Barlow, a book-keeper. They reside in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and have a family of five 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.]. __________ May 10, 1903. Mrs. Mary Barlow, the widow of the late William W. Barlow, passed away last Saturday evening. She was the daughter of John Bechtel, a prominent farmer and tanner in Waterloo, Ontario. She was married to Mr. Barlow in Canada and removed with her small family to this city in 1863. Three sons and two daughters survive her, Herman G., John B. and William H.. well known business men of this city, and Dr. Agnes B. Harrison and Mrs. E. W. Harrison, both now residing in Seattle, Washington. Mrs. Barlow was in every sense a domestic woman, reared among a prosperous but plain people, she brought to her husband the wifely qualities which made happy her modest home, and the gentle, guiding control of her husband and herself moulded the high personal character of her children. Alike in the dark days which come to most of us as in the brighter, she was always strong, hopeful and encouraging and gave about her in quiet ways through the small circle of intimates the kindly influence which made her home fittingly called a home. Gentle, consid-erate and kind to all, she will be so held in memory by those who knew her. And now there comes, on this Sabbath day, floating over the space of fifty years, the memory of her voice now so silent, leading the small congregation in the little Canada church, the sweet and prayerful evening hymn: "Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed; Teach me to die, that so I may Rise glorious at the judgment day." Words fitted for every hour, yesterday, The Grand Rapids Press, Mon, May 11, 1903 Page 2

  
  

• 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..., 334. [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..., 220. [S142] Census - Michigan - 1880, Grand Rapids, Kent, Michigan Film 1254588 Page 391B. [S1639] Census - U.S. Census Population Schedule, 1880 10th Census, Census Place: Grand Rapids, Kent, Michigan; Roll: 588; Page: 391B; Enumeration District: 142. Wm. W. Barlow 56, b. Canada, bookkeeper. father b. Vermont Mary 47 b. Canada father b. Philidelphie mother b. Philidelhia Agnes 19 b. Canada Carrie D. 16 William H. 13 b. Michigan Herman G. 92. b. Vermont father b. Massachusetts, mother b. Massachusetts [S3231] Find A Grave, Cemetery, O., America, N., County, K., Rapids, G., & Cemetery, O. (1833). Mary Bechtel Barlow (1833-1903) - Find A Grave.... Findagrave.com. Retrieved 4 September 2018, from https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/86295258/mary-barlow. [S244] News - ON, Waterloo, Kitchener - Deutsche Canadier (1841-1865) - Index to Births, Deaths and Marriages Announced in the Deutsche Canadier, Berlin, Canada West. originally indexed by Simone Nieuwolt and Sylvie Kuppek..organised by Rosemary Ambrose, 23 Mar 1849 Pg 12. BARLOW, William Wilson married 27 Feb 1849 Merchant in Beverly, to Mary BECHTEL, 2nd daughter of John Bechtel of Waterloo. minister Rev. Beomer [S244] News - ON, Waterloo, Kitchener - Deutsche Canadier (1841-1865) - Index to Births, Deaths and Marriages Announced in the Deutsche Canadier, Berlin, Canada West. originally indexed by Simone Nieuwolt and Sylvie Kuppek..organised by Rosemary Ambrose, 23 Mar 1849 Pg 12. BECHTEL, Mary married 27 Feb 1849 2nd daughter of John Bechtel, Waterloo, to William Wilson BARLOU, merchant, Beverly. minister Rev. Beomer

  
  

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  Born - 29 Mar 1833 - Blair (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - 1849 - Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Married - 27 Feb 1849 - , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - 1880 - Grand Rapids, Kent, Michigan, United States Residence - 1880 - Grand Rapids, Kent, Michigan, United States Died - 9 May 1903 - Grand Rapids, Kent, Michigan, United States Buried - - Oakhill Cemetery, Grand Rapids, Kent, Michigan, USA  = Link to Google Earth