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

George Lichty[1, 2]

Male 1819 - 1903  (84 years)


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  • Name George Lichty 
    Born 10 May 1819  , Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
    Gender Male 
    Immigration 1822  , Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [4
    Residence 1840  Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [13
    Naturalization 1845  [4
    Occupation 1851  Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [8
    Farmer 
    Residence 1851  Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [8
    RC 
    Occupation 1861  Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [10
    Farmer 
    Residence 1861  Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [10
    Mennonite 
    Occupation 1871  Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [9
    Farmer 
    Residence 1871  Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [9
    Mennnonite 
    Occupation 1881  Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [6
    Farmer 
    Occupation 1891  Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [11
    Farmer 
    Residence 1891  Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [11
    Mennonite 
    Retired 1901  Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [4
    Eby ID Number 00072-4232 
    Died 17 Jun 1903  Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [7, 12
    Buried Bloomingdale Mennonite Cemetery, Bloomingdale, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [12
    Person ID I53778  Generations
    Last Modified 26 Feb 2024 

    Father Johannes Lichty,   b. 21 Jul 1793, , Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 29 Apr 1878, near, Waterloo City, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 84 years) 
    Mother Barbara Hoffman,   b. 30 Jun 1796, , Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 7 Apr 1875, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 78 years) 
    Married 14 Apr 1818  [3
    Family ID F634  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Sarah Bauman,   b. 13 Jan 1823, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 19 Jun 1860, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 37 years) 
    Married 16 Mar 1841  Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 5, 13, 14
    Children 
     1. Maria Lichti,   b. 1841, , Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
     2. Amanda Lichty,   b. 9 Nov 1842, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 8 Jan 1882, Near Conestogo, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 39 years)
     3. Rev. Benjamin Lichty,   b. 18 Dec 1844, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 3 Mar 1913, Peel Twp., Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 68 years)
     4. Anna "Nancy" Lichty,   b. 24 Oct 1848, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 22 Apr 1914, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 65 years)
     5. Susannah Lichty,   b. 12 Oct 1851, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 6 Jun 1890, Near Heidelberg Station, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 38 years)
     6. Sarah Lichty,   b. 8 Apr 1858, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 4 Sep 1938  (Age 80 years)
    Last Modified 2 Mar 2024 
    Family ID F13906  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • George Lichty "the eldest, was born May 10th, 1819. On March 16th, 1841, he was married to Sarah Baumann. Soon after their marriage they moved on the farm where he still resides. He is still quite well and strong for a man of his age."

      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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      Lichty. - On the 17th of June 1903, in Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Co., Ont., George Lichty, aged 84 Y., 1 M. Buried on the 19th at the Snyder M. H. Funeral services by Enoch Bowman at the house, and by Daniel Wismer and Joseph Gingerich at the M. H. He leaves one son, two daughters, and many grandchildren, besides two sisters and other relatives, to mourn their loss.

      Herald of Truth, Vol. XL, No. 30, July 23, 1903, Page 240


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      GEORGE LICHTY.

      Go to the old Lichty homestead on a pleasant day and you will invariably find this veteran of pioneer days moving about outside. He is now in the seventy-ninth year of his age and is yet physically strong, but has also retired from active farm work. He is of Swiss extraction, his grandparents having emigrated from Switzerland to Pennsylvania some time prior to 1760 He was the first of a family of ten children, first seeing the light on May 10, 1819. He has always worked on the farm and it is likely that he will end his days on the farm where he has labored so many years. He was married in 1811 and is the father of five children. His son in-law, Henry M. Martin, who was married to the daughter Nancy, lives in an adjoining portion of the old homestead and has charge of the farm. The subject of this sketch came to this section from Pennsylvania with his parents in 1822, they being among the first families to settle here. The present farm contains 182 acres and is in a fine state of cultivation. Mr. Martin the son-in-law, is a son of the late Henry Martin, who was born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, February 16, 1794, and died June 8, 1853. Selina, the daughter of the former, is married to Ephraim Betzner, who also lives at the old homestead, all live in harmony and peace together, each one doing his or her share towards making the work on a large farm an easy task, a feature not always the case where three families are domiciled beneath one roof. The old gentleman says he has used tobacco since he was twenty-one years of age, but has been temperate so far as alcobolic stimulants are concerned. Adjoining the Lichty estate is the fine farm of Solomon Koch.

      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..., 88.

    2. [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..., 23.

    3. [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..., 877.

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

    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..., 128.

    6. [S130] Census - ON, Waterloo, Woolwich - 1881, Div. 3 Page 26.

    7. [S32] News - Herald of Truth, July 23, 1903 - Obituary of George Lichty.

    8. [S141] Census - ON, Waterloo, Woolwich - 1851, Div. 4, Pg. 109.

    9. [S144] Census - ON, Waterloo, Woolwich - 1871, Div. 3, Pg. 10.

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

    11. [S1821] Census - ON, Waterloo, Woolwich - 1891, Div. 2 Page 29.

    12. [S226] Cemetery - ON, Waterloo, Woolwich - Bloomingdale Mennonite Cemetery CC#4581 Internet Link.
      In memory of/ Geo. Lichty/ Died/ June 16, 1903/ Aged/ 84 Y'rs, 1 Mon./ & 6 Days/ The Lord is nigh unto all them that/ call upon him, to all that call upon him in truth [Bottom half buried, June 2009]

    13. [S13] Vit - - ON, Waterloo - Wellington District Marriage Register Part 1 1840-1852, Marriages by Rev'd F. W. Bindemann, Minister of the German Evangelical Protestant Church at Greenbush Village, Waterloo Township, Halton County, Wellington District, 31 Aug. 1840 to 31 Aug. 1841 #6.
      George LICHTY, Yeom. , to Sara BAUMANN, both of Waterloo. Rev. BINDEMANN. Wit. Abraham SNYDER, Yeom. , and Moses BAUMANN, both of Waterloo.

    14. [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, 26 Mar 1841 Pg. 13.
      16 Mar 1841 Pastor F W Bindemann m. Georg LICHTI to Sara BAUMAN, both from Waterloo Tp.

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    Link to Google MapsBorn - 10 May 1819 - , Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsImmigration - 1822 - , Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - 1840 - Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarried - 16 Mar 1841 - Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsOccupation - Farmer - 1851 - Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - RC - 1851 - Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsOccupation - Farmer - 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 - Farmer - 1871 - Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - Mennnonite - 1871 - Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsOccupation - Farmer - 1881 - Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsOccupation - Farmer - 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 MapsRetired - 1901 - Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDied - 17 Jun 1903 - Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBuried - - Bloomingdale Mennonite Cemetery, Bloomingdale, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
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