Absalom Eby

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• Eby ID Number: 00031-2397
• Residence: 1861, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Mennonite
• Occupation: 1871, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Residence: 1871, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Mennonite
• Occupation: 1901, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Contractor
• Occupation: 1911, Elmira, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Contractor
• Residence: 1911, Elmira, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Mennonite

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Absalom Eby, "was born December 4th, 1854. He is the proprietor of the new saw mills in Floradale, Ontario, where he is doing an extensive business in all kinds of lumber which he ships to different parts of the country. He is unmarried and resides with his parents."

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a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin: as also much other unpublished historical information chiefly of a local character.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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Eby. -Absalom Eby was born Dec. 4, 1854; died Nov. 17, 1937; aged 82 y. 11 m. 13 d. He was married Nov. 17, 1907, to Martha Reist. Surviving him are his wife, 2 daughters (Emma and Ruth), 3 sisters (Mrs. Enoch Burckhart, Mrs. Noah Good, and Mrs. Emerson Morrison), and 4 brothers (Jesse, Noah, Jacob and Elias). He was a member of the Mennonite Church. Funeral services were held late residence in Elmira, Ont., to the Mennonite Church, conducted by Bros. Jesse Bowman and Urias Martin. Burial in the adjoining cemetery.

Gospel Herald - Vol. XXX, No. 41 - January 6, 1938

Absalom married Martha Margeret Reist 17 Nov 1907. Martha (daughter of George Wanner Reist and Elizabeth Margaret Soehner) was born 23 Feb 1881, , Ontario, Canada; died 1985; was buried , Elmira Mennonite Cemetery, Elmira, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Emma Salome Howlett
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-198290
• Residence: 1911, Elmira, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Mennonite

Emma — Alfred B. Howlett. Alfred (son of Arthur Thomas Howlett and Catherine Shoemaker) was born 16 Oct 1909, Peel Twp., Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada; died 20 Jul 2001, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Bethesda Community Cemetery, Moorefield, Wellington County, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-154318
• Residence: 1982, 4 South St., Elmira, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

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RUTH E EBY

On Saturday, May 29, 1982, at Victoria Hospital, London, Ont., of 4 South St. Elmira.

Beloved daughter of Mrs. Martha Eby of St. Jacobs, formerly of Elmira and the late Absalom Eby dear sister of Mrs. Fred (Emma) Howlett of RR 2, Drayton.

Friends may call at the Dreisinger Funeral Home, Elmira, until Tuesday noon, when removal will be made to St. Paul's United Church for funeral service at 2:30 p.m.

Interment in the Elmira Union cemetery.

Rev. Mervin Huras will officiate.