Rev. Cyrus Nathaniel Good

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• FindAGrave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/69992606
• Name: C. N. Good
• Name: C. N. Good
• Occupation: Berlin Congregation of the Mennonite Brethren in Christ Church, Lancaster St., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; minister
• Eby ID Number: 00041-3313
• Residence: 1871, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evang. Assoc.
• Occupation: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Store Clerk
• Residence: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Mennonite
• Occupation: 1900, Elmwood, Bentinck Township, Grey Co., Ontario, Canada; Minister of the Gospel
• Occupation: 1900, Elmwood, Bentinck Township, Grey Co., Ontario, Canada; minister of the gospel
• Occupation: 1901, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Minister
• Occupation: 1912, Bethany Mennonite Church, Lancaster St., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; minister

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Cyrus Good, "is married to Lovina Snyder. They reside in Berlin where he is engaged as clerk in the grocery business. He is preparing himself for the ministry and will in a year or so (D. V.) be appointed to a field of labor by the Mennonite Brethren in Christ. He is a good man and no doubt will make an able worker in the Lord's vineyard."

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a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin: as also much other unpublished historical information chiefly of a local character.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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Bethany Missionary Church

A congregation of Reforming (or Reformed) Mennonites was organized at a meeting on May 15, 1874 by a group of church members who had been excommunicated from their former church. A conference at Bloomingdale on March 23, 1875 resulted in the union of Reforming (or Reformed) Mennonites and New Mennonites into a new group known as United Mennonites. In 1883, the congregation became a Mennonite Brethren in Christ Church and was to remain as such for the next sixty-four years. In November 1947 the General Conference held in Potsdam, Ohio approved a change of name to United Missionary Church. During meetings held from March 12 to 16, 1969 the former United Missionary Church and the former Missionary Church Association joined together to form The Missionary Church.

Early meetings of what would become known as Bethany Mennonite Church were held in homes until the summer of 1877 when a church was built on the present site on Lancaster Street East, at the future corner of that street and Chapel Street. The church was the twelfth one to be built in Berlin. Completion and dedication of the new church was in late December, 1877. Services were held in German in the beginning with English-language services being introduced in the 1880s. In 1900 a decision was made to have German-language services every other Sunday morning. A vestibule, new platform, and altar rail were added to the 1877 building in 1900, but it wasn't many years later that the need for a new and larger church became pressing. The old church was torn down in 1908 to make way for construction of a new one on the same site. Dedication Sunday was September 20, 1908. Of interest is the fact that a large tent, pitched at the back of the church property, was used for church services in the interim. The new church was known as the Berlin Congregation of the Mennonite Brethren in Christ. About this same time occasional references were made to the name of Bethany. A violent storm and high winds on the evening of November 29, 1919 caused the front part of the church roof to be lifted off. Major renovations to finish the basement and add a new heating system were made to the church in 1940, and in 1964 an Educational Wing was added.

The first pastor was Moses Weber. He was followed by Peter Geiger, John McNally and John Steckley. Pastor C.F. Krauth was minister in 1908 when the new red brick church was built. He was followed by Cyrus N. Good, Silas Cressman and Ephraim Sievenpiper.

Of interest: annual Camp Meetings were held by the congregation in Samuel Schneider's woods through the years 1887-1910.

Waterloo County Churches A Research Guide To Churches Established Before 1900 By Rosemary Ambrose

Cyrus married Lovina Schneider 23 May 1894, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Lovina (daughter of Samuel B. Schneider and Margaret Rebecca "Rebecca" Fried) was born 13 Feb 1873, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 16 Feb 1899; was buried , First Mennonite Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

Cyrus married Liva C. "Livy" Hallman 2 Oct 1900, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Liva (daughter of Johann S. "John S." Hallman and Maria "Mary" Clemens) was born 19 Feb 1877, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 22 Dec 1942, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Woodland Cem., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Grace Irene Cressman
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-123225

Grace — Clayton Wellington Cressman. Clayton (son of Rev. Silas Cressman and Sarah Wagner) was born 3 Jan 1891, , Ontario, Canada; died 1 Feb 1964; was buried , Woodland Cem., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-203464

Ira married Adella "Nellie" Kraft 9 Jun 1938, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Adella (daughter of Louis Kraft and Lydia Knorr) was born 27 Feb 1902, , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 13 Jan 1985, , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Woodland Cem., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-154718

Gordon — Florence Lillian Smith. Florence (daughter of Gilbert Smith and Luella Hallman) was born 1915; died 19 Dec 2010, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

Carolyn — Dr. Freeman Lewellyn Vernon Roth. (son of Nicholas S. Roth and Leah Lichti) [Group Sheet]