John Reist: Waterloo Region Generations

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John Reist was born 7 Feb 1793, Penn Twp., Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania; died 29 Mar 1822; was buried , First Mennonite Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.

Other Events:

Eby ID Number: 00090-5166

Notes:

John Reist, "was born February 7th, 1793. He and his brother, Samuel, and his sister Barbara, came to Canada in 1821. While assisting in erecting a bridge across the Conestogo near Mr. Scheifley's, he was accidentally drowned March 29th, 1822. He was not married."

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a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin: as also much other unpublished historical information chiefly of a local character.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