Eva H. Sherk

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• Name: Eva H. Williams
• Eby ID Number: 00101-5684

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Eva H. Sherk, "was born June 23rd, 1866. She is married to Daniel Wilhelm, an agent. They reside at New Hamburg, Ontario, and have a family of three 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a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin: as also much other unpublished historical information chiefly of a local character.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.].

Eva married Daniel S. Williams 24 Feb 1885, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Daniel (son of Jacob Wilhelm and Magdalene Streicher) was born 20 Jan 1859, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 27 Oct 1922; was buried , Riverside Cemetery, New Hamburg, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Eby ID Number: 00101-5684.2
• Occupation: 1901, New Hamburg, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Clerk Store

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"Waldemar was born in a farmhouse near Milverton, ON, where an English family lived in another part of the house. As he learned to talk, he was bilingual. In 1894 when he was 8 years old, his parents moved to New Hamburg, ON, There was no high school there, so upon passing his entrace exams, at age 13, he went to work in a general store for $1.25 a week, and didn't get to high school until 8 years later. during that time, he worked as a salesman in stores in New Hamburg, Kitchener, Toronto, and Leamington. In accordance to family tradition and custom, except for a small allowance, all his earnings went into the family budget. when he was 21, as was family custom, he was on his own.

With $21.00 in his pocket, he started out as a salesman, working in Kitchener, then west to Moose jaw, SK (it was 52 degrees below 0). In May he went to the Okanagan Valley, BC (his mother's brother Ben's place). He stayed, earning $2.50 a day, to drive a team of bronchos for work at different contracts. He also worked as an assistant minister. Ten years after leaving home, he was ordained as a Minister, with the United Church. Minister emeritus Zion United Church, Brantford. Received his MA at University of Chicago, March 1917." from a submission to Ancestry.com 2005

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-119005P

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• Eby ID Number: 00101-5684.3

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• Honoured: Russel Williams St., New Hamburg, Ontario, Canada; named in honour of Russell Williams who died in WW1
• Honoured: Russel Williams St., New Hamburg, Ontario, Canada; Russell Williams Street in New Hamburg named in his honour
• Military: WW1
• Residence: Milverton, Mornington Twp., Perth Co., Ontario
• Residence: Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: Milverton, Mornington Twp., Perth Co., Ontario
• Residence: New Hamburg, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Eby ID Number: 00101-5684.4
• Military: 1914, WW1; WW1, Lieutenant, Red Cross / 111th Battalion / Infantry
• Military: 1914, WW1; WW1, Service #730525
• Misfortune: 1917; Killed in WW1

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RUSSELL WILLIAMS Feb. 26, 1892- May 9, 1917

Lieutenant, Nineteenth Battalion.

Son of Daniel S. Williams; b. Milverton; ed. New Hamburg p.s. and H.s.; Teaching at Galt P.s. ; University College 1915-16; c.o.T.c.

He enlisted in February 1916 in the 111th Battalion, in which he was promoted to Sergeant and then received his commission shortly before going overseas in August. He joined the 19th Battalion at the front in October. Two weeks before his death he was appointed Adjutant to his battalion. After going through the battle of Vimy Ridge he fell a month later, being instantly killed by a shell at Fresnoy in an attack on the enemy's trenches. Buried at Mont St. Eloy.


University of Toronto Roll of Service 1914-1918, University of Toronto Press 1921

Military:
Williams, Russell Lieutenant. Born February 26, 1892 at Milverton, Ontario. Methodist. Enlisted with the Red Cross of 111th Battalion in March 1916 and transferred to the Infantry with Commission as Lieutenant. He went overseas in August 1916 and was killed in action May 9, 1917. Somme. He won the Croix de Guerre. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel S. Williams of New Hamburg and previous to enlisting had been teaching in Galt<sup>1a

1a</sup>Williams, Russell: Grace Schmidt Room Digital Collection. (2016). Vitacollections.ca. Retrieved 16 May 2016, from https://vitacollections.ca/kpl-gsr/2884924/data?n=3

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-6323

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-119419