 1842 - 1920 (77 years)
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| Name |
Christian Eby |
| Born |
15 Dec 1842 |
Kitchener (Berlin) (Ebytown), Waterloo, Ontario  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Died |
25 Aug 1920 |
Kitchener (Berlin) (Ebytown), Waterloo, Ontario |
| Buried |
Ben Eby's First Mennonite Cemetery Kitchener, Waterloo, Ontario |
| Person ID |
I521798938 |
Eby/Aebi and Bernethy Family |
| Last Modified |
16 Oct 2012 |
| Father |
Isaac Bricker Eby, b. 30 Jun 1808, Kitchener (Berlin) (Ebytown), Waterloo, Ontario , d. 20 May 1874, Kitchener (Berlin) (Ebytown), Waterloo, Ontario (Age 65 years) |
| Mother |
Veronica Shoemaker, b. 02 Feb 1815, Kitchener (Berlin) (Ebytown), Waterloo, Ontario , d. 20 Jul 1894, Kitchener (Berlin) (Ebytown), Waterloo, Ontario (Age 79 years) |
| Married |
30 Oct 1831 |
| Family ID |
F510000313 |
Group Sheet |
| Family |
Catharine Clemens, b. 10 Apr 1848, Breslau, Waterloo, Ontario , d. 21 Feb 1918, Ontario, Canada (Age 69 years) |
| Married |
24 May 1868 |
Kitchener (Berlin) (Ebytown), Waterloo, Ontario |
| Children |
| | 1. Lydia Ann Eby, b. 23 Dec 1868, Kitchener (Berlin) (Ebytown), Waterloo, Ontario |
| | 2. James Edward Eby, b. 01 Dec 1870, Kitchener (Berlin) (Ebytown), Waterloo, Ontario , d. 11 Jun 1921, Kitchener (Berlin) (Ebytown), Waterloo, Ontario (Age 50 years) |
| | 3. Isabella Eby, b. 9 Nov 1874, Kitchener (Berlin) (Ebytown), Waterloo, Ontario , d. Abt 1948 (Age 73 years) |
| + | 4. Jacob Foster Eby, b. 22 May 1879, Kitchener (Berlin) (Ebytown), Waterloo, Ontario , d. 2 Sep 1930, Kitchener (Berlin) (Ebytown), Waterloo, Ontario (Age 51 years) |
| | 5. Isaac Clemons Eby, b. Abt 1885, Kitchener (Berlin) (Ebytown), Waterloo, Ontario , d. Abt 1889, Kitchener (Berlin) (Ebytown), Waterloo, Ontario (Age ~ 4 years) |
| | 6. Clayton Eby or Stengle, b. 13 Oct 1886 |
| | 7. Gordon Christian Eby, b. 20 Sep 1890, Kitchener (Berlin) (Ebytown), Waterloo, Ontario , d. 17 Aug 1965, Kitchener (Berlin) (Ebytown), Waterloo, Ontario (Age 74 years) |
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| Last Modified |
28 Oct 2007 |
| Family ID |
F510010913 |
Group Sheet |
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| Photos
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 | Christian Eby: Funeral of Catherine Clemens Eby, 1918 while Gordon Eby was overseas. Christian Eby is centre-left on the picture.
Mennonite Archives of Ontario |
 | Christian Eby: Home of Christian Eby in Berlin, Ontario. Eby was a practitioner of folk medicine, including "charming"
Mennonite Archives of Ontario |
 | Christian Eby: Nellie, the dog, with Christian Eby
Mennonite Archives of Ontario |
 | Christian Eby: Picking potatos at Christian Eby farm, ca. 1912.
Mennonite Archives of Ontario |
 | Christian Eby: Christian Eby and Alistar Lackner with automobile
Mennonite Archives of Ontario |
 | Christian Eby: "Father" Christian Eby with dog Nellie and raccoon shot in hunting trip
Mennonite Archives of Ontario |
 | Christian Eby: "Father" Christian Eby butchering head of pig, April 3, 1912"
Mennonite Archives of Ontario |
 | Christian Eby about 1918
Mennonite Archives of Ontario |
 | Christian Eby
Mennonite Archives of Ontario |
 | Christian Eby and son Gordon Christian Eby and the boys at the Toronto Exhibition in 1913
Mennonite Archives of Ontario |
 | Bella Eby, Catharine Clemens Eby, Gordon Christian Eby and Christian Eby. A farewell for Gordon after joining an overseas battalion
Mennonite Archives of Ontario |
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| Notes |
- Source of information (15 June 2000): Dawn Quast ;
1889 - lives at the "Two Bridges", South Ward, Berlin. He follows gardening in summer and butchering in winter. Five children, all at home yet and unmarried. HEF p. 36
According to Kim Eby, his ggrandson, this man was a "Charmer" or witch doctor.
By 1889, when the Biographical History of the Eby Family was published by his brother Ezra, Christian Eby was living at Two Bridges in the South Ward of Berlin, ON. His reputation as a market gardener, orchardist and herbalist was widely known, as was his skill as a faith-healer.
- While in Pennsylvania August 2008, I found the following in the Lancaster Historical Society's collections of Eby information:
A grandson of Bishop Benjamin Eby, Christian was living at Two Bridges, Berlin. This is now the corner of Mill and Ottawa Sts' in Kitchener, Ontario.
He was a market gardener, orchardist, herbalist and Charmer "Brauche" or faith healer. Peopla came for miles to buy his medications amd herbs to be "charmed" for their illnesses. The family has many letters from patients who lived as far away as Collingwood, Mildmay, Clifford, in Ontario, and the provinces of Manitoba and Alberta, Canada; also Michigan and Ohio in the USA. Many of the letters were addressed to Dr. Christ Eby, Market Gardener.
Many stories of his prowess were told long after his death in 1920. He became something of a legend. These stories lost nothing in the telling. The one most frequently told was of several boys who invaded his orchard. He ordered them to stay up in the tree until morning - and the teller of the tale would say, "He wove a magic spell and they durst not come down."
He bought the homestead from his father and he had a family of eight children.
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