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 1845 - 1932 (86 years)
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| Name |
David E. Bergey [1] |
| Born |
2 Jul 1845 |
Preston, Waterloo County, Ontario  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Died |
25 Mar 1932 |
Wilmot Township, Waterloo County, Ontario |
| Age: 86y 8m 20d |
| Buried |
28 Mar 1932 |
Blenheim Mennonite Cemetery, Blandford-Blenheim Township, Ontario |
| Person ID |
I17408 |
All |
| Last Modified |
24 Mar 2013 |
| Father |
Jacob Bergey, b. 1 Sep 1818, Pennsylvania , d. 29 Feb 1904, Wilmot Township, Waterloo County, Ontario (Age 85 years) |
| Mother |
Elizabeth Eby, b. 17 Jan 1824, Ontario , d. 19 May 1911, Wilmot Township, Waterloo County, Ontario (Age 87 years) |
| Married |
11 Apr 1844 |
| Family ID |
F2807 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Louisa Bowman, b. 28 Nov 1845, Wilmot Township, Waterloo County, Ontario , d. 11 Jan 1931, Wilmot Township, Waterloo County, Ontario (Age 85 years) |
| Married |
31 Dec 1872 |
New Hamburg, Wilmot Township, Waterloo County, Ontario |
| Children |
| + | 1. Amelia Bergey, b. 20 Sep 1873, Wilmot Township, Waterloo County, Ontario , d. 19 Apr 1939 (Age 65 years) |
| | 2. Eva Bergey, b. 12 Sep 1875, Waterloo County, Ontario , d. 12 Jun 1914, Wilmot Township, Waterloo County, Ontario (Age 38 years) |
| | 3. Gilbert Bergey, b. 13 Sep 1877, Waterloo Township, Waterloo County, Ontario |
| | 4. Milton Bergey, b. 25 Aug 1880, Waterloo Township, Waterloo County, Ontario , d. 19 Mar 1956, Waterloo County, Ontario (Age 75 years) |
| | 5. Ezra Bergey, b. 19 Feb 1883, Waterloo Township, Waterloo County, Ontario , d. 25 Sep 1907, Wilmot Township, Waterloo County, Ontario (Age 24 years) |
| | 6. Ida Bergey, b. 16 Jun 1885, Wilmot Township, Waterloo County, Ontario |
| | 7. Herbert Bergey, b. 9 Jul 1887, Wilmot Township, Waterloo County, Ontario |
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| Last Modified |
18 Aug 2008 |
| Family ID |
F4653 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- From Ezra Eby Book
David E. Bergey, "was born July 3rd, 1845. He is a farmer and resides near New Dundee. Some years ago he was ordained as a deacon of the Mennonite Church. He is married to Louisa, daughter of Rev. Moses S. Bowman. Their family consists of seven children."
Found at http://grebel.uwaterloo.ca/mao/Manuscript%20Collections/HM1.16.htm on October 26, 2006
David Bergey (1845-1932) lived all his life in Ontario. He was born near Preston and grew up on his father's farm near Mannheim. In 1872 he married Louisa Bowman. They had seven children.
Bergey attended Normal School (teacher's college) in Toronto and taught in the following Waterloo County schools from 1866-1890: Pinehill, Manheim, Williamsburg, New Dundee and Waterloo Central. From 1876-1890 he served on the Board of Examiners of Public School teachers for Waterloo County. He was elected to the board of trustees of the New Dundee Public School in 1900.
Bergey purchased a farm West of New Dundee in 1885. He was ordained deacon of Blenheim Mennonite Church in 1889, in which capacity he served until 1921. Previous to his ordination he had been active in the work of the Mennonite Conference of Ontario, which was known until 1909 as the Mennonite Conference of Canada. He assisted in organizing a Sabbath School at Latschar's Mennonite meetinghouse in 1874 and at Blenheim Mennonite meetinghouse in 1885. After his ordination he gave leadership to the formation of a Waterloo County Meeting of Mennonite Sunday Schools, which was the forerunner of the Sunday School Conference and then the Christian Nurture Conference. In 1894 he moderated the annual meeting of the Mennonite Conference in Canada. In 1901 he was appointed District Member of the Mennonite Evangelism and Benevolent Board of America, forerunner of the Mennonite Board of Missions and Charities. From 1906-1921 he served as Secretary of the Mennonite Conference of Ontario. He promoted systematic financial giving by church members to support those ministers in need of assistance and to pay ministers' travelling expenses.
Bergey was a charter member of the New Dundee Rural Telephone Company in 1908 and was patrons' auditor for the New Dundee Cooperative Creamery accounts for about ten years. He served the community as conveyancer, executor and legal advisor. He was a life member of the Upper Canada Bible Society and president of the New Dundee Branch of the Society. He was also active in the temperance movement.
Custodial history: Donated to the Mennonite Archives of Ontario by Lorna Bergey and others at undetermined dates.
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Found at http://www.mcusa-archives.org/MHB/LoewenR-TwoPeoples.html on October 26, 2006
Bergey was a Swiss Mennonite, a third-generation Canadian whose descendants had come north after the American Revolution. He spoke the South German dialect “Pennsylvanian Dutch”; his house was a stone construction detached from a massive, wooden, two-storeyed barn; his wife wore a white cap; his kinship network reached into the eastern United States. Important, too, is the fact that the specific socioeconomic and physical settings in which Plett and Bergey lived were significantly different. Bergey was from Waterloo County in southern Ontario
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