Weber, Noah R. (1875-1943)
Noah R. Weber: minister of the West Zion Mennonite Church near Carstairs, Alberta, was born in 1875 and died in 1943. He married Sarah Shantz. They were the parents of eleven daughters and one son.
Noah Weber was chosen by lot and ordained as minister of the West Zion Church in 1911, following the death of Bishop Israel R. Shantz. He led the congregation during the economically prosperous but emotionally difficult years of World War I, and during the challenging post-war years when drought and depressed farm commodity prices resulted in farm protest movements. These wartime and post-war developments, in turn, resulted in greater emphasis on Mennonite non-conformist practices. The Spanish flu epidemic exacted a heavy toll in some West Zion families, and there were also deaths of young mothers in childbirth and of young children due to outbreaks of diphtheria and other childhood diseases.
When John K. Lehman, the Minister of the Mayton Mennonite Church, moved to Oregon in 1915, the conference accepted responsibility to supply that congregation with preachers. Since the West Zion congregation was geographically closest to Mayton, that involved additional responsibilities for Noah Weber. Subsequently Moses H. Schmitt was ordained as a minister in the West Zion congregation with special responsibility for the Mayton congregation.
Bibliography
Harder, Richard, ed. West Zion Mennonite Church: Centennial Scrapbook, 1901-2001. Carstairs , Alberta : West Zion Mennonite Church , 2000.
Regehr, T. D. Faith, Life and Witness in the Northwest, 1903-2003: Centennial History of the Northwest Mennonite Conference. Kitchener, ON: Pandora Press, 2003.
Stauffer, Ezra. History of the Alberta-Saskatchewan Mennonite Conference. Ryley, Alberta: Alberta-Saskatchewan Mennonite Conference, 1960.
| Author(s) | Ted D Regehr |
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| Date Published | December 2003 |
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