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Date(s)
- 1920-1984; predominant 1937-1970 (Creation)
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Fonds
Extent and medium
37 cm of textual records and approximately 60 frames of microfilm.
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Name of creator
Biographical history
Cornelius G. Stoesz (1892-1976) was born in the Steinreich area south of Horndean, Manitoba to Cornelius Stoesz (1869-1925) and Anna Giesbrecht (1873-1896). Bishop Abraham Doerksen of the Sommerfeld Mennonite Church baptized him in 1912. He married Elizabeth Giesbrecht (1893-1947), daughter of William Giesbriecht in 1913. This marriage resulted in 12 children.
Cornelius G. Stoesz was a councilor for the Rural Municipality of Rhineland in the 1930s and also was on the Bergfeld school board for a number of years. He served in the Sommerfeld Mennonite Church as a Vorsänger (Song leader). In 1937 he was ordainded as a minister in the Rudnerweide Gemeinde, later known as Evangelical Mennonite Mission Conference.
After his first wife died Cornelius G. Stoesz married Susie Heinrich (1899-1952) in 1947. In 1952 he married Widow Aganetha Reimer nee Heinrichs. In 1959 Cornelius and Aganetha retired to the village of Plum Coulee, Manitoba, where he died in 1976.
Repository
Archival history
The C.G. Stoesz family via Dennis Stoesz donated most of the records in this collection in June 1982. Cornelius C. Stoesz, son of Cornelius G. Stoesz was the executor of the estate who made the materials available to the Mennonite Heritage Centre
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Scope and content
This fonds contains primarily sermons by Cornelius G. Stoesz (1892-1976) and his father Cornelius W. Stoesz (1869-1925). Other material includes personal financial records, church reports, bulletins, and membership lists. Three series have been identified in this collection.
-1) Cornelius G. Stoesz sermon material
-2) Church documents collected by Cornelius G. Stoesz
-3) Cornelius W. Stoesz sermons.
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Finding aids
Inventory file list and series description (Volumes 3273-3275)
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Note
Accession no. 1982-62
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Dates of creation revision deletion
Described by Jake Peters in "Resources for Canadian Mennonite studies: an inventory guide to archival holdings at the Mennonite Heritage Centre" (1988: 127). Re-described and updated by Sharon H.H. Brown, December, 2002 and Conrad Stoesz August 29, 2007. Migrated to MAID by Alf Redekopp May 2020.