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Subject: [[
Winter continues and another
book is at hand: The Axe and The Wheel; A history of
in 1974 by the
This was in the book:
I hereby certify that on the twentyth day of May in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight
hundred and forty CHARLES BLUNK?{BLINK}of the township
of
North in the above district
were married by me THOMAS FAWETT? Minister of
the
and ROBERT BOLLERIGOLD?.
Which marriage was solemnised by Banns.
Dated this 20th Day of May 1840 As witness my hand Thomas Fawett
[This is the one and only
Marriage Transcription in the book but there is lots about the people and the
villages of Beachville, Centreville,
Piper's
Corners, which don't exist
any more; as wekk as Folden's, Sweaburg etc.] If interested let me know.
Date: Thu,
History of
This area was first named
"Oxford Upon the Thames" and included the townships of
believed that
Ingersoll on Jan. 1sth 1852.
John Graves Simcoe issued aproclamation offering a township to those in the
who were U.E.L and who would
come to
200 or more acres at 6 pence
per acre. MAJOR INGERSOLL made application.
Accompanied by CHIEF BRANT of
the Six Nations Indians of New York State and a group of hunters, he explored
the
lands west of the
In 1793 a surveyor, AUGUSTUS
JONES, partially surveyed that area. A grant of 66,000 acres of land was made
to
MAJOR THOMAS INGERSOLL on
condition that he build a 30 mile road from Burford to Ingersoll.{Later called
the Old
Stage Road}. The opening of
the road brought in many settlers, who settled mainly along the Broken Front
and the 1st
and 2nd concessions of the
township.
The surnames of known
settlers before 1800 were:
BEACH, BRINK, BURTCH,
BURDICK, CARROLL, CANFIELD, COOK, CRAWFORD, CHOATE, DICKSON, DODGE,
DYGERT, EDWARDS, HARRIS,
INGERSOLL, KARN, MABEE, NICHOLS, SAGE, SCOTT and TOPPING.
"
county was settled. A fire
destroyed the township books on
An old Treasurer's book
starting in 1892 lists these interesting entries.
JAMES McINTYRE for six chairs
for council $7.50
GEORGE CUTHBERT for burying
horse found dead in the town line $1.00
J.W. BROWN for vaccinating
children in several school scetions in
JAMES WEST for digging a
grave for an indigent $2.00 Paid
DR. WILLIAMS $15.00 for
medical services Paid
JAMES McINTYRE $8.00 for
coffin and shroud Paid
ALBERT PULLIN for repairing
culvert and furnishing plank on
RICHARD MAYBERRY $3.00 for
use of Harris Street Hall
At this time there were 4
commissioners, JOHN PROUSE, JOSEPH JARVIS, JAMES CUTHBERT and J.H. FORDEN.
Road overseers were C.E.
GAMSBY, GEORGE NICHOLS, THOMAS POOLE, WILLIAM ARTHUR and ARTHUR
CLARKSON. Apparently each
commissioner was responsible for certain section of road and paid out various
amounts for
repairs and then was reimbursed
by the Treasurer. The roads were maintainer by statute labour.
All farmers were requested to
do a certain number of days road work. A man shovelling gravel counted as one
day. A
team to haul gravel and dump
it counted as 2 days.
One record in 1894 from the
Shelton Gravel Pit{Dereham and
GEORGE SHELTON SR. sold 14
cords of gravel for $5.60. {information from the then present MRS. GEORGE
{JOSIE}.
The largest gravel pits in
the area were owned by JOHN CUTHBERT, JAMES CURRIE, J.R. ELLIOT, J.S. REYNOLDS,
GEORGE BRAGG, DR. CARROLL,
JOHN WORET and A. WILLIAMSON.
Cattle were pastured on the
road in early days. Stock lags or cow tags were sold by the township for $2.00
per cow.
Date: Thu,
The chapters tend to flip
around in time depending on the subject.
In 1942 GORDON WISEMAN was
paid $3.50 an hour for plowing snow, also a grant was given to the Treasurer of
January 1945 council
consisted of CHARLES M.SWARTZ,reeve, Councillors F.C. SHELTON, J.G. MASSON,
W.B.
BLANCHER and PERCY SAGE.
Clerk treasurer was F.J. CURRY but CHARLES C. BRINK was elected deputy-clerk
and
treasurer because MR. CURRY
was ill. In February L.B. CURRY was elected following the death of his uncle.
WEST
FRED CURRY, JAMES
PULLIN,reeve,
MERRILL.
ARCHIE LONGWORTH, L.B. CURRY,
clerk, BRUCE AMOS, VERNON CUTHBERT,reeve,
CHARLES WILLIAMS, road
superintendent, MAX FRANKLIN, and JACK HARGREAVES.
From 1850 to 1975, the
JACOB TOPPING, 1st warden
1865 GORDON H. COOK 1875 THOMAS R. MAYBERRY 1888 GEORGE J. COOK
1912 JAMES PULLIN 1916 JAMES
INNES 1925 ARLINGTON D. ROBINSON 1934 THOMAS F. PELLOW 1953 J.
[This is a long one: I would
suggest using your FIND Feature as some families are mentioned more than once.
]
1967 REEVES:
BENJAMIN THORTON 1850, JOHN
McDONALD 1851, CHARLES MASON 1852-1853, WALTER B. MABEE 1854,
THOMAS HOLCROFT 1855-1857,
WRIGHT SUDWORTH 1858, HENRY F. MARTIN 1859-1860, JAMES HARRIS
1861-1862, SENNECA LEWIS
1863, JACOB TOPPING 1864-1866, WALTER B. MABEE 1867-1870, GORDON H.
COOK 1871-1875 and 1877-1879,
NICHOLAS SMITH 1876 and 1880, THOMAS HISLOP 1881-1882, FREEMAN
KARN 1883-1885, THOMAS R.
MAYBERRY 1886-1889, JOHN CUTHBERT 1890-1894 and 1903-1904, JOHN
PROUSE 1895-1896, JAMES S.
CUTHBERT 1897-1898, DONALD GUTHRIE 1899-1900, FRANK FOLDEN 1907,
WILLIAM PULLIN 1908-1909,
GEORGE J. COOK 1910-1911, JAMES PULLIN 1912-1917, WILLIAM LONGWORTH
1918-1920, JAMES BASTEDO
1921-1922, JAMES INNES 1923-1925, P.N. LANGFORD 1926, CHARLES BRINK
1927-1930,
1940, BASIL WILSON 1941-
1942, CHARLES SWARTZ 1943- 1946, PERCY M. SAGE 1947-1948, THOMAS F.
PELLOW 1949-1953, JOHN R.
HARGREAVES 1954-1957, WIBUR W. BUDD 1958-1960, GEORGE WALLACE 1961-
1963, ELMER KARN 1964-1965,
J.
LONGWORTH 1971-1972, GEORGE
F.
JAKEMAN 1973-1974. CLERKS:
JAMES BERRY 1856-1861, CHARLES MASON 1861-1886, W.G. FRANCIS 188-
1903, THOMAS R. MAYBERRY 1903
AND 1909, B.G. JENVEY 1909-1918, FRED W. CURRY 1918-1945, LESLIE B.
CURRY 1945-1975.
Date: Thu,
From information provided by
CAPTAIN T.F. WILLIAMS: Some of it is information written in letters by the CODY
family.
This was his wife's family
but he never mentions her name.
FRANKLIN CODY was born near
here in 1826. This was Capt. Williams daughter's; ALENA WILLIAMS {FINES};
great-
grandfather. He had a son
that left home in 1867 and moved to
was
always referred to as Pa. MR,
CODY had acquired considerable land through his logging business, which he then
converted to farmland. He had
6 sons and 2 daughters. On Saturday
hit the area. A young boy
named WILLIE LOUNSBURY died as a result of being hit in the head with a rock at
a
barnraising. Mr. CODY had a
son who became a Doctor, lived in
in the Church and Councillor
and a Deputy Reeve. ALFRED {ALF} CODY was one of FRANKLIN CODY'S sons.
ROBERT DOWL was the Worthy
Chief of the Masons. CHARLES G. CODY was secretary. The Sweaburg Postmaster
was ARVEY FLOOD from 1868 at
least. There was a J. FLOOD living in Sweaburg in 1861. The village was once
known as Floodtown.
NEWS:
THOMPSON was hauled up for
selling liquor on Sunday and fined $20 and costs. As soon as the fine was paid
he was
hauled up again for it the
next Sunday. His trial is to be next Wednesday.
MR. PIPERS has sold their
place and are going to
KATE COMSTOCK'S husband was
hauled up for setting out cabbage plants on Sunday. He set out 18 plants and
was
fined $8.50.
J.R. BASTEDO sells his
sawmill, house and lot, all of his property in the Burg{Sweaburg}.
ALFRED CODY writes: A heavy
frost last night. Nobody is getting married now; they did it last winter when
it was really
cold.
Jan 8, 1877,
WALTER CODY will be teaching at
Newark as from this date at a salary of $400 a year. {At one time or another
three of
the Cody brothers and both
sisters taught school at each of the schools here and at Foldens. They attended
high
schools in Ingersoll, London
and Woodstock and Albert College in Belleville.}
ALFRED CODY will be marrying
MARY ANN CARR on May 19, 1875. July 10, 1875,
Good hard timbered land is
selling at $60 to $100 an acre.
There was a Cheese factory at
Sweaburg on the JAMES PULLIN farm and another at Foldens.
When we were building a new
barn here at Sweaburg I
{Capt. Williams} remember
STEVE HOUGHTON starting to break a huge rock with his sledge.
T.R. MAYBERRY of Foldens was
the Colonel of the Gray Horse Calvalry Unit.
My {Capt. Williams} Uncle
STEVE HOUGHTON, built many of the foundations for the barns in the area.
There was a Threshing outfit
owned by CHARLES HUGHES, he was assisted by JAMES GROVES.
They would do custom work
throughout the district.
At the farm of GEORGE SHELTON
in 1909 these men were there to help with the threshing.
EMERSON MANZER, JAMES GROVES,
ROY PHILLIPS, CHARLES HUGHES, ED BRIGGS, GEORGE SHELTON
with his son JACK, and GEORGE
MANZER.
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001
09:55:48 -0500 Subject: [OXFORD] The Axe and The Wheel
BEACHVILLE:
The village of Beachville,
rambling for two and a half miles along the banks of the River Thames, and
situated on
Highway 2 between Ingersoll
and Woodstock. Beachville was settled early, partly because of the huge grant of
land to
THOMAS INGERSOLL; also,
because it was an ideal location as the soil was extremely fertile, the river
could be forded
and there was ample water
power for mills. By 1791, Beachville, named after a MR. BEACH who owned the
only grist mill
between the head of Lake Ont.
and Detroit, had sufficient residents to apply for postal service. JOHN
CARROLL, known
to be the first white settler
in the area, is believed to have purchased his land from the Indians and after
proving his clain,
returned to New Jersey for
his family. Upon his return he located on lots 23 and 24 on North Oxford,
overlooking the
future village of Beachville.
In February, 1793, Governor Simcoe reached Beachville and selected a site 5
miles east of
the village where a fort and
settlement was to be established to be known as Oxford{Woodstock}. Beachville
settlers
were furious when it became
known that 66,000 acres had been granted to THOMAS INGERSOLL; his grant was
revoked by
the succeeding Governor in
1799 and he left the district. In 1818 JAMES INGERSOLL returned to cultivate
his father's
farm and soon after his
brother CHARLES arrived. Both men were instrumental in developing the area.
After the War of
1812 the village of
Beachville began to grow phenomenally. In 1819 JAMES FULLER'S blacksmith shop
stood on the
river bank on thw SW side of
the road. In 1821 elections were held for Upper Canada at MARTIN'S Tavern and
THOMAS HORNER was elected.
Beachville was established as an official Post Office in 1836 and W. MERIGOLD
served as postmaster.
During the rebellion of 1837,
GEORGE NICHOLS home was burned. One local rebel, CORNELIUS CUNNINGHAM, a
wagon maker of Beachville,
was captured and hanged in London in 1839. The Great Western Railway was opened
btw.
London and Hamilton in 1853
and 3 railroads were built through the village. Beachville station became the
shipping
point for the Embro district.
However the river flats at the Beachville station were not large enough to
accommodate
extensive shipping yards and
this gave the impetus for Woodstock to be developed. In 1838 a plot for a
chapel and
burial ground was purchased
from R. MARTIN on Church St. This chapel, erected by Father BURKE was in use
until
1876 and
later was destroyed by fire.
In 1804 REV. NATHAN BANGS, held a congregational meeting, when the 1st church
was
organized in the Beachville
area. Around 1806 a "Meeting Place" was constructed on lot 7, B.F.
Conc. where the Karn
Burial Ground was
established. The 1st Presbyterian Church was a small frame building standing
just west of
MR. CHARLES LILLYWHITE'S
home. REV. ROBERT WALLACE was the 1st minister. The methodists worshipped in
the school, Baptist Church
and an unused woolen mill near the home of CHARLES BUCHANAN. THE 1927
BEACHVILLE ORIOLES {Girls
baseball team} EDITH BAIN, ANNIE JANES, MARGARET BAIN, VERNA TOWNSEND,
JESSIE MOGGACH,catcher, MARY
MOGGACH, pitcher, GLADYS OLIVER, LAURETTA OLIVER, WINNIE TURNER
BEACHVILLE METHODIST CHURCH
BIBLE CLASS 1915 World War 1 DON GRAHAM, TOMMY FIELDS[killed in
action], WALTER KNOTT, FRED
FAIRBANKS, ARTHUR CRAWFORD[missing], FRED CRAWFORD, RUSSELL
CRAWFORD, ALBERT REEVES,
EDWARD THORNTON, REV. KAYS, MR. COLLIER, ERNIE LOWES, FRED
KNOTT, ALVIN SWARTZ, BILL
BREMNER. QUARTERLY BOARD, BEACHVILLE CIRCUIT at the home of FRED
BRINK when Folden's Methodist
Church was built in 1911. REV. MR. C.D. DRAPER, FRED BRINK, MRS. A.J. BUDD,
REUBIN NANCEKIVELL, CHARLES
BUDD, WESLEY OSMOND, GEORGE FAIRBANKS, HEMAN THORNTON,
FRANKLIN FOLDEN, MRS. FRED
BRINK, MR. and MRS. JOE BARNETT, GIFFORD POOLE, GEORGE SHELTON,
MARY
OSMOND, MRS. G. POOLE, MRS.
CHARLES BUDD, MRS. GEORGE SHELTON, MRS. FRED SERVICE AND FRED
SERVICE. CHOIR AT UNITED
CHURCH, BEACHVILLE no date J. DAVIDSON, B. LAMBOURNE, HAROLD
FAIRBANKS, JAMES COLLIER, ED
THORNTON, MRS. A SUTHERLAND, MARION FISH, MARY BREMNER, MAMIE
WESTON, HERB BREMNER, JOSIE
COOK, HELEN RAYMER, MRS. J. DAVIDSON, MRS. JAMES COLLIER,
MARGARET THORNTON, LOTTIE
BOWIE, EVELYN DOWNEY, RACHEL PULLEN, MARGUERITE DICKIE, MRS.
GEORGE COLLIER, STELLA CAMPBELL,
JESSIE BREMNER, MRS. G. RAYMER AND DONNA [I am going to
assume RAYMER]. BEACHVILLE
GRIST MILL 1831-1971 Some of the early owners were-DAVID LEWIS FORD,
WILLIAM HOOK SR., BENJAMIN
THORNTON who built the main part, MR. ARCHIBALD, MR. MORGAN, MR BAIRD,
CHARLES GIBSON and WALTER
WINLAW. In August 1971 this historic old mill was purchased by DONALD LAMB.
more on Beachville later
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001
14:33:41 -0500 Subject: [OXFORD] The Axe and The Wheel
The Limestone Quarries:
Very early settlers
discovered the limestones usefulness in building their homes and buildings.
In 1838, MR. JOHN DOWNING, a
Quarryman, emigrated from Clovelly, Devonshire, England, and recognized the
great
potential if this immense
lime deposit. He formed the Beachville White Lime Co. His grandson, CHARLES
carried on the
business until 1929. A
CAPTAIN GRAHAM recorded in 1833 that lime was burned at his property {east of
Beachville
toward Woodstock} for CAPTAIN
DREW'S Anglican Church, "Old St. Paul's". The COLE and HACKER Grey
Limestone
Co. operated east of
Beachville from the 1870's till the end of the century. MODERN CONVENIENCES:
In 1864 the first coal oil
lamp was demonstrated in JOHN BUCHANAN'S tin shop.
In 1883 the first telephone
poles were erected through the village.
Though electricity was
available in 1895, it was not until 1912 that hydro was installed throughout
the village.
On June 25th, 1912 the Board
of Trustees of Beachville celebrated the inauguration of Hydro-Electric power
by having
an exhibition of electrical
apparatus and gadgets in the driveshed of the Methodist Church. MR. ADAM BECK
made a
speech and then the street
lights were lighted for the first time
The "Volunteer"
Bible Class for Men in Beachville was orgainzed in May 1909, with E.
DAMUDE as teacher; JOHN
HACKER, President and E. KARRAN, Secretary. When Mr. DAMUDE left in July, REV.
C.D. DRAPER became the
teacher.
Another Long List of Names:
ERNEST BARTON, ALBERT
FINDLAY, LYNN ZUFELT, DRURY BRINK, ALBERT ELLIOT, WILL BRINK, AMOS
REEVES, NEWELL FORDEN, MORTON
GERRIE,FRANK ELLIOT, ARDWIN BRINK, ED MAJOR, FRED BRINK,
CHARLES WESTON, ALBERT
SWARTZ, HARRY ZUFELT, HARLEY BARTON, TOM NIXON, THOMAS
McCLELLAND, GEORGE CRAWFORD,
TOM BAIRD, JOHN HACKER, GLEN PATERSON, SIMEON SWARTZ, REV.
C.D. DRAPER,
ERNEST SANDICK, LOUIS
SANDICK, GEORGE COLLIER, ALBERT SUTHERLAND, ED. McCLELLAND, HENRY
FORDEN, GORDON DICKSON, JOHN
PYATT, DANIEL DUNDASS, ANDREW CRAWFORD, MR. MAJOR,
JAMES DICKIE, THOMAS SHARP,
JAMES GRAY, GEORGE CLIFTON.
SCHOOLS: The earliest one
seems to have been a log school, located on Lot 13, Conc. 1, West Oxford.
The 1st Union School , built
in 1886, was located on the south side of Highway 2, on land given by MR. BEN
THORNTON.
Some of the teachers who
taught in the latter half of the 19th century were: MR. SMITH{Long-legged
Smith}, MISS
ELIZABETH GILBERT, MISS
CANFIELD, MR. ORLANDO WHITE was teacher in 1890, MR. TOPPING, MR.
STEWART CANFIELD and MR.
ARCHIBALD. MR. B. A. FINCH was principal of the 4 room school house at
Beachville
for 37 years. MR FINCH was
also superintendant of the Baptist Sunday school and Secretary-Treasurer of the
Beachville
Hydro-Electric Commission.
NEILSON'S CREAMERY:
In 1914 MEILSON"S
Creamery was built just east of the school along the C.P.R. Railway, taking
over the business from
MR. IRELAND'S Butter Factory
which had been located on Queen st. This butter factory had once been owned by
a
MR. HUNSLEY.
News: The flood of 1937 was a
disaster in the Beachville area. Considerable damage to many premises, tearing
down one house, ruining
machinery at the quarries and derailing the C.N.R. train. An Ingersoll Doctor
was drown trying to
reach the scene of the
derailing and several others became victims of the flood. It was decided to
construct a new river
channel between Beachville
and Ingersoll. This was completed in 1949. The rivers beauty was considerably
diminshed.
The local Legion was built on
property purchased from JOHN LOWES, which was formerly the home of MRS. NELLIS
[MRS. POOK'S mother]. End of
Beachville
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001
15:20:52 -0400 Subject: [OXFORD] The Axe
and The Wheel Content
The Woodstock-Thames Valley
and Ingersoll Railway Company In 1900 an Electric railway line bean operating
between
Beachville and Woodstock.
This was promoted by Misters ICKES and ARMSTRONG. The first car was called the
ESTELLE believed to be named
for DOCTOR ICKES daughter. Mr. IRA WARFIELD came from Pennsylvania to be the
superintendent of this
Railway. The last run was made in 1925.
CENTREVILLE:
Was part of the original
66,500 acres of land granted to THOMAS INGERSOLL and in the 1790's was already
occupied
by squatters.
In 1824 a fanning mill
factory was built by MR. ASHELBY.
The HOLLYLOCK family ran the
General Store.
About 1805, MR. JAMES BURDICK
built a sawmill on Lot15, Concession 1, on the Old Stage Road. It was sold to
ANDREW WESTBROOK in 1810, who
operated it for a couple of years before leaving for the States. He returned
during the War of 1812 with a
band of soldiers and burned the mill and other buildings including the home of
GEORGE
NICHOLS, the owner of lots 15
and 16 and a British Scout.
The home of MR.
NICHOLS{united empire loyalist} was erected in 1805 for his bride. The home
that was built to replace
it is now (late 1970's) owned
by MR. and MRS. MAX HEENEY.
The early millstones of fine
Scotch granite stood at the entrance of the historic Nichols home until the
1940 when they
were removed by MRS. GORDON
{MARGARET WISEMAN, of Sweaburg, following the death of her father, MR. JACK
U. NICHOLS, the
great-grandson of GEORGE NICHOLS. Couch's pond, 11/2 miles from the Nichols
home was used by
MR. AMBROSE FRENCH as a
boating and skating area and was called Oxford Park.
From 1918 to 1928 MR. JACK
NICHOLS generated his own electric power from a dynamo he installed. The
WILLIAMSON Mill was erected
about 1880 by ROBERT
WILLIAMSON, a settler from
England. His son ASHTON and his grandson FRED WILLIAMSON did not like milling.
Later
CARL MILLARD, an enterprising
young farmer, later a pilot for Air Canada and operator of his own airline,
operated the
grist mill with ARTHUR BUDD.
In 1951 the building was bought by MELBOURNE CUTHBERT.
CENTEVILLE HOCKEY CLUB
1947-1948
RAY CONNOR, coach; AUBREY
HUNTLEY, sec-treas; CECIL CONNOR; RAY VOIGT,alt; JACK BARKER,r. defence;
HARRY CONNOR, manager; JOE
HUNTLEY, stick boy: ROBERT CONNOR,l wing; JIM BARKER, r wing; ROY
FRANKLIN, MERVYN CONNOR, MAX
FRANKLIN,alt: MAC FURTNEY, l defence; KEN CONNOR, alt; LEO CONNOR,
goalkeeper; RALPH CONNOR,
centre; WILFRED CROWN, alt.
Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001
13:07:19 -0400 Subject: [OXFORD] The Axe and The Wheel Content
Centreville Schools
The 1st was a log school on
the north part of Lot 13, Conc 1, on the property of WILLARD SAGE. Public
meetings were
held here until 1830.
In Dec 1817, a meeting was
held at the request of ROBERT GOURLAY, to answer questions of settlers. PETER
TEEPLE, Justice of the Peace
presided over this meeting.
In July 1827, a Sunday School
was started in another small school across from the West Oxford Church, by
WILLARD
SCOTT. LYDIA PIPER memorized
the highest # of bible verses.
Other pupils' were GALLOWAY,
JANES, SAGES and WOOD. MR.RUFUS FOSTER was an early teacher.
Trustees were WILLARD SAGE,
WILIAM REYNOLDS and HENRY CARROLL. Pupils were LOUISA CARROLL,
JUSTUS REYNOLDS, ABIGAIL
FOSTER, WILLIAM GALLOWAY, ZACHARIAH and JAMES SAGE, HORACE
FOSTER, 4 McCARTNEYS, LYDIA
PIPER, FANNY NICHOLS, PHOEBE and DANIEL CURTIS, FRED and AVERY
SCRANLLING, EBENEZER
GALLOWAY, ENOCH and MARY SAGE.
A school was built on Lot 15,
B.F. Concession. Land for the 1st school was acquired from MR. and MRS. DAVID
DOTY
in 1843, and for a second
school at the same location from ROBERT WILLIAMSON in 1878.
A MISS PATTERSON was the 1st
teacher in the 2nd school.
Trustees at the time were;
THOMAS HEENEY, ROBERT WILLIAMSON, JOHN NICHOLS, ARCH. PARK and JAMES
NICHOLS. COZA SKUSE, whose
father farmed Lot 13, con 1, was a pupil in the 1890's and later taught there
from
1901-1904. MR. LEONARD CAFFYN
taught in the school in 1935.
Teachers were: MISS WAITE, a
relative of ELISHA HALL, taught in 1864-65; MISS MAGGIE ROSS, later MRS. HALL,
taught from 1866-69; and her
borther JOHN ROSS, substituted. MISS M. McMULKIN, MISS GERTIE SMITH,
MISS ALBERTA McCONNELL, MISS
H. DYKE and MISS HELEN ALEXANDER taught in the old school. MISS
PATTERSON, MISS ELIZA
McKELLAR, MISS HELEN CHOATE, MISS HOCKEY and MISS ARCHIBALD were
teachers in the 2nd school,
prior to 1900.
CENTREVILLE SCHOOL- CLASS OF
1905
MISS ROSS, teacher; MYRTLE
JENVEY, VERA UREN, NORA UREN, SADIE BAILEY, GLADYS UREN, FLO
CHATTERSON, WINNIE JENVEY,
JOE BLANCHER, JOHN MINIER, BEVERLEY BLANCHER, GEORGE CURRIE,
FRED WILLIAMSON, FRED
LAZENBY, WILL BAILEY, WILL LAZENBY, CLARENCE CUTHBERT, EMERSON TITUS,
EARL JENEY, JESSIE
CHATTERSON, MAGGIE CHATTERSON, PHOEBE BLANCHER, MAY MINIER, ELMER
HEENEY and SAM TITUS.
From 1890 to 1094 MR JAMES
CURRIE was secretary of the school board, MISSES AGNES CURRIE, DELLA NIGH,
LENA FEATHERSTONE, ROBINA
HEENEY, COZA SKUSE and RUBY COBBAN were teachers.
After 1905, MISS ROSS, MISS
DUNDASS, MISS CODY, MISS CANNY, MISS LOUCKS, MISS WHITMORE, MR
HARE, MISS COLDWELL, MRS
JOHNSTON, MISS MacDONALD and MR. C. DUNN. CENTREVILLE SCHOOL-1926
VIOLA FRANKLIN, CECIL
NADALIN, VERA JENVEY, MARJORIE LASENBY, STELLA CONNOR, TINA STATES,
CECIL CONNOR, EDNA BERDAN,
JOHN NEILSON, DOROTHY MORRIS, MARTHA BERDAN, IVA BIDDLE,
RAYMOND CONNOR, JOHN NADALIN,
RITA NICHOLS, HARRY FELLOWS, HELEN NICHOLS, MARGARET
NICHOLS, HOWARD JOHNSTON,
JACK MORRIS, JACK KIMBERLY, GORDON STATES
and MARIAN JENVEY
There is a picture of people
at the NICHOLS [mentioned yesterday]. A hunting party: SAM TITUS, GAIL GERMAN,
MABEL CLARK, JACK NICHOLS,
SPURGEON POOLE, FRANK ELLIOTT, GEORGE NICHOLS, GERTIE
NICHOLS, ?? SMITH, BILL BULL,
ALMOND ALMOS, ASHTON WILLIAMSON, CHARLES ALMAS, ROY GALLOWAY
and HARRY SAGE.
[Next will be PIPERS CORNERS:
]
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001
12:10:20 -0400 Subject: [OXFORD] The Axe and The Wheel
PIPER'S CORNERS:
JOEL PIPER, a United Empire
Loyalist from Massachusetts, came with THOMAS INGERSOLL'S party of settlers to
OXFORD UPON THE THAMES in
1793. He settled on lot 12, Conc 2, one mile south of the Old Stage Road on the
east
side of the North and South
trail. The community which developed here was named after him. On Tremaine's
map of
1857, there are PIPERS on
three of the four corners.
The MABEE family occupied the
southwest corner, Lot 13, Con 2, as they had ever since SIMON MABEE, a fellow
U.E.L. from Massachusetts,
had arrived from Norfolk County, in the early 1800's.
The PIPERS were prominent
citizens in the area to which they gave their name. JOEL, the pioneer, was an
Ensign in the
Army in the War of 1812, an
assessor for Oxford in 1813, and a Charter member of the King Hiram Lodge,
Masonic
Order. He supported the
Methodist Church, he served the West Oxford Chapel as a Trustee, and member of
the
Cemetery Board, until his
eldest son ISAAC, succeeded him on his death in 1858.
In 1867, his youngest son,
JOSEPH was a member of a committee of the West Oxford Church. On the 1876 map,
some
PIPERS are still landowners
at the corners; but on the 1896 map the name has disappeared.
MR. SIMON MABEE played a
vital role in the development of Piper's Corners. It was on the north east
section of his
property that the 1st Baptist
Church in Oxford was established, and the Piper's School was built. Towards the
south end
of his farm, he constructed a
dam and pond, and built a grist mill for the early farmers. The impressive
stone house that
he erected with the date 1808
inscribed above the doorway is still standing, and is now {late 1970's}
occupied by its
present owners, MR. and MRS.
MURRAY BUDD.
THE PIPER'S CORNERS BAPTIST
CHURCH:
Was the 1st Baptist church in
Oxford County. In July 1808 PETER TEEPLE, SIMON MABEE, ZACHARIAH BURTCH,
DEBORAH SALES, ABIGAIL BURTCH
and ELIZABETH SCOTT met at the home of PETER TEEPLE to come under
each other's watch-care.
In 1809 they organized the
Church. Mettings were held in the homes of the members. In Feb. 1841, ELDER
MABEE
offered 11/2 acres on the
northeast corner of his farm for a church and cemetery. It was located just
south of the school
with the cemetery at the rear
of the church and school.
[IF YOU ARE MISSING ANCESTORS
THIS MAY BE WHY.]
this cemetery became
neglected and when owned the farm he allowed his cattle to pasture there. The
markers, which
were numerous, were broken
and he gathered them up and put them in the fence corner near the cemetery
around 1890
to 1900. They remained there
for some years, then he made a nice smooth marble walk from the house to the
barn with
these tombstones.
There was another Baptist
Church in the Harris St. Cemetery and in the late 1860, the two churches united
and
then built in Ingersoll. As
far as it is known, no bodies were removed from either of these pioneer
cemeteries.
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001
22:52:09 -0400 Subject: [OXFORD] The Axe and The Wheel-Piper's
The first Methodist Church
was built in 1856 on 1/8 of an acre on the same section of land as the Baptist
Church; the
Northeast section of Lot 13,
Con 2. Misters SAGE, CURTIS, HALL, JANES, HENNER and DYGGERT were the
Trustees. Its' cemetery was a
mile to the west, on the north side of the road. After many years, the marble
tombstones
were piled in the fence
corners and then buried under plough depth by the owner at the time.
SIMON MABEE built the Grist
mill to serve the settlers.
This mill continued in
operation for many years. MR. ERNEST MABEE a great-grandson told MISS HATTIE
MABEE of
Ingersoll, about its
operation. MR. AMBROSE FRENCH owned the property after 1885. MR. JOSEPH COUCH
purchased the farm from his
uncle, MR. FRENCH.
Immediately to the west of
the entrance to the Mabee farm, the GALLOWAY pioneer cheese factory was founded
by
GEORGE GALLOWAY, in 1866.
This was lot 14, Con 2. MR. ERNEST CLIFTON {later REVEREND} recalled
transporting milk there. A
MR. DICK CHENOWETH took his milk there on the 1st Dominion Day, with a flag
proudly
fastened to a staff on the
wagon. The Galloway enterprise flourished until 1899. GEORGE MAYBERRY was an
apprentice at the Pipers
blacksmith shop. He returned to Salford and opened his own shop. The last owner
of the
smithy was SOLON MARTIN COOK,
of lot 9 Con 2, a grandson of U.E.L. settlers, MANSON and MARY {WHIPPLE}
COOK. He later ran a
blacksmith shop at Centreville.
The DYGGERT family, of United
Empire Loyalist origin from New York state, lived east of Piper's on Lot 9.
Their farm
bordered the sideroad. For
many years the road was called the Dyggert sideroad. The DYGGERTS are ancestors
of the
FOLDEN family, founders of
the village of Folden's.
The THORNTONS on the 3rd farm
east of the corner, lot 10, were early settlers.
REUBEN JANES, a farmer at
Piper's became an early school inspector around 1870. His father, HEMAN JANES,
was
an early settler, and a tax
collector in 1825.
WILLIAM REYNOLDS, was a
teacher at a very early log school, possibly at Lot 7, Con. 1, near MARTIN'S
tavern. he
later took up land on the
corner farm, the west part of lot 14, Con 2, right next to the Galloway Cheese
factory farm. The
creek that furnished the
water power for the various mills was named for him. His geatest claim to fame
is probalby that
he lived to be 100 years old
and is buried with his three wives in the West Oxford Cemetery
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001
11:31:21 -0400 : [OXFORD] The Axe and The Wheel
In 1834 the first log school
was erected a mile south of Piper's Corners at what was known as BURTCH'S
Corners. The
land was bought from JACOB
WHITING, lot 12 Con 3, on the east side of the north south trail.
The Second school was built
in 1856 by MR. CHRISTOPHER. The land was obtained from WALTER BISHOP MABEE,
the son of the pioneer SIMON
MABEE. JOSEPH PIPER made the desks.
A MR. TOPPING, a farmer in
the area, planted trees aroun the school about 1870.
In 1885, the school borrowed
money to buy on half acre of land for a playground from AMBROSE FRENCH, who had
bought MR. WALTER B. MABEE'S
farm.
MR. JAMES MILLINGTON taught
in 1904; A MISS McLEOD after him then a MISS TOWLE MISS McCORQUODALE in
1910, MISS BEATTIE and a MR.
BOWES. MRS. CARL McINTYRE taught in the school in 1921. E.P. MILLER, J.P.
LEGG, M.E.STEWART, JEAN
ARMOUR {Who wrote a history of the school}, JEAN BROWN, W. VINING, P.
SUTHERLAND, KATHLEEN
BUDD{later MRS. BRUCE HUTCHESON}, MARJORIE GILLESPIE, MRS. LaBELLE
PHINN. PIPER'S SCHOOL about
1910 FRED SCOTT, EVELYN POST, JESSIE POST, IRMA BARTON, EDITH
WOOD, IRENE BATTEN, HAZEL
BATTEN, ANN THORNTON, LILY WILKIE, CLARENCE SAGE, CARL McINTYRE,
MAY SCOTT, ROYAL COOK, VIOLET
GOODWILL, ROSS McINTYRE, PEARL COUCH, HARRY SCOTT, HARRY
RUCKLE, HARLEY BARTON, HAROLD
SAGE, JIM WOOD, ROY COUCH, GEORGE SCOTT, ALBERT FINLAY,
ALBERT BATTEN, EMERSON SCOTT
and Teacher, MISS McCORQUODALE
PIPER'S CORNERS' SCHOOL
1925-26
DOROTHY WHATLEY, MARGARET
FRALEIGH, GRACE WHATLEY, HILDA BRINK, MAX ALMAS, LORNE
CRAWFORD, GORDON POST, ROY
WHATLEY, LLOYD BLANCHER, DORA CRAWFORD, ELEANOR POST,
DOROTHY BUDD, BERT WHATLEY,
MURRAY BUDD, JACK HASKETT, HAROLD COUCH, PEARL COUCH,
KATHLEEN BUDD, GERALDINE
BUDD, MAISIE DAWDRY, ? DAWDRY, CECIL COUCH, FRED FRALEIGH, ROY
CRAWFORD, ? DAWDRY, and
TEACHER MISS GLENNA THORNTON.
Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001
08:59:57 -0400 Subject: [OXFORD] The Axe and The Wheel
FOLDENS The village of
Foldens had its earliest beginnings in 1803. The HON. ROBERT HAMILTON acquired
from the
Crown what is now Lot 12, Con
3, just northeast of the village corner.The old log road, crossed the northern
portion of
this lot about 1/2 mile from
the present village. In 1873, 21 acres in the SW portion of this lot was
purchased by JOHN
DAVIS. This portion became
the first part of the centre prtion of the village to be settled. MR. DAVIS
gradually sold off
parts for school grounds,
cheese factory and homes.
In 1804, ROBERT HAMILTON
acquired from the Crown the 200 acres of Lot 12, Con 4. This was eventually
broken up
into several lots . In the
same year he acquired the 200 acres of lot 13, Con 4. In 1856, MR. HAMLTON gave
a life lease
for the north half of this
lot 13, 100 acres, to FRANKLIN FOLDEN SR. FRANKLIN FOLDEN SR. emigrated from
Ireland
at that time. His name came
to be applied to this village soon after 1866. It appears from the registry
office records that
FRANKLIN FOLDEN SR. leased
his farm to BENJAMIN THORNTON and moved to another farm which later was
occupied by the RAWLINGS
family. This 2nd FOLDEN home was a mile west of the main corner of the present
village.
The first Methodist church
was built on the present site of Folden's United Church, in 1866. It was
constructed on a
parcel of lant 50' by 60'
leased by FRANKLIN FOLDEN SR. and BENJAMIN THORNTON. FRANKLIN FOLDEN JR.
relocated to the original
Folden farm then sold it to JOSEPH BARNETT.
In 1906 the BARNETTS sold it
back FRANKLIN JR. and he moved his family back. His oldest son, RALPH, who was
born on the RAWLING farm, Lot
15, Con 3 passed away in 1975. His son LAWRENCE {LAURIE}, the only surviving
male member of the Folden
family resided on the family farm. Lot 13, Con 3 of West Oxford which makes up
the 4th
corner of the village was
acquired by DAVID PRICE from the Crown in 1837. He, in turn, sold several lots
in the north
half. One of the 1st was
pruchased by ALMOND ALMAS, the 1st blacksmith and mail carrier. He lived close
to the
corner a mile north of the
village known then as BURTCH'S Corners. The south half was evenually purchased
in 1873
by JOHN DAVIS. Upon his
death, his son ROY, inherited the Davis farm .
The first Methodist Minister
was REV. LEWIS WARNER of the Ingersoll circuit, who travelled on horse back.
WILLIAM RIVERS would bring
people from "The Pines". The 1st Trustee Board were: REV. WARNER;
Chairman,
HEZEKIAH C. WILSON;
Secretary-Treasurer,JOHN R. WAITE; GEORGE GALLOWAY; WILLIAM LOWES; WILLIAM
RIVERS; ENOCH SAGE; FRANKLIN
FOLDEN SR. and RA. JANES.
Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001
18:21:29 -0400 Subject: [OXFORD] The Axe and The Wheel
In 1903 the original lot that
the Church was on was enlarged when JOSEPH BARNETT sold 1/3 of an acre to the
Trustees. In 1911 the
original Methodist Church was replaced.
The Building Committee were:
WILLIAM PULLIN, JOHN SHELTON JR. and CHARLIE W. BUDD.
The finance committee were: GEORGE
SHELTON, FRANKLIN FOLDEN JR. and RICHARD WILSON.
The new church was built by
ADAM OLIVER.
Corner stones were laid by;
M.S. SCHELL, former M.P.; LT-COL. T.R. MAYBERRY, M.P.P.; WALTER PULLIN,
Woodstock; JOHN SHELTON SR.,
Ingersoll and MRS. W.B. SAGE of Foldens. WALTER PULLIN, a pioneer resident of
Oxford County, came in 1873
to Foldens. He was born in England in 1834.
The stained glass windows
were presented in the memories of DAVID OSMOND, ENOCH SAGE{donated by his sons
ALBERT and EMERSON}, MRS.
FRANKLIN FOLDEN{donated by her son FRAKLIN JR.}, DR. J. ROGERS{of
Ingersoll}, MR. AND MRS.
WILLIAM RIVERS{by WALBURN and ELSIE}, one donated by the West Oxford Council,
GEORGE J.
COOK, HENRY MERRILL, MARTIN
WILLIAMS, HENRY SEALEY, JAMES PULLIN and BYRON JENVEY, One
donated by DR. RALPH
WILLIAMS{of Ingersoll} One by MRS. J. MARTIN in memory of her 2 daughters, MRS.
ROBERT G.
ANDERSON and MRS. RICHARD H.
WILSON. One in memory of LELA, daughter of REV. and MRS. DRAPER One in
memory of MRS. STEPHEN HILL
Two members have entered the ministry: WILLIAM COMFORT SAGE, son of MR. and
MRS. ALLEN SAGE and ERNEST S.
CLIFTON, son of MR. and MRS. GEORGE CLIFTON. MISS JOSEPHINE
NANCEKIVELL, gave herself to
Evangelistic work.
MARION FOLDEN was the 1st
bride married in the church to MR. JAMES GUTHRIE.
THERE ARE TWO LONG LISTS OF
NAMES TO FOLLOW: Folden's Methodist Bible Class and Foldens United Sunday
School Class
Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2001
17:28:40 -0400 Subject: [OXFORD] The Axe and The Wheel
Folden's Methodist Bible
Class and Epworth League 1911: These names are in no order, I would suggest
using your Find
Feature: EARL SHUTTLEWORTH,
ALBERT BUDD, NICK SHUTTLEWORTH, GEORGE MANZER, WILBUR BUDD,
WILLIAM FOSTER, WESLEY
OSMOND, RALPH FOLDEN, ELIZABETH{BABE} SHUTTLEWORTH, EDITH BUDD,
CHARLES HOYLE, MRS C. HOYLE,
MRS. CHARLES BUDD, MARY OSMOND, WILL ATKINSON, EDNA OSMOND,
MARION FOLDEN, HENRY BARNETT,
MRS. H. BARNETT, MRS F. MYRON RUTHERFORD, MRS. M.
RUTHERFORD, REUBEN
NANCEKIVELL, JOHN LAWLER, MAUDE OSMOND, HEMAN THORNTON, MRS.
MUNNS, WILLIAM
HASKETT, MRS. W. HASKETT,
MARY HARRIS, MRS. J. WILSON, JOSEPH WILSON, VERA THORNTON, TILLY
SANDERSON, EVA LEWIS, EDITH
HILL, MAY THOMAS, MRS. CHARLES HILL, JOSEPH BARRETT, MRS. E.
PHILLIPS, EDWARD PHILLIPS,
MRS. J LAWLER, FRANKLIN FOLDEN, LESLIE PULLIN.
Folden's United Sunday
School, May 1966 JEFFREY ALLIN, RUSSELL SHELTON, JILL TOWN, LECIA ALLIN, EVAN
MEEK, NANCY WILSON, LORI
WILSON, MARY BARNETT, ANN BARNETT, KATHY SOMERS, VERNA WILSON,
BRIAN SOMERS, DAVID MAYBERRY,
IVAN BARNETT, MAX KIRBY, ANN MAYBERRY, DARLENE VANDERHEIDE,
JANIS KIRBY, BERTHA
VANDERHEIDE, DONNA SINDEN, RUTH WISEMAN, DOROTHY CLIFTON, MRS. R.
CLIFTON, LOREEN WILSON,
LESLIE CUTHBERT, ROBERT MAYBERRY, WILLIAM JELLOUS, VERA BOND,
EDWARD WISEMAN, MITCHELL
KIRBY, MARLENE DORLAND, MARIE SINDEN, JANE MAYBERRY, MRS. D.
BARNETT, MRS. G. MAYBERRY,
MRS A. SHELTON, BERTRAM SOMERS, LEONARD REEVES, L.D. SOMERS,
WILLIAM MAYBERRY, JOHN
CUTHBERT, THOMAS MAYBERRY, JAMES SOMERS and MR. and MRS. D.
ALLIN
I included these names from
1966 because I thought it might help people find some extended family in the
area.
Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001
14:24:45 -Subject: [OXFORD] The Axe and The Wheel
The Baptist Church: In the
late 1870's people were interested in having a church nearer than Piper's or
Beachville. For
the sum of $1 a church site
was purchased from ROBERT A. POOLE. A committee of 3, THOMAS POOLE, JAMES
JARVIS JR. and JOHN DAVIS,
secured this property. Material from the torn-down Piper's church was used. The
church
was built by a Baptist
member, MR. BENT, assisted by C.W. ALMAS and JOHN DAVIS. It was erected in
1878.
Some of the early Foldens
Baptist members
were the POOLE, DAVIS,
JARVIS, BRAGG, BROWN, BARNETT, ALMAS and PULLIN families.
In 1966 the family names
were; WILLIAM RIVERS; JAMES SOMERS; ROBERT MAYBERRY; DAVID MAYBERRY; M.
SOMERS; B SOMERS; WILLIAM
JOHNSON, DOALD ALLIN, WALL, GEORGE WITTY; O. BOND; S. ALLIN; V.
CUTHBERT; A. MEEK; W.W. BUDD,
TOWN; R. FOLDEN; N. DORLAND; D. BARNETT; WILSON; R. CLIFTON; H.
WISEMAN; D. BROWN; E.
MERRILL, CHARLES SHELTON; A. BOND; H. SINDEN; G. HOWARD; WILLIAM
SHERWOOD; ROBERT HUTCHISON;
G. MAYBERRY, L.
SOMERS GENERAL
STORE: The General Store had
it's beginnings in 1896 when JOHN DAVIS sold 1/2 acre of land just north of the
schoolgrounds to CICERO
GAMSBY, who built and opened the first store on this lot, which included a Post
Office for
many years.
From the GAMSBY family it
passed, in succession, to J.B. and A.E. SAGE and RALPH SAGE; THOMAS POOLE;
GIFFORD POOLE; GEORGE MANZER;
FRANKLIN FOLDEN JR. and to JAMES GUTHRIE in 1920. JAMES GUTHRIE
lost the store to a fire in
1926; he then sold the property to PERCY LANGFORD, who rebuilt the store and
operated it
until
1930. He, then , sold it to
LORNE and MAE WILSON. The WLISONS sold to WILBUR and RUTH JELLOUS in 1957.
In 1969 the sote was sold to
ALLEN PELLOW, who converted it to a private residence.
ALMOND ALMAS was the first
mail delivery person, followed by OLIVER BROWN. OLIVER was the son of a famous
pioneer mother, known
affectionately among Folden residents as Grandma BROWN. The post office was
discontinued
during GEORGE MANZER'S tenure
at the store.
The first rural mail delivery
was by WALTER HARRIS, on foot.
The first blacksmith's shop
was operated by ALMOND ALMAS and later by his son CHARLES. Later it was
operated by
a MR. LEUSAW. This shop was
located north of the village. Sometime previous to 1909 OLIVER BERT HILL began
operating this shop on the
WILSON property. Soon after 1911 MR. HILL bought the shop and moved it by
himself to the
house lot he purchased from
JOHN DAVIS. In the 1950's BERT HILL razed the shop.
THE CHEESE FACTORY:
The Cheese factory was
started in 1904 when JOHN DAVIS sold 1 acre of land to THOMAS CADDY. In 1907,
JOSEPH
BARRETT bought the factory.
MR BARRETT operated the factory for about 7 years. In 1914 the farmers raised
money
by
selling shares and purchased
the factory from MR. BARRETT. The 1st trustees were FRANKLIN FOLDEN JR.;
EDMOND MEEK and GEROGE
SHELTON. JOHN JELLOUS was employed to operate the factory. When he retired
about 1940, his son WILBUR
took over. In 1946 the company sold to WILBUR JELLOUS. In 1962 he sold the factory
to
Neilsons. Neilson's sold the
factory building to ARTHUR BUDD who, for a few years used it as a museum centre
for the
storage of antique machinery.
West Oxford Stars- Football
champions 1909,1910,1911
JOE CLIFTON, ALBERT BUDD,
RALPH FOLDEN, GORDON SAGE, JIM ALMAS, BILLY SPENCE, GIFFORD POOLE,
HARLOLD COOK, NORMAN COOK,
HOWARD POOLE, GEORGE CHANEY, JIM GUTHRIE, GEORGE GUTHRIE.
Winners of the Wood Trophy,
donated by JAMES WOOD.
FOLDENS SCHOOL-1906 EDNA
POOLE, EDITH HILL, VERA THORNTON, CORA MORRIS, PHOEBE BLANCHER,
MARY HARRIS, VERA PULLEN,
GORDON BUDD, RUSSELL SAGE, CLIFFORD PHILLIPS, LESLIE PULLEN, WILL
RIVERS, JAMES MURRAY,
CLARENCE BRAGG, OSCAR WALL, EDNA BUDD, NORA BLANCHER, EDITH SAGE,
MINNIE HILL, HELENA THORNTON,
ISA SANDERSON, CLARENCE PHILLIPS, CLARENCE DAVIS, SANDY
BLANCHER, HAROLD BUTTERWORTH,
EVA THORNTON, DOROTHY PULLEN, ALICE SAGE, BELLE MURRAY,
MABEL BUDD, MYRTLE OSMOND,
MAY DAWSON, MILDRED WILSON, DORA MERRILL, JEAN RIVERS, ETHEL
PHILLIPS, GRANT MURRAY, FRANK
BUDD, RAY DAVIS, ASHTON BLANCHER, JAMES PHILLIPS, MELVIN
PHILLIPS, REG FOLDEN, ARCHIE
RIVERS, GORDON MURRAY, CHARLES BARRETT.
About 1/2 mile north of
Folden's there was a pioneer log school prior to 1858. Pupils from Piper's
Corners and
Burtch's Corners would attend
as well as the Folden children. In those days pupils were accompanied to school
by an
armed adult for fear of wild
animals. The 1st known teacher was MR. BURTON HUGILL 1883-1890 FOLDEN'S
SCHOOL 1911 EARL HILL, RUSSEL
CLIFTON, ASHTON BLANCHER, EARL MERRILL, STEWART RIVERS, EARL
ANDERSON, RALPH SAGE, MISS
IDA ROWE, VIOLA FOSTER, DOUGLAS SAGE, WILFORD HIGGS, TOMMY
MUNNS, LEONA HILL, CLIFFORD
PULLEN, FLORENCE BARNETT, ALVA ALMAS, WELBY MEYERS, HAZEL
FOSTER, JOHN BLANCHER, JEAN
BULLOCK, HOWARD PHILLIPS, IRENE PULLIN, GEORGE GOWANLOCK,
MILDRED GREGG, JAMES BARNETT,
CLARENCE DAWSON, PERCY SAGE, GERTRUDE BLANCHER.
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001
16:17:40 -0400 Subject: [OXFORD] The Axe and The Wheel
Folden's School 1920-1921
FRED SHELTON, JACK SHELTON,
IDA SOEMRS, RUBY FOSTER, ABBIE CUTHBERT, LEONA HILL, FLORENCE
WILSON, BLANCHE QUINN,
BLANCHE ALMAS, DAISY BLANCHER, EVA HIGGS, CARL HILL, WILFRED PHILLIPS,
MR. BERT SILCOX, HAROLD
BARNETT, AUBREY MEEK, LESLIE HILL, MAURICE FOSTER, BERTRAM
SOMERS, MARION CLIFTON,
MARJORIE GREGG, WINNIFRED DAVIS, MARJORIE ROBERTS, RUBY BLANCHER,
GORDON WISEMAN, FRANK
AUCHINCLAUS, GEORGE WILSON, NELLIE GIBBS, ROSE WARREN, AUDREY
AUCHINCLAUS, HILDA BRINK,
ELSIE JELLOUS, GRACE MILLARD, MORRIS COLLINS, ROY DAWSON, MAX
ALMAS, CARL MILLARD, EVA
LOSSING, MADELINE BLANCHER, EVA DAVIS, EWART DAVIS and ED LOSSING
SWEABURG:
" My first memory is the
music of the big saws at the village, as they cut through the huge timbers
brought over from what
was called THE PINES"
wrote DR. OSWALD C.J. WITHROW who was born in the village in 1878.
The 1st sawmill was built by
JOHN CARR. Other sawmills included WITHROW'S, SMITH'S and MEEK'S.
Shingle mills were operated
by residents CROLY & MANZER; FREDRICK GEE, HUGH McCALLEY and RICHARD
WADDINGTON, according to the
Oxford Gazeteer of 1862&63 the last saw mill-grist mill-cider mill built by
HENRY
SEALEY on the NW corner of
the village was burned May 11 1907.
The village was originally
named FLOODTOWN after MR. JAMES FLOOD who bought land here in 1840 from the
Canada co. Later the name was
changed to SWEABORG after a city on the Gulf of Finland which endured a long
seige during the Crimean Was.
Later the O was changed to U
and the village was known as SWEABURG.
MR. FLOOD built the 1st store
in the village and in 1857 his son HARVEY was post-master.
MR. EMERSON GARFAT was the
last operator of the Grist mill which was attached to the store. Owners of the
store
have been: MISTERS FLOOD,
SEALEY, GAMSBY, FOSTER, PULLEN, TALBOT, DIAMOND, BURTON, W. SMITH,
G.
SMITH, DUNSEITH, DAVEY,
LONGWORTH and GORDON WISEMAN.
It was at this store that MR.
WILLIAM PULLEN started his auctioneer business.
The JAMES A. CODY store was
built some time later and stood on the N.E. corner. He was the man in the
community to
go to for Wills, Deeds and
mortgages. Sold Fire Insurance, Marriage Licenses and loaned money. The store
was then
bought by MR. JAMES BASTEDO.
His clerk was MISS MARJORIE STANTON. He opened a Bowling Green behind his
store.
The members were JIM PULLEN,
J. BASTEDO, R.S. LICK, FRED WILLIAMS, CHARLES WILLIAMS, C. FOSTER,
ERNIE THORNTON and JOHN
EDWARDS.
In 1932 GORDON WISEMAN bought
the property and removed the old store and barn.
MISS HARRIET SEALEY ran
another small store which was burned with the mill.
MR. GEORGE SEALEY, a brother,
operated a barber shop on the north half of the Sealey corner lot.
Quotes from PERCY JAKEMAN'S
diary: Dec 2, 1911 - Went to Sweaburg for mail which I guess is the last time
that I will
be able to get it at the Old
Post Office. It is to be transferred to the store across the corner {the
original one} in charge of
MR. TALBOT.
Dec 3 - I bid goodbye to MISS
RUBY BARNES for she is going home this weekend and MR. J. A. CODY is moving to
London.
Dec 4 - Mail given out at MR.
TALBOT'S by HATTIE BUCHANAN, the clerk, today for the first time.
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001
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That name that is mispelt
from yesterday is IDA SOMERS: There were two blacksmith shops in the early days
in which
woodworking was also done.
One owned by MR. HENRY SEALEY before he constructed his mill. The other was
owned
by MR. THOMPSON. Later owners
were JIM LONGWORTH, who did blacksmithing in the front and JOHNNY HEATH
who did woodworking in the
back and made sleighs and wagons.
One 24th of May{no year
given}, one of the village men bought soem gunpowder to let off and stored it
in a drawer in the
blacksmith shop. A spark flew
into the drawer and it exploded. The explosion moved the shop off its
foundation. There
was an old gentleman, MR.
JAMES MANZER, sitting in the shop and the explosion singed his beard on one
side and
also his hair. MR. MILTON
DAVEY was the last operator of this shop when it closed about 1950.
There were several carpenters
in the village; MR. WITHROW, MR. DOYLE and MR. GEROGE FOX and his son
EDWARD.
MR. FOX made furniture for
the pioneers as well as building houses and barns.
MR. WARREN COREY was a cooper
and made axe handles, barrels and wooden tubs.
MR. WILLIAM JELLOUS was a
stone mason and built many of the stone walls for barns and houses
MR. JOHN ROBLEY was the
county constable for some time and later was given a job at the Woodstock Jail.
SWEABURG CHURCHES: The 1st
Meeting House was a frame building which stood in front of the present
cemetery.
here Episcopal Methodist,
United Presbyterians and Free Will Baptists joined together to form a Union
Meeting House. In
1888 it was sold to HENRY
SEALY who moved it. Older citizens have memories of another Episcopal Church
which
stood south of Sweaburg. The
present church was 1st the Episcopal Methodist, the Methodist Church and then
the
United Church Of Canada. It
was dedicated On Oct 14, 1888. The builder was MR. JUSTUS MILLER of Mt. Elgin.
The building committee were:
GORDON COOK, FRANKLIN CODY,
WILLIAM HUGGINS, REUBEN THORNTON, PETER HUGHES and SAMUEL
HOLDEN. MR. GORDON COOK
donated the bell for this church. DR. FIELD of Woodstock was the Chariman of
the
Funds committee, he was also
the local Justice of the Peace. Some of the organists have been
GERTRUDE MILLARD, BESSIE
WOOD, MRS. LESLIE THORNTON. The organ was pumped by different young
people: CECIL WOOD, WALLACE
FOX, EMERSON GARFAT and the THORNTON brothers. The elders, during the
'50's were WILLIAM LONGWORTH,
GEORGE THORNTON, ROSS HARGREAVES and GEORGE JAKEMAN.
The 1st Ladies Aid was
started in 1899, the members were:
MRS. JOHN CUTHBERT, MRS.
GEORGE JAKEMAN,SR., MRS JOSEPH GARFAT, SR., MRS. WARREN CODY,
MRS. REUBEN LICK, MRS.
WILLIAM CLARKSON, MRS W.B. THORNTON, MRS WES LICK, MRS E.W. FOX, MRS
CHARLES McKAY and MRS.
VOLICK, the ministers wife.
Loyal Daughters, Sweaburg
Sunday School Class-1918
RACHEL PULLEN, VIOLA FOSTER,
ENID HOYLE, VERMA THORNTON, RUBY CHILTON, GLENNA THORTON
The Sweaburg Cemetary is on
land deeded in 1862 by CALVIN MARTIN.
The trustees were FRANKLIN
CODY, JOHN CARR and WILLIAM ARNOLD.
In 1920 the trustees were:
JAMES PULLIN, JAMES BASTEDO, ERNEST THORNTON, WILLIAM EDWARDS and
CHARLES FOSTER.
Forester Officers of Sweaburg
in the 1920's were: EDWARD GILBERTSON, FRANK GARFAT, CHARLES WILLIAMS,
WILLIAM CHEW, WALTER WISEMAN,
WILLIAM LONGWORTH, WILLIAM EDWARS and JAMES PULLIN.
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001
13:45:23 -Subject: [OXFORD] The Axe and the Wheel
Sweaburg Schools The 1st
schooll was a small log one in the Gore between the Old Stage Road and the 3rd
Con. This
school was sold by auction to
BLEAKER THORNTON. South Sweaburg school was started in 1857. It was erected on
the property now owned by
MELVIN PULLEN, across from CAPTAIN TOM WILLIAM'S home. In 1858 the following
men
were present at the school
meeting: BENJAMIN THORNTON, JOSEPH HOWARD, WRIGHT SUDWORTH, JOHN
LONG, ADAM DODGE and BLEAKER
THORNTON. BENJAMIN THORNTON built the school. Wood was supplied by
CHILON REYNOLDS. In 1860 the
teacher was MR. JAMES WINTERBORO. On Jan 25, 1877, a special meeting was
held to choose a new school
site. It was 1st moved that the new site be on the corner of JOSEPH THORNTON'S
farm,
lot 4, con 2 of West Oxford.
An amendment was moved that the site be on the corner of REUBEN THORNTON'S
farm,
then amended again that the
site be on the corner of both farms, one acre each. The original motion was
carried.
BENJAMIN THORNTON provided
the land. R. CARR provided sand and stone J.J. PEARCE brick J. ACKERT pump J.
TODD dug the well and banked
the building A. MURRAY built a woodshed This building was later moved to Lot 1,
Con
2. SOUTH SWEABURG SCHOOL
1912:
OTOWLENE TABOUR, MARY
FALLOWFIELD, MARJORY LOUNSBURY, MILDRED LOUNSBURY, MARJORY
STANTON, CONSTANCE CUTHBERT,
CARL TABOUR, CLARENCE COVENTRY, REUBEN ARMSTRONG, FRANK
ARMSTRONG, VERA TABOUR,
KENNETH STYLES, JOHN FALLOWFIELD, NORMAN CUTHBERT, CHARLES
PULLIN, WILBUR CUTHBERT,
WILLIAM LONGWORTH, EMERSON GARFAT, LORNE COVENTRY, MELVIN
STYLES,
WALLACE CUTHBERT. NORTH
SWEABURG SCHOOL 1914 WALTER WISEMAN, ERIC BRINK, MAC CLARKSON,
IRWIN CLARK, MR. J.P. COOK,
IZET LICK, EDNA FOX, WAITIE EDWARDS, MABLE DAVIS, HAZEL FOSTER,
FRANK BRIGGS, WELLINGTON
TALBOT, WALTER PULLEN, PEARL JAMES, RUBY EDWARDS, GRACE
GODWIN, ANNIE JAMES, MARTHA
JELLOUS, GLADYS FOSTER, KARL PULLEN, WALLACE FOX, CAMERON
DeGROAT,
VERNON CORMACK, JESSIE
DOWNEY, MABEL GARNER, NELLIE BRACKENBURY, GLADYS COREY, CLARA
JAMES, VIOLA FOSTER, VELMA
THORNTON, BESSIE BASTEDO, CHARLES DOWNEY, RUSSELL MASSON,
JAMES COREY, ELMER LICK, EARL
PULLEN, GARFIELD COLE, ALEX ROBLEY, LLOYD CORMACK, CHARLES
COREY, ROSE DOWNEY, NELLIE
COLE, AMY PULLEN, BETTY GARNER, GEORGE SPICER, MILTON ROBLEY.
NORTH SWEABURG SCHOOL 1926
ILA PULLEN, EDNA PULLEN, BLANCHE FOSTER, PEARL EDWARDS,
STEWART CURRY, HOWARD
CHILTON, ALBERT FRALEIGH, GEORGE JAKEMAN, MR. ROBERT SWAN, KATE
TRACEY, MIRIAM JAKEMAN, DORIS
FOSTER, FRANCES KNAGGS, MABEL CORMACK, CALVIN DAVEY, DENNIS
READ, JAMES READ, INA
JAKEMAN, ALBERT SMITH, MABEL SMITH, GOLDY CORMACK, BARBARA
THORNTON, ALLAN DAVEY, TOM
JAKEMAN and GILBERT THORNTON.
The trustees in 1865 for
Sweaburg South School were: JOHN CARR, PETER CUTHBERT and WILLIAM ARNOLD In
1913, the trustees were
ARTHUR LONGWORTH, R.D. CUTHBERT and JAMES PULLIN
In 1936 the school held a
reunion. Over 700 residents attended. Former students arrived from Sask,
Illinios and
Michigan. HERBERT SOWERS
staged a scramble of 200 all-day suckers. GEORGE F. JANES of Ingersoll was
chairman of the
entertainment. Music was
provided by KENNETH HILL'S orchestra; a quartet: MILTON DAVEY, GILBERT SMITH,
EMERSON GARFAT and LLOYD GEE;
duet by ANNIE LONGWORTH and JEAN WILLIAMS; readings by WILIAM
GEE of Almonte, Michigan;
Songs by FRED BUCHANAN and a sketch by LLOYD GEE and EMERSON GARFAT. MR.
JAMES PULLIN wrote a poem MR
VICTOR CUTHBERT purchased this building in May 1960.
Committee in 1927 for the
Community park:
JOHN GRANT, LESLIE CURRY,
JOHN THORNTON, GEORGE CUTHBERT, FRED MILLARD and WILLIAM
LONGWORTH. Tennis Players of
Sweaburg: GORDON BASTEDO, BESSIE BASTEDO, IDA PULLIN and MARGARET
MOLLINS{ of Burgessville}
Hunt Club of 1908 AMOS EDWARDS, JOHN EDWARDS, FRANK GARFAT, BEN
THORNTON, SAM MANSER, BILL
CODY, ERNEST BARTON, JACK JELLOUS, NORMAN THRONTON, TOM
WILLIAMS, LORNE CLARKSON,
GODFREY BRAGG, JOHN ROBLEY, FRANK WISEMAN, JACK LAARTZ, GEORGE
WISEMAN, ED WISEMAN, ALF
CARR, JIM LONGWORTH and JIM PULLIN
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001
12:07:17 -0400 Subject: [OXFORD] The Axe and The Wheel
Sweaburg Rifle Association:
Winners of the SCHELL-MAYBERRY trophy 1911
F. WISEMAN, ED WISEMAN, J.
JELLOUS, WILLIAM PULLIN, G. WISEMAN, A CARR, J LONGWORTH, B
ARMSTRONG, J PULLIN, W J
CODY, ED FOX, J ROBLEY The range was on the farm of JOE NANCEKIVELL, lot 7
north west corner.
Winners of the ORSA trophy
{no year given}:
DON WISEMAN, HOWARD SHELTON,
AL HARGREAVES, JIM CHAMBERS, LES HUGHES, BOB WATT,
RON McMULLEN, JERRY SHELTON,
HAROLD BURRELL, BRUCE BURRELL.
PEEBLES: Came into existence
around 1850, about 21/2 miles south of folden's Corners and SW of Sweaburg. The
area between Sweaburg and
Peebles was covered with magnificent, towering Pines and hence was known as THE
PINES. The first name of the
hamlet was PINE GROVE, the first building was a large frame hotel call the Pine
Tree Inn
now owned by MR. JACK HANEY.
previously owned by the SERVICE family. Firsted operated by a MR. LOSSING. In
1871, the population
warranted the establishment of a Post Office and the name of the village was
changed to
PEEBLES, a royal burgh in
Scotland north of Edinburgh, as many of the original settlers were Scottish.
GEORGE COREY
was an early postmaster, also
MRS. FRED SERVICE. MR. and MRS. FRANK WISEMAN, owned the home that housed
the post office. MR OLIVER
BROWN of foldens, son of the very well-known "GRANDMA" BROWN
delivered the mail
to the
SERVICE home by horse. ERNEST
and BILL SERVICE, sons of the postmistress, built and operated a store. Other
proprietors of the Inn were
MR. JAMES DENNIS, and later his son, BEN, who also served as the community
Butcher.
Later ED WISEMAN served in
this capacity. Another General store, operated by ELIAS PALMER, was located on
the
corner of the CHARLES LEWIS
farm, now owned by JAMES SOMERS. The late DAN BARRATT and son-in-law ED
FAIRBANKS, turned up what was
apparently an early brickyard on the 6th concession. The people worshipped in a
tiny
chapel on the farm of JOHN
THOMPSON, 1st concession of Dereham.
In 1890 an unusual late
killing frost froze the hay and grain; farmer had virtually no grain to
harvest. Young men from the
community went West to find
work: eg. JAMES GROVES, JOHN PHILLIPS, CHARLES ALMAS and STEPHEN HILL. A
horse was sold to BEN DENNIS
for .75 cents. In 1873, on lot 8, con 6; property now owned by JOE MANGOLT, a
great
tragedy occurred involving a
MR. TIMOTHY TOPPING and his family.
By the early 1900's Peebles
faded into history
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001
16:41:35 -0400 Subject: [OXFORD] The Axe and The Wheel
Cook's Corners: Was located
at the intersctin of the Ingersoll and Port Burwell Plank and Gravel Road[now
Hwy 19]and
the 3rd Conc. of West Oxford.
Its name was derived from the JOSEPH COOK family who owned property on both
sided
of the concession line. The
1st land grant, lot 18, con. 3 was to ELIZABETH SCOTT in Dec 1798. This is the
farm
across the road from the
Harris St. cemetery. The farm Lot 20, Con. 3, to the west of the cemetery was
owned by
JOSEPH and LUCINDA COOK.
The 1st co-operative cheese
factory in this part of Oxford County was north of the corners on the farm of
JAMES
HARRIS, built in 1865 and
later owned by his son, JUDD C. HARRIS. JAMES HARRIS learned the art of cheese-
making from MRS. RANNEY at
Salford whose daughter, JULIA, he had married. This factory was later moved to
Thamesford. In
the 1870's a cheese factory
was built by MR. WILKINSON on the farm south of the cemetery, now owned by
FRANK
and CURRIE WAY. MR. JOHN
WILFORD made cheese in this factory from 1882 to 1884.
The 1st school was opened in
1856 on the farm of JOSEPH COOK. The 1st trustees were THOMAS HISLOP and
MOSES CLARK.
A womens group was started in
1910. A meeting was held at the home of MRS. HARLEY MAYBERRY. The president
was MRS. M.C. BELL, secretary
MRS. D.W. CLARK and treasurer MISS CARRIE WAY, MRS. B.G. JENVEY, MRS.
W.H. GREGG, MRS. W.O.
EDWARDS, MRS. R.H. MAYBERRY, MRS. J.H. NANCEKIVELL.
The JUDD HARRIS HOUSE was
built in 1871 for JAMES and JULIA HARRIS.
HARRIS STREET CEMETERY:
Believed to be established before 1812.
In 1872 a committee was
appointed to preserve the graveyard as a public cemetery: JOSEPH L. COOK, HOMER
RANNEY, RICHARD MAYBERRY
WALTER HARRIS and NICHOLAS SMITH. In 1925 MR. JOSEPH JARVIS, JOHN
BANBURY, JAMES GROVES, JOHN
W. GREGG and T.R. MAYBERRY. Other secretaries were R.H. MAYBERRY,
LEONARD CAFFYN, CHARLES
WHEELER and HAROLD W. MAMICOM. B.G. JENVEY was chairman for
17 years. Other chairmen have
been GEORGE NAGLE, AUSTIN J. WILSON and CURRIE WAY. Custodians have
been JAMES GROVES, HARRY
BLACKMAN, FRED PECK, F.J. MILLS and KENNETH MURRAY.
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001
16:38:29 -0400 Subject: [OXFORD] The Axe and The Wheel
CLARK'S CORNERS: This
community was named after the CLARK family. DAVID and MARY CLARK received a
Crown
Deed for 100 acres in 1854,
located at lot 22, Con 2. Years later the Culloden Rd. divided the farm but the
property on
the west side of the road
remains in the Clark family. There was a pioneer brick making plant a quater of
a mile south of
the corners on the west side
of the Culloden Rd. operated by MR. FOREMAN.
In early 1880's WILLIAM
O'DELL established a brick and tile yard to the north of the corners. After his
death his 2 sons,
HENRY and ALBERT, carried on
the business. In 1908 they rented the business to ALBERT DELLER and his
brother-
in-
law, GEORGE WOOTTON for three
years. The O'DELL home was the brick residence which was dedicated Feb. 15,
1958 as Faith Haven Home for
the Aged, the owner being the REV. EDGAR and MRS. GILL.
In the corner west of the
Culloden rd. and south of the concession line was the residence and workshop of
MR.
CHARLES TURNER, a tinsmith.
He was succeeded by his son ERNEST. His son KEITH worked for the Ontario
Conservatory of Music.
West of the Turner's was a
cider mill operated by MR. HARRY LEIGH. This acreage was once a part {Lot 22,
Conc. 2}
of the CLARK farm until
purchased by the REV. WILLIAM C. BEARDSALL. The Rev. was a member of the
Regular
Baptist Church and 1st clerk
of the Grand River Association South. Here, he built an Octagon shaped house.
It had a
well inside with steps of
stone. On the top of the house in the centre, is another octagonal structure
which was supposed
to contain a secret panel.
This was ELDER BEARDSALL'S private den. He is buried in Harris St. Cemetery. In
1952 the
Ingersoll Golf and Country
Club purchased land to the east. This farm had been occupied by the three
MISSES TUCKER
since 1893 but it had been
purchased in the pioneer days by COL. THOMAS HOLCROFT who served with Col.
Ingersoll
in the War
of 1812.
The portion of Clark's
Corners west of the old Cody Road and north of the 401 was annexed by Ingersoll
on Jan 1 1971.
S.S.NO 2 WEST OXFORD No year
RALPH GALPIN, BROCK WILSON, TOM WAY, ELLA WAY, JENNY HEENEY,
GLADYS GREGG, MAY THOMAS,
NELLIE HUGGINS, STANLEY GALPIN, FRED WILSON, HARLEY GREGG, ART
McLERKIN, LLOYD BELL, ESTHER
GARTON, VERA GREGG, JENNY GROVES, CARRY WAY, MAY BELL, EDITH
THOMAS, FRED McLERKIN, LEVI
GARTON, JOHN TAIT, RALPH CLARK, GRANT WRIGHT, GEORGE TAIT, MAX
BELL, BILL McKAY, GEORGE
FORMAN, ALBERT HARGREAVES, FRANK WAY, MARY FORMAN S.S. NO 2, WEST
OXFORD 1900 MR. HUGH ROSS,
TEACHER JENNIE MacKAY, HOWLAND MacKAY, WILLIE BANBURY, WILLIE
GROVES, ERNEST NORMAN, HARRY
BANBURY, DAVID HILL, ANGUS ROBERTSON, CHARLIED NORMAN,
CLARKE ROSS, THOMAS HEENEY,
BEATRICE HILL, THOMAS HILL, HATTIE JOHNSON, ARTHUR GOTT,
CHARLIE GROVES, JENNIE
HEENEY, ROY BANBURY, ALLEN NORMAN, MURRAY WRIGHT, MYRTLE
ROBERTSON,
BROCK WILSON, FLORENCE
WRIGHT, LAURA GRIFFIN, WILLIE GRIFFIN 1884, HUGH KERR was teacher 1912
MISS NASH was teacher
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001
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HAGLE'S CORNERS: This place
was named after PETER HAGLE who owned the 200 acre farm on the south-west
corner of the intersection of
the Ingersoll and Port Burwell plank and gravel road and the town line between
West Oxford
and Dereham
There was a hotel built on
the north corner in the 1820's from bricks made on the farm. This hotel was
owned from 1858-
1878 by GEORGE WISEMAN and
previous owners were GEORGE BALL, PETER HAGLE and DANIEL HARRIS. Later
owners were WILLIAM
GALLAGHER, ISABELLE WISEMAN, ED WISEMAN, FRED GALPIN, STANLEY GALPHIN,
BERT NANCEKIVELL and FRED
WILSON.
Easterly across the road from
the hotel stood a frame house occupied by ALVIN HILL who performed the
duties of medical doctor,
dentist and veterinary.
Next to MR. HILL'S house was
the home of RICHARD MAYBERRY SR. who had a large wagon and carriage shop
nearby.
On the north-east corner of
the gore was a blacksmith shop operated by RICHARD MAYBERRY JR.
There was a boot and shoe
shop operated by MR. BROWN, MR. WISEMAN'S grandfather. His wife was the
community
nurse.
MR. FREDERICK WILLIAM GALPIN brought his bride
to reside in the old hotel. He was the first man to purchase a
railway ticket from Salford
to Delhi on the line that connects Ingersoll with Port Burwell{affectionately
called the Peanut
Line}.
MRS. GALPIN remembered the tailor shop owned
by MR. and MRS. WILLIAM GREGG.
The 1st telephone in the
community was installed in the hotel at the expense of the veterinary, DR.
GEORGE and an
Ingersoll physician DR. J.M.
ROGERS.
The 1st brick house built in
West Oxford, about 1840, by a MR. HAYES from Scotland. Later owned by MR.
JOSEPH
GROVES who sold it to MR.
BASIL WILSON in 1917.
Sutherland's Gazette 1862-63
lists the following residents and occupations:
HILL, ALVIN - physician and
accoucheur LEWIS, BENJAMIN- cooper MAYBERRY, RICHARD- blacksmith
MAYBERRY, RICHARD JR. -
wagonmaker SANDO, JOHN - butcher WISEMAN, GEORGE - farmer ELDER
BEARDSALL preached in the
large wagon shop here as well as in neighbouring Churches. PROUSE'S CORNERS:
Prouse's Corners, named after
JOHN and WILLIAM PROUSE, was located one mile south of Clark's Corners on the
Culloden Road, where this
road intersects the townline which divides the townships of West Oxford and
Dereham. JOHN
PROUSE owned farms on the
north side of the townline, while WILLIAM'S farms were on the south side. On
the WILIAM
PROUSE farm was a
brick-making plant. The clay holes filled with water during the winter and
became outdoor skating
rinks. There was a building
moved on to the JOHN PROUSE farm used ans a community hall. This was sold to a
Salford
merchant, R.R.
NANCEKIVELL, who had it moved
to Salford. In 1929 SAMUEL SPENCER purchased the JOHN PROUSE farm. The
1st demonstration to farmers
in the use of hydro power and its value to farmers took palce on the CLARK
farm. Electricity
had come to Ingersoll in 1911
and a short time afterwards SIR ADAM BECK caused a transmission line to be
constructed
from Ingersoll along the
Culloden road to Prouse's Corners. MRS PROUSE was presented with on of the 1st
electric irons
at this demonstration. The
PROUSE'S had three daughters; MAY[MRS. GEORGE WOOD]; ETHEL MAUD, who married
OSCAR BAILEY and ALBERTA. The
Culloden road was owned by a company of shareholders.
There was a toll-gate at
these corners which charged .5 cents per horse, or .8 cents if returning the
same day.
COTERIA LITERARY SOCIETY
about 1899
RUBY MAYBERRY[REV. MRS. L.
THOMAS], CARRIE WILSON[MRS. D. McKAY], NELLIE JARVIS[MRS. W.J.
CUTHBERT], DAVID McKAY, ALLIE
BRINK, C.J. SPROULE, MISS M.B. MORRISON, EMMA JARVIS[MRS. JOHN
GREGG], FRED CURRY, MELBOURNE
WILSON, HUGH KERR, HATTIE MAYBERRY[MRS. WELSH], HERB
NANCEKIVELL.
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001
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THE WEST END: CHOATE'S
CORNERS or FIVE POINTS:
As noted previously, West
Oxford is triangular in shape. This westerly point of the Township has become
known by 3
names: The West End, Choate's
Corners and Five Points. The records of 1809 show that lot 27, B.F., was deeded
to
JACOB CHOATE and the
indenture reads that in 1811 there was a sawmill here, and the description of
the property
reads " to a cherry tree
marked".
A grist mill was started up
in 1818 under the ownership of JAMES CHOATE. Altogether 3 CHOATES, JACOB,
THOMAS
and JAMES owned lots 24 to 27
and gave this area its name. The early surveyor was W.G. WONHAM. The earliest
settlers on the last lot, no.
30, were STENABAUGH and INGRAM.
Other names were
HOLCROFT, BENSON, WILSON,
McMULKIN, ADAMS, EMPEY, ROBINSON and WORTHY by the year 1876. 20
years later these names
appeared on the roll; LEE, BUCHANAN, COOK and MEATHRELL.
The first school was built on
the north side of the Hamilton Rd. in 1864. The CHOATE family offered to give
the land for a
new school if it were located
more centrally in the section. Early teachers were MISS BESSIE HULL, GEORGE
FRANCIS, MISS ANNIE CHOATE,
MISS DYGERT, MISS J. POOLE, MISS J.R. WILLIAMS, MISS E. WARING, MISS
M. ADAMS, MISS HELEN CHOATE
and MISS J. BARDWELL.
In 1887 a new white brick
school was built on the road south of the Hamilton Rd., and just a short
distance from the CPR
tracks. The old school was
sold to THOMAS CHOATE. Surnames FOSTER, BAILEY, WORTH, WHITE,
MEATHRELLM, HARRIS, HALPIN,
DAINES and HEWER were the first on the register. In those days the members of
the section elected a
secretary-treasurer with 2 trustees to be responsible for all matters
pertaining to the school.
Some of these were:
CHARLES WILSON, JOHN PROUSE,
DAVID ROBINSON, JOHN ADAMS, A.B. CHOATE, A.R. McNIVEN, PERCY
LANGFORD, A. UPFOLD, H.
WORTH, R. MEATHRELL, ED MEATHERALLM A.D. ROBINSON, GORDON RENNIE
and
JAMES WILFORD. They were
given no remuneration for these duties. Later teachers were: MESSRS. E.L.
VARDON,
C.H. WALLER, THOMAS
NANCEKIVELL, H.C. ROSS, EDWIN BOWES and MISSES F. HOGG, L. FLEET, MAY
RUCKLE and MRS. M.R. HULL. In
1920 MISS GLADYS WOOD was in charge, followed 2 years later by MISS NELLIE
TUTT.
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001
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Christmas Concert at S.S.# 6
about 1925
JEAN ELLIOTT, HAZEL ELLIOTT,
MURIEL LOCKEY, RHEA ELLIOTT, RICHARD MATTSON, MILDRED
LOCKEY, FRANCIS PYE, MARGARET
MATTSON, DORA LOCKEY, SADIE MATTSON, WALLIS MEATHERALL,
DONALD HEALD, HELEN WORTH,
LAWRENCE PYE, GLADYS MEATHERALL, BILL MATTSON, BOB HEALD,
RALPH LOCKEY, and MARGARET
LANGFORD.
S.S.# 6 West Oxford 1927
JANE PYE, CORA DAINES,
LAWRENCE PYE, WALLIS MEATHERALL, RALPH LOCKEY, FRANCES VALENTINE,
DORA LOCKEY, HELEN WORTH,
RUTH BURROUGHS, LEILA DUNDAS, DORIS WORTH, MARGARET WORTH,
OLIVENE DAINES, JEAN
MEATHERALL, DONALD WILSON, GADYS MEATHERALL, JOE PYE, GLEN METCALFE,
MAURICE WILSON, ? APPLEY, MRS
H. WILSON, Teacher
S.S.# 6-Choate's-1936:
VIOLA DAINES, IRENE WORTH,
RUTH WORTH, BERNICE McKELVEY, ZEPH. PYE, BOB EDGINGTON, MELVIN
JOHNSON, HELEN LANGFORD, JEAN
ROBINSON, SHIRLEY JOHNSON, DONALD ROBINSON, BENJAMIN
DAINES, KEITH McKELVEY, JEAN
McKELVEY, RUTH BERDAN, REG RENNIE, EDNA JOHNSON, JOAN
EDGINGTON and JOSEPH JOHNSON
S.S.# 6 West Oxford 1948
ALFRED NEAVES, NANCY HOLMES,
CHARLES HOLMES, LARRY JONES, KEITH LANGFORD, SONIA WILFORD,
WILMA HOMES, CARLITA
PHILLIPS, ALICE PRIDDLE, RICK ARMES, LYN WALLACE, BILL ARMES, GEORGE
LANGFORD, MARLENE MEAD,
DOROTHY HOLMES, DONNA KENNEDY, RAY McCORQUADALE, DANNY
MINARD, ALVIN SHERMAN, JACKIE
SCOTT, CAROL BONIFACE, LOUISE HOLMES, RONALD SHERMAN, BILL
FICK,
BARBARA DADSON, ROSIE
KENNEDY, DOROTHY LANGFORD, JIM SCOTT, DONALD ARMES, KEN BONIFACE,
HARVEY MEAD, WAYNE CLIFFFORD,
STEVEN JONES, DAVID MINARD, BLANCHE PYE, MARIE APPLEBY,
KAREN
CLIFFORD, ROGER FICK, FRANK
WILSON and MR. TERRY HEENEY, teacher
Teachers during following years
were: MISS L. DUNDASS[MRS. H. WILSON], MISS JEAN ARMOUR[MRS P.
SILCOX], MISS ANNIE
HAWKINS[MRS R. LOCKEY], MARJORIE ALLEN, E. SLOAN, RUTH HAWKINS, TERRY
HEENEY and MRS. LIVINGSTON.
The site of this school was
purchased by DOUGLAS WILSON - just a few stately maples mark the location of
the old
school grounds
Date: Wed, 2 May 2001
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The Harris Cheese Factory:
To promote a cheese market in
England and Europe a mammoth cheese was manufactured in 1866 at the Ingersoll
Cheese Factory Company's
establishment one mile south of the town. MR. HARRIS, MR. RANNEY and MR.
GALLOWAY worked on this
project with their cheese makers ROBERT FACEY, MILES HARRIS and WARREN
SCHELL. The cheese was first
made at each of the 3 factories then moved to the JAMES HARRIS factory. There
it was
cut up and put through a curd
mill and ground into small pieces so that it could be evenly and properly
salted to ensure
perfect curing. it was then
put into a large hoop manufactured by the NOXON Company of Ingersoll and so
constructed
that the immense weight of
three and a half tons could be turned over, once a week. It took 35 tons of
milk to produce a
cheese six feet, ten inches
in diameter, three feet in circumference. Six horses were needed to haul this
huge cheese on
a special wagon on August
23rd, 1866 to the Ingersoll railway station. It went first to the New York
State Fair at
Saratoga. Then it was loaded
on a ship and sailed for England to be on display at the London Exhibition. It
was
eventually sold to a cheese
merchant in Liverpool. This cheese achieved its purpose, it was the forerunner
of Canada's
export cheese trade. As a
direct result of seeing this cheese at the London Exhibition, ALBERT and ENOCH
TATTERSOLL and THURSTON
HARGREAVES moved their families to the new country.
Date: Wed, 2 May 2001
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Early Educational Systems:
From the stories told by MRS.
LAURISTON CRITTENDEN, a daughter of DANIEL DODGE, an early settler on the Old
Stage Road in West Oxford,
the first school would be located on the SE corner of the Stage Road on the 1st
sideroad
east of Beachville.
The school faced the sideroad
on lot7, 1st concession of the Broken Front near MARTIN'S Tavern. This school
was
mentioned in 1852 by
SHENSTON, the historian. A local shingle maker, ELIZEAR COOK of Beachville,
made
the shingles.
Names of some of the pioneer
people whose children attended this school were:
LUTHER HASKINS, JOHN CARROLL,
SYLVERSTER DYGGERT, ISAAC PIPER, BENJAMIN THORNTON, WILLARD
SAGE and the DODGE families.
The first Master was WILLIAM REYNOLDS, who later took up land on Lot 14, Con. 2
of
West Oxford.
Across the road from the
school on the DAVIS farm at Folden's the children skated in Winter In 1946 and
1947 MR and
MRS E.R. CARFAT drove the
High school pupils from Folden's and Sweaburg.
The pupils were:
ARLENE BOYSE, ALLEN TOWN,
RUTH BUDD, VERNA WITTY, ? CLAYTON, BETTY KITCHING, JUNE BRAGG,
MARY McKNEELING, STANLEY
WILSON and BERT HILL
Date: Mon, 7 May 2001
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Some of the information to
follow may repeat previous information but I believe there is more information
on the people
involved:
THE EARLY CHURCHES:
METHODIST: In 1794 the 1st
quarterly meeting of the Methodist demomination in the Niagara district was
held.
NATHAN BANGS of Connecticut
became an itinerant Methodist preacher and travelled as early as 1802 into
Burford
and Oxford Townships.
In August 1804 NATHAN BANGS
attended a quarterly meeting in Oxford.
The war of 1812 gave the work
a setback. Most of the missionaries were American. The result was that for a
time
Methodist congregations were
prohibited from holding property and their ministers were not allowed to
conduct the
marriage ceremony.
The log church on Lot 7 B.F.
was burned by Americian troops.
A chapel was erected in West
Oxford on Lot 15, Con.1. The deed was dated Nov. 29, 1823. BAPTIST: In July
1808,
PETER TEEPLE, SIMON
MAYBEE{ABIGIAL MAYBEE,joined later in the meeting}, ZACHARIAH BURTCH,
DEBORAH SALES, ABIGAIL BURTCH
and ELIZABETH SCOTT, members of different Baptist churches, met at the
home of PETER TEEPLE and
heard a sermon by ELDER FAIRCHILD of Townsend. JAMES CORLIS from Townsend
was Clerk of this meeting.
In Sept of the same year they
formed a branch of the Baptist Church at Townsend, and in the following year
they were
organizws as a Baptist
Church.
PETER TEEPLE moved up from
Norfolk County and settled on land granted by the government, being Lot 15
along
the Thames River in Oxford.
He had 3 sons and 1 daughter, SUSAN, who married ARCHIBALD BURTCH. ELIZABETH
SCOTT settled on Lot 18, Con.
3 and received her deed with the 1st registration on Dec 31, 1798{see Cook's
Corners}.
SAMUEL AND LUCY CANFIELD with
their 2 sons, ABRAHAM and SAMUEL JR., were members of a party of 40 settlers
who were granted land by Gov.
Simcoe in 1793. SAMUEL CNAFIELD SR. settled on Lot 10, Con 1, West Oxford, and
his son SAMUEL JR. on Lot 29,
Con 1. ABRAHAM settled in East oxford.
By the folowing fall JAMES
and ELISHA HARRIS had joined, ZACHARIAH BURTCH was chosen Deacon of this
church
and JAMES HARRIS, clerk.
In July 1812, SIMON MAYBEE
was ordained by a missionary from the Northern Baptist Missionary Society in
New York
state. After his ordination
MR. MAYBEE was pastor of this Oxford Church for some years.
In the early 1820's the work
of the Regular Baptist Church was influenced and disrupted by the Baptist
missionaries from
the US. There were Freewill
Baptist and Free Communion Baptists. ELI HARRIS had moved into the township
with his
family of 8 sons and 3
daughters. He died in 1813 and was buried on his farm. Six of his sons became
ministers although
not all Baptist.
JAMES HARRIS preached for the
Free Communion church. He was ordained in Oct. 1822. These early ministers
received no salary but had an
occupation as well as preaching. They were often paid with clothing. When a
chapel was
built south of Ingersoll at
Cook's Corners on the west side of the Ingersoll and Port Burwell road, a
cemetery was
established and the bodies of
ELI HARRIS and others were removed to this cemetery.{See Harris Street Cemetary}.
NICHOOLAS FRENCH was pastor
at this chapel in 1834. To be continued
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Baptists continued:
When the Free Communion
lapsed, many joined the Regular Baptist Church. In Feb 1841 Elder MAYBEE
offered the
church on and a half areas
near Piper's Corners on Lot 13, Con 2 of Oxford West for a meeting house and
burying ground. Elder MAYBEE
died in jan 1843.
In 1858 the Elder was GEORGE
WILSON.
In 1859 they had an outdoor
service at DANIEL HARRIS'S. The Baptist organization on Albert St. in Ingersoll
under
Elder BEARDSALL vigorously
opposed a church at Pipers Corners.
ROMAN CATHOLIC:
The first Mass was celebrated
in O'NEIL'S blacksmith shop in 1833 by a travelling priest, FATHER VERIOTTE.
Seven
people partook of the
Sacrament: JAMES O'NEIL, MRS. JAMES HENDERSON, her children, ANDREW and JOHN,
MRS. GEORGE ALLEN, JOHN DUNN
and NICHOLAS DUNN.
In 1839 a MR. MARTIN sold
them a lot on the south side of Church St., now the property of MR. J. SMITH.
Father
BURKE was followed by FAthers
MILLS, LEES, O'DWYER and QUILAN.
ANGLICAN:
The Anglicans built a church
in Beachville about 1858. St. Micheal's Chapel was built on the NE corner of
Lot 25, Con. 1
or 2 on the CHARLES WILSON
farm in 1870. Rev BLAND was the 1st minister. This building was at Choate's
Corners
and the church was largely
supported by CHARLES, JACOB and THOMAS CHOATE and by 4 maiden ladies of the
same name; cousins to the 3
brothers. the organist was MISS WILHELMINA NANCEKIVELL.
PRESBYTERIANS:
Prior to 1844, a small frame
church was built in Beachville. Most of the Scots coming to Middlesex and
Oxford belonged
to either the "Free
Kirk", or the "United Presbyterians", two of the 4 major
branches of presbyterianism existing at that
time. The Church in
Beachville was a "Free Church. Its members insisted on the right to choose
their minister without
interference from the
mobility and followed strictly "the confession of Faith" of Knox and
Calvin. The United
Presbyterians,
"U.P.'s", who had a somewhat less rigid interpretation of doctrine
formed a congregation in Sweaburg in
the 1860's. The
impetus to form these little
churches was freguently provided by the REV. DONALD McKENZIE, the Presbyterian
counterpart of the
indefatigable Methodist preacher, the REV. NATHAN BANGS. Sent out by the Synod
of Ross in
Scotland, he travelled
thoughout this part of the country, preaching to small groups of the faithful,
gathered amidst
groves of trees.
A little church was built
near the CHARLES LILLYWHITE home, Beachville. A "Free Kirk" called
Knox Presbyterian, was
established on St. Andrews
st. Ingersoll, on land granted by JAMES INGERSOLL, in 1847. In 1849, the 2 Free
Churches
called the Rev. ROBERT WALLACE,
to minister to them.
Performing valuable service
at St. Paul's in Ingersoll were members of the CURRIE and CUTHBERT families,
such as
MR. JAMES C. CURRIE, an elder
for many years, his son GEORGE and his daughter, MISS EDNA; MR. JAMES
CUTHBERT was an Elder and his
sister MISS SARA a member. MR. BASIL WILSON served as Elder.
THOMAS HISLOP led the
singing{was a precentor}, in Erskine Church, the United Presbyterian one, in
Ingersoll.
THOMAS JR. was an elder in
St. Paul's in 1900.
Other names associated with
St. Paul's were WILKIEE, LAW and CROMBIE.
Others from West Oxford gave
valuable support to Knox Church in Woodstock, such as members of the DEWIT
family of
Folden's. The Rev ERNEST
DEWIT had the pleasure of having his son LLOYD and his grandson LLOYD ordained
as
ministers and his
granddaughter, a deaconess.
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METHODIST: The West Oxford
Methodist Church was established around 1804. The site of this church is aobut
half
way between the first and
second concession lines of West Oxford and two miles east of Ingersoll. REV.
BANGS was
among the 1st converts to
Methodism in New York State. In 1802, as a circuit minister with a tremendous
faith in God, he
came into Ontario via the
Niagara District. He organized churches there and as far west as Burford in
Upper Canada.
Having heard of a settlement
farther west, known as "Oxford on the Thames", he set out to find it.
When he arrived at
the Grand River at Brant's
crossing, the Grand was at flood stage. In attempting to cross the river his
horse was
drowned, forcing him to turn
back. People from the Bay of Quinte area heard of NATHAN'S loss and bought him
another
horse.
In the spring of 1804 REV.
BANGS set out again for the West, arriving at " oxford on the Thames"
in August. Meetings
were held in settler's homes
and sometimes under the trees. A church was organized as a result and then this
enterprising minister pushed
on further westward. His travels took him to Delaware, Amherstburg and finally
Detroit. He
arrived back at Burford in
late fall.
In about 1805 a log meeting
house was built on the SW corner of Lot 7, Broken Front Concession, of West
Oxford, where Karn burial
ground was located.
This church was burned in
1813 by Westbrook Raiders.
From 1813 to 1823 services
were held in a schoolhouse which had been built about 1807 on Lot 15, Con 1,
where the
present west Oxford Church
and Cemetery are located. The original community was composed largely of United
Empire
Loyalists, a hardy, moral,
deeply religious people.
Some of these pioneer names
are:
UREN, PIPER, BRINK, SCOTT,
HARRIS, GALLOWAY, PIERCE, WOOD, REYNOLDS, JANES and SAGE.
In 1842 Woodstock was the
head of the circuit with REV. HENRY BYERS as pastor.
In 1849 Ingersoll was the
head and the REV. JAMES SHEPLEY as pastor
In 1868 the church was placed
with Salford as the head, then in 1944 Beachville became the head of the
circuit with
West Oxford and Sweaburg.
In 1854 REV WILLIAM RYERSON
gave a sermon. The REV. ALEX G. HARRIS, then a boy of 13,
clearly remembered the
sermon.
In 1904 REV. ALEX G. HARRIS
preached the Jubilee Anniversary services.
In 1923 REV ALBERT C. CREWS,
D.D. of Toronto, a former pastor whose father had also served as pastor if this
little
church, gave a sermon.
Four of the members of the
Church in 1974 were: LAWRENCE JOHNSTON of Avon who, in August celebrated his
106th birthday. MRS. MARY
BROWN of Foldens, West Oxford, who celebrated her 100th birthday. DUNCAN
McLAUCHLIN, aged 84 and EBEN
W. UREN, 82 both of Ingersoll.
MISS SARA CUTHBERT'S SUNDAY
SCHOOL CLASS: Early 1900's
CLARENCE ARCHER, HARRY SCOTT,
STANLEY LAZENBY, SAM TITUS, GEORGE SCOTT, ROYAL COOK,
HARRY RUCKLE, ALEX BRINK, EMMERSON
SCOTT, ALBERT BATTEN, ELMER HEENEY. WEST OXFORD
LADIES AID - 1921:
IRENE BATTEN, VIOLA FRANKLIN,
RUTH CURRIE, MILDRED MUNROE, HAZEL BATTEN, MRS. E. HEENEY,
MRS. FRANK HEENEY SR. MRS.
HARRY O'DELL, MRS. WILLIAM BATTEN, MRS. FRANK SCOTT, EDNA CURRIE,
MRS EDWARD DODGE, MRS GEORGE
FRANKLIN {FLOYD FRANKLIN;baby}, MRS. {REV} FYDELL, MRS. J.
MILLINGTON, MRS F. HEENEY,
MRS. C. CUTHBERT, MRS. A TUNKS, MRS. A HUNTLEY, MRS. H. O'DELL, MRS
WILLIAM HASKETT{ROWENA
HASKETT, Child} and MRS. GEORGE RUCKLE.
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FUNERALS AND OBITUARIES:
Early Funerals There were no
places established as cemeteries in the late 18th century. Usually a space in a
clearing
was set aside for the family
cemetery. This place was not far from the farm buildings. Markers were placed
on the grave
bearing the name of the
departed and other information. Crosses made of pieces of plank, flat stones or
marlbe slabs
were used. As farms changed
ownership, these markers disappeared and nothing was left to mark these family
plots. In
the 1820's religious
organizations began to form and erected meeting houses along with burying
plots. In areas without
churches land was selected
and set aside for cemeteries. The first hearses were elongated boxes on
democrat gears
and wheels. These were
painted black and if the party being buried was an adult the hearse was
decorated with black
plumes and drawn by a team of
black horses. If a young person was being buried the plumes were white and
white
horses were used. The first
motor hearse funeral from Ingersoll was that of MR. CHARLES JENVEY, in August
of 1917.
EARLY CEMETERIES OF WEST
OXFORD:
Burials were probably made in
the West Oxford church cemetery prior to the purchase of the site in 1823.
There are
some markers that bear
earlier dates. It seemed to be the custom to bury the departed members of the
families on the
home farm. Deeds were not
usually secured for such burial areas but permission was granted by the owner
of the area
selected.
One of the earliest undeeded
cemeteries, wherein pioneers were buried was an elevation of land on the THOMAS
INGERSOLL farm. This is now
the north west corner of King and Harris Sts. Ingersoll.
The Baptist cemetery at
Pipers Corners immediately west of the former school and marked by a clump of
cedar trees, was
granted by SIMON MABEE, who
owned the farm on which the cemetery was located.
The old Methodist cemetery,
about half a mile south of the West Oxford Church on the east side of the
Jordan Road was
granted to the Piper's
Corners Free Methodist group by JACOB WOOD, the farm owner.
These 3 cemeteries, wherein
lay buried many of the pioneer settlers and their families have long since lost
their
indentification. All markers
have been removed and the land has been put under cultivation.
A very early Methhodist
Church stood on the south part of Lot 7, BF Concession. This small church was
on the north side
of the Old Stage Rd.
There was a cemetery on one
side of the church in which some members of the COOK family were buried. NEIL
SWARTZ owned the farm for
many years but now it is owned by JOHN JULIAN.
There were many private
family cemeteries on the farms.
On the DANIEL HARRIS farm,
lot 18, concession 2, there were 2 cemeteries for the several HARRIS families.
One cemetery was near the
north east corner of the farm, in a gravelly knoll, the other was also in a
gravel knoll near the
west boundary of the lot. All
the bodies were later moved to the Harris St. cemetery.
There was a frame church on
Lot 25, Concession 1, which was Anglican and served by the minister of
Ingersoll.
There was a cemetery on the
north side of the lot. The church burned.
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001
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and The Wheel
DUNELG:
Written by MRS. E. S. SMITH;
formerly JULIA A. PHELPS, with assistance from relatives.
Was located on Lots 3 and 4
Broken Front Concession West Oxford: Dunelg, meaning Beauty of the Hills. Local
Registry Office records
indicate that the original 158 and a half acre estate was purchased in 1856
from RICHARD
CAREY ELVES by HENRY and
CHARLES INGLES; In 1862 from CHARLES INGLES by COLONEL JAMES A
SKINNER; in 1905 from AGNES
SKINNER by CHARLES THOMPSON; In 1911 from FLORENCE THOMPSON by
CHARLES PHELPS.
It is said that RICHARD CAREY
ELVES built the original brick house for residence only. He did not farm at
all. It is said
that MR. ELVES had a son who
died and was buried in this area, after which he sold the property and returned
to
England.
During COLONEL SKINNER'S
ownership, he purchased the Presbyterian Church in Beachville and used the
materials to
add an addition to the house.
Colonel SKINNER was a native of Tain, Ross-Shire, Scotland and commanded the
13th
Battalion of Hamilton. He
represented South Oxford in the House of Commons from 1874-1882. In 1871 he
organized
and commanded a team of
Ontario riflemen, who represented the first British colony to compete at
Wimbledon. He retired
from the army in 1885.
CHARLES THOMPSON purchases
this property in 1905 for farming. MR. THOMPSON did not live to see the fruits
of his
labours as he was gored by a
bull and died as a result.
CHARLES PHELPS purchased this
estate from Mr. Thompson's widow, FLORENCE, and moved his family from the
Hickson sideroad. He had
learned the trade of blacksmithing and had practised in Beachville but had
always wanted to
farm. He did his own
horseshoeing but from time to time did some custom work. He added an extra 50
acres and the
property extended from the
1st concession to the Thames River. MR. PHELPS won several prizes from the Head
Office
of Toronto City Dairy for
being the largest, individual producer of milk shipped from the Woodstock
Branch
on Winnett Street. MR PHELPS
died in 1923 and for a time his wife carried on. Later sons MERVIN and
FREDERICK
inherited the property.
MERVIN'S widow HARRIETT and sons LOUIS and WILLIAM still live on the old house
and a
portion of the acreage has
been retained.
FAIRMOUNT FARM:
This property, Lot 5 and 6
Broken Front, was bought by MR. SHANN in 1873.
ALFRED SHANN built the brick
house in 1880. He had come from England and his twin brother lived where
Borden's
factory in Ingersoll now
stands. SHANN brought cement watering troughs from England and one of these is
still in
use today{1974}. Before MR.
SHANN came , it is believed that 2 brothers by the name of MILLAR lived on this
farm.
They had buildings facing on
Concession 1. Later some of these were moved to the middle of the farm. MR.
DUNN
remembers a log cabin and
well near the middle of the farm.
In 1903 the DUNN family came
to work for Mr Shann. Mr. SHANN often preached at the Anglican Church. Shann's
housekeeper MISS BARBARA
McCORQUODALE was permitted visits from young CLARA DUNN.
In 1913 MR. WILLIAM DUNN
bought the farm. His son E now lives on this farm. Four generations of the DUNN
family
have lived on this farm. The
land for Fairmount park was leased by JUDGE WALLACE, one of The Street Railway
Co.
directors, from the DUNN
family.
Date: Tue, 15 May 2001
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NORTHCOTE
"DORLANDS":
Dorland's subdivision was
built on very historic property on Lot 2, Broken Front West Oxford. From the
beachville
museum we obtained the
following description of this beautiful property as it was in the beginning.
"The house was at the
end of a long beautiful drive
and was made of sun dried adobe bricks.
Records of 1837 show that a
MR. DEEDES received a grant of 200 acres and MR. EDMUND DEEDES of Sandling
Park, Kent County, England
was the builder. In CAPTAIN GRAHAM'S Diary it was brought out that MR. DEEDES
and a
brother were already living
there before 1837. Many celebrated personages were regularly entertained at
Northcote. One
of the most famous was SIR
FRANCIS BOND HEAD, then Governor of Upper Canada. Sir Francis had been a
classmate of MR. DEEDES.
After Mr. DEEDES appointment as Sheriff of Norfolk his property was sold to
Flaxman JOHN
H. BROWN.
Other owners included S.H.
JANES, E.B. VAREY, AL CORMACK and DR. J.J. BROWN. DR. BROWN gew herbs fo
rmedicinal purposes and many
oldsters will remember the beds in ginseng grown on the hill below the house
and the
slatted covers to provide the
herb with shade.
MR. AL CORMACK bought the
farm about 1915. He was a famous jockey of his day, having been employed as
jockey
for King Alphonse of Spain.
Upon retiring he returned to his native county, married a Woodstock girl, and
for a time
farmed the land.
About 1942, MR GEORGE DORLAND
of Bradford bought this farm and set it up for farming. During MR. DORLAND'S
occupancy he drew up plans,
surveyed the land and laid out a subdivision in multishaped design in 1947.
Such basics
as a well, paved streets and
school were provided. MR. DORLAND also built a factory across the lane and
below his
house as a paper factory.
When this ceased to operate he sold it and a small acreage to MR. J. PYE, who
later sold to
MR. O. McMULLEN, a John Deere
Implement agent. MR. DORLAND farmed here for abuot 6 years but as his young
sons did not wish to continue
farming he sold the remaining property to MR. and MRS.O. ROSZELL of Woodstock.
Date: Tue, 15 May 2001
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THE WAR OF 1812 IN OXFORD
COUNTY:
Oxford County did not
experience any actual fighting in the war, but did see plunderings, raids, etc.
The heavy
fighting was on and along the
Great Lakes from Detroit to the St. Lawrence River. When the Americans invaded
Ontario
{Upper Canada} in 1812, the
Oxford Militia was mobilized under LT. COL. HENRY BOSTWICK, and was in almost
continuous service till the
end of the war. It took part in numerous skirmishes and in actual battles at
Detroit, Fort Erie,
Nanticoke Creek, Lundy's Lane
and Malcolm's Mills. After the defeat of CAPT. BARCLAY in 1813 on Lake Erie by
the
Americans, all supplies for
the army at Detroit had tom come over land from Brantford by way of an almost
impassable
road alon the Thames River,
through Oxford County. One of the paymaster's wagons from Montreal was looted
at
Martin's Tavern on the Old
Stage Road south of Beachville. Legend has it that two tons of gold are still
buried there. A
flour mill, erected in 1805
by JAMES BURDICK, where Centreville now stands, was later sold to an ANDREW
WESTBROOK. WESTBROOK, after
many years' residence in Canada, declared his loyalty to the American cause,
and
he was reponsible for most of
the raids in Oxford County. He and EBENEZER ALLAN were seized and had their
holdings
confiscated by order of
GENERAL ISAAC BROCK. ALLAN died shortly after, but Westbrook ESCAPED. He later
returned, leading a raiding
party and burned his buildings and the mill. One of his old neighbours, a MAYOR
SYKES
TOWSLEY of the local Militia,
was stationed in Oxford County. Westbrook entered TOWSLEY'S home and carried
him
off, tied to his own horse.
During the sring and summer of 1814, Westbrook led many raids up the Thames,
burning
property and taking
prisoners. In August he returned to the Beachville area, burned the mill and
carried off sveral officers
and prominent citizens. One
man, whose buildings were destroyed was GEORGE NICHOLS, who lived on the 1st
concession just south of
Centreville. NICHOLS and his family hid in the woods to escape the enemy.
Amongs those
carried off were three men by
the name of HALL, CURTIS and CARROLL. CARRILL'S father, JOHN CARROLL, had
settled near Beachville in
1784. He bought his land from the Indians and then in 1789 returned to New
Jersey for his
family of nine sons and two
daughters. The one son CAPTAIN JOHN CARROLL JR., who was taken prisoner by
Westbrook, was forced to ride
Westbrook's pinto, which was known all over the province. The ruse worked. A
rescue
party followed the raiders
down the river, and CAPTAIN CARROLL was shot and killed by his best friend, who
supposed
the rider was Westbrook.
Besides the CAPTAIN JOHN CARROLL JR., who was killed in 1814, there was HENRY
CARROLL, killed in the Battle
of Stoney Creek on June 16, 1813. Another son, DANIEL, was married to CLARISSA
HALL and was active in
business around Ingersoll. One of the daughters, GERTRUDE, married CHARLES
INGERSOLL, who opened the
first store and Post Office in Ingersoll in 1822. One BURDICK family, who had
settled
west of Centreville in
1803, reported horses seized
and buildings burned. It is reported that two young lads from Beachville,
WILLIAM DODGE
and WARNER DYGERT, hardly big
enough to hold a musket, fought through the compaign and when the army
disbanded, found their way
home on foot, begging food and lodging on their way. The story is told that
CHRISTOPHER
KARN, living just north of
Beachville, hitched up his oxen and drove a wagon-load of recruits to
Niagara-on-the-Lake.
Later, a Beachville woman
walked to Niagara with socks she had knitted for her husband. It is told that
the KARNS
entertained the Indian Chief,
Tecumseh, a short time before he was killed. COMFORT SAGE and CALEB HOPKINS,
whose families wer original
settlers on the Old Stage Road, enlisted together, were also veterans of the
1812-1815 war,
and were said to have fought
at Chrysler's Farm. HOPKINS lived near Centreville and C. SAGE at Lot 11,
Con.3.
Date: Wed, 16 May 2001
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THE REBELLION OF 1837 IN WEST
OXFORD:
The tranquility that the
"Old Stage Road" had enjoyed since 1814 was again disrupted when the
discontent of the
settlers in Upper Canada
flamed into open rebellion under the leadership of William Lyon MacKenzie. For
13 years he
had been battling, through
the columns of his newspaper, on the public platform and in the Legislative
Assembly, against
abuses occasioned by the form
of government given to the Canadas by the Constitutional Act of 1791. Most of
the
Executive Council were chosen
from the Legislative Assembly. They seemed to hold office for life and even
recommended their friends as
their successors. Thus the real power fell into the hands of a social clique
nicknamed "The
Family Compact". This
Tory government gave thousands of acres to the Clergy Reserves{Church of
England} who paid
not a farthing toward
education or roads, as well as large grants of land to themselves and their
friends.
The government took no action
to redress these intolerable conditions. DR. DUNCOMBE, who led the uprising in
the
London district, was himself
the member for Oxford in the Legistative Assembly in 1836. He was successful in
raising a
company in Norwich district
which was joined by several groups including the Old Stage Road contingent at
Scotland
near Burford. They had
scarcely come together on Dec 14 before word was received of Col
McNab's{Dundurn Castle,
Hamilton} approaching force.
After MacKenzie's men were scattered in a sort of sham fight near Montgomery's
Tavern
on Yonge St. Toronto,
MacKenzie escaped to the United States. This disturbing news was kept from the
Oxford
insurgents. COL. ALEXANDER
LIGHT, commanding officer of the Oxford Militia, led the hunt for the rebels.
DUNCOMBE'S little force of
not more than 300 poorly armed, hungry, and tired men was so surely doomed to
disaster
that the decision to disperse
and seek safety in flight was inevitable. When MCNAB'S army arrived the next
day, the
enemy had flown. The HARRIS
family on the edge of Ingersoll helped DR. DUNCOMBE to escape. He was hiding in
the
barn of ELISHA HARRIS when
COL LIGHT came looking for him. MR. HARRIS was able to delay the search long
enough to allow the Doctor to
escape. The Old Stage Volunteers were led by ELISHA HALL, LUTHER HASKINS,
WILLIAM CARROLL, JAMES
CANFIELD, DAVID CURTIS and PELHAM C. TEEPLE. Many of the ringleaders were
captured and taken to London
to stand trial. Old St. Paul's Church in Woodstock was used as a jail also. One
who was
kept a prisoner in his own
home was ELISHA HALL. The guards became used to seeing MRS. HALL go each
evening
to the well with two pails
for water. Then one morning they discovered the empty buckets at the well. They
found MRS.
HALL'S hoops in the bushes.
HALL had escaped. His trail was picked up at Salford where the friendly HIRAM
RANNEY
had hidden him in his barn.
HALL eventually made his way
to Michigan accompanied by SAMUEL EDISON of Vienna, father of THOMAS A.
EDISON, and about 60 others.
HALL stayed away until 1841 when Queen Victoria granted an amnesty to all
exiles. One
of the rebels was not so
fortunate. CORNELIUS CUNNINGHAM, a Beachville wagon-maker was hanged at London
in
1839. ELISHA HALL, returned
to Ingersoll to become a Justice of the Peace. The "Family Compact"
government
realized that discontent was
rampant and to save themselves from being overturned agreed to Lord Durham's
recommendations that Upper
and Lower Canada be joined, and that Canada should have Responsible Government.
Date: Thu, 17 May 2001
10:45:46 -Subject: [OXFORD] The Axe and The Wheel
WORLD WAR 1 AND WORLD WAR 11:
World War 1:
No army unit was ever
specifically of West Oxford, all were tied in with such units as the 22nd
Oxford Rifles, Grey's
Horse, 168th battalion{Oxford's
Own}, Corps of Guides, etc. We do not have a record as to which township any
recruit
came from. Through the
courtesy of LIEUT. COL. W.T. McMULLEN and LIEUT. T.C. HUNTER, we have this
record
concerning the 168th
Battalion. It comes indirectly from an article printed in the Daily Sentinel
Review, Dated Feb. 8,
1919. Authorized under order
of the Minister of Militia and Defence, dated Dec. 21, 1915, the 168th infantry
Battalion
was organized and mobilized
in Woodstock. It was the second Oxford County unit assembled, the first being
the 71th
Battalion, orgainzed
in the Fall of 1914.
Recruiting for this unit was carried on vigorously throughout the county, with
a ready response from
hundreds of young men
answering their Country's call to arms.
Between January, 1916 and the
following May, a total of 937 men had volunteered their services. During this
mobilixation
period the troops were
quartered in the towns of Ingersoll, Norwick, Tillsonburg and Woodstock. By May
1916, the 168th
was pcompetely mobilized and
ready to be moved to London on June 1st. From there they left for Camp Borden
for
training. On Nov. 1st, 1916
the 168th left Halifax aboard the steamer "Lapland". Accompanying
them were two other
Battalions, the 161th and
133rd. Their ship was part of a convoy escorted by warships. A ten days' voyage
brought the
"Lapland" and her
sister ships to Liverpool. The Battalion of Oxford boys was immediately
entrained for West Sandling
Camp for six weeks of further
training. After this the unit was broken up, part being sent to the 39th
reserve Battalion, and
the remainder to the 12th
Reserve Battalion.
From time to time, officers
and men were sent from these units to reinforce the 1st, 2nd, 18th and 21st
Canadian Infantry
units in the battle zones.
The list of those wounded and killed of Oxford's famous Battalion was quite
long, yet it forms a
glorious memorial to their
valour and self sacrifice. Their blood has stained the soil of France at every
battle of importance
which took place; Vimy Ridge,
Hill 70, Messines, Wytchaete, Passemhendale, Arras, and Cambrai. Army records
state
that 107 gave their lives 208
were wounded, 7 missing and 2 taken as prisoners.
CALVARY UNIT, GRAY HORSE:
Around 1910-14{had to be
before 1914 as one member James Hughes died in 1913} COL. T. R. MAYBERRY was
the commander; LIEUT. JAMES
BASTEDO, MELVIN SHELTON, EARL MILLARD, ROY LONGWORTH, JAMES
HUGHES, HARLEY GREGG, HARLEY
MAYBERRY, BERT SHUTTLEWORTH, CHARLES DOWNING, NORMAN
THORNTON, ? STICKNER, JACK
NICHOLS, AUSTIN SERVICE, GEOFFREY BRAGG.
Some of the Women from
Sweaburg Church that did Red Cross Work during World War 1 were:
OLIVE RICE, FLOSSIE McKAY,
MAY MASSON and EVA PULLIN
The following List of West
Oxford men who served in World War 1 was compiled by CAPTAIN TOM
WILLIAMS, who spent much time
and effort to make it as complete and accurate as possible. Unfortunately it
may be
that some names are missing
owing to the lack of information. Then, too, there may be a few included who
did not
actually come from this
township. We trust that any errors or omissions may be pardoned in view of the
great difficulty in
obtaining complete and
accurate information: THESE NAMES ARE NOT IN ANY KIND OF ORDER:
LESLIE THORNTON-168th &
21st Batt. {lost a leg at Passchendaele} STANLEY ALLIN-71st Battery-Can. Field
Artillery
'17 BERT DAVEY CLAYTON
DAVEY-168th Batt. VERN DAVIS-168th Batt.- Killed in Action VERNON LICK-168th-
Killed
in Action PERCY JAKEMAN-46th
Batt.- Killed in Action '17 HARRY JAKEMAN-52nd Can. Br.- Killed in Action '18
ALBERT HOBBS-168th Batt.-
Died overseas from Influenza FRED McCUTCHEN-63rd Batt. EDWARD TOWN-71st
Batt. LLOYD GEE-71st Batt.
CECIL WOOD-168th Batt.- Killed in Action JOHN E. WILLIAMS-{Cadet in RFC at
close of
war}{Canada} JOSEPH
BROWN-168th Batt.- Killed in Action CHARLES CRAWFORD-168th Batt. FRED CRAWFORD-
168th Batt. ARTHUR W.
CRAWFORD-168th Batt.- Killed in Action WILLIAM CHEW-168th Batt. FRANK
HARRIS-71st
Batt. EDWIN FAIRBANKS-168th
Batt. FRED FAIRBANKS-168th Batt. ERNEST O. HOUGHTON-168th Batt. R.F.C. A.
HARRIS-168th Batt. PERCY
LANGFORD- Can. Engineers. ALBERT S. LEONARD-168th Batt. ELMER LAARZ-168th
Batt. WILLIAM MOGGACH-168th
Batt. JOHN MOGGACH-168th Batt.- Killed in Action BEN McINTYRE-168th Batt.
E.A.S. NOTT-168th Batt. FRED
PETTMAN-168th Batt. DEL LEWIS-168th batt. FRANK DAVIS-71st Batt. ARCHIE
DAVIS-71st Batt. L.
DAVIS-71st Batt. CHESTER PYATT-168th Batt. GORDON MASSON-168th Batt. BARNEY
WOLFE-168th Batt. ALFRED
REED- 168th Batt. ROSS McINTYRE-3rd Siege Battery- Killed in Action T.F.
WILLIAMS-
Enlisted 1st day with "
Corps of Guides" HUGH ROSS TED BARTRAM JOSH GOODALL ABE GOODALL LES. COOK
EARL UREN WILL RIVERS
Date: Sat, 19 May 2001
09:40:13 -0400 Subject: [OXFORD] The Axe and The Wheel
WORLD WAR 11:
The record of West Oxford men
and women who gave their service for the cause of Freedom in World War 11 Again
these names are in no order:
WILLIAM ABBOTT; ARTHUR
BUDD-R.C.O.C.; WILLIAM K. BUDD-R.C.A.F.; STANLEY CONKWRIGHT; BERT
DAVIS; EARL A. HERMAN;
PHILLIP W. HUNTER; JOHN E. KLOEFER-Army; GEORGE MILLARD-R.C.A.F.;
HOWARD
PECKHAM-Army; JOSEPH
THORNLY-Army; JACK H. TICE-Army; JAMES WHITTEM-Army; ROBERT S. WILSON;
ALBERT DIBBLE; DONALD
GUTHRIE-R.C.A.F.; GORDON GUTHRIE; RONALD SAGE; WILLIAM A. SAGE-R.C.A.F.;
WILSON THORNTON; CLEWORTH
WITTY-R.C.N.V.R.; JACK SHUTTLEWORTH-R.C.A.F.; DOROTHY
SHUTTLEWORTH-C.W.A.C.; DONALD
E JENVEY-R.C.A.F.-Died in Action; ALVIN HILL-R.C.A.F.; BEULAH MILLER-
W.R.E.N.; WILSON THORNTON;
BERTRAM DAVEY-Army; JACK MUMMERY-Navy; HARLOLD THORNTON; JAMES
TALBOTT; WILLIAM F. GRAY;
EARL TALBOT; GLENN McCUTCHEN-Army; DONALD RILEY; JOYCE TODD; JAMES
MINERS; CECIL ADAMS; ROBERT
KIRKPATRICK; WILLIAM SHAVER-A.E.F.; CHARLES E. WHEELER-Army; R.W.
BOWMAN-Navy; DAVID
CUMMING-R.C.A.F.; KEITH TURNER-Army; J.S. CURRY-R.C.A.F.; ANNIE LONGWORTH-
W.R.E.N.; ARCHIE
LONGWORTH-R.C.A.F.; ROSTON HARGREAVES-Med cORPS; JOHN A MASSON-R.C.A.F;
RUSSELL MALCOLM-Signal Corps;
ISAAC GARDINER-Army; MURRAY GRANT-R.C.A.F.-Killed in Action; MARION
MALCOLM-R.C.A.F.; FRED
BUCHANAN-R.C.O.C.; NORMAN S. PULLEN-R.C.A.S.C.; ALFRED BERST; EVELYN
SPENCER; STUART McKAY;
CONSTANCE CUTHBERT-Nurse; EARL GARFAT; DONALD McCUTCHEN-Army;
JOSEPH FALLOWFIELD; MAURICE
BENJAMIN-R.C.A.F.C.; CARL BENJAMIN-Army; FRED McCUTCHEN-Army;
GORDON MORRISON-Army; RUTH
McCUTCHEN-W.A.F.; MARJORY MUMMERY; ALGIE MUMMERY-Navy; JOHN
GRAY-Army; MARIE
TERRY-R.C.A.F.; BARBARA TODD-R.C.A.F.; VINCENT TRNKA; ARTHUR COVER-Died in
Action; QUENTON MARKLE;
CHARLES HARTLEY; A. KEITH MOORE-R.C.A.F.; GLENN PEARCE-R.C.A.F.; FRED
KIRKPATRICK-Army; DENNIS
REID-Army; MAX A. POOLE-Navy; WILLIAM LOOSEMORE-R.C.A.F.; CECIL
WHEELER-Army; ARCHIE MUNROE;
ALBERT ATKINSON; FRANK ATKINSON; C.E. BLANCHER; RAYMOND
CONNOR;
FRED CUTHBERT; ROY H
FRANKLIN; LEWIS J HARVEY; JACK C. HUNTER; C.J.W. KIMBERLEY; R. RALPH
McKILLEN; GORDON C. McLEOD;
JEAN L. BROWN; CECIL TITUS; RAYMOND J. VOIGT; JOHN BONE; MERVYN
CONNOR; DONALD McKILLEN;
DONALD VOIGT; ARCH. L. WILSON; HAROLD D. WILSON-Died in Action
Since Beachville is our
oldest village and is the only one in West Oxford with a Legion Organization,
we are writing it
separately. There was an
active Patriotic Society and each soldier who enlisted was presented with a
beautiful watch.
The Wool Committee of the Red
Cross presented each with a sweater and socks. The Young Patriotic Club was
organized in 1941 and they
sent cigarettes monthly to the boys.
BEACHVILLE, WEST OXFORD:
JAMES TODD Army: WILLIAM
BROOKER; MAX LOCK; WILLIAM MacMILLEN; CHARLES FAIRBANKS; EDWARD
NADALIN; CHARLES CLAYTON;
GORDON MOGGACH; GORDON CLAYTON; MELVIN ARMSTRONG; RAY
SADLER; CLIFFORD HORTON;
MURRAY HUTCHESON; OAMER McDONALD; REG FEATHERSTONE; HARLEY
COUSINS; VERNON LOWES; KEN
NADALIN; DON CARTER; JOHN CLAYTON; NORMAN NADALIN; BRUCE
HUTCHESON; NELSON HUTCHESON;
TOM HUTCHESON- Died in Action
Navy: ARTHUR PEARSON; WALTER
BREMNER; CECIL NADALIN; ARTHUR SPRINGALL; ROBERT McCOMBS;
JOHN LOWES; JACK PAUL;
WILLIAM NADALIN; WILLIAM HARRIS; NEIL WINLAW; CLARK TODD; THOMAS
NOTT; DONALD CRAWFORD; DONALD
GERMAN; WILLIAM
MOGGACH; DELLOYD LIGHTHEART
Merchant Navy: GORDON TODD;
JIM NADALIN Air Force: JACK WINLAW; BRUCE SUTHERLAND; LORNE
RIDLEY; JOHN CANFIELD; GRAHAM
LOWES BEACHVILLE NORTH: Army: JACK
WRIGHT; VINCE CRAWFORD;
HAROLD DRYER; JOHN PARK; JIM MONTGOMERY; FRANK VALE; FRANK WEBB;
FRED VALE; WILLIAM
LIGHTHEART; GORDON HEWMAN; NELSON POST; HUGH HACKER; WILFRED VALE;
GERALD LIGHTHEART; STEWART
HEPBURN; EARL LEONARD; W. BLANCHARD; O. POSSABON; J. SMITH
Navy: JOHN MOGGACH; JOHN
NADALIN; WILLIAM VALE Air Force: JEAN PARK; GERALD PELLETIER
UNVEILING OF HONOR ROLL AT
FOLDEN'S CHURCH: As copied form MRS. E. MILLARD'S SCRAPBOOK {No
Date} The service was held in
the United Church, and REV DAVID ALEXANDER of the Baptist Church gave an
address. The
unveiling ceremony was
carried out by REV R.B. CUMMING, with MRS. HOWARD RAWLINGS and MRS. EARL
MILLARD assisting. A tribute
was paid to those who enlisted for active service and prayer made for their
protection and
safe return.
The names were read as
follows:
WILLIAM ABBOTT; WILLIAM K. BUDD; RONALD
BARNETT; STANLEY CRONKWRIGHT; BERT DAVIS; ALBERT
DIBBLE; DONALD GUTHRIE;
GORDON GUTHRIE; EARL A. HARMAN, ALVIN E. HILL; PHILIP W. HUNTER; JOHN
E. KLEOPFER, GEORGE MILLARD,
HOWARD PECKHAM; NORMAN S. PULLIN, RONALD SAGE, WILLIAM A.
SAGE,
WILSON THORNTON; JOSEPH
THORNLY; JACK H. TICE; JAMES WHITTEN, ROBERT E. WILSON, CLEAWORTH
WITTY.
Date: Mon, 21 May 2001
11:47:04 -0400 Subject: [OXFORD] The Axe and The Wheel
THE THORNTON WINDMILL:
Lot 10, Con.2 The windmill
was built in 1877 and patterned after one MR. JOHN B. THORNTON saw at the
Chicago
World Fair. this windmill had
five floors with a winding stairway. There was a bedroom on the 2nd floor, a
12+8 storage
tank on the ground floor.
This tower had a twenty foot base tapered to six feet, with a railing around
the landing. MR.
FOX of Sweaburg was the
carpenter in charge. The bedroom on the 2nd floor was used by hired men. The
water supply
tank
provided water for the
bathroom on the end of a long hallway on this extension from the main house.
PEOPLE OF ACHIEVEMENT:
ROYAL ALEXANDER BRINK Royal
Alexander Brink was born Sept. 16, 1897 at Lot 8, Con 3 West Oxford, the son of
ROYAL and ELIZABETH
[CUTHBERT] BRINK. He attended North Sweaburg School and later graduated from
Woodstock Collegiate
Institue. After graduating from Ontario Agricultural College he took a post
graduate course in
Science of Agriculture at
Urbana University, Ill. He was then awarded a scholarship to Harvard
University, where he
received his doctorate in
genetics. PROFESSOR R. A. BRINK became a member of the faculty of University of
Wisconsin in 1922. He was a
pioneer in development of hybrid seed corn research. He developed Wisconsin's
money
crop-Vernal Alfalfa. In 1967
he visited the Ontario farm where he was raised. He found that the present
operator, JAMES
BROWN, was growing Vernal
alfalfa. As Brink's put it "The acceptance of Vernal for use on the home
farm in Ontario
seemed like a token payment,
made at the source, on the considerable debt that I, as an emigrant from Canada
to the
U.S. before reaching my
productive years, owed that land of my birth and early education. In 1963 Brink
was president of
the American Society of
Naturalists, and in 1967 he was President of Genetics Society of America.
MRS. MARY {GRANDMA} BROWN:
Mrs. Mary Brown,
affectionately known as "Grandma Brown", was a well-known and loved
residedt of Folden's Corners.
She was born near Brantford,
at a place called Burtch's Landing, on the Grand River. It was given this name
after her
father, ABSOLOM BURTCH. At
the time of her birth, 1823, there were no good roads, in SW Ont. The Six
Nations
Indians were very numerous in
the Brantford area, and the BURTCH family learned to converse with them in
their own
languages. MRS. BROWN became
very fluent in the Mohawk dialect. Her first home in Oxford Co. was in the
village of
Foldens on what was later
known for many years as the JOHN DAVIS farm{now by the JOHN JANSSEN family}.
She
and her husband CHARLES, had
a family of six children. The second daughter, CLARISSA ANNIE, married WILLIAM
C.
HILL, the father of OLIVER
BERT HILL, a longtime resident of Foldens. The third daughter, IDA MAY,
married GEORGE NICHOLS, who
lived near Centerville. The NICHOLS family had a long history in West Oxford.
The
oldest son, OLIVER, was, for
many years, a well known and highly respected mailcarrier. In spite of much
difficulty and
tragedy in her life,
including a long separation from her husband, and the loss of one son, NEWTON,
in childhood, she
maintained a cheerful,
optimistic outlook on life. Her son, OLIVER, lived with her for a long time
during her later years. He
cared for her diligently in
spite of being partially crippled. His death was a great loss for her. For ten
years or more she
lived alone in her home about
one and a quarter miles south of Foldens. MRS. BROWN lived to be over 100 years
of
age,
She pasted away in 1923. This
remarkable pioneer woman lived under four British momarchs. She planted oak
trees in
her yard in honor of King
Edward V11 and Queen Alexander. She "imported" a better strain of
black walnut trees from
the Brantford area into West
Oxford.
WILLIAM MILES:
1892-1958 MR. WILLIAM{BILL}
MILES was born in Merscham, Surrey, England. He attended the Royal
Horticultural
College at Wisley, where he
met MR. W.R. DYKES, who awakened his lifelong interest in Irises. After coming
to Canada
in 1912, he acquired his own
farm in West Oxford, the north half of Lot 12, Con 3, which he named
Surreyhurst. He gew
and developed ever better
varieties by cross-breeding or hybridization. Now, although both MR. and MRS.
MILES {nee
RUBY DAVIS, of West Oxford}
are gone, memories of Surreyhurst remain. His daughter, CATHERINE ROSS, keeps
alive her father's love of
history by her work on the
Tweedsmuir History
Date: Wed, 23 May 2001
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OLIVER BERT HILL:
OLIVER BERT HILL was one lf
the fourth generation of this family in West Oxford, being a great grandson of
WILLIAM
HILL who came to West Oxford
shortly before 1812. He was born in 1876 in Norfolk Co. In 1897, as a young
unmarried
man, he joined the Baptist
Church in Folden's Corners. Soon after this he left and lived in Northern
Michigan for a few
years. O.B. HILL came to live
permanently in Folden's Village in 1909. He owned and operated a blacksmith
shop. He
invented and made many milk
carts that farmers used for moving their cans easily and quickly. He had an
exceptional
talent for making new kinds
of tools that were designed to do many jobs that were extremely difficult or
impossible to do
with the conventional tools
available. To BERT HILL and his first wife, SARAH JANE BLASHILL, were born nine
children, all of whom, except
one which died in infancy, are still living {1974}. In 1929 he was married a
second time to
MARY FRANCES McCOOMBS. There
are two sons and one daughter from this second marriage. For some time O.B.
travelled with a musical show
company in Michigan as a vocal soloist, singing comic and popular songs. About
1919 he
became very interested in
Hawaiian guitar music, he went a step further and began making guitars himself.
One end of
the unfinished upstaris was
transformed into a guitar shop. Many of his instruments were of excellent tone
and are still
treasured by those that
purchased them. He made four types of instruments after some years of
experimentation: The
Hawaiian steel guitar, the
conventional type of guitar and two types of harp guitars, the larger having 12
strings; he also
made ukeleles. He was
successful in getting together a string orchestra sexette. Two of the Hill
sons, EARL and CARL,
along with himself, made up
half the number.
Three other young men from the Ingersoll area
made up the other half. JOSEPH T. FITZGERALD, EARL MOULTON
and WESLEY J. HENRY. BERT
HILL was a devoted member of the Christian Church of his choice. Although often
misjudged concerning his
religious beliefs, he maintained a charitable attitude toward all other faiths,
and was always
ready to give reasons for the
Christian faith which he espoused. He passed away suddenly on the morning of
his 84th
birthday, April 25, 1960.
CAPTAIN THOMAS F. WILLIAMS:
Canada's oldest living
pilot{1974}, CAPTAIN THOMAS F. WILLIAMS, was born in West Oxford in 1885, the
son of MR.
and MRS. FRED WILLIAMS. In
W.W.1. Tom went overseas with the First Canadian Contingent, rose to the rank
of
Corporal, then with the
Military Mounted Police. In 1917 he joined the Royal Flying Corps. In 1927, he
began operating
Oxford County's first licensed
airport on his farm at Sweaburg.
Also, this same year, TOM and
NATHAN COCKER brought fame to the Bond's farm Youth Club by winning the Burnaby
Cup for top debaters in
Massey Hall in Toronto. In 1937-39, Tom was bush flying in Northern Ontario,
Manitoba and
Quebec. In the Second World
War, Captain Williams was employed as Chief Test Pilot for Fleet Aircraft
Limited of Fort
Eried and tested parachutes
for a Fort Erie Firm from 1939. He was awarded Britain's Military Cross and
Italy's El Valor
Militaire. In 1967, Captain
Williams was honored by the Canadian Owners and Pilots Association, who named
him
Canada's outstanding pilot of
the year. His original international flying license was signed by ORVILLE
WRIGHT and
thwse original licenses were
recalled in the early 1950's. Tom thought his flying days were over, but at the
age of 75, he
started from scratch and got
his flying license back. T.F. WILLIAMS was inducted into Canada;s newly
established
Aviation Hall of Fame at
Edmonton in 1974. He also has been homored by the senior Companions of the
Order Icarus for
service of his aeronautical
skills for the advancment of manned flight. His name is to be found in the
Guinness World
Book of Records.
Date: Thu, 24 May 2001
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There are also biographies of
GORDON W. INNES; MICHEAL DEWAN; BYRON G. JENVEY; CARL MILLARD; JOHN
ROSTON HARGREAVES; ELIZABETH
GRACE HEENEY and GEORGE C. CURRIE, who may be still alive or whose
families may be, so if you
are a member of the family and would like these, please Email me separately.
WEST OXFORD CENTURY FARMS:
in 1967 COMORVALDY:
The CODY farm - lot 5, Con 3
This property was originally bought from the Crown by the HON. ROBERT HAMILTON,
whose son sold the entire lot
to CALVIN MARTIN. In 1864 FRANKLIN CODY bought part of this property and with
his
wife, ANN HOMOR BURNS, lived
here and raised seven children. There is also a house across the lane built
1877 and
WARREN, a son, and his wife
ALENA ELFIE WILKINS resided here for a time and in 1883 bought the entire
property
from his father. WARREN CODY
died in 1920 and in 1927 ALMA BURNS CODY inherited the property, her tow
brothers
having predeceased their
father. She married THOMAS F. WILLIAMS and they had one daughter, ALENA
BEATRICE,
and about 1933 they began
remodelling their house and this continued for a number of years until the
house reached its
present state. In 1972 ALMA
CODY-WILLIAMS died and left the remaining property to her daughter ALENA. In
1954,
112 acres of the property had
been sold to HENRY and MAGDALENA E. VANDORP. COMORVALDY is a combination
of CODY and MORVAL which is
an impressive family "seat" in England. BUDD - Lot 9, Con 3 The
original owner of this
farm
was JOHN YOUNGS, who bought
the land from the crown in 1848. JOSEPH BUDD bought the 200 acres in 1869. He
had three sons, GEORGE,
CHARLES and ARTHUR. They were noted teamsters and worked in the sawmill across
the
road. ARTHUR farmed here
after he married CLARA MANZER
{I am related to the MANZER'S
and would love it if anyone could tell me who CLARA was ??}.
They raised a family of five
sons - ALBERT, VERNON, WILBUR, HARRY and FRANK; four daughters - ETHEL,
EDITH, EDNA and MABEL. WILBUR
continued to farm here after his marriage to GLADYS UREN. They raised four
children: ELIZABETH, WILLIAM,
GEORGE[died at age 6] and RUTH. WILBUR was very active in community affairs,
having served on School Board
and in council as reeve. WILLIAM K. moved to the farm after his father's death
in
1972. He and RITA[RUCKLE]
have two children; CRAIG and MARCIA who are the fifth generation on this farm.
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BRAGG -
Lot 8, Con. 5 The original
owner was WILLIAM BRAGG who settled here in 1865. He built a log house and a
small barn
on the 50 acres. Later more
land was purchased until it became 200 acres. There were three daughters -
VIOLET,
MARJORIE and PEARL, two sons
- CLARENCE and JAMES. CLARENCE purchased the farm from the estate in 1948.
He and his wife, LUELIA CLINE
raised a family of eight daughters - DOROTHY, JEAN, MILDRED, RUTH, JUNE,
BERNICE, DONNA and GLORIA,
three sons - WALLACE, ROY and DOUGLAS. The house burned in 1952. A
new home was built soon after.
Five generations have lived here.
COOK -
lot 8 and 9, Con 1, and Lots
9 and 10, Con 2 MUNSON COOK and his wife MARY WHIPPLE, U.E.L. from Vermont
first
settled here in 1824. since
then five generations have worked these farms. JOSEPH COOK and his wife
CLARISSA
WHITE lived here until 1870's
with their five children. Their son GORDON HARDIN COOK was Warden in 1875 and
his
son GEORGE JOSEPH became
Warden in 1912. He and his wife MARTHA JANE COVERHILL, raised seven children
on this farm. One of these,
MORLEY ADDISON, married CORA O'DELL at which time the old house was moved west
of
the new red brick built in
1915 for MORLEY and CORA. The barn was built in 1891. The farm is now operated
by a
grandson, ALLAN OSBORNE and
his wife KATHERINE FIRSTBROOK.
CURRY -
Lot 1, Con 2 THOMAS CURRY and
brother-in-law RALPH LUND and JOHN HOWDEN came to Canada in 1839 and
decided they would like to
buy land and make a home for themselves near the Old Stage Road. This was crown
land
and in order to buy it they
had to go to Toronto. As money was scarce only one could go and JOHN HOWDEN was
sent
to buy each of them 100
acres. On April 29th 1839 JOHN HOWDEN became the registered owner of 200 acres.
When
he returned he informed CURRY
and LUND the property was all in his name and they could have 80 acres between
them or nothing. On jan.
16th, 1840, 80 acres was registered to THOMAS CURRY and RALPH LUND. THOMAS
CURRY sold to JAMES CURRY who
sold to GEORGE CURRY. in 1943 he sold the property to his son, Leslie. He had
another son named STEWART.
The present owner is GRANT CURRY, the fifth generation.
FOLDEN -
lot 13, Con 4 The Hon ROBERT
HAMILTON obtained this 200 acres in 1804. Fifty years later this farm was sold
to
BENJAMIN THORNTON. He gave a
life lease to FRANKLIN FOLDEN SR. for the north half; 100 acres. In 1867 a
portion was leased to the
Zion Methodist Church. In 1906 FRANKLIN FOLDEN JR. bought the property. His son
RALPH
now operates the farm. He
married the former MILDRED WILSON, a noted musician. They had a daughter,
ELEANOR,
and a son, LAURIE, who still
lives on the farm. Now, on the corner of this farm stand the United Church, a
community
park and hall.
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KARN -
Lot 1, Con 1 The original
owner was CHRISTOPHER KARN who purchased the land from the Crown in 1800. The
first
home was built on the bank of
the Thames River, with part of it over the river so they could use water for
cooling their
food. This home was always
open to any traveller. It was a common occurrence to find an Indian rolled up
in his blanket
by the great stone fireplace
in the basement kitchen. During the War of 1812 COLONEL McNAB and his officers
were
entertained as well as the
Indian Chief Tecumseh, a short time before his death. Originally 1400 acres
were included
in this holding, part in West
Oxford and part in North Oxford. Descendants still maintain 1200 acres in West
Oxford.
There are at least two KARN
homes on the property; that of MR. and MRS HOWARD KARN and MR and MRS.
ELMER KARN. {In the book,
there is also a picture of an invitation addressed to/ or from MISS VERA KARN -
At home -
Monday, December
Twenty-ninth, Dancing} In 1923 while Lord Byng was Governor-General he made a
tour of four
farms in Oxford County. The
KARN farm was the one selected in West Oxford. He arrived in a chauffeur-driven
Pierce-
Arrow accompanied by Major
Gordon and Col. McEwen.
MAYBERRY -
Lot 17, Con 3 This land had
been granted to the SIBBALD family. RICHARD MAYBERRY married MATILDA SIBBALD,
and they built the present
Mayberry home about the year 1858. Their son THOMAS RICHARD remained on the
farm and
contributed a great deal to
all phases of community life. He was one of the founders and first manager of
Ingersoll
Telephone Co. He was M.P.P.
1910-12. He was the first Colonel of the 24th Gray's Horse established in
Oxford County.
Five generations have lived
on this farm. The present owner is GLENN MAYBERRY.
MEEK -
Lot 9, Con 4 The first WILLIAM MEEK with his
wife, ANN CORBETT, sailed from Edinburgh, Scotland about 1832.
While working in Hamilton as
a stone mason he was offered 400 acres in West Oxford in payment for work done
for the
Hon. Robert Hamilton. When he
discovered the land still covered with pine and no one living nearby, he
returned to East
Oxford and bought a farm. He
returned to his property in West Oxford about 1850. His son, PETER, and his
wife,
MARGARET BERTRAND, added the
stone part to the original frame house. He built a sawmill and several
employees
lived in houses built in the
front field. Cheese was also made here and the barn where it was made still
stands. The dairy
barn was destroyed by fire
along with the contents and livestock in 1944, while the only son AUBREY and
his wife,
EDNA NANCEKIVELL, operated
the farm. Their sons, WILLIAM E. and PETER A. are the fifth generation. The
original
frame
part was covered with red
insul-brick in 1944. The French windows were replaced. The Meeks pioneer barn.
The
basement was used as a horse
stable, ground level was for carriages, upper floor housed the cheese factory,
operated
by MRS. PETER MEEK and
neighbourhood assistants.
RIVERS -
lot 9, Con 3 The original
owner was RICHARD GALLOWAY who got it from the crown in 1848. WILLIAM RIVERS
bought the farm in 1863. The
founder of this homestead was a very religious man. The family still have the
yoke
WILLIAM used when he gathered
the people for church meetings from " The Pines". WILLIAM was killed
when trying to
move a boulder on the farm.
His son, WALBURN RIVERS was a well known breeder of purebred Holsteins and one
of
the first in the district to
put his cows on R.O.M.[record of merit]. At present the farm is owned by BILL
RIVERS. Five
generations have lived on
this homestead.
SWARTZ -
Lot 7, Con 1 This farm has
been in the SWARTZ family for five generations. LUTHER HASKINS chose Lot 7, Con
1,
when offered 200 acres under
a proclamation by Gov. Simcoe when they came from Pennsylvania, with the United
Empire Loyalists. This lot
and lot 6 were registered in 1798. A large log house known as "Half-way
House" and a stable
were built for travellers
between Niagara and Detroit, following the Old Stage Road. The large stone
house was
built in 1863, They had one
son CALVIN and Three Daughters. MARIA married JAMES SWARTZ. Their son NEIL
married LUCINDA DODGE, and
they were blessed with a family of 10 children. The east half of lot 7 was
willed to
SIMEON and the west half to
ALBERT. SIMEON married EDITH COLE and their eldest son, CHARLES, continued to
carry on the high standard of
farming. CHARLES married HAZEL BATTEN and they had a son, LLOYD, and a
daughter,
RUTH. CHARLES purchased the
west half of lot 7 and his son, LLOYD, lived there. LLOYD married BLANCHE
CHESNEY and their family
consisted of KEITH, SANDRA,
GREG, BRADLEY and DOUGLAS.
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8:32 PM Subject: [OXFORD] The Axe and The Wheel
THE FOUNDING AND HISTORY OF
WEST OXFORD WOMEN'S INSTITUTE:
The organization grew out of
The United Farm Women of Ontario Progressive
Club.
In Jan , 1929, our branch was
organized at the home of MRS A.J. BUDD by MRS.
JOHN DUTTON, Mt Elgin.
MRS BUDD lived to be 94 years
of age and raised nine children.
MISS MARGARET THORNTON was
the first president and MISS ALMA GRAY was the first secretary
As far back as 1907 there had
been a branch of the W.I in Folden's - MRS
EVERETT SAGE, MRS BEN SAGE, MRS
ROBERT PULLIN, MRS RICHARD
WILSON and daughter MILDRED, MRS JOHN SHELTON, MISS VILETTA JARVIS
{MRS MILTON BANBURY}, MISS THERESA POOLE and MISS FRANCIS
were members.
In 1930 the Institute put on
a play. Cast members were: MISS MILLER, MR and
MRS WALTER PULLIN, LLOYD
ALMAS, STANLEY POST, BETH
BRINK, HARRISON CODY, STANLEY
ALLIN,NORMAN PULLIN, MARGARET and
EDMUND THORNTON. MRS
NORMAN PULLIN was the director.
At one meeting, MRS CHARLES
MERRILL and MRS WILBUR BUDD were appointed as a
committee to interview the
Folden's School
Trustees.
In 1940 they compiled a History
of the Village of Tweedsmuir.
The curators have been EDNA MEEK, MARGARET THORNTON,
DOROTHY CURRIE, BETH SHELTON, ANN
JAKEMAN, LAURENE HARGREAVES,
with ELIZABETH HEENEY designing the cover and
DOROTHY CURRIE
printing and decorating the
title pages.
In 1953 MRS FRED SHELTON was
chosen by the county as Women of the Year.
In 1960 the institute won
first prize in Ontario in a rug hooking contest. ELIZABETH HEENEY drew the
designs. The
hookers were LILY HEENEY,
EILEEN HAMMERTON, COYLA HARGREAVES, EDNA MEEK, FLORENCE RAWLINGS
and AUDREY VANLOON.
The same year, ELIZABETH
MAYBERRY won first prize in the Ontario division A.C.W.W. essay contest. The following
members of the branch had
served as presidents in the South Oxford
District. EDNA MEEK, AUDREY HOWARD, KIT
CAFFYN and BETH SHELTON. GLADYS SOMERS was district Secretary
Treasurer
The Committee who compiled
this history of West Oxford were: KIT CAFFYN; DOROTHY CURRIE; LAURENE
HARGREAVES; GRACE HILL; ANNE
JAKEMAN; HILDA JULIAN; SHIRLEY LAW; EDNA MEEK; BETH SHELTON
ELIZABETH HEENEY - Art and
Cover design EARL HILL - Photography
[That is the end and I
apologize for the fact that my typing appeared to get worse instead of
better Judy]
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