WURTS

Acknowledgements

These notes are the product of the work of many people. To mention first those who are Wurts descendants, approximately in the order in which we first made contact:

• The Bottings, for information on Charity Wurts;
• Mr. Albert H. Kennedy, for a photocopy of the Caleb Kennedy family bible record;
• The late Mrs. Margaret (Kennedy) Mitchelson, of Winnipeg, for providing a photograph of the tombstone of John Kennedy Jr. in St. Anns Cemetery;
• Elwood Wurts submitted considerable information on several Wurts lines, especially that of Maurice Wurts;
• Mr. Glen Williams, of Gravenhurst, Ontario, for information on the Williams connections;
• Mr. Edward V. Wurts, of Stuart, Florida, for providing a complete photocopy of the 1889 Wurts genealogy, along with other materials;
• Lorelei Loveridge, who submitted a correction concerning the Loveridges in Part 3;
• Judy Crook, who supplied information on the family of William Warren Wurts, of Colorado;
• Karen Smith, who helped strengthen the documentation on the Wurts’s Wismer descendants;
• Paul Loveridge, who sent details of the Wurts’s Loveridge descendants;
• Steven Hayward sent material on the descendants of Susan (Wurts) Macklem;
• Mrs. Tanya (Reesor) Blundell;
• Mr. Reed M.W. Wurts, of Wayne, Pennsylvania, maintainer of the Wurts.net website (http://pages.prodigy.net/reed_wurts/);
• Kate Wheeler, for information on her great-granduncle William G. Turner;
• Lesley Weaver, for information on the John Wartz Wetham and his two Wurts-decended wives;
• Marilyn Siebering, who passed on information to us via Lesley Weaver;
• Carolyn Warman, for information on Mary (Wurts) Morrow and descendants.
• Ruth Burkholder, for information on the Burkholder connections.

Others who are not Wurts descendants also contributed generously:

• Mrs. Harriette Marr Wheeler, of Grosse Pointe, Michigan, whose fine work on the Wurts family in her 1983 Marr genealogy has to a considerable degree paved the way for the present study, and who has placed me further in her debt by giving me her own photographic copies of the old Wurts family bible record and the will of William Marr, a connection by marriage of the Wurts family;
• Mr. William Britnell, of Mississauga, Ontario, who sent a wide variety of material and helped with some thorny problems;
• Mr. Merritt A. Peterson, who helped me obtain a copy of his book on the Macklem family;
• Mr. John Mark Rowe, the historian of Glen Williams, who kindly consulted his collections for information on some residents of that place;
• Marietta Pickell, of Berkeley, California;
• Ms. Kathleen D. Fenton, of Columbia, Maryland, a Waldorff researcher;
• Steve Marshall, who sent information on Elias Wurts;
• Marjorie G. McNinch of the Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, Delaware, who supplied a photocopy of the original will of Conrad Wirtz in her custory.

Finally, we should like to record our debt to the many persons who contributed to the Ontario Genealogical Society’s series of cemetery transcriptions, which have been an indispensable source of material to us.

Introduction

The name Wurts — we have chosen the most prevalent American spelling for the title of these notes — appears in an astonishing variety of forms. In the Caleb Kennedy family bible record we find his mother’s name recorded as “Charity Werts,” and the same woman is referred to in the Commemorative Biographical Record of the County of Lambton (1906) as “Charity Warts.” John Wurts is called “John Warts” in the so-called Domesday Book of Markham Tp. and “John Wourtz” on a map of 1809, and his widow appears as “Barbara Wourts” in the 1861 census. The descendants of John’s son Maurice usually appears as “Worts” in census records and in print, their grandson Archibald (son of Landon) is likewise listed as “Worts” in an 1850 census, their son Landon’s surname is given as “Wurtz” in a record of 1821, and their daughter Elizabeth’s surname was apparently handed down as “Wuartz” among her descendants. Aside from such inevitable phonetic variations, downright errors in spelling have frequently occurred: in the Berczy census of 1803, which normally preserves German surnames quite correctly, John Wurts is listed as “John Wurst,” and doubtless forms such as this have occurred in printed sources through the inadvertent transposition of type. An 1846 directory calls his son “Elias Wiorts.”

    The “Worts” spelling brings us to a possible source of confusion, which is the presence of a family named Worts, of Toronto, who were of English origin, but this family is so well documented that it seems likely all of its members have been positively identified in the literature.^[1] We have however occasionally seen members of that family referred to by spellings which would give little clue as to their English origin, such as “Werts” and “Wortz.”^[2]

The Canadian Immigrants

Between Charity Wurts (1768?-1799), wife of John Kennedy of Gainsborough Tp., Lincoln Co., U.C. and John Wurts (1766-1855) of Markham Tp., U.C., we feel certain there must have been some very close tie of kinship. This belief is motivated by Several facts. First, both of their families repeatedly used the uncommon names Maurice (or Morris) and Joel, names which it does not seem possible for them to have borrowed from allied families.^[3] Secondly, the migration of John Wurts’ son Maurice Wurts to Chinguacousy Tp. (in Peel Co.) followed that of a number of Charity Wurts’ Williams descendants to the neighboring township of Esquesing (in Halton Co.), and Maurice’s daughter Catherine Wurts and his granddaughter Phoebe Hutton, each married into the latter family. Finally, the families of Charity (Wurts) Kennedy and John Wurts had numerous additional indirect connections or affiliations through the families of Marr, Bender, Buchner, and Warner. Although the evidence is circumstantial, the onomastic correspondences and marital contacts between these two families seem too numerous to be coincidental.

       .......................................................
       :                                                     :
   John Wurts                     John Kennedy (Jr.) = Charity Wurts
   of Markham                                        |
  _____|_____                            ____________|_____
  |         |                            |                |
Abraham  Maurice        Benajah  =  Elizabeth          Morris
Wurts     Wurts        Williams* |   Kennedy           Kennedy
  |         |                    |                        |
  |         |_______    Joel Williams    _________________|__________
  |         |      |             |       |        |                 |
Morris Charity  Catherine = Benajah   Morris    John    Thomas  =  Martha
Wurts   Wurts     Wurts   | Williams  Kennedy   Kennedy Wiltsie |  Kennedy
       = Walter           |            (Jr.)      |             |
       | Burns            |                       |             |
       |_________         |                       |             |
                |         |                       |             |
   John W. = Delilah  Maurice/Morris            Morris        Morris
   Whetham |  Burns    Williams                 Kennedy       Wiltsie
           |
        ___|________________
        |                  |
   William Bradford   Maurice Wartz
       Whetham          Whetham
          |
          |
  Maurice W. Whetham
     (d. young)

      .......................................................
      :                                                     :
  John Wurts                     John Kennedy (Jr.) = Charity Wurts
  of Markham                                        |
  __|______       __________________________________|______________
  |       |       |                   |          |        |       |
 Maurice Joel    John   Benajah  = Elizabeth  Charles  Morris   George
 Wurts   Wurts Kennedy Williams* |  Kennedy   Kennedy  Kennedy  Kennedy
    |           (III)            |               |        |       |
    |             |              |               |        |       |
    |           Joel             |         George H.   Allen    Sarah A.
    |          Kennedy           |          Kennedy   Kennedy   Kennedy
  __|_____________________       |             |         |    = Abraham
  |                |     |       |         Joel E.     Joel     Hartwell
 Joel  William = Mary   _|       |         Kennedy    Kennedy ____|____
 Wurts Morrow  | Wurts |   ______|__________                  |       |
          _____|   ____|   |               |   Philip = Isadore  Joel F.
          |    ____|    Joel    James = Lydia  Fenton | Hartwell Hartwell
    Joel W.J.  |      Williams Leslie | Williams      |_________________
     Morrow  __|         |            |______________________          |
   ____|   __|        ___|_________________________________ |______    |
   |       |          |         |          |              |       |    |
Joel W. Catherine = Benajah  Elizabeth   Joel  Francis = Adeline  |  Joel
Morrow   Wurts   | Williams  Williams  Williams  Young | Williams | Kennedy
              ___|           = John        |           |          | Fenton
       _______|   ___________| Sahli ______|__     Joel Benjamin  |
       |          |                  |       |       Young        |
      Joel     Joel W.     Leonard Joel  John E.                  |
    Williams    Sahli        Williams    Williams                 |
       ___________|               __________|  ___________________|______
       |          |               |            |        |       |       |
    Joel F.   Wilfred B.     John Harry   Benajah  George   Joel   Sarah J.
     Sahli      Sahli           Joel      Leslie   Leslie  Leslie  Leslie
                  |           Williams      |        |             = Ira
                  |                         |        |             Stewart
                  |                         |        |               |
               F. Joel                    Thomas   Joel W.         Joel W.
                Sahli                      Joel    Leslie          Stewart
                                          Leslie
                                            |
                                      Joel Archibald
                                          Leslie

    In Descendants of John Kennedy of Sussex County, New Jersey (1989), p. 2, the Bottings implied that the name of Charity Wurts’ father was known to be “John Wurtz.” We were never able to obtain clarification from them on this point, and certainly no father is named in her marriage record. Unfortunately too, the crucial question of her birthdate has not been established from any contemporary record. While the Bottings believed they had in their possession several early manuscript histories of the Kennedy family emanating from various sources, the investigations of the present writer revealed that these differed only trivially from an account given in a memoir of a grandson, Caleb Kennedy, published in Commemorative Biographical Record of the County of Lambton (1906).^[4] As these manuscripts cannot be shown to be of earlier date than this, it must be presumed that they were copied therefrom.

    The statement in this 1906 memoir that Charity Wurts was born 23 March 1768 may be traced a little further backward to a late-nineteenth-century family bible record kept by the Caleb Kennedy family,^[5] but we there encounter the disturbing coincidence that her husband’s second wife, Barbara Slough, is also credited with a birthday of 23 March (a date which incidentally, is not accepted in this instance by the Bottings). Consequently, the authority of the bible record must be regarded as suspect. Indeed, in Descendants of John Kennedy of Sussex County, New Jersey, the Bottings, who were apparently unaware of the tradition that Charity’s day of birth was 23 March, write her birthdate as “1768 [1761?].” Despite this uncertainty it seems reasonable to assume, however, that Charity’s birthplace was New Jersey; and although (to the best of our knowledge) no contemporary marker survives, there is no obvious reason to doubt the traditional statement that she d. 30 April 1799 in Gainsborough Tp., Lincoln Co., U.C., and was buried in the Presbyterian burial ground, St. Ann’s, Gainsborough Tp. She was married (as his first wife) 9 April 1786 at Frankford, Sussex Co., N.J., by “Squire” Francis Price, J.P.,^[6] to John Kennedy (Jr.), b. 8 May 1761, probably in Sussex Co., New Jersey,^[7] d. 12 April 1847 at Middleport, Gainsborough Tp., and buried at St. Anns,^[8] a son of John (Sr.) and Elizabeth (____) Kennedy, of Newton, Newton Tp., Sussex Co., N.J. They had six children, and were the direct ancestors of the present writer.

    The suggestion in Descendants of John Kennedy that Charity was the daughter of a John Wurts, of Morris Co., N.J. (will proved 1794) and his wife Sarah, is an unhappy one, for this John Wurts (1744-1793) and his wife (Sarah Grandin), mentioned in Charles Pemberton Wurts, Genealogical Record of the Wurts Family (1889), were not married until 8 June 1773.^[9] Instead, we present below a suggested derivation of Charity Wurts from a brother of this man.

The probable parents of the Canadian immigrants

An alternate possibility to the Bottings’ 1989 theory on Charity Wurts’ parentage is that she (and her probable brother John) were children of Conrad Wirtz, of Roxbury Tp., Morris Co., N.J., a brother (probably older) of John Wurts aforesaid, who made a will, dated 23 Aug. 1767 and proved 17 Oct. following, which reads (original will on left, registered copy on right):

This man’s existence was unknown to the author of the 1889 Wurts genealogy, but was demonstrated six years later by T.F. Chambers.^[12] The phrase “daughters … and … son or sons” used in the will, together with the stricken phrase “three children” in the original will, would seem to prove that the testator had two daughters but only one son, with the birth of another child being regarded as a possibility. But as the testator outlived the making of this will by a mere 55 days, then unless his wife was already pregnant it is unlikely there were more children. It also seems certain from both versions that all three children were under the age of 12 years (and considering that the testator himself cannot have been aged more than 31 years at the time, it would be surprising if his children were any older than this). It is unfortunate, if not unusual, that the minor children are not actually named. The records of the Orphans’ Court for Morris County (where the will was made) do not begin until 1785,^[13] while those for Hunterdon County (where the will was proved) do not begin until 1798.^[14] We do not know what authority may exist for the statement, made more than a century later, that “Conrad, the eldest [son of Rev. Johannes Conrad Wurtz and Anna Goetschius], died in Roxbury, New Jersey, in 1787 [sic!], leaving a widow Anna and several daughters.”^[15] If the testator really left only daughters this would preclude the existence of a son John; but it would require that some son died in the 55-day interval between the making and the proving of the will. It will be noted that if Charity Wurts, wife of John Kennedy, was really born in 1768 as discussed above, she would necessarily have been a posthumous daughter.

    The testator’s “mother Anna Wirtz” was born Anna Catharina Goetschius, widow of the Rev. Johannes Coenrad Wirtz, and a daughter of the Rev. Mauritius Goetschius (1686-1735), the American founder of the family.^[16] As he appoints his “friend George Woldorf” as one of his executors, and the will was witnessed by a “John Woldorf,” we may deduce that he was the Conrad Wirtz who married Anna (Waldorff) Couck, widow of George Couck and daughter of Anthony Waldorff, of Roxbury Tp., by the latter’s wife Maria Gertraud (“Charity”) Kil, and is mentioned in the will of his father-in-law.^[17] Unfortunately, no probate or guardianship papers exist to shed further light on this matter.^[18]

    Although Coenrad Wirtz is mentioned only by that name in all documents found to date, it is not unlikely that his full name was Johannes Conrad Wirtz, like his father’s, but that, having a brother named John, he used only his second name. Such use of the middle name was a well-established custom among Swiss and German families in this period, when certain stereotyped name combinations such as Johannes-Heinrich and Anna-Catharina were routinely reduced to their second, more distinctive, element. Thus Anna Waldorff had sisters named Anna Gertraud and Anna Margaretha. Moreover, the July 1770 will of the Rev. Johanes Mauritius Goetchius, of Shawangunk Precinct, Ulster County, mentions “my nephew, George Wirtz, son of my sister, Anna Wirtz, and the Rev. Coenrad Wirtz, deceased,”^[19] and if the Rev. Johannes Coenrad Wirtz could be referred to simply as “Coenrad,” then conversely, his son Coenrad may have been more properly Johannes Coenrad. This would explain how he could have been referred to as John if the Bottings really saw such a record.

    As to the wife of Coenrad Wirtz, Anna (Waldorff) (Couck) Wirtz, proof of her parentage comes from her father’s will, dated 9 Dec. 1777 and proved 30 Jan. 1778, in which the testator stipulates that “the legacy which comes to my daughter Anna … shall be divided into three parts; that is, one third part thereof shall be given to her the said Anna, and another third part thereof shall be given to the children which she had by George Couk, and the last third part of the same shall be given to the children which she had by her second husband, Conrade Wertz…,” which proves that at least to children of Conrad Wirtz were alive on 9 Dec. 1777. The will also leaves to “my granddaughter Anna Couck” £5 before the division of the estate.^[20] Anna’s first husband, George Couck, of Roxbury Tp., made his will 23 Jan. 1760, and his estate was inventoried 12 March 1761, mentioning his “wife Ann” and several members of the Waldorff family, and leaving to “son George Coke” 6 shillings, and “the rest of my estate to my son and daughters, when they are 21.”^[21]

    The theory of Coenrad Wirtz of Roxbury Tp. and his wife Anna Waldorff as parents of the Canadian immigrants John Wurts and Charity (Wurts) Kennedy has several points in its favor. John Wurts would then have been named for his father’s father, and Charity for her mother’s mother. The persistence of the name Maurice (or Morris) among their descendants would be explained by its use among by the Wirtzes of Roxbury, who may be presumed to have inherited it from the Goetschius family.^[22] And finally, one intriguing (if rather tenuous) hint that Charity (Wurts) Kennedy really had the Waldorff ancestry proposed here is that it would make her a first cousin once removed, and near contemporary, of John Clarke (1781-1852), a prominent fur trader and a business partner of John Jacob Astor,^[23] a connection which might explain the perplexing (and almost certainly false) tradition in the Kennedy family that Charity’s father-in-law was a fur trader. However, further research will be required before the matter may be considered settled.

    The main objections to this theory which suggest themselves are the complete absence of the names Conrad and Anthony among the Canadian Wurtses, and the fact that we should be forced to revise the traditional birthdate of John Wurts, as well as that of Charity (Wurts) Kennedy unless we assume they were twins. While we have found no actual evidence to support either hypothesis, it can at least be stated that neither of these adjustments to the chronology would cause new difficulties, and an earlier birthdate for Charity would make her closer in age to her husband.

    For more information on the Wurts family of New Jersey see Reed Wurts’ page on Descendants of Rev. Johannes Conrad Wirz and Anna Goetschy (http://pages.prodigy.net/reed_wurts/cpwurts/surnames.html).

                  The Rev.      ===== Esther
            Mauritius Goetschius  |   Werndli
                (1686-1735)       |
                                  |
                         _________|____________
                         |            |     |||
      The Rev.  =====  Anna       The Rev.         Anthony ===  Maria
 Johannes Coenrad | Goetschius  J. Mauritius       Waldorff |  Gertraud
       Wirtz      | living 1767  Goetschius        d. 1777  | ("Charity")
    (1706-1763)   |              (1724-1771)                |    Kil
                  |                                         |   d. 1768
   _______________|____                     ________________|
   |     |||          |           *         |
Maurice           Coenrad       ===== (2) Anna Waldorff (1) === George
 Wirtz             Wirtz          :       living 1777        |    Couck
(1749-         of Roxbury Tp.,    :                          |  d. 1760-61
 1797)        Morris Co., N.J.    :                          |
              (1736/43 - 1767)    :                       (issue)
                                  :
                                  :
                    ..............:........................
                    :                                     :
                John Wurts              John Kennedy =   Charity
              of Markham Tp.                (Jr.)    |    Wurts
               (1766-1855)               (1761-1847) | (1768?-1799)
                    |                                |
            (children included              (children included
                 Maurice)                John, Ann, Morris, Charity)

* When Coenrad Wirtz made his will on 23 Aug. 1767, his mother and wife 
were still alive, and he had one son and two daughters. At least two of 
the children were still alive when their maternal grandfather Anthony 
Waldorff made his will on 9 Dec. 1777.

Generation 1

1. John Wurts, of Markham Tp., York Co., Upper Canada (now Ontario), b. 9 Jan. 1766,^[24] d. 5 June 1855, aged 89 years, 5 months, and buried “in a small plot on his homestead farm” on lot 13, concession 10, Markham Tp.^[25] He m. (1) by 1788,^[26] ____ Westbrook (?),^[27] who d. between Sept. 1801 and Nov. 1803.^[28] He m. (2) between July 1808 and June 1809,^[29] as her second husband, Barbara (Brook) Marr, b. ca. 1782-83 in Pennsylvania, d. 1861-71, presumably in Markham Tp., and buried “in an unmarked grave on the original Wurts property” in Markham,^[30] widow of John Marr of Markham Tp.^[31] (by whom she had previous issue),^[32] and a sister of Peter Brook, who was a member of her household in 1803.^[33] The garbled statement in the 1941 Tool genealogy that he m. (3) Clarissa Brooks seemingly combines the maiden surname of his second wife with the first name of their youngest daughter, and is clearly impossible given that he was survived by his second wife.^[34]
    The 1941 Tool genealogy claims that John Wurts was born in Pennsylvania, and Wheeler suggests that John Wurts’ first six children were “probably born [in] Pennsylvania,” without stating her reason for this inference.^[35] However, there is direct contemporary evidence that his children Abraham (1791), Maurice (1798), and Landon (1799) were born in New Jersey. Sources generally state his family’s ethnicity as German, although the term tends to be employed very loosely in nineteenth-century records, often embracing Swiss and other nationalities.
    When we first encounter John Wurts in Canada, it is at Thorold Tp., Welland County. On 5 Oct. 1801, according to Wheeler, “John Wurts of Thorold petitioned the Crown for a grant of land in Markham ‘on Yonge Street,’ and described his situation thus: he had come into the Province April last with a wife and seven children and he had one yoke of oxen, three cows, some hogs, and farming utensils.”^[36]
    His application was only partly successful: he did not receive land on the desirable Yonge Street tract, but by an Order-in-Council dated 17 Oct. 1801 (when his address is given as Stamford Tp.), he was given a free grant of lot 13 in the 10^th concession of Markham Tp., near the future site of the village of Belford (now Locust Hill).^[37] According to one account, he came with Abraham Mohr and John Marr (whose widow he later married), and arrived in Markham township on 2 May 1802,^[38] and it is under date of 1802 that he is listed, as “John Warts,” in the so-called Domesday Book of York County.^[39] On his land he built a stone house.^[40] He appears as a widower with his first family of seven children in the “Berczy census” of 1803.^[41] He appears as “John Wourtz” at this locality on a Crown Deed map completed by 1809.^[42] According to the Sparks manuscript, “Old Mr. Worts … gave the east hundred to his son Abram and the west to Alandon [sic], Joel [who] died, Clarisa [Turner] and Barbara Forster.”^[43] A map of 1854 shows all of the lot in the possession of his son Elias, except for the far eastern quarter which had been sold to a Joseph McNelly.^[44]
    In the meantime, John Wurts took out in 1806 a lease from the Crown of the neighboring lot 12,^[45] which he must have kept up for some time, as a directory of 1837 places him there instead of on his original lot.^[46] According to the Sparks manuscript, “Old Mr. Worts… bought the east hundred & sold the west hundred to Old John Reesor for a yoke of oxen.” A map of 1854 shows Elias Wurts on the east half and a member of the Reesor family on the west half.^[47]
    He was a member of the First Baptist Church of Markham, the minutes of which in Sept. 1821 note the next meeting would be held “at Mr. John Wurts’s.”^[48] “John Wurtz” appears in a list of names of Reformers who voted for William Lyon Mackenzie in 1832,^[49] and in another list of persons attending a public meeting in his support held in Markham Tp. in early 1834.^[50] In the first of these lists a “Frederick Wurtz,” otherwise unknown, appears with him, and in the second he is accompanied by his son Joel. In 1833 he witnesses a sale of land by his step-daughters, Polly (Marr) Wixon and Bethena (Marr) Hamilton.^[51] In 1846 he, his son Elias, and his son-in-law William Forster were witnesses to land sales by his stepson John Marr (Jr.).^[52]
    It is possible that the present John Wurts is the man of this name who by 1846 purchased land in lot 4, concession 3 W.H.S. (i.e. West of Hurontario Street) of Chinguacousy Tp., Peel Co., adjacent to that of his son Maurice.^[53] If so, he probably never had any intention of living there.
    It seems clear that by 1846 our John Wurts had turned the farming operations over to his son Elias, for a directory of that year lists the latter as the owner of the property (lot 13),^[54] and a map compiled in 1853-54 as the owner of most of the lot, though the eastern quarter of the lot had by then passed into other hands.^[55] At the time of the 1852 census, which gives no occupation for him and states that he was of no religion, his married son Elias and his married daughters Barbara (Wurts) Forster and Clarissa (Wurts) Turner and their respective families were all living on his farm.^[56]
    A descendant, Elwood Wurts, has kindly supplied the following information about John Wurts’ farm and grave:

His gravestone still exists and is clearly legible on the farm which he homesteaded in 1802 (Lot 13, Con. 10, just east of the present town of Markham, Ont). The grave-site is co-located with several other as yet unidentified graves a short distance south of the farmyard and may actually be located on Lot 12, which records indicate John acquired in 1806. The gravestone is currently laying down and was until recently covered with a layer of debris; since, the site has become over-grown with trees. The inscription on the gravestone reads: “John Wurts, died June 5, 1855, 89 years, 5 months.” The site has been surveyed and the town of Markham is in the process of acquiring the property. It is hoped that these memorials can be rehabilitated … in the near future. The farm-yard also contains and old stone house, which reportedly was built for the Wurts family. This house has been maintained in good condition by the John [Lawrence] Pike family, who live on the farm. The house is currently occupied by Fred Pike, one of the family’s sons.

    For further information on John Wurts’s second wife relating to the period prior to their marriage, consult Wheeler’s Marr genealogy. About 1858, she or John’s children sold the Wurts farm “at $120.00 per acre” to John Pike, grandfather of the present John Lawrence Pike, mentioned above.^[57] In the 1861 census she is called “Barbara Wourts,” widow, and her religion is given as Baptist.^[58] Living with her was her daughter Barbara (Wurts) Forster, and the latter’s sisters-in-law.
    Issue (all birth-dates from the Wurts family bible record):^[59]

(by first wife; probably all born in the U.S.)

1. Nancy Wurts, b. 23 June 1789, of whom nothing further is known.
2. 2Abraham Wurts, b. 13 May 1791 in New Jersey.^[60]
3. Mary Wurts (called “Polly” in the Berczy census), b. 15 Nov. 1794. She is said to have m. “____ Woodruff” in a pencilled annotation in the Wurts family bible record, which correctly names the spouses of five of her siblings and would thus appear to deserve some credence. However, the Woodruff family of Pickering, which was also connected by marriage to Mary’s younger sister Catherine (Wurts) Tool, below, is treated in William E. Wood, Past Years in Pickering,^[61] with no mention of a Mary Wurts. The Noadiah Woodruff (1778-1862) whom this memoir chiefly concerns is said by Wood to have married Charity Powell, though without further knowledge of her dates it is impossible to eliminate the possibility that he had another wife. Noadiah Woodruff had a number of sons whose wives are unaccounted for,^[62] but considering the birthdate of Mary Wurts it is unlikely that she could have been the wife of any of these men. The only one of Noadiah Woodruff’s brothers specifically named by Wood is Harvey Woodruff, who is said to have “died very early in the century” and thus perhaps never married at all, while “the other brothers left the township within a few years.” Thus, the identity of Mary Wurts’ purported husband remains an enigma.
4. 3Catharine Wurts, b. 25 July 1796 (doubtless in the U.S.).^[63]
5. 4Maurice Wurts, b. 31 March 1798 in New Jersey.^[64]
6. 5Landon John Wurts, b. 25 Oct. 1799 in New Jersey.^[65]
7. 6Elizabeth Wurts, b. 27 Sept. 1801.

(by second wife; presumably all born in Canada^[66])

8. Jesse Wurts, b. 26 March 1810, of whom nothing further is known.
9. Jacob Wurts, b. 11 May 1812, of whom nothing further is known.
10. Joel Wurts,^[67] b. 20 Oct. 1817, living 1834. We have mentioned above that he appears with his father in a list of names of Reformers who attended a public meeting in support of William Lyon Mackenzie in early 1834.^[68] We have also noted that, according to the Sparks manuscript, “Old Mr. Worts” is said to have given land to his son “Joel [who] died,” which conveys the impression that he died young.
11. 7Elias H. Wurts, b. 17 April 1821.
12. 8Barbara Wurts, b. 13 April 1824.
13. 9Clarissa Wurts, b. 19 June 1826.

Generation 2

2. Abraham Wurts, of York County, Ontario, and of Norwich Tp., Huron County, Ohio, son of John Wurts, of Markham Tp., York Co., Upper Canada (now Ontario), by the latter’s first wife, ____ Westbrook, was b. 13 May 1791 in New Jersey,^[69] and was still alive in 1860. The first record of Abraham Wurts we find in adult life is as a private who in 1815 deserted from the 2^nd Company of York Incorporated Militia.^[70] This was doubtless the reason why on 5 Feb. 1816, “Abraham Wurtz, yeoman,” was declared an alien, and divested of his property of 200 acres, consisting of the whole of lot 25 in the sixth concession of Pickering Tp.^[71] And this would not be the last of his difficulties with local leaders, for in 1821 Abraham, his sister Elizabeth, their step-siblings John and Mary Marr, and the latter’s future husband Joel Wixon, were all expelled from the First Baptist Church, Markham, for questioning the authority of the elders.^[72]
    Abraham Wurts m. (1) before 1822, ________, who d. before 1828. He m. (2) before 1822, ________, who also d. before 1828. He m. (3) 20 March 1828 in Scarborough Tp., by the Rev. William Jenkins, Presbyterian minister,^[73] Rhoda Steel, b. 1804-05 (aged 45 in 1850, 55 in 1860) in Canada, living 1860, who despite the discrepancy in their stated surnames must, on chronological grounds, be identical with the “last wife … Rhoda (Willow) Wurts … a native of Canada, of English lineage,” referred to in a 1905 biographical sketch of Abraham’s son, cited below. This biographical sketch refers to Abraham Wurts as “a native of New Jersey, of German [sic] descent … a cooper by trade, also a farmer,” and states that he “was thrice married, and had twenty-one children, Morris being the third born of the fourteen children by [the] last wife. Our subject received his education in Huron County, Ohio, where his parents resided in an earlier day.”
    On 3 Jan. 1831 Abraham Wurts purchased from the Crown the south half of lot 9, concession 6 of Pickering Tp., Ontario Co.^[74] In 1835 he was elected an overseer of roads and fence-viewer for Pickering township.^[75] He is still found on his land in a directory published in 1837,^[76] but not in another published in 1846.^[77] If the 1850 census is correct in giving the birthplace of his daughter Serepta as Canada, then Abraham Wurts was still in the country in 1841. However, for his son Morris, who was born in 1833, to have received his education in Ohio, Abraham Wurts must presumably have gone there by the early 1840s, and so he most likely went to Ohio some time in 1842-46. He is not found on the “Plat Book” of about 1845.^[78] He is however found as “Abram Wurts” in the 1850 census of Norwich Tp., Huron Co., Ohio, in which he is called a farmer, owning land worth $2,200.^[79] He is found as “Abraham Wurts” in the 1860 census.^[80] Evidently his land was lot 3, section 3, where there is a Wurts Cemetery.^[81]
    Known issue:

(by first or second wife)

1. Randall Wurts, apparently b. around 1824 in Canada, d. 8 Feb. 1888 in Norwich Tp., Huron Co., Ohio.^[82] His death record gives his birthplace as Canada, aged as 65, occupation as blacksmith and marital status (perhaps incorrectly) as single. As “Randall Wurtz,” a then-childless widower, and farmer, aged 58 years, born in Canada, of a father born in New Jersey and mother born in Canada, he is found in the household of his younger brother, Hiram Wurts, of Norwich Tp., in 1880, when he was a farm laborer.^[83] Probably this is the same man who, 30 years earlier, as “Randall Wertz,” collier, aged 24, b. in Canada, is found in the 1850 census of Chippewa Tp., Wayne Co., Ohio, with a wife and son.^[84] Despite the discrepancy in ages and professions, and the differing locations, it seems unlikely that there could have been two different men named Randall Wurts living in mid-nineteenth-century Ohio who were both born in Canada. Assuming this to be correct, the present man m. before 1850, Priscilla ____, b. (aged 19 in 1850) in Ohio, d. by 1870, and was father of Abraham J. Wurts, b. about March 1850 (aged 5 months in August 1850) in Ohio.

(by third wife, Rhoda Steele [or Willow?])

2. (almost certainly) George Wurts, b. probably in 1832 (aged 28 in 1860, 37 in 1870) in Canada,^[85] living 1870. He m. by 1856, Katherine Link,^[86] b. probably in 1835 (aged 24 in 1860, 35 in 1870) at Würtemberg, Germany. They are enumerated in the 1860 census of Norwich Tp., Huron Co. Ohio.^[87] As George Wortz, farmer, he is enumerated with his family in Greenfield Tp., Huron Co.^[88] We have not found this family in the 1881 U.S. census. Known issue:
   1. Lyman Wurts, b. 1856-57 (aged 3 in 1860, 13 in 1870) in Ohio.
   2. John Wurts, b. 6 June 1859 in Greenfield Tp., Ohio (per death record), d. 3 May 1943 in Willard Tp., Huron Co., Ohio, aged 83 years, 10 months, and 25 days, and buried 5 May following in Plymouth Cemetery. In his death record he is called John Wurts, retired farmer, of 10 Front St., Willard, Ohio, son of George Wurts (born in Norwich Tp., Ohio) and Katherine Link (born in Germany).^[89]
   3. Charles Wurts, b. 1864-65 (aged 5 in 1870) in Ohio.
3. Morris Wurts, b. 9 March 1833 in Canada, apparently still alive in 1905 (see below) and if so then not the one of this name (called single and a farmer in the record) who d. 11 Aug. 1891, at Attica, Seneca County, Ohio, aged 58 years.^[90] He m. 3 Feb. 1860 at Summit, Ohio (IGI), Caroline Burket, b. 1839-40 (aged 40 in 1880) in Ohio, d. 1907,^[91] daughter of Peter Burket. Morris Wurts is found next door to his parents in the 1860 census of Norwich Tp., Huron Co., Ohio; his household included his brother Hiram, aged 35, whose name is however inexplicably given as “Worth.”^[92] As “Marsh Wurts” he appears in the 1870 census of the township, in which he is called a farmer; his younger brother Hiram was then his next-door neighbor.^[93] Morris Wurts is found at Attica in the 1880 census, in which he is called a farmer.^[94] A brief biographical sketch of him published in 1905, which creates the impression that he was still alive, reads:

   Morris Wurts, hardware merchant, Attica, was born in Canada, March 9, 1833, son of Abraham and Rhoda (Willow) Wurts, the former a native of New Jersey, of German descent, the latter a native of Canada, of English lineage. His father, a cooper by trade, also a farmer, was thrice married, and had twenty-one children, Morris being the third born of the fourteen children by last wife. Our subject received his education in Huron County, Ohio, where his parents resided in an earlier day. He was reared on the farm, and followed agricultural pursuits until 1878, when he removed to Attica. In 1884 he bought a half interest in the hardware store of Armatage & Wurts. He has been remarkably successful in business, owns town property at Bellevue, a fine residence in Attica, and a well-improved farm comprising 193 acres in Huron County, Ohio. He was married in 1860, to Caroline, daughter of Peter Burket, who was born in Ohio, of German descent. Their children are Harriet Edith, Loa Almetta and Merle Ethel. Mr. and Mrs. Wurts are members of the Protestant Methodist Church, of which he has been trustee. In politics he is a democrat.^[95]

   Issue:
   1. Harriet Edith Wurts, b. 1860-61 (aged 19 in 1880) in Ohio; still living unmarried with her parents in 1880.
   2. Loa Almetta Wurts, b. in Aug. 1864 in Seneca Co., Ohio, d. 1940 (IGI). She m. 8 Oct. 1885 at Seneca,^[96] Robert Armitage, b. 8 April 1864 at Attica, Seneca Co., d. there in 1914, son of George Armitage — perhaps her father’s business partner? — by the latter’s wife Matilda Jane Hull.^[97] In the 1900 census of Venice, Seneca Co., he is called a hardware dealer; and living with them at the time was his “sister-in-law” Merle Wurts.^[98] Only known child:
      1. Hazel E. Armitage, b. in Sept. 1886.
   3. Merle Ethel Wurts, b. Nov. 1882, found in the household of her “sister,” Loa (Wurts) Armitage, in 1900, when she was unmarried. In our opinion, it strains credulity to believe that Merle was a daughter of Caroline (Burket) Wurts, who in November of 1882 would have been at least 42 years of age and had apparently not conceived in some eighteen years; it seems much more probable that she was really the daughter of one of Caroline’s daughters, perhaps Loa Wurts.
4. Hiram Wurts, said to have been b. 20 Feb. 1835, in English Canada (per 1900 census), 14 Sept. 1907, and buried with hs wife in Attica-Venice Cemetery, Seneca County, Ohio.^[99] He m. 3 Dec. 1865 in Huron Co., Ohio (IGI), Catharine Chapman, b. in Dec. 1842 (per 1900 census) or 17 Dec. 1844 (according to a family record) in Ohio, d. 21 Sept. 1925, recorded on her tombstone as aged 82 years, 9 months, 4 days; daughter of Henry Chapman and Abigail Sowards (which Abigail was living with them in 1880). He was living with his parents in 1850, and with his brother Morris in 1860. “Hiram Wurtz” of Ohio served with distinction in the civil war, enlisting as a private on 13 Nov. 1861, at which time he gave his age as 22 years, probably an understatement. He enlisted in Company G, 3rd Cavalry Regiment Ohio on 11 Dec. 1861, transferred either to Company G, 3rd Cavalry Regiment Ohio or to Company E, 12th Regiment RC (various records show him transferring to these companies on the same day), then mustered out of Company E, 12th Regiment RC on 16 Nov. 1863.^[100] When his wife Catharine survived him she received a widow’s pension, the date of the application being apparently 23 Nov. 1907.^[101] He was the head of his own household, but still living in Norwich Tp., at the taking of the 1870 census, at which time a Rosa Chapman, aged 9 years, of unstated affiliation, was living with him and his wife; his elder brother Morris was then his next-door neighbor.^[102] He is also found in the 1880 census of the same place, in which he is called a farmer,^[103] and in the 1900 census (as “Hirun Wurtz”), in which it is stated that they had had three children but only one was then living.^[104] Known issue:
   1. Rosa Belle Wurts, b. 9 March 1869 in Ohio, d. 2 Feb. 1877, and buried with her parents.
   2. William Pearl Wurts, b. 1 May 1877 in Huron Co., Ohio (per his death record), d. 19 July 1936 in Norwich Tp., Huron Co., aged 59 years, 2 months, 15 days, and buried 21 July following at Attica, Ohio.^[105] He is called William P. Wurts in the 1880 census, and a 1912 directory of livestock breeders lists William P. Wurts of Attica as a breeder of Shropshire sheep.^[106] As Pearl Wurts, of Attica, Republican in politics, he served as one of three trustees of Norwich Tp. from 1913 to 1915.^[107] As Pearl William Wurts, of Attica, he registered for military on service on 12 Sept. 1918, although he was then 41 years old.^[108] His death record calls him Pearl Wurts, farmer, names his wife Caroline, and his parents as Hiram Wurts (born in Canada) and Catherine Chapman (born in Huron Co., Ohio). He m. ____, Caroline Elizabeth Ritz, b. 14 Nov. 1874 in Huron Co., Ohio, d. 8 Feb. 1940 at Fairfield, Huron Co., daughter of George Ritz and Mary Ann Resch.^[109] Caroline’s death record names her husband and parents, and a death notice states: “Funeral services for Mrs. Caroline Ritz Wurts, 65, who died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Ralph Swanders at North Fairfield, Thursday, will be held at Trinity Lutheran church Sunday at 2:30 p.m. Burial will be in the mausoleum in Attica cemetery…. Mrs. Wurts was the widow of Wurts, a Norwich township farmer.”^[110] Only known child:
      1. ____ Wurts, alive at her mother’s death in 1940; m. Ralph Swanders, of North Fairfield.
5. Barbara A. Wurts, b. 1839-40 (aged 10 in 1850, 20 in 1860) in Canada (according to the 1850 census) or in Ohio (according to the 1860 census), living 1860. She was living with her parents in 1850, and in 1870 was living unmarried with an older Barbara Wurts, next door to her brother Morris Wurts, in Norwich Tp., Huron Co., Ohio.^[111] She is found in the same township in 1860, when she was living, unmarried, as a domestic servant in the household of Arthur Willoughby.^[112]
       This older Barbara Wurts found in 1870, who was b. 1801-02 (aged 68 in 1870) in Canada, must presumably have been the widow of some man of the Wurts family (in 1870 the census-taker neglected to ask for her marital status), but we cannot identify her.
6. Serepta J. Wurts, b. ca. 1841 (aged 8 in 1850, 19 in 1860) in Canada (according to the 1850 census) or in Ohio (according to the 1860 census), living 1860.
7. William Wurts, b. 1846-47 (aged 13 in 1860) in Ohio.

3. Catharine Wurts, daughter of John Wurts, of Markham Tp., York Co., Upper Canada (now Ontario), by his first wife, ____ Westbrook, was b. 25 July 1796 (according to the Wurts family bible record), doubtless in the U.S., and d. in (or about) 1845 in Pickering Tp., Ontario Co., Ontario. She m. (as his first wife) shortly before 18 April 1816 (when he was dismissed for marrying out of unity),^[113] John Tool,^[114] a Quaker, b. 13 Sept. 1792 in Muncy Tp., Northumberland Co., Pennsylvania,^[115] in Pennsylvania,^[116] d. “of consumption” 20 Nov. 1879 in Lexington Tp., Sanilac Co., Michigan,^[117] aged over 87 years, his body being returned for burial in Pickering Tp., probably (despite the disagreement of his death record) a son of Aaron Tool, a Quaker, who came with his wife Rachel Haworth from Bucks Co., Pennsylvania, in 1799, and settled in Whitchurch Tp., York Co.^[118] He m. in 1856, Mary Elizabeth Schell, b. 1796-97 in New York State.
    This family is the subject of a brief genealogy, entitled … Descendants of John Tool and his wife Catherine Wurts, compiled by two great-grandchildren, Myrtle Mae Tool Hunter and Silas Tool (1941), from which we have taken a few details.^[119] Their work is rather uncritical, and seems to lean heavily on the account in Wood’s Past Years in Pickering. It does however supply a rather full account of the movements of John Tool and his wives:

When first married, John Tool and Catherine Wurts made their home near Pine Orchard [in Whitchurch Township], where their two eldest children Mary and John were born. About 1820 they moved to Ontario County and settled on lot 19 in the first concession [of] Pickering Township, where they made their home for about twenty years. Then they moved away to the State of Illinois, U.S.A., and settled near where the city of Chicago now is. The climate was unsuitable however and sickness overtook the family so that they soon came back to their home in Pickering, where Catherine Wurts died in 1845, having failed to overcome the hardships of the Illinois journey.
    Following the death of Catherine Wurts, John Tool lived for a few years on the farm at Lot 19, then he moved to Frenchmans Bay, lot 23 Pickering Towmship, and lived there until 1856, when he married his second wife, Mary Elizabeth Schell, a native of Port Perry, Scugog Island, Ontario County. They then moved away to the State of Michigan, U.S., and made their home at Lexington on the shore of Lake Huron, where John Tool died in 1879 at eighty-seven years of age, and his youngest son Jacob Haworth Tool brought him back to Canada and buried him beside his first wife, Catherine Wurts.

The work also gives details of his land transactions, which we have not reproduced.

    Further details, largely confirming this account, may be obtained from various records. On 18 April 1816 John Tool was disowned by the Yonge Street Monthly Meeting for marrying out of unity.^[120] According to a brief memoir of him published in 1911, “John Tool settled in Pickering about the year 1819, locating on Lot 18, Con[c]. 1, where the Kingston Road crosses the Brock Road. In 1835 he sold the part north of the Kingston Road to Jordan Post and went for a time to Illinois, but returned and lived on the south part until 1855, when he removed to Michigan.” This statement appears to be confirmed by a listing for him at lot 19 of concession 1 in 1837.^[121] The memoir continues, “During the rebellion [of 1837] his house was searched and he removed to Toronto and hid for a time, and it is said that his wife and oldest son had to go up about once a week to bring him ‘something fit to eat.’” This memoir also quotes his son as saying, “He had no more to do with the rebellion than I had, and I was not born until the following year.”^[122]
    When John Tool left for Michigan with his son Aaron about 1855 or 1856, his other children, most of whom were already married, stayed behind. From the statement of the 1941 Tool genealogy, they appear to have gone directly to Lexington Tp., Sanilac Co., Michigan, and in any case he and his second wife, with his son Aaron but none of his other children, are enumerated in the 1870 census of Lexington Tp., in which he is called a farmer.^[123] In his death record he is again called a farmer.
    Issue:^[124]

1. 10Mary Tool, b. 12 Sept. 1817 at Pine Orchard, Whitchurch Tp., York Co., Ontario.
2. 11John Tool, b. 8 May 1819 at Pine Orchard, Whitchurch Tp.
3. Rachel Tool, b. 10 Dec. 1820, d. 31 Jan. 1869 in Pickering Tp., Ontario, aged 48 years and 1 month,^[125] and buried in the Post Cemetery, Pickering Tp. She m. by 1843, Weston Palmer, b. Aug. 1818, d. 24 Jan. 1884, aged 75 years and 7 months, and buried with his wife, a first cousin of her younger sister Katherine’s husband, being a son of John Palmer and Elizabeth Stephens, and grandson of James Palmer, Sr.^[126] Known issue:
   1. Albert Palmer, b. 1843 in Pickering Tp., d. 13 July 1884, aged 40 years and 11 months, and buried with his parents. He m. 23 May 1865 at Dunbarton, Ontario Co.,^[127] Ann McDonald, b. about July 1844 in Brock Tp., d. 18 Feb. 1871, aged 26 years and 7 months, and buried with her husband, daughter of Alexander McDonald and Eleanor McIntosh. Both parties were of Pickering Tp. at the time of the marriage. We have not found this couple in the 1881 census of Ontario, but their tombstone shows that they were parents of the following son, who is buried with them:
      1. Weston Alexander Palmer, b. about Dec. 1864 [?], d. 29 Feb. [sic] 1877, aged 12 years, 2 months. Perhaps the inscription has been transcribed incorrectly, as it seems to place his birth before his parents’ marriage.
   2. Elizabeth Palmer, b. 1845-56 (aged 26 in 1872) in Canada. She m. 14 Oct. 1872 at Cherrywood, Pickering Tp.,^[128] George Taylor, b. 1845-46 (aged 26 in 1872) in Canada, son of George Taylor and Sarah ____. At the time of their marriage, the record of which names both sets of parents without however supplying the maiden surnames of the mothers, the groom was a yeoman, of Scarborough Tp., York Co., and a Methodist, while the bride was of Pickering and was a Disciple of Christ; the witnesses were Malcolm Taylor, of Scarborough, and Kate Palmer, of Pickering.
   3. Charles Palmer, b. 1847-48 (aged 22 in 1870). He should not be confused with Charles Senecca Palmer (ca. 1844-1935), son of Sherwood Palmer and Martha Lamoreaux, who married Jane Leng.^[129] He m. 28 Dec. 1870 at Willowdale, Vaughan Tp., York Co.,^[130] his half-cousin once removed, Elizabeth A. Wurts (no. 7.iv below), b. 1849-50 (aged 1 in 1852, 20 in 1870), daughter of Elias H. Wurts by the latter’s first wife, Mary Burkholder. At the time of their marriage, the record of which names both sets of parents without however supplying the maiden surnames of the mothers, the groom was a school teacher, and both parties were of Markham Tp. At the time of the birth of their daughter Mary Alberta in 1879 they were living at Frenchman’s Bay. Only known child:
      1. Mary Alberta Palmer, b. 10 Feb. 1879 in Pickering Tp., Ontario Co., Ontario, as a daughter of Charles L. Palmer and Elizabeth Wurts.^[131]
   4. William T. Palmer, b. 1848-49 (aged 28 in 1874, 31 in 1881) in Pickering Tp. He m. 24 Dec. 1874 at Dunbarton, Pickering Tp.,^[132] Eliza Jane Coutts, b. probably in 1854 (aged 19 in 1874, 27 in 1881) in Pickering Tp., daughter of Thomas Coutts and Mary Ann ____. At the time of their marriage, the record of which names both sets of parents without however supplying the maiden surnames of the mothers, the groom was a laborer, and both parties were or Pickering Tp.; the witnesses were Alexander Palmer and Laura Palmer, “both of Pickering.” They appear with three children in the 1881 Census of Pickering Tp.^[133] Known issue:
      1. Rachael Palmer, b. 1876-77 (aged 4 in 1881) in Ontario.
      2. Edith Palmer, b. 1877-78 (aged 3 in 1881) in Ontario.
      3. Elizabeth Palmer, b. 1879-80 (aged 1 in 1881) in Ontario.
   5. Catharine Palmer, b. 1852-53 (aged 34 in 1887, 55 in 1908) in Pickering Tp., d. 23 Feb. 1915 “in her 63rd year,” and buried with her parents, her second husband being named on the tombstone. She m. (1) 12 Sept. 1887 at Dunbarton, Pickering Tp.,^[134] John Remmer, b. 1846-47 (aged 40 in 1887) in Pickering Tp., son of John Remmer and Elizabeth ____. At the time of their marriage, the record of which names both sets of parents without however supplying the maiden surnames of the mothers, the groom was a farmer and a Presbyterian, while the bride was a Disciple of Christ, both parties being of Pickering; the witnesses were George Parker and Etlia (?) Craig, [both?] of Dunbarton, Ontario. As Catherine Remmers she m. (2) (as his second wife) 4 March 1908 in East Toronto Tp., York Co.,^[135] William Sleep, b. 1851-52 (aged 56 in 1908) in England, son of Emmanuel Sleep and Elizabeth Ann Boul (?).^[136] At the time of their marriage, the record of which supplies the full names of both sets of parents, the groom was a widower, a farmer, and a Methodist, while the bride was a widow, and a Disciple of Christ; the witnesses were George Taylor, of East Toronto, and John Heal, of Scarborough Junction.
   6. John M. Palmer, b. 1859-60 (aged 27 in 1887) in Pickering Tp. He m. 6 July 1887 at Claremont, Pickering Tp.,^[137] Esther Madill, b. 1866-67 (aged 20 in 1887) in Markham Tp., daughter of James Madill and Hannah ____. At the time of their marriage, the record of which names both sets of parents without however supplying the maiden surnames of the mothers, the groom was an agent, and both parties were of Pickering Tp.
   7. Victor Alexander Palmer, b. 1865.
4. Jemima Tool, b. 25 July 1822 in Pickering Tp., d. 9 April 1857, and buried in (what is now) Brougham United Church Cemetery. Although Wood assigns no husband to her, Fowler supplies her marriage and children. She m. (as his first wife) by 1844, Oliver O. Willson, b. about August 1816, d. 27 Feb. (per his tombstone) or 28 Feb. (per his death record) 1885, of apoplexy,^[138] “aged 68 years, 6 months,” and buried with his first wife, almost certainly the son of this name of Asher Willson, of lot 21, concession 5 of Pickering Tp., by his wife Susannah.^[139] As Oliver Wilson, pump-maker, aged 64, he is enumerated with wife Susanna, but no children, in the 1881 census of Uxbridge Tp.^[140] The connection is proved by the presence of a “John P. Willson, son of Oliver and Susanna Willson,” who is buried beside him. He is again called a pump-maker in his death record. Oliver Willson and Jemima Tool had the following issue:
   1. Rachel Willson, b. ca. 18 Oct. 1843 in Pickering Tp., d. 14 March 1868, “aged 24 years, 4 months, 26 days,” and buried with her parents. She m. (as his first wife) 20 Sept. 1866 in York Co.,^[141] Lawrence Linton, b. in April 1845 (per 1901 census) in Pickering Tp., living 1900, son of Francis Linton by the latter’s wife Rebecca Dale.^[142] She was of Uxbridge and he of Pickering Tp. at the time of the marriage, the record suppling the names of both sets of parents. Her tombstone calls her “Rachel Linton, daughter of Oliver O. and Jamima [sic] Willson.” There was no known issue of the marriage. In 1881 (according to the 1901 census) Lawrence Linton left Canada for the U.S. He married secondly in 1885 at St. Clair County, Michigan,^[143] Cecilia Hazzard. In 1900 he was living in Ward 9 of Port Huron City, Saint Clair County with his second wife, and his daughter Lulu by his second marriage; he is called a day-laborer on a farm.^[144] Their issue included:
      1. Mary Linton, b. 1866-67 (aged 22 in 1889) in Uxbridge Tp. She m. 6 Nov. 1889 at Lakeport, St. Clair Co., Minnesota, Fred J. Bean, b. 1863-64 (aged 25 in 1889) in Clyde Tp., son of Gilbert Bean and Lydia Kanute. At the time of their marriage, the record of which names both sets of parents, the groom was a farmer, residing in Clyde Tp., and the bride was a milliner. The witnesses were Ephriam Dunsmore and Nellie M. Bean, both of Clyde.^[145]
   2. Henrietta Willson, said to have been b. 1844.
   3. Catherine Willson, b. ca. 20 Aug. 1847, d. 25 Nov. 1867, “aged 20 years, 3 months, 5 days,” and buried with her parents.
   4. Susanna Willson, b. 1851-52 (aged 19 in 1871) in Pickering Tp. She m. 24 Oct. 1871 in Uxbridge Tp.,^[146] Abraham Gould, b. 1847-48 (aged 23 in 1871) in Uxbridge Tp., son of Jesse Gould and Mary Ann ____. At the time of their marriage, the record of which names both sets of parents without however supplying the maiden surnames of the mothers, the groom was a sawyer, and both parties were of Uxbridge Tp.; the witnesses were Lawrence Linton, of Pickering, and Mary Ann Linton, of Uxbridge.
5. Elizabeth Tool, b. 5 Aug. 1824, d. unmarried.
6. Katherine Tool, b. 15 July 1825 in Ontario, d. 5 Feb. 1883 in Pickering Tp., aged 57 years, 3 months, and 21 days, of cancer of the stomach,^[147] and buried in the Post Cemetery, Pickering Tp. She m. by 1848, Isaac Palmer, b. about 27 July 1824 in Ontario, d. 9 Oct. 1892, aged 68 years, 2 months, and 12 days, and buried with his wife, a first cousin of her sister Rachel’s husband, being a son of Sherwood Palmer and Martha Lamoreux, and grandson of James Palmer, Sr.^[148] They appear in the 1881 census of Pickering Tp., in which he is called a farmer and the family’s religion is given as Disciple of Christ.^[149] In Katherine’s death record, she is called a farmer’s wife. In a death notice of their son John, her husband is described as “the late Isaac Palmer, who owned and lived on the farm now occupied by Joseph O’Reilly.”^[150] Known issue (order partly inferential):^[151]
   1. James Andrew Palmer, said to have been b. in 1848 (but his marriage records imply a birthdate of about 1850), b. in Pickering Tp. (per his marriage record), not living with his parents in 1881, but still alive at the death of his younger brother John on 8 April 1922. He m. (1) 7 April 1874 in Pickering Tp.,^[152] Margaret Linton, b. 1852-53 (aged 21 in 1874) in Whitby Tp., Ontario Co., d. by 1883, daughter of Francis Linton and Rebecca ____. At the time of their marriage, the record of which names both sets of parents without however supplying the maiden surnames of the mothers, the groom was a farmer, aged 23 years, and both parties were of Pickering; the witnesses were Alexander Palmer and Ellen Linton, “both of Pickering.” He m. (2) 9 April 1883 in Pickering Tp.,^[153] Margaret Leng, b. 1856-57 (aged 26 in 1883) in Pickering Tp., daughter of John Leng and Margaret ____. At the time of his second marriage, the record of which again names both sets of parents without however supplying the maiden surnames of the mothers, the groom was a widowed farmer, aged 32 years, and both parties were of Pickering Tp., and Disciples of Christ; the witnesses were Edward Brown and Mary Ann Brown.
   2. Alexander Palmer, b. 1853, not living with his parents in 1881.
   3. Catherine Palmer, b. apparently in 1854-56, not living with her parents in 1881.
   4. John Palmer, b. 1857-58 (aged 23 in 1881) in Ontario, d. (almost certainly unmarried) 8 April 1922 in the General and Marine Hospital, St. Catharines, Ontario, of pneumonia. He was living unmarried with his parents in 1881, when he is called a farmer. A death notice reads:

      We regret to report the death of a former resident of this township, John Palmer, which took place in the General and Marine Hospital, St. Catharines, on Saturday, April 8th. The deceased was a native of this township, being the son of the late Isaac Palmer, who owned and lived on the farm now occupied by Joseph O’s Reilly, and was in his 69th year. He engaged in farming until about twenty-five years ago, when he entered the milling business, at first with his uncle, the late James Palmer, and for several years was in the employ of James Carnegie, of Port Perry. He returned to Pickering to work in Spink’s mills, then under the management of J.S. Barker, and when the latter left from St. Catharines 21 years ago to become manager of the mills of the Maple Leaf Milling Company, of that city, he accompanied him, and has been with them ever since, filling a responsible position. When he was compelled to give up work last fall owing to heart trouble, he was the oldest employee in the company. In November he began to fail and about six weeks ago he entered the General and Marine Hospital for treatment. He improved somewhat in health and later left the hospital, but in ten days he suffered a relapse and was compelled to return. Pneumonia developed which was the immediate cause of death.
          He is survived by one sister and two brothers, Mrs. Wm. Leng, of Cairo, Lambton County, James A. and Isaac, of Thedford. Charles S. of this village is an uncle of the deceased. Charles Palmer, of Hamilton, a nephew, who was with him during his illness, accompanied the body to Pickering. His funeral took place on Tuesday afternoon from the residence of his uncle, Chas. S. Palmer, and interment in the Disciples’ burying ground. Messrs. Smallcomb and Riley, representatives of the Maple Leaf Flouring Mills Co., St. Catharines, were present at the funeral, thus showing the high respect in which he was held by the company.^[154]

   5. Jemima Palmer, b. 1860-61 (aged 20 in 1881) in Ontario, living unmarried with her parents in 1881, d. by 8 April 1922 as she predeceased her brother John.
   6. Isaac Palmer, Jr., b. about 1863 (aged 17 in 1881, 31 in 1893) in Pickering Tp., living unmarried with his parents in 1881, when he is called a farmer. He was still alive, and of Thedford, Ontario, at the death of his brother John on 8 April 1922. He m. 11 April 1893 at Arkona, Lambton Co.,^[155] Maria Sadler, b. ____ (age left blank in marriage record) in Bosanquet Tp., daughter of Stephen Sadler and Rhoda ____. At the time of their marriage, the record of which names both sets of parents without however supplying the maiden surnames of the mothers, the groom was a farmer, and both parties were of Bosanquet Tp., Lambton Co., and members of the Salvation Army; the witnesses were Elizabeth Wasson and Mary Ann Wilcocks, both of Arkona. Only known child:
      1. Mary Elizabeth Palmer, b. 1892-93 (aged 30 in 1923) in Lambton Co. She m. (1), but subsequently divorced. As Mary Elizabeth White, divorcée, she m. (2) 17 Sept. 1923 at Heusall, Huron Co.,^[156] Wilbart John Marriott, b. 1877-78 (aged 45 in 1923) in Bruce Co., son of John Marriott and Ann Grigg. At the time of her second marriage, the record of which supplies the full names of both sets of parents, the groom was an unmarried farmer, and both parties were of Huron Co.; the witnesses were Eva Sinclair and Nora Folick, both of Heusall.
   7. Adelia Palmer,^[157] b. 20 May 1866 in Ontario, living 8 April 1922. She m. by 1887, William Leng, b. in February 1860 (per 1911 census), who was presumably of the same family as the husband of her maternal aunt, Jane Tool, below. They were still living in Ontario County at the birth of their son William in October 1887, but by the birth of their daughter Bertha in 1889 they had removed to Euphemia Tp., Lambton Co. In the birth records of both of these children, and in that of their daughter Stella (1892), William Leng is called a farmer. They are found in Euphemia Tp. in the 1911 census.^[158] She is called “ Mrs. Wm. Leng, of Cairo, Lambton County” in the 1922 death notice of her brother John. Known issue:
      1. William Alexander Leng, 16 Oct. 1887 in Pickering Tp.,^[159] living unmarried with his parents in 1911.
      2. Bertha J. Leng, b. 17 April 1889 in Euphemia Tp., Lambton Co.^[160] She m. by 1911, ____ Nixon, but was living with her parents in 1911. The census records her as “married,” but perhaps should have said “widowed.”
      3. Stella May Leng, b. 16 Dec. 1892 in Lambton Co.,^[161] living unmarried with her parents in 1911.
   8. Sylvester Washington Palmer, b. 1868-69 (aged 12 in 1881) in Pickering Tp., d. (unmarried) 31 Dec. 1902 in Bosanquet Tp., Lambton Co., aged 34 years, 6 months, of paralysis.^[162] His death record gives his religion as Methodist; the informant was James A. Palmer (his brother).
   9. Francis Palmer, b. 1876-77 (aged 4 in 1881) in Ontario, d. by 8 April 1922 as he predeceased his brother John. He was likely the Francis Palmer, “farmer’s son,” who d. 22 July 1882 in Pickering Tp., aged 6 years, of spinal meningitis.^[163]
   10. Charles Palmer, b. 1879-80 (aged 1 in 1881) in Ontario, d. by 8 April 1922 as he predeceased his brother John.
7. Jane Tool, b. 28 July 1827, d. 19 Feb. 1881 in Pickering Tp., aged 53 years and [nearly] 7 months,^[164] and buried in the Post Cemetery. She m. before 1850, George Leng (Sr.), b. 13 March 1821 in England, d. 26 Sept. 1889, aged 69 [?] years and 6 months, and buried with his wife. George Leng served as the informant of the birth of his grandson, Frederick Leng, in 1878, giving his address as concession 1, lot 21, Pickering. In his wife’s death record, in which she is called a farmer’s wife, her religion is given as Disciple of Christ. Her widowed husband appears as a farmer in the 1881 census of Pickering Tp., in which the family’s religion is given as Disciple of Christ.^[165] Known issue:
   1. John Leng [evidently a twin], b. about 28 Feb. 1850, d. 5 Aug. 1850, “aged 5 months, 5 days,” and buried in Gostick Cemetery, lot 7, concession 24, Pickering Tp.
   2. George Leng, Jr. [evidently a twin], said to have been b. 1 March 1850 in Ontario (he was aged 27 at his marriage), d. 18 Feb. 1910 “in his 60th year,” and buried with his parents. He was living unmarried with his father in 1881, when he was a farmer. He m. 24 July 1877 in Pickering Tp.,^[166] Annie Gordon, b. 1850-51 (aged 26 in 1877), d. 11 March 1924 “in her 74th year,” who is buried with him, daughter of John Gordon and Mary Ann ____. At the time of their marriage, the record of which names both sets of parents without however supplying the maiden surnames of the mothers, the groom was a farmer, and a Disciple of Christ, while the bride was a Methodist, and both parties were of Pickering; the witnesses were James Leng, of Pickering, and Lizzie Carrick, of Toronto. He is called a farmer in the birth records of his son Frederick (1878) and daughter Stella (1886). Known issue:
      1. Arthur Leng, b. 20 Sept. 1880 in Pickering Tp.,^[167] living 20 May 1918, when he filed a delayed registration of his birth, the witness being his own mother.
      2. Frederick James Leng, b. 22 Oct. 1878 in Ontario Co.,^[168] d. 7 Nov. 1895, aged 17 years and 16 days, and buried with his parents.
      3. Stella M. Leng, b. 18 May 1886 in Ontario Co.,^[169] d. 1931, and buried with her parents and husband, wife of Stanley W. Davis, b. 1883, d. 1941.
   3. Mary Jane Leng, b. 6 Oct. 1852, not living with his father in 1881.
   4. James Leng, b. 16 Oct. 1854 in Ontario, living unmarried with his father in 1881.
   5. Elizabeth Leng, b. 13 Dec. 1859 in Ontario, living unmarried with her father in 1881.
   6. Josephine Leng, b. 5 April 1861 in Ontario, living unmarried with her father in 1881.
   7. Frederick William Leng, b. 19 June 1865, presumably the William Leng living with his father in 1881, although his age is given as 20 years.
   8. Samuel Leng, b. ca. 1866 in Ontario.
8. William Tool, b. 18 March 1830 in Pickering Tp., Ontario Co., Ontario, d. 31 Dec. 1902 in Grant Tp., Michigan. He m. before 1861, Delphine Munroe, b. 12 July 1833 in Gaines, New York, living 1880. They went to Michigan between 1867 and 1872, and William Tool (albeit with his age and place of birth grossly misstated) is enumerated as a farmer in the 1881 census of Grant Tp., St. Clair, Michigan.^[170] Issue (mainly per Fowler):
   1. Mary Catherine Tool, b. 13 Nov. 1855, not living with her parents in 1880.
   2. William Corwin Tool, b. 27 Feb. 1859, not living with his parents in 1880.
   3. John C. Tool, b. 6 June 1861 in Canada, living unmarried with his parents in 1880
   4. Elizabeth Tool, b. 6 April 1864 in Canada, living 1880.
   5. Emmeline Tool, b. 7 Feb. 1867, d. in infancy.
   6. Florence Lenora Tool, b. 30 March 1872 in Grant Tp., St. Clair Co., Michigan,^[171] living 1880.
   7. Lyman Walter Tool, b. 25 Sept. 1875 in Grant Tp., St. Clair Co., Michigan,^[172] living 1880.
9. Aaron Tool, b. 27 Dec. 1831 in Pickerering Tp., Ontario Co., Ontario, d. unmarried in 18__, and buried in Union Cemetery, Whitevale, Ontario. He was living unmarried with his father and stepmother in 1870, when he is called an “athorni” (i.e. attorney?). But he cannot be found in the 1881 census, and is possible he returned to Canada, and was the Aaron Toole, farmer, aged 49 (thus born 1831-32), born in Ontario, of unstated marital status but with no-one else of the same surname in the household, who is found in St. Andrew’s Ward, Toronto, in the 1881 census, which would be a good match for him in age, if not in occupation.^[173] We would, however, not draw too much from the fact that he was buried in Ontario, as it will be noticed that his father’s body was returned for burial there although he died in the U.S.
10. Ann Tool, b. 26 Sept. 1833, d. 30 Nov. 1907 at Ernesttown, Lennox and Addington County, of paralysis, aged 74 years, 3 months, and 4 days,^[174] and buried in the Disciples Cemetery, Pickering Tp. She m. before 1862, Daniel Merrit Decker, b. 1827-29 in the U.S., d. 28 Nov. 1901 in Whitby Tp., allegedly aged 72 years, 4 months, and 11 days, of apoplexy, and buried with his wife^[175] In the 1871 birth record of their daughter Beatrice, Daniel is called a farmer, and their address is given as concession 2, lot 18 of Pickering Tp. In the 1874 birth record of their daughter Bertha the same address is given, but Daniel is called a yeoman. They are enumerated in the 1881 census of Pickering Tp., in which he is called a farmer and the family’s religion given as Disciple of Christ.^[176] In his death record, his occupation is given as gaoler, his address as King Street, and his religion as Disciple [of Christ]. He is similarly described as a “governor of [a] jail” in the 1908 marriage record of his son Charles. In her death record, in which she is called a widow, her religion is again given as Disciple of Christ. Issue (mainly per census; additional details from Fowler):
    1. George Warren Decker, b. 1855-56 (aged 23 in 1879) in Pickering Tp. He m. 3 Dec. 1879 at Brougham,^[177] Isabella Hubbard, b. 1849-50 (aged 29 in 1879) in Pickering Tp., daughter of Thomas C. Hubbard and Harriett ____. At the time of their marriage, the record of which names both sets of parents without however supplying the maiden surnames of the mothers, the groom was a butcher, of Duffin’s Creek, and a Disciple of Christ, and the bride was of Brougham; the witnesses were Daniel M. Decker, of Pickering, and May Greenwood, of Whitby. Only known child:
       1. Charlotte C. Decker, “daughter of George and Isabella Decker,” d. 2 Jan. 1881, aged 3 months and 22 days, and buried with Daniel M. and Ann (Tool) Decker.
    2. Charles Frederick F. Decker, b. probably in 1861 (aged 48 in 1908), living unmarried with his parents in 1881, when he was a farmer. He m. 28 Oct. 1908 at Kingston, Frontenac Co.,^[178] Lellie Jones, b. 1875-76 (aged 32 in 1908), daughter of John Jones, a carriage-maker, and Amanda Johnston. At the time of their marriage, the record of which supplies the full names of both sets of parents, the groom was a livery man, and a Disciple of Christ, while the was a Methodist; both parties were residing at Odessa, Ontario.
    3. Arthur L. Decker, b. about 24 July 1867, d. (probably unmarried) 27 June 1888, aged 20 years, 11 months, and 3 days, and buried with his parents. He was living unmarried with his parents in 1881, when he was a farmer.
    4. Beatrice Rosetta Decker, b. 18 May 1871,^[179] in Pickering Tp. (per marriage record). She m. 22 April 1903 in York Co.,^[180] the much-older James Ed. Maybee, b. 1851-52 (aged 51 in 1903) at St. Catherines, Ontario, son of Thomas Maybee and Amanda ____. At the time of their marriage, the record of which supplies the names of both sets of parents but misses the groom’s mother’s maiden surname, the groom was a physician, of Odessa, and the bride was of Toronto.
    5. Bertha Jane Decker, b. 30 June 1874,^[181] d. 22 Jan. 1875, aged 6 months and 22 days, and buried with her parents.
11. Emmeline Tool, b. 28 April 1835 in Pickering Tp., Ontario Co., Ontario, d. 1864. According to Fowler, she m. Richard Lankin.
12. Clarissa Tool, b. 9 July 1836 in Pickering Tp., Ontario Co., Ontario, d. 5 April 1922 at Detroit, Michigan. She m. 19 March 1855, presumably in Canada, Henry Holmes, b. 13 Jan. 1830 in Gwillimbury Tp., York Co., Ontario, d. 25 May 1914 at Yale, Brockway Tp., St. Clair Co., Michigan. Crucial evidence for this identification comes from Wood, who states that she was living at Yale, Michigan, and was married to a Holmes; there is no other man who would fit this profile. They went to Michigan some time between 1859 and 1862. Henry Holmes, farmer, and his wife Clarissa, aged 44, born in Canada, parents stated to have been both born in Pennsylvania (probably a mistake in the case of her mother), are enumerated in the 1880 census of Brockway Tp., St. Clair, Michigan.^[182] Issue (mainly per 1880 census):
    1. Sara Catherine Holmes, b. 17 April 1856 in Pickering Tp., Ontario Co., Ontario, not found with her parents in 1880.
    2. Benjamin F. Holmes, b. 15 April 1858 [?] in Scott Tp., Ontario Co., Ontario, not found with his parents in 1880.
    3. Jacob Henry Holmes, b. 18 April 1860 in Pickering Tp., Ontario Co., Ontario, d. 18 Sept. 1938. He m. 18 Aug. 1891 at Bay City, Bay, Michigan, and possibly again on 8 April 1921 at Detroit, Michigan,^[183] Josephine (Jackson) Nickerson, b. in 1870-71 (aged 50 in 1921) in Canada, widow of ____ Nickerson, and daughter of Robert Jackson and Sarah J. Miller.
    4. Emmeline Amelia Holmes, b. 31 Dec. 1861 in Speaker Tp., Sanilac Co., Michigan, said to have been alive in 1900. Her age would match that of an“Emiline Holmes,” aged 19 years, parents not named, who m. 1 March 1881 at Brockway Centre, St. Clair Co., Michigan,^[184] Edmund Worden, b. 1858-59 (aged 22 years in 1881).
    5. Henrietta Holmes, b. 11 Feb. 1863 in Speaker Tp., Sanilac Co., d. 18 May 1894. She was not living with her parents in 1880.
    6. Mary Jane Holmes, b. 12 Nov. 1865 in Speaker Tp., Sanilac Co. She m. 29 March 1893 at Yale, Sanilac Co., Michigan,^[185] John Muir, b. 1867-68 (aged 25 years in 1893) in Canada, son of Thomas Muir and Matilda Howey.
    7. Ardelia Louise Holmes, b. 15 or 25 Aug. 1867 in Speaker Tp., Sanilac Co., Michigan (IGI), living 1880.
    8. John Herbert Holmes, b. 12 May 1874 at Yale. He m. 18 July 1894 at Algonac, St. Clair Co., Michigan,^[186] Lillie E. White, b. in 1875-76 (aged 18 years in 1894) in Canada, daughter of Samuel White and Sarah Dagg.
    9. William F. Holmes, b. 27 June 1876 at Yale, d. 14 Nov. 1900.
    10. George Clarence Holmes, b. 31 Oct. 1880 at Yale.
13. Jacob Haworth Tool, b. 23 May 1838 in Pickering Tp., Ontario Co., Ontario, d. 14 March 1915 at Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He m. 24 May 1866 in York Co., Ontario,^[187] Sarah Ellen Lamoreaux, b. 15 Sept. 1846 at Brougham, Ontario Co., Ontario, living 1886, daughter of James Lamoreaux, of Brougham, by his wife Mahala Smith.^[188] Both were of Pickering Tp. at the time of their marriage. At the birth of their son William in 1871 they were of Brougham. At the birth of their daughter Effie in 1875 their address was B.F. concession, lot 20. At the birth of their daughter Eleanor in 1880 they were of no. 375 Gerrard Street East, Toronto. Jacob is called a carpenter in all three records. They were in Orillia Tp., Simcoe Co., at the taking of the 1881 census, in which Jacob he is called a traveller, and their religion is given as Quaker.^[189] They were still living at Orillia at the birth of their son John in 1885, in the record of which Jacob is again called a carpenter. According to Wood (writing in 1911) Jacob Tool was living at 2532 Columbia Street, Vancouver, B.C. Known issue (all except first living 1881, per census):
    1. Catherine (“Kate”) Tool, b. ca. 14 May 1867, d. 28 June 1868, aged 1 year, 1 month, and 14 days, and buried in Brougham United Church Cemetery.
    2. Frank Haworth Tool, b. 11 May 1869 at Brougham. He m. 23 Sept. 1891 in Simcoe Co.,^[190] Grace Edith Mouse, b. 1874-75 (aged 16 in 1891) at Orillia, daughter of Thomas Mouse and Grace ____. At the time of their marriage, the record of which names both sets of parents without however supplying the maiden surnames of the mothers, the groom was a builder, and both parties were residing at Orillia and were Methodists; the witnesses were William Robbins, of Orillia, and Estella Carleton, of St. Clair, Michigan.
    3. William Henry Tool, b. 25 July 1871 at Brougham.^[191]
    4. Effie Maria/Marion Tool, b. 3 Sept. 1875 at Frenchmans Bay, Ontario.^[192] As Effie Marion Tool she m. 7 Sept. 1892 at Orillia, Simcoe Co.,^[193] Edward Coulter, b. 1869-70 (aged 22 in 1892) at Barrie, Ontario, son of James Coulter and Charlotte ____. At the time of their marriage, the record of which names both sets of parents without however supplying the maiden surnames of the mothers, the groom was an engineer, and both parties were residing at Orillia, Ontario, and their religion is given as “Evangelist”; the witnesses were Alex Anderson and Annie Coulter, both of Orillia.
    5. Eleanor Alberta Tool, b. 16 Aug. 1880 at Toronto, Ontario.^[194]
    6. John Jacob Tool, b. 13 June 1885 at Orillia, Simcoe Co., Ontario.^[195]
14. Susan Tool, b. ca. 1840, d. 1842.

4. Maurice Wurts, of Chinguacousy Tp., Peel Co., Ontario, son of John Wurts, of Markham Tp., York Co., Upper Canada (now Ontario), by the latter’s first wife, ____ Westbrook, was b. 31 March 1798 (according to the Wurts family bible record) in New Jersey,^[196] d. 25 Oct. 1881, “aged 83 years, 6 months, 25 days” (according to his tombstone), and was buried in the town cemetery, Flesherton, Artemesia Tp., Grey Co., Ontario.^[197] He m. by 1822, Phoebe Warner, b. about 15 Nov. 1796 at Niagara, U.C., d. 26 Sept. 1878 in Chinguacousy Tp., Peel Co., aged 81 years, 10 months, 9 days, of “general debility,”^[198] daughter of Christian and Gertrude (Ecker) Warner, of Niagara.^[199] As the daughter of a U.E.L., his wife received, by an Order in Council dated 6 March 1822, a free grant of lot 11, concession 2 E.S.T., of Caledon Tp.,^[200] at which time she was living in Niagara Tp. But she and her descendants do not appear ever to have lived on this land. By 1837 Maurice Wurts had moved to Chinguacousy Tp., where he is found at lot 3, concession 4 W.H.S. (West of Hurontario Street) in directories of 1837, 1846, and 1860.^[201] (It is perhaps worth noting that his wife’s nephew, Matthew Warner (1812-1885), was in the township by 1834,^[202] having perhaps been taken there by the latter’s widowed mother, Phoebe Ostrander Warner, who died there and is buried in Page Cemetery, lot 7, conc. 6 E.H.S.) Maurice Wurts appears in the 1852 census of Chinguacousy Tp., in which he is called a yeoman.^[203] In the 1861 census he is called a carpenter, of no religion, and is also recorded as a small farmer of 26 acres on lot 3, concession 4; he was living in a frame house with five boarders.^[204] In 1871 he is called a farmer and his religion given as Episcopal Methodist.^[205] He is called a mechanic in his wife’s 1878 death record. He is found in the household of his son Joel in the 1881 census.^[206] Elwood Wurts informs us that the “very old gravestone (obelisk type) … is quite weathered but still legible” and gives the deceased’s name as “Morrace Wurts,” and that “Flesherton town records indicate that the gravesite was arranged for by Joel Wurts (Morrace’s son) who had land near Flesherton.”
    Known issue (order partly inferential):

1. 12Jemima Wurts, b. ca. 1824 in Ontario.
2. 13Charity Wurts, b. probably about 1826 (her age is stated as only 24 years in the 1852 census, but she was probably slightly older) in Canada.
3. 14Rebecca Ann “Wortz,” of Chinguacousy, b. say 1828.
4. Mary Warner Wurts, b. ca. 1830 in Chinguacousy Tp., d. 2 Aug. 1894 in Eramosa Tp., Wellington Co., Ontario of blook poisoning.^[207] She m. 29 Nov. 1860, by the Rev. Owen Grafton Collamore, of Brampton, Methodist Episcopal minister,^[208] William James Morrow, b. 28 Jan. 1831 at Streetsville, Mississauga Tp., Peel Co., Ontario, d. 13 Oct. 1902 at Mobeetie, Wheeler County, Texas, son of Hugh Morrow and Margaret Lundy.^[209] She does not appear with her father in the 1852 census, so was perhaps then living elsewhere as a domestic servant. At the time of her marriage she was of Toronto Tp. and her husband of Chinguacousy; the witnesses were Robert Morrow and Jane Forrest, both of Chinguacousy. William James Morrow appears with his father and siblings in the 1861 Census in Chinguacousy but his wife Mary is not with them; it does, however, show him as “married.” William and Mary Morrow moved to Eramosa Tp., Wellington Co., by 1871, when the census lists William as a carpenter, and Presbyterian, while his wife was Wesleyan Methodist.^[210] They are also found in the 1881 census, which lists them both as Episcopal Methodist.^[211] According to descendant Carolyn Warman, “William James Morrow traveled in 1897 with his youngest son and married daughter Jemima and her family to Mobeetie, Texas.”
       Known issue; all living with their parents in 1881:^[212]
   1. Jemima Teressa Morrow, b. 1 Aug. 1862 at Brampton, Ontario, d. 29 Aug. 1952 at Pampa, Gray Co., Texas. She was a tailoress in 1881. She m. in 1889, Frederick Peter Reid, b. 4 May 1865 at Ballinafad, Ontario, d. 4 June 1932 at Pampa, Gray Co., Texas. Issue:^[213]
      1. William (“Willie”) James Reid, b. 14 Aug. 1890 at Renfrow, Halton Co., Ontario, d. about 1922
      2. Mary Elizabeth (“Flossie”) Reid, 10 Nov. 1891 in Halton Co., d. about 1975 at Marlow, Stephens Co., Oklahoma.
      3. Rozena (“Rose”) Reid, b. 15 April 1893 in Ontario, d. 4 Nov. 1974 at Arlington, Tarrant Co., Texas.
      4. Olive Irene Reid, b. 22 March 1895 at Brampton, d. in Nov. 1927
      5. Bessie Minlo Reid, b. 9 March 1897 at Glen Williams, Halton Co., Ontario, d. 8 July 1991 at Richardson, Dallas Co., Texas.
   2. Hugh R. Morrow, b. ca. 1863; a bookkeeper in 1881.
   3. Joel William Jasper Morrow, 21 Feb 1868 in Ontario, d. 31 Dec. 1934 in York Co., Ontario.. Carolyn Warman informs us that his death record gives his mother’s maiden surname as Wirts. He m. 26 March 1891 in Ontario, Flora McDougall, b. 11 Jan. 1861 at Gamebridge, Thorah Tp., Ontario Co., Ontario. Issue:^[214]
      1. Lilly P. Morrow, b. 26 Dec. 1891 in Ontario.
      2. Sarah (“Sadie”) W. Morrow, b. 12 Sept. 1893 at Bracebridge, Ontario.
      3. Allan John Stanley Morrow, b. 30 Oct. 1895 at Rockwood, Wellington Co., Ontario.
      4. Joel William Morrow, b. 28 Feb. 1899 in Wellington Co., Ontario, d. 3 July 1899 in York Co., Ontario.
      5. John Thomas Morrow, b. 9 Oct. 1869 in Ontario, d. 16 Aug. 1914 at Mobeetie.
5. 15Joel Wurts, b. ca. 1833.
6. 16Catharine Wurts, b. 25 April 1836.

5. Landon John Wurts, of Painesville, Lake Co., Ohio, and of Buffalo, Erie Co., New York, son of John Wurts, of Markham Tp., York Co., Upper Canada (now Ontario), by the latter’s first wife, ____ Westbrook, was b. 25 Oct. 1799 in New Jersey,^[215] d. 8 Aug. 1866 at Buffalo, “at the residence of his son-in-law Stephen A. Walker, of congestion of the stomach,” aged nearly 67 years, and was buried in Forest Lawn Cemetery, Painesville, Ohio.^[216] He m. (1) before 25 July 1821, Nancy Williams, bapt. July 1797,^[217] d. in 1832-48, daughter of Albert Williams and Catherine McNutt, of Ernestown Tp. (now in Lennox & Addington Co.).^[218] He m. (2) (as her second husband) 3 June 1848 in Lake Co., Ohio,^[219] Persis Meacham (Jones) Pomeroy, b. ca. 1803-04, d. “suddenly” 4 Jan. 1875 at Buffalo, New York, aged 71 years, widow of Josiah Andrus Pomeroy, of Painesville (by whom she had had five children), and daughter of Elisha Jones, of Hinsdale, Berkshire Co., Massachusetts, by the latter’s wife Sally Meacham.^[220]
    By an Order-in-Council dated 15 Dec. 1819, Landon Wurts received a free grant of the west half of lot 8, concession 10 of Brock Tp., Ontario;^[221] but no evidence has been found to suggest that he ever took up residence on it. When his first wife, as the daughter of a Loyalist, received by an Order in Council of 25 July 1821 a free grant of the east halves of lots 24 and 26 in concession 1 E.C.R. of Caledon Tp., Peel Co., their residence was still Markham.^[222] The Pickering town minutes list “Lamdon Warts” as one of the “parish and town officers” of 1831, and “Landon Wurts” as one of the overseers of highways of 1833.^[223] Landon Wurts purchased one quarter of lot 27, concession 5 of Pickering Tp., Ontario Co., in 1831, and one quarter of lot 26 in 1835.^[224]
    Johnson, in his history of Ontario County, includes Landon Wurts among the three leaders of “the reformers of Pickering” who “played an active part” in the final conflict of the Mackenzie Rebellion, the battle of Montgomery’s Tavern on 7 Dec. 1837.^[225] Mackenzie, in the words of one historian, “considered that it would be best to attempt to stave off the loyalist march against them by alarming the city with a feint attack from the east.”^[226] Wurts’ role in this endeavor is revealed in the testimony of two prisoners interviewed the following year, who

make oath … that they were of the party seduced by Wm. Lyon McKenzie on the 7^th of December last to proceed to the Don bridge for the purpose of making a diversion at that point and preventing an attack by the Queen’s forces up Yonge Street, that the men selected for this service were placed under the command of Peter Matthews…, that upon the march it appeared evident to deponents that the said Peter Matthews had no command of the men as the majority of them went where, and did, as they pleased…, that the said Peter Matthews gave no orders whatever to set fire to the bridge or house [i.e. an adjacent tavern] or to the house of any other person…. And deponents further say that the said house and bridge or one of them was set on fire, to the best of their belief by one Landon Wurtz without the approbation or concurrence of the said Peter Matthews.^[227]

    This attack was unsuccessful, as the fire had been anticipated and was quickly quenched; and the rebels were driven off into hiding.^[228] For his participation “Landon Wurtz” was charged with High Treason (the indictment calling him a laborer, of the Home District), but he was one of 61 men who was able to flee before being captured, and who were “called upon to surrender themselves by the first day of February next [i.e. 1838], or be Outlawed.”^[229] Another of this group of fugitives was Alem Marr, nephew of John Marr (Barbara Brook’s first husband), who was evidently later pardoned.^[230] Landon Wurts’ step-brother John Marr was less lucky, and spent time in a penitentiary at Kingston before his final escape to Michigan,^[231] which state seems to have been a frequent destination for the fleeing rebels.^[232]
    Landon Wurts is found, as “L. Wurtz,” in the 1850 census of Painesville, in which he is called a butcher; besides his wife and son William, his household included his three younger stepchildren, Douglas, Josiah, and Eliza.^[233] He would appear to have been primarily of Painesville, Ohio, and the obituary of his second wife, the widow Persis Pomeroy, describes her as “formerly” of that place. But “John Wurtz” (aged 61) and his wife Persis are found as residents of the hotel owned by his younger half-brother Elias Wurts at Niagara, New York, he being called a laborer and his wife a housekeeper; and in case there could be any doubt as to his identity, his wife’s youngest child, Eliza Pomeroy, was also living with them.^[234] It appears likely that they later went to Buffalo in old age to live with this same daughter, Eliza (Pomeroy) Walker, of whose household Persis appears to have been a member in 1870. According to a biographical sketch of this second wife, “In 1850 Persis married secondly Landon I. [sic] Wurts, a man held in high esteem by her children. But she again became widowed and died at the home of her daughter in Buffalo. Few women have lived that were more unselfish and loyal to their family and friends than Persis Pomeroy.”^[235] It is clear that no issue resulted of this marriage.
    In an earlier version of these notes we had stated that the present man was the Landon Wurts enumerated in the 1850 census of Pittsfield Tp., Washtenaw Co., Michigan, but subsequent examination of the original record reveals that the person in question was actually a 10-year-old boy, born in Ohio, living as an inmate of the poorhouse, and there is no reason (despite the remarkable coincidence of the name) to believe that this child was connected with the Wurtses who had come from Canada.^[236]
    Known issue, all by first wife:^[237]

1. 17Archibald Wurts, b. 20 Feb. 1823 in Canada.
2. 18Elias George Wurts, b. ca. 1832 in Canada.
3. Caroline Wurts, b. ca. 1834 (?) in Canada, d. March 1871. She m. 26 Jan. 1851 in Lake Co., Ohio, Samuel Doolittle, b. ca. 1827-28 (aged 52 in 1870, 62 in 1880) in New York State, brother of Rosella Doolittle, wife of Caroline’s brother Elias. They appear in the 1870 census of Painesville, in which he is called a carpenter.^[238] In 1880 he is found, still living at Painesville, with a much younger wife Helen, aged 30 years, and three young children by her, but none of the children of his first marriage.^[239] Known issue (all born in Ohio):
   1. John F. Doolittle, b. about 5 Nov. 1851,^[240] in Ohio (according to his death record), d. 9 Feb. 1928 in Corpus Christi Tp., Nueces Co., Texas, aged 76 years, 3 months, 4 days, and buried 11 Feb following in Falfurrias Cemetery, his death record naming him as a child of Samuel Doolittle, born in the U.S.A., and Caroline Wurts, born in Canada.^[241] At the time of his death he was a widower, and a retired manufacturer of steel tools, and was residing at 1018 13th St. He was living unmarried with his parents in 1870, when he was working in a machine shop. We have not found a record of his marriage.
   2. Hattie Doolittle, b. ca. 1853-54 (aged 16 in 1870).
   3. Elias Doolittle, b. ca. 1858-59 (aged 11 in 1870, 21 in 1880) or in Jan. 1860 (per 1900 census) in Ohio,^[242] living 1900. He was living in South Park Tp., Park Co., Colorado, with his “cousin” Archibald Wurts (see above) in 1880, when he was a farm-worker. He was living in Washington, D.C., in 1900, when he was a machinist, and is called a widower.^[243] However, we cannot account for a wife.
   4. May Doolittle, b. ca. 1863-64 (aged 6 in 1870).
4. William Wurts, b. 1838-39 (aged 11 in 1850) in Ohio, living with his father and step-mother in 1850.

6. Elizabeth Wurts, daughter of John Wurts, of Markham Tp., York Co., Upper Canada (now Ontario), by the his first wife, ____ Westbrook, was b. 27 Sept. 1801, and d. by 1852. She m. (as his first wife) 4 Nov. 1823 in Markham Tp., after banns, by the Rev. William Jenkins, Presbyterian Minister,^[244] Jacob Wismer, b. 9 Nov. 1798 in Bucks Co., Pa., living 1885,^[245] son of David and Lydia (Everett) Wismer, of Markham Tp.^[246] As mentioned above, she, her brother Abraham, and others were expelled from the First Baptist Church, Markham, in 1821, for questioning the authority of the elders.^[247]
    Her husband was brought to Markham Tp. by his parents, who purchased lot 15 in the 7th concession. Their marriage was witnessed by Ambrose Noble^[248] and a James Martin. By 1837, they had ceded the eastern third of the lot to Jacob, where he built a notable house which still survives.^[249] He is listed at this lot in directories of 1837 and 1846 and on maps of 1853-4 and 1878.^[250] He appears in all the censuses between 1852 and 1881, his religion being given as “Christian” in 1852, as Roman Catholic (possibly an error) in 1861, and as Church of England thereafter.^[251] In 1852 he had no wife, and thereafter he appears with his second wife Julia (who is said to have been a Curtis). Jacob Wismer appears in a list of Reformers supporting William Lyon McKenzie which was published in 1834.^[252] He was one of the “Fence Viewers” (i.e.fence-inspectors) appointed by the first Markham Tp. Council in 1850.^[253] He appears with his second wife, Julia, in the 1881 census of Markham Tp., in which he is called a farmer.^[254] A brief sketch of his son Lewis published in 1885 says, “Jacob Wismer, who was born in Bucks County, Penn., in 1798, settled in Markham in 1806, where he still resides on the seventh concession.”^[255] A photograph of him is reproduced in Markham, 1793-1900, p. 57.
    It will be noted that five of their children all died in the same year, 1842; we do not know the cause. Known issue, presumably all born in Ontario (mainly per the 1893 Wismer genealogy):

1. Delilah Wismer, b. 31 Aug. 1824, d. 21 April 1909 (both dates being given explicitly in her death record), aged 84 years, 7 months, and 21 days.^[256] She must be distinguished from a paternal first cousin of the same name (daughter of Moses Wismer and Eunice Noble, and not a Wurts descendant), who m. Joseph Ehrhardt, of Markham Tp.^[257] It has sometimes been contended that this other Delilah Wismer was the wife both of Ehrhardt and of Henry Jackson (who follows), but such a possibility is decisively disproved by the present woman’s unusually informative death record, the evidence of the contemporary genealogies of the Wismer and Noble families, and the fact that the wife of Henry Jackson was the next-door neighbor in Nanticoke, Wapole Tp., of Joseph Wismer, son of Jacob Wismer and Elizabeth Wurts.^[258] The present Delilah m. 29 Jan. 1850, Henry Jackson, b. 3 June 1827 at Rufforth, Yorkshire, England, d. 26 Sept. 1892, son of Robert Jackson and Hannah Wilson.^[259] He was a farmer, of Nanticoke, Walpole Tp., Haldimand Co., Ontario., and was enumerated in that township in the 1881 census, which gives his family’s religion as Church of England.^[260] In her death record, Delilah Jackson is called a widow, her “occupation” (really status) as lady, and her address as concession 2, lot 2; the record explicitly names her parents as Jacaob Wismer and Elizabeth Wurts. Issue:
   1. Wellington Jackson, of 93 Emily Street, Buffalo, New York, house carpenter, b. 7 Dec. 1850. He m. 16 Dec. 1878 at Jarvis, Ontario,^[261] Esther Banfield,^[262] b. ca. 1855 (aged 23 at the time of their marriage), daughter of Daniel Banfield, of Walpole Tp., Haldimand Co., Ontario, by the latter’s wife Elmira Wright.^[263] The record calls him a “yeoman,” and names the witnesses as Frank Heartwell and James Fry, both of Jarvis. He was enumerated close to his parents in Walpole Tp. in the 1881 census, in which he is called a carpenter and his religion given as Adventist.^[264] One child: Sybilla Jackson (born after the taking of the census in 1881, if she survived childhood).
   2. Elizabeth Jackson, b. 12 Sept. 1854, d. 1931.^[265] She m. 2 March 1875 at Jarivs, Walpole Tp., Haldimand Co.,^[266] James Johnston, of Nanticoke, Walpole Tp., farmer, son of John Johnston and Janet Lynd. Issue:
      1. William Henry Johnston, b. 13 Feb. 1876 in Walpole Tp.,^[267] d. 15 Aug. 1923 in Rainham Tp., Haldimand Co. He m. (as her first husband) 3 Aug. 1905, Annie Rebecca Lint, b. 26 Aug. 1885 in Rainham Tp., daughter of Lewis Lint, of that place, by the latter’s wife Matilda Dorothy Spies, who afterward married secondly, ____ Fess. Only known child:
         1. Annie Leota Johnston, b. 23 June 1910 at Hagersville, Haldimand Co., d. 18 May 1991 at Jarvis, Haldimand Co., and buried in Hagersville Cemetery. She m. John Hamill Fleming, b. 3 Oct. 1896 at Oneida, Ontario, and had four children.
      2. Edith Delilah Johnston, b. 27 Nov 1877 in Walpole Tp.^[268]
      3. Annie Mabel Johnston, b. 9 Oct. 1879 in Walpole Tp.^[269]
      4. James Arthur Johnston, b. 30 April 1882 in Walpole Tp.^[270]
   3. Edith Jackson, b. 7 Jan. 1857. She m. 29 Sept. 1875 at Nanticoke, Walpole Tp.,^[271] George Albert Evans, of Cheapside, Ontario, farmer. Issue: Ainsley Romain Evans, William Henry Evans (d. by 1893), Albert Edward Evans, Lizzie Mabel Evans, Julia Maud Evans.
   4. William Frederick Jackson, of Nanticoke, Walpole Tp., Haldimand Co., Ontario, farmer, b. 20 Feb. 1859. He was still living unmarried with his parents in 1881. He m. 17 Feb. 1889 in Woodhouse Tp., Norfolk Co.,^[272] Annie Ross. Issue: Warren Jackson, Lillian Delilah Jackson.
2. Emeline Wismer, b. 13 Aug. 1826, living 1881. She m. by 1865, Ananias Turner, b. ca. 1825-26 in New Brunswick, d. 27 May 1903,^[273] probably a son of Isaac and Ann (____) Turner, of lot 29, conc. 5, Whitevale, near Green River, Pickering Tp., which would make him a younger brother of Gideon V. Turner, husband of Emeline’s maternal aunt, Clarissa Wurts.^[274] He appears as “Enias Turner” in the 1881 census of St. Stephen’s Ward, Toronto, in which he is called a builder, and his and his wife’s religion given as Baptist, but their children’s as Canadian Methodist (perhaps an error).^[275] He was still of Toronto in 1893, but was apparently later of Buffalo, Erie Co., N.Y. Known issue, all born in Ontario (per 1881 census):
   1. Agnes Turner, b. ca. 1856-57, still living unmarried with her parents in 1881.
   2. Julia Turner, b. ca. 1860-61, living unmarried with her parents in 1881.
   3. Charlotte Turner, b. ca. 1862-63, living unmarried with her parents in 1881, when she is called a milliner.
   4. Berkley Griffield Turner, of Buffalo, b. 19 July 1865 at Port Dover, Ontario,^[276] d. 10 Feb. 1919 at Buffalo, New York.^[277] He is called a carpenter in the 1881 census, despite being only 15 years of age at the time. He m. 12 Oct. 1883 at Toronto, Eleanor Temple, b. 2 Nov. 1865, d. 26 Nov. 1935 at Buffalo,^[278] daughter of Snowdon Temple, of Toronto, merchant, by the latter’s wife Emma King.^[279] In the 1887 birth record of their son Homer he is called a builder, and his address given as 209 Major Street, Toronto. But in the 1889 birth record of his son Kennard he is called a shoemaker, and his address is given as 171 Borden Street, Toronto. Known issue:
      1. Homer Griffield Turner, b. 3 Nov. 1887 at Toronto,^[280] living 1939. He went to the U.S. in 1891 and was naturalized in 1903. After attending Syracuse University, where he received a B.S. in 1912 and an M.S. in 1914, he remained as an instructor (1913-16) and later assistant professor (1916-18) in mineralogy, and subsequently became assistant professor (1918-26, 1927-29) of geology at Lebigh University, acting as department head during the 1926-27 academic year. From 1929 he was director of research at the Anthracite Institute. He was a well-known petrographer who specialized in the analysis and purification of anthracite, and was a member of many learned societies.^[281] In 1939 his address was 420 E. Hamilton Avenue, State College, Pennsylvania. He m. 28 Nov. 1916, Nina Ida Cornish, by whom he had three children:
         1. J. Eleanor Turner.
         2. Erma Norine Turner.
         3. Byron Berkley Turner.
      2. Kenard Allen Turner, of Buffalo in 1930,^[282] b. 30 Oct. 1889 at Toronto,^[283] d. 1956. He m. Leona Rosella Oleyhane, b. 2 Dec. 1895 at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and had four children, recently still living.^[284] They included:
         1. Ethelda Norine Turner, b. 19 April 1925 at Buffalo. She m. 4 Sept. 1948 at Buffalo, John Albert Chudy, b. 20 Feb. 1924 at Buffalo, N.Y., and they had two children, recently still living.^[285]
   5. Homer Turner, b. probably in 1870 (aged 11 in 1881, 59 in 1930) in Ontario, living 1930. He m. about 1898 (since, according to the census, he was then 28 and she 32), Helen V. [FitzSimmons?], b. ca. 1866-67 (aged 63 in 1930) in New York State, living 1930. He and his wife are found in the 1930 census of Hamburg, Erie Co., in which he is called a carpenter and contractor; they had no children, but their household included his “sister-in-law” Mary W. FitzSimmons, who was surely his wife’s sister as both were born in New York of a father born in England and mother born in Ireland.^[286]
3. Anna Wismer, b. 15 Jan. 1829, d. 1842.
4. Enos Wismer, b. 14 Jan. 1831, d. 1842.
5. Maria Wismer, b. 28 Jan. 1833, d. 1842.
6. Jacob Everett Wismer, of Painesville, Lake Co., Ohio, b. 9 July 1835 in Ontario, living 1896. According to the 1893 Wismer genealogy, “Mr. Wismer left home in 1852, went to Ohio, where he remained until 1857, when he removed to Nanticoke, Wapole Tp., Haldimand Co., Ontario. In 1861, he returned to Painesville, Ohio, and later, went south and worked in the Government Navy yard as a ship carpenter. In the winter of 1870 [i.e. 1869-70] he moved to Allegan, Michigan, and engaged in farming. He has also been occupied as [a] merchant and fruit grower. He has also traveled quite extensively, having traveled from the C.P.R. limits to the southern boundaries of the U.S. and from the Atlantic to the Pacific coasts. He is also a fisherman of note. … Aside from his other duties he has also contributed articles to the press.” He m. (1) 20 Oct. 1857, Sarah Adaline Morrison, of Painesville, b. 1841-42 (aged 28 in 1870) in Pennsylvania,^[287] d. 4 March 1874. They were enumerated, with their four children, in the 1870 census of Watson Tp., Allegan Co., Michigan, in which he is listed as “Everett Wismer,” farmer.^[288] Jacob Wismer subsequently returned to Ontario, where he was probably living when he m. (2) 3 Oct. 1876 in East Whitby Tp., Ontario Co.,^[289] Mary Ann Coleman, b. ca. 1850 (aged 27 at their marriage; aged 30 in 1881) in Darlington Tp., Ontario, d. 12 Feb. 1890, daughter of Francis and Isabella (____) Coleman. Their marriage record calls him a pump-maker, of “Alleghani [sic], Michigan,” and her, of Whitby Tp., and names both their parents; the sole witness was a Lewis Caryell, of East Whitby Tp. In the 1877 birth record of their only child, a daughter Elizabeth Jane, he is called Everett Wismer, of East Whitby, carpenter. They were enumerated, with his two sons and their daughter Elizabeth, in the 1880 census of Whitby Tp., in which he is listed as “Everett Wismer,” carpenter.^[290] Jacob Wismer m. (3) 6 May 1896, in East Toronto Tp., York Co.,^[291] Christina Elizabeth (Hunter) Walker, b. ca. 1856-57 in Brock Tp., Ontario, widow of ____ Walker, and daughter of William Hunter and Jane Johnston. At the time of their marriage he was a widower and a farmer, of Markham, and she was of Toronto Tp.; the witnesses were William McKay and Margaret McKay, both of East Toronto Tp. Issue (first four children by first wife, last child by second):
   1. Laura Janette Wismer, b. 17 Aug. 1858 at Nanticoke, Walpole Tp., Haldimand Co., alive in 1920. She remained in the U.S. when her family returned to Canada, and m. 16 Jan. 1879, Perley E. Lonsbury, b. 1856-57 (aged 23 in 1880) in Michigan, d. by 1920, son of Nehemiah K. Lonsbury, of Watson Tp., Allegan Co., Michigan, by the latter’s wife Lucy A. Minor.^[292] Laura and her husband were enumerated in his parents’ household in the 1880 census of Watson Tp., Allegan Co., Michigan, in which he is called a servant.^[293] However, the Wismer 1893 genealogy calls him a farmer, of Kellogg, Michigan. They had moved yet again by 1920, when they are found in Ward 1, Pomona City, San Jose township, Los Angeles County, California.^[294] Only child:
      1. Beatrice M. Lonsbury, b. 3 June 1880, living unmarried with her widowed mother in 1920.
   2. John Everett Wismer, b. 24 Nov. 1861 at Port Dover, Ontario, alive and unmarried in 1920. He was living unmarried with his father and step-mother in 1881, but subsequently became a general salesman at Chicago, Illinois, and in 1920 was living with his sister Laura at Pomona City, San Jose township, Los Angeles County, California, the census stating his occupation as “none.”
   3. George Clark Wismer, b. 12 April 1863 at Painesville. He is called “Clark” in the 1870 and 1880 censuses. He was living unmarried with his father and step-mother in 1881, but subsequently became a druggist at Hinsdale, Illinois.
   4. Ada May Wismer, b. 18 July 1866 at Port Burwell, Ontario (Wismer genealogy) or 11 June 1867 at Painsville, Ohio (Hamlin genealogy). She is called “May” in the 1870 census. She possibly remained in the U.S. when her family returned to Canada, as she does not appear with them in the 1880 census, but we cannot find her in the LDS index to the 1880 census of the U.S. or the 1881 census of Canada. She m. 12 Jan. 1887 at Santa Barbara, California, Reuben Whiting Hamlin, b. 20 Nov. 1867 at Buffalo, New York, son of Reuben Smith Hamlin, of Oshawa, Ontario, by the latter’s first wife, Cyrene Elizabeth Whiting.^[295] Judging from the birthplaces of their children as given in the 1902 Hamlin genealogy, they were at Toronto in 1889-93 and at St. Catherines in 1891-94. The 1893 Wismer genealogy likewise gives their address as St. Catherines. According to the Hamlin genealogy, he was “owner of [a] steamer on Lake Ontario, plying between Toronto, St. Catherines, and Oakville.” Issue:
      1. Ada Corinne Hamlin, b. 9 Dec. 1889 at Toronto; birth record not found.
      2. Cyrene Hamlin, b. 2 Feb. 1893 at Toronto.^[296]
      3. Reuben Lloyd Hamlin, b. 10 Oct. 1891 at St. Catherines.^[297]
      4. Stuart Whiting Hamlin, b. 30 Aug. (per birth record) of 31 Aug. (per Hamlin genealogy) 1894 at St. Catherines.^[298]
   5. Elizabeth Jane Wismer, b. 5 Sept. 1877 in Ontario County,^[299] certainly living 1880, evidently unmarried in 1893.
7. Abraham Wismer, b. 30 Sept. 1838, d. 1842.
8. Lewis Levi Wismer, b. 24 March 1841, d. 1842.
9. Lewis Abraham Wismer (as he was consistently known in adulthood, although he was originally called Abraham Lewis Wismer), b. 5 July 1844 in Markham Tp., d. 25 Dec. 1919 at Toronto, aged 75 years (not 76 years as stated in his death record), of Bright’s disease, and buried in Park Lawn Cemetery.^[300] He m. in 1878,^[301] Fannie Elizabeth Andrews,^[302] b. ca. 1852-53 in England, living December 1885. He is enumerated in the 1881 census of St. David’s Ward, Toronto, in which is called a slater.^[303] In the 1882 birth record of his daughter Alberta he is called a slate-roofer, and his address is given as 32 Bell Street, Toronto. A brief sketch of him published in 1885 also calls him a slate-roofer, of 167 Strachan Avenue, Toronto.^[304] In the late-1885 birth record of his son Robert, he is called a slate-roofer, of 115 Strachan Avenue, Toronto. He is also called of Toronto in the 1893 Wismer genealogy. At the time of his death, in the record of which he is called a manager, and in which his father is named as Jacob Wismer, he was of 62 Northcote Avenue, Toronto. Known issue:
   1. Lulu Wismer, b. ca. 1878, who appears with her parents in the 1881 census.
   2. Albertha Emeline Wismer, b. 27 Jan. 1882 in York Co.^[305]
   3. Robert Everitt Wismer, b. 2 Dec. 1885 in York Co.^[306]

7. Elias H. Wurts, of Saginaw, Michigan, son of John Wurts, of Markham Tp., York Co., Upper Canada (now Ontario), by the latter’s second wife, Barbara (Brook) Marr, was b. 17 April 1821 (according to the Wurts family bible), and d. in Michigan shortly before 12 June 1890, when his death was reported by the Markham Economist.^[307] He m. (1) 28 Dec. 1843 in Ontario, Mary Burkholder,^[308] b. 17 Feb. 1827, alive in 1849 in but d. by the taking of the 1860 census. In 1845 and 1846 he was a witness to land sales by his half-brother, John Marr (Jr.).^[309] He farmed most of his father’s land, and appears beside him in the 1852 census, in which he is called a yeoman, of no religion.^[310] In a directory of 1846 and on a map compiled in 1853-54, he is shown as the owner of his father’s original homestead, lot 13 of the tenth concession; but by 1854 the far eastern quarter of the lot was in other hands. The same map shows Elias Wurts on the east half of his father’s second homestead on lot 12, the other half having been previously sold to the Reesor family.^[311] In March 1853 he took out a lease from the Crown of the east half of lot 28, concession 2, Uxbridge Tp., Ontario Co.^[312] In 1856 his name appears in a list of the members of Loyal Orange Lodge no. 548.^[313] In 1857 he followed John Marr II to the U.S.^[314] The Markham Economist of 4 June 1857 reported:

Elias Wurts, a well-known farmer of the wonship, left suddenly for parts unknown and without any provision to satisfy his creditors. He secretly deede his farm, worth at least $24,000, for $16,000, and although the mortagage given in pamyment has been attached, there will not be sufficient funds to meet the claims of creditors who are about to tfile a bill in Chancery to upset the clandestine sale, and satisfy all creditors and hand the balance to Wurt’s children, wife, and mother, who have been shamefully deserted.^[315]

The compiler’s father remembers Elias as a “half uncle” who visited the Marr farm in Howell, Michigan, a number of times. He was a dashing figure and travelled about trading horses, chickens and other live stock. One anecdote has it that he had operated a hotel in Niagara Falls, Ontario, but lost it gambling.

    Known issue:^[319]

(by first wife:)

1. Adeline Wurts, b. 3 Nov. 1844 at Markham, Ontario, d. March 1901, aged 56 years, at Ann Arbor, Michigan.^[320] She is found with her widowed father in the 1860 census, in which she is called a servant (i.e. in her father’s hotel?). She m. before 1867, Charles Straw, b. ca. 1833 (aged 37 in 1870) in Maine,^[321] who d. Feb. 1908, also at Ann Arbor, and who in his obituary is called a “former resident of Saginaw.”^[322] They appear in the 1870 census of Michigan in Ward 2 of the city of East Saginaw, Saginaw Co., Michigan, with two children, William, aged 11, and a 2-year-old child whose name is illegible on the copy available to us.^[323] Considering the gap in the ages of these children, and the age difference between Charles Straw and his wife, one suspects he had been married previously and that William was not Adeline’s son. They are found in the 1880 census of East Saginaw, in which Charles is called a grocer; their household at that time included her father, and her sister Susan.^[324] Adeline’s obituary refers to her as “mother of C. Orrin Straw.” Known issue:
   1. Charles Orrin Straw, b. 1866-67 (aged 13 in 1880) in Michigan, d. 25 April 1902 at Saginaw, Michigan, aged 34 years, and buried 28 April following.^[325] His death record, which names his parenyts as Charles Straw (born in Maine) and Addie Wurts (born in Canada), states that he was married, and a street-car conductor.
   2. Cora May Straw, b. 10 July 1870 in East Saginaw Tp., Saginaw Co., Michigan,^[326] d. unmarried 23 July 1899 at Saginaw, Michigan, aged 29 years, and buried there 25 July following.^[327] Her death record, which names her parents as Charles Straw (born in Maine) and Addie Wurts (born in Ontario), states that she was single, and a stenographer.
   3. Arthur Straw, b. 1875-76 (aged 4 in 1880) in Michigan.
   4. Alice Gertude Straw, b. 6 Aug. 1878 in East Saginaw Tp., Saginaw Co., Michigan.^[328]
2. 19John Burkholder Wurts, b. 16 May 1846, presumably in Markham Tp.
3. Benjamin Franklin Wurts, b. ca. 1848-49 at Markham, d. Jan. 1896 at Saginaw, Michigan, and buried there in Forest Lawn Cemetery.^[329] He is called Frank in the 1860 census, and in the 1906 marriage record of his son Clifford. He m. 24 Feb. 1877 in Howell Tp., Livingston Co., Michigan,^[330] his half-cousin once removed, Calista Marr, b. 28 Sept. 1852 in Canada, d. 9 Jan. 1882 in Howell Tp., of consumption,^[331] and buried in Van Nest Cemetery, Howell Tp., Livingston Co., Michigan, daughter of Jesse Marr, of Howell Tp., by the latter’s wife Lydia Hildebrant.^[332] Their marriage record describes the groom as aged 28 and born in Canada, and the bride 24 and born in Howell Tp. (apparently incorrect). The 1880 census of East Saginaw Tp. calls him a gardener.^[333] Only child:^[334]
   1. Clifford Elias Wurts, b. 5 June 1879 in East Saginaw Tp., Saginaw Co., Michigan,^[335] d. 29 Dec. 1928 at Detroit, Michigan. He is found with his sister Susan in the 1900 census of Ward 6 of the City of Saginaw, Saginaw Co., Michigan, in which he is called a machine operator (? second word illegible).^[336] He m. 30 Oct. 1906 at Bay City, Michigan,^[337] but was subsequently divorced from, Edith M. Curts, b. 1886-87 (aged 20 in 1906, 23 in 1910) in Saginaw Co., Michigan, alive in 1917, daughter of Henry Curts and Mary Smith. At the taking of the 1910 census of the City of Flint, he was a toolmaker in an automobile factory.^[338] In 1917 or 1918 (the document is apparently undated) he registered for military service, giving his occupation as tool grinder, employer’s name as the Ford Motor Company, his address as 4156 Charlestown Street, Detroit, and the name of his wife as Mrs. Edith Wurts.^[339] He is found with his wife and daughter at Charlestown Street in the 1920 Census, in which he is called a machinist in an auto factory.^[340] Only known child:
      1. Margaret L. Wurts, b. about December 1909 (aged 4 months on 23 April 1910); alive in 1920.
4. Elizabeth A. Wurts,^[341] b. 1849-50 (aged 1 in 1852, 20 in 1870). As Elizabeth “Werts” she m. 28 Dec. 1870 at Willowdale, Vaughan Tp., York Co.,^[342] her half-cousin once removed, Charles Palmer (no. 3.iii.d above), b. 1847-48 (aged 22 in 1870), son of Weston Palmer and Rachel Tool, and grandson of John Tool and Catharine Wurts. At the time of their marriage, the record of which names both sets of parents without however supplying the maiden surnames of the mothers, the groom was a school teacher, and both parties were of Markham Tp. At the time of the birth of their daughter Mary Alberta in 1879 they were living at Frenchman’s Bay. Only known child:
   1. Mary Alberta Palmer, b. 10 Feb. 1879 in Pickering Tp., Ontario Co., Ontario, as a daughter of Charles L. Palmer and Elizabeth Wurts.^[343]
5. Alice Wurts,^[344] b. about 5 March 1855 in Markham Tp.,^[345] d. 10 Oct. 1891 in Saginaw East Tp., Saginaw Co., Michigan, aged 36 years, 7 months, 5 days.^[346] She was still living unmarried with her father in 1860. She is mentioned as a “sister, Mrs. A.O. Draper” in the obituary of her sister, Susanna Wurts. She m. by 1876, Alexander O. Draper, b. at Tuscola, Michigan (per the birth record of their daughter Mabel), alive in 1879. We have not found him in the 1900 census. Only known child:
   1. Mabel A. Draper, b. 5 Dec. 1876 in East Saginaw, Saginaw Co.^[347] She m. 15 April 1896 at Saginaw, Saginaw Co.,^[348] Julius C. Nerreter, b. 1870-71 (aged 25 years in 1896) in Saginaw Co., son of J. Nerreter and Lena Franke. Her parents are named in her marriage record as Alex Draper and “A. Wartz.”
   2. Elias W. Draper, b. 14 Oct. 1879 in East Saginaw, Saginaw Co.^[349]
6. Susanna/Susan Wurts, b. in 1857 (per 1900 census) at Markham, Ontario, d. (unmarried) July 1908 at Saginaw, Michigan, and buried there in Forest Lawn Cemetery.^[350] Left behind (presumably with relatives) in Canada when her father went to the U.S., she appears in the 1871 census of Markham Tp. as a servant in the household of Abraham and Martha (Pike) Reesor,^[351] by which time she was the only Wurts remaining in the township.^[352] Her obituary states that she was born at Markham in 1857, went to Saginaw in 1878, and was a “sister of Mrs. A.O. Draper and Mrs. Charles Straw.” She is found in the household of Adeline (Wurts) Straw in the 1880 census, which gives her name as Susan and calls her a dress-maker. She was living with her brother Clifford at the taking of the 1900 census, when she is again called Susan; her occupation as given therein is illegible.^[353]

8. Barbara Wurts, daughter of John Wurts, of Markham Tp., York Co., Upper Canada (now Ontario), by his second wife, Barbara (Brook) Marr, was b. 13 April 1824 (according to her tombstone) in Markham Tp. (according to her death record), d. 5 Jan. 1893 in Colbourne Tp., Huron County, of a uterine tumor, supposedly aged 68 years, 7 months, and 3 days (which however would give a birthdate in June 1824),^[354] and buried in Locust Hill United Church Cemetery, Markham Tp. She m. 24 March 1841, following publication of banns, by Wesleyan Methodist rites,^[355] William Forster,^[356] b. 22 Dec. 1813 in Northumberland, England,^[357] d. 28 Dec. 1886, and buried in Locust Hill United Church Cemetery, son of ____ and Rebecca Forster.^[358] William “Foster” (sic) is listed at lot 12, concession 8 of Markham Tp. in a directory published in 1837.^[359] At the time of his marriage he and his wife were both residing in Markham Tp. William Forster appears in 1845 and 1846 as a witness to land sales by his wife’s half-brother, John Marr (Jr.).^[360] He and his wife later farmed part of her father’s land, and appear beside the latter in the 1852 census of Markham Tp., in which William Forster is called a yeoman and his family’s religion is given as Wesleyan Methodist.^[361] At that time and in 1861, William Forster’s sisters Dianna and Barbara were living with them (and his sister Rebecca was still with them in 1871). By 1854 he was in possession of all but the south-west quarter of lot 13, concession 9, this lot being the original Crown grant of the Marr family;^[362] and by 1878 he had purchased the remaining quarter from Sinclair Holden.^[363] The 1861 census, which describes his house as being of stone, calls his family Free Methodists,^[364] that of 1871 calls them Wesleyan Methodists,^[365] and that of 1881 calls him a gentleman, listing a servant in their household, and giving their religion as Canadian Methodist.^[366] He was one of the original trustees of Locust Hill Wesleyan Methodist Church in 1857. We have been unable to find a record of his death. Barbara was doubtless living at the time of her death with her son William Byron Forster, who was the informant thereof and was of Colbourne Tp.
    Issue:^[367]

1. John Forster, b. 10 Dec. 1841, bapt. 12 May 1844 in Markham Tp., according to Wesleyan Methodist rites,^[368] “drowned in the Maitland River, April 16, 1864,” along with his younger brother Elias, according to their tombstone.
2. Elias Forster, b. 22 Jan. 1843, bapt. the same day and place as his elder brother John, “drowned in the Maitland River, April 16, 1864,” along with his elder brother John.
3. 20Anthony Forster, b. 6 Nov. 1844 in Markham Tp.^[369]
4. 21William Byron Forster, b. about December 1846 near Locust Hill.

9. Clarissa Wurts, daughter of John Wurts, of Markham Tp., York Co., Upper Canada (now Ontario), by his second wife Barbara (Brook) Marr, was b. 19 June 1826 (according to the Wurts family bible), and d. 1 April 1879, aged 52 years, at Buena Vista, Saginaw Co., Michigan, of cancer.^[370] She m. ca. 1846, Gideon V. Turner (his middle name was Vardon but he never used it), bapt. 31 March 1825 in St. Patrick’s Parish Church (Anglican), Charlotte, New Brunswick, alive in 1894, son of Isaac and Ann (Vardon) Turner, of lot 29, conc. 5, Whitevale, near Green River, Pickering Tp., and possibly also an elder brother of Ananias Turner, husband of Clarissa’s niece, Emeline Wismer, above.^[371]
    Her husband belonged to the family of Turner of Green River, who came with a group of Baptists from New Brunswick in the late 1830s.^[372] Gideon and Clarissa Turner appear in the 1852 census of Markham Tp., and in the 1861 census of Pickering Tp., Ontario Co., Ontario; both calling him a carpenter.^[373] He is also listed in an 1857 directory as “Gideon Turner, of Markham [Township], carpenter & joiner.”^[374]
    Harriette Marr Wheeler discovered an advertisement in the Markham Economist and Sun of 24 November 1857 which reads, “Gideon Turner would beg to inform the travelling community that he has leased the newly-erected Esplanade Hotel, Front St., East, Toronto, where he will be found at all times. Every care and attention will be provided for the accommodation of travellers.”^[375] Later he and his family moved to Michigan (where Clarissa’s brother Elias had been since 1857), and appear in the 1870 census of Zilwaukee, Saginaw Co., where Gideon Turner is called a millwright.^[376] In 1880 the widowed Gideon Turner, again called a millwright, is found with his two youngest surviving children, Robert and Berdie, in Buena Vista Tp., Saginaw Co.^[377]
    Fresh light on Gideon Turner’s milling business was discovered by Kate Wheeler (no relation to Harriette Marr Wheeler) in an 1883 newpaper article:

Blown to Atoms. East Saginaw, June 1. — The shingle mill of G.V. Turner & Sons, eight miles below this city [at Zilwaukee], was blown to atoms at 8:30 o’clock this morning by the explosion of a boiler. The following persons were killed:
Will. G.V. Turner, engineer [the owner’s son]
Herman Goulding, fireman.
John McDowell, night watchman.
J.L. Turner and Rose Plew were seriously injured and Orlando Seiders and Peter Nelson were slightly hurt. The cause of the explosion is not known. Damage, $5,000.^[378]

Following the destruction of the mill, he moved with his son Loren to Seattle, King Co., Washington. Gideon V. Turner, born in Canada, was naturalized as a U.S. citizen at the Seattle District Court in the state of Washington on 5 Feb. 1894, with guarantors N.J. Irish and W.M. Watson.^[379]
    Known issue:

1. Isaac Loren [or Loring?] Turner, b. ca. 12 Nov. 1848 in Ontario, d. 16 Jan. 1938 at Seattle, King Co., Washington, aged 89 years, 2 months, and 4 days.^[380] He appears with his parents as an unmarried son “Doran,” aged 21 years, in the 1870 census of Michigan. Thus the received date of his marriage cannot be correct. He m. (reportedly 1 Jan. 1870, in Howell Tp., Livingston Co., Michigan) his half-cousin once removed, Bethena Marr, b. 21 Aug. 1854 in Michigan, who d. at an unknown date at Seattle, daughter of Cyrus and Olive (Chase) Marr, of Livingston Co.^[381] They are found in the 1880 census of Zilwaukee, Saginaw Co., Michigan, which says Loren Turner “runs a shingle mill.”^[382] Subsequently, at an unknown date, he removed to Seattle, Washington. Issue:^[383]
   1. Nellie Turner, b. ca. 1872-73 in Michigan, living 1880.
   2. Cyrus B. Turner, b. ca. 1875-76 in Michigan, living 1880.
   3. Clara A. Turner, b. ca. 1878 in Michigan, probably d. young as she is not named by Wheeler.
   4. Laura A. Turner, b. 6 Dec. 1879 at Zelwaukie, Saginaw Co., Michigan,^[384] in Michigan, d. 20 Aug 1952 in Washington State, aged 72 years,^[385] and buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Seattle.^[386] She m. by 1908, Quintin Gray Peniston, of Seattle, Washington, b. 26 April 1874 (per tombstone) in England (according to the entries for his children in the 1930 census), d. 4 Nov. 1927, and buried with his wife; according to a transcripton of the stones his first name is there spelled Quentin, but we have not confirmed the reading. Laura Peniston appears as a widow in the 1930 census of Seattle, her occupation and those of her children being listed as “none.”^[387] Issue:
      1. Dorothea Peniston, b. 1908-09 (aged 21 in 1930), living unmarried with her mother in 1930.
      2. Quintin Pearman Peniston, b. (perhaps posthumously) 8 Dec. 1910,^[388] d. in Sept. 1981 at Kingston, Kitsap Co., Washington.^[389] He was living unmarried with his mother in 1930. He received a Masters degree in Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1933, and a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from McGill University, Montreal, Canada, in 1939. He worked as an organic chemist and chemical engineer in various places, mainly in the State of Washington.^[390] He was author of several scientific papers.^[391] In 1975, he and a colleague, Edwin Lee Johnson, registered a patent for a “Method of recovering chitosan and other by-products from shellfish waste and the like” (U.S. patent no. 3862122), which describes the now-standard process of extracting chitosan — a substance which inhibits the absorption of dietary fats — from chiton in the shells of various arthropods. He m. in 1943, ________, and had two children, but we have not been able to obtain further details.
   5. Hazel Turner.
   6. Bessie Turner.
   7. Ruth Turner.
2. John Byron Turner, b. ca. 5 June 1850, d. 10 Nov. 1850, aged 5 months, 5 days, and buried in Green River Baptist Cemetery, Pickering Tp.
3. John Byron Turner, apparently b. 1851 (aged 1 year in 1852), living 1852 but not found with his parents in the 1870 census.
4. William G.V. Turner,^[392] b. ca. 1856 in Canada, d. s.p. 1 June 1883. He was living with his parents in 1870 but not with in his father in 1880. Nothing further of him was known until we received a message from his wife’s great-grandniece, Kate Wheeler, who supplied the following very interesting account of him:

   William is first listed in the City Directory of Saginaw in 1877 as a laborer. Prior to that, he may have lived outside of Saginaw with his family, but I’ve found no record of that. As a single working man, he lived at the corner of Miller and 14th Streets.

   Some time in late 1882 or early 1883 (I haven’t confirmed the exact date yet), he married Augusta Solms, the daughter of Count Emich zu Solms-Wildenfels and Countess Maria Anna zu Solms-Wildenfels (née Otto). Count Emich [1820-1883], my great-great grandfather, came to the Tittabawassee area in 1848 after the March Revolution. He was the editor of the Saginaw Zeitung, the German language newspaper, but is listed as a ìgentlemanî in census information. Augusta was his sixth of seven children; she was born in March 1859.

   William Turner died on June 1, 1883. He was killed in a boiler explosion that destroyed his father’s shingle mill, G.V. Turner & Sons, which was located eight miles south of Saginaw City. He is listed in a newspaper article about the explosion as an engineer at the mill. The story was picked up by the Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel on June 6, 1883. William was buried in Brady Hill Cemetery, which is now called Forest Lawn Cemetery. The cemetery records state that he was 28 years old at his death. Augusta was remarried in 1907 to William A. Roeser.

5. Robert I. Turner, b. ca. 1865-66 in Canada, living 1880.
6. Berdie M. Turner (daughter), b. ca. 1875-76 in Michigan, living 1880.

Generation 3

10. Mary³ Tool, daughter of John Tool and Catharine Wurts, was b. 9 or 12 Sept. 1817 at Pine Orchard, Whitchurch Tp., York Co., Ontario,^[393] d. 22 Oct. 1906 in Pickering Tp., Ontario, aged 89 years, and as “Mary Tool relict of the late Hawkins Woodruff” is buried with her husband in the Friends’ Cemetery, Mill Street, in the town of Pickering. She m. 29 Nov. 1837, after publication of banns, in Pickering Tp.,^[394] Hawkins Woodruff, b. 16 April 1812 in Pickering Tp., d. 7 June 1878 in Pickering Tp., of dropsy,^[395] aged 66 years, son of Noadiah and Charity (Powell) Woodruff, of lot 17, conc. 2, Pickering Tp.^[396] At the time of their marriage both parties were of Pickering Tp.; the witnesses were “Zelata Harvey Woodruff” [recte Zelotes, the groom’s brother] and Rachel Toole. Hawkins Woodruff was living on part of his parents’ land, lot 17, concession 2 of Pickering, in 1837.^[397] He bought Lot 18, Concession 4 in 1849, and according to census and assessment records lived there with his family by 1851.^[398] The 1851 Assessment Roll records Hawkins Woodruff as the owner and occupant of 100 acres of parts of lots 17, and 18, Concession 4. The 1851 census describes the house as a log construction, while ten years later the 1861 census notes the presence of a one and-a-half storey stone house. “It is believed that the Woodruffs operated a woollen textile rottage industry from the rear addition to the house sometime in the nineteenth century. An early water supply system was developed with the source located up the hill to the east of the house. It was fed from the source by a lead pipe to the textile production area.”^[399] The house, which has the initials H.W. (for Hawkins Woodruff) scratched on a stone on the northwest corner, still stands (1999).^[400] Hawkins and Mary (Tool) Woodruff are listed in the 1871 census, in which he is called a farmer, his origin given as Irish, and their religion given as Quaker.^[401] In his death record, Hawkins Woodruff is called a farmer, of lot 18, concession 4 of Pickering, and his religion as Society of Friends. Mary appears as a widow in the 1881 census of Pickering Tp., with her children Emma, Emmet, and Selena, the family’s religion being given as Quaker.^[402] She also appears in the household of her daughter Emma (Woodruff) Allaway in the 1901 census.^[403] For further details on this family, not incorporated here, see John W. Sabean, “The Woodruff Family of Pickering,” cited above.
    Issue (mainly according to Wood and the 1941 Tool genealogy):

1. Elizabeth Woodruff, b. 1837-38 (aged 33 in 1871); still living unmarried with her parents in 1871, but not in 1881. The 1941 Tool genealogy sates that she m. ____ Ryan, but does not show any issue.
2. John Woodruff, b. ca. 1840, d. 13 Feb. 1897, aged 57 years, and buried with his wife in the Friends’ Cemetery, Mill Street, in the town of Pickering. He m. in 1862,^[404] Sarah Rebecca Andrews, b. 1838-39, d. 30 May 1897, aged 58 years, daughter of Caleb Andrews. In 1881 he was living in Pickering Tp., quite close to his mother, and was a cattle dealer, his family’s religion being Quaker.^[405] Known issue, all born in Ontario (per 1881 census):
   1. Hawkins Warren Woodruff, b. 1864-65, d. 15 Sept. (per tombstone) or 16 Sept. (per death record) 1898 in Pickering Tp., aged 33 years, 9 months, of typho-malarial fever,^[406] and buried in St. George’s Anglican Cemetery, Pickering. He is not to be confused with his like-named uncle below. In his death record he is called a butcher, his address given as Pickering Tp., and his religion as Church of England. He m. Annie Goodman, d. 30 Oct. 1935, aged 68 years, and buried with her husband. According to the 1941 Tool genealogy, he had children John, Mabel, Albert, Eve, and Russel Woodruff, of whom the first four died young. There was also a son James Allan Woodruff, d. 15 Feb. 1894, aged 11 months, and buried with his parents.
   2. Zelotes Harvey Woodruff, b. about 30 Sept. 1867, d. 15 April 1902 at Chicago (per Tool genealogy), aged 34 years, 6 months, 15 days, and buried with his parents. He should not be confused with his uncle of the same name.
   3. Mary (“Minnie”) Woodruff, b. 21 Oct. 1869, d. 7 March 1929. she m. 5 Sept. 1888, James Harvey Burkholder, b. 19 Aug. 1869, d. 26 Dec. 1941 of heart failure. This couple appears in the 1941 Tool genealogy, but our account of them has been greatly improved by information from Ruth Burkholder. They had issue:
      1. Frederick Warren Burkholder, b. 7 Oct. 1898, d. __ Oct. 1946, and buried St. George's Cemetery, Trenton. He m. (as her first husband) 12 April 1911, Rose Elizabeth Whitley, who m. secondly, ____ Miller. There were no children.
      2. Wilfrid Earl Burkholder, b. 11 July 1895, d. __ Feb. 1992. He m. (1) 14 June 1919, Anna Laura (“Betty”) Dunning, b. 5 June 1894, d. 11 Feb. 1974. He m. (2) in 1975, Ann Theresa (“Tommy”) Thompson. Issue:
         1. Joanne Maxine Burkholder; m. 22 Oct. 1941, Percival John Fillimore.
         2. A stillborn son.
         3. Paul Woodruff Burkholder; m. (1) 24 May 1946, Jean A. Rushworth; m. (2) 31 Oct. 1975, Connie Glead.
         4. Suzanne (“Sue”) Patricia Burkholder; m. 29 Aug. 1952, Stanley Devor Jeffrey.
      3. Gertrude Marie Burkholder, b. 29 Nov. 1898, d. __ Oct. 1946. She m. 22 June 1918, John Cleveland Baillie. Only child:
         1. Gertrude Merle Baillie; m. Norman George Snyder.
   4. Emmaline Woodruff, b. ca. 1870-71, m. ____ Gilbert, and went to Chicago.
   5. Frankland (“Frank”) Woodruff, b. ca. 1872-73; did not marry.
   6. Elizabeth Woodruff, b. ca. 1874-75. According to the 1941 Tool genealogy, she m. Fred Kerr, and had issue:
      1. S.W. Kerr, m. Claire Gould. Issue: Harvey Kerr, Joanne Kerr.
      2. Alma Kerr, m. Herbert Wilson. Issue: Audrey Wilson, John Wilson.
      3. Norris Kerr, m. Mabel Colen; no issue.
3. Jemima Woodruff, probably b. in 1840-50, not found with her parents in 1871, but apparently still alive in 1911.
4. Zelotes Harvey Woodruff, said to have been b. ca. 1842, apparently still alive in 1911, said in the 1941 Tool genealogy to have d. in Ohio. He has not been found in the 1881 census of Canada or the 1880 census of the U.S. He should not be confused with an uncle of the same name, Zelotes Harvey Woodruff (1794/95-1867), who with his wife Annie [Lamoreaux] (1799-1857) is buried in the abandonned Woodruff Cemetery, Brock Road, Pickering Tp.^[407]
5. Jerusha C. Woodruff [presumably female], said to have been b. ca. 1844, not found with parents in 1871, but apparently still alive in 1911.
6. Noadiah Woodruff, said to have been b. ca. 1848, not found with his parents in 1871, but apparently still alive in 1911. He has not been found in the 1881 census of Canada or the 1880 census of the U.S. The 1941 Tool genealogy seems to suggest that he married the widow of his brother Zelotes.
7. Maria Woodruff, b. 1851-52 (aged 19 in 1871), still living unmarried with her parents in 1871 but not in 1881, though she was apparently still alive in 1911.
8. Hawkins Warren Woodruff, perhaps the Hawkins Woodruff, b. 1852-53 (aged 18 years in 1871), who appears as a stray in the 1871 census of Osprey Tp., Grey Co., but his “origin” is given as German and his religion as Wesleyan Methodist, which does not correspond to the information given for his parents in the same year.^[408] According to a patrons’ submission record indexed in the IGI (but not checked by us in the original), Hawkins Warren Woodruff went to Ontario Tp., Wayne Co., N.Y. We have not found him in the 1881 census of Canada or the 1880 or 1900 censuses of the U.S.
9. Catharine Lois Woodruff, b. 1853-54 (aged 17 in 1871), d. (unmarried) 14 June 1927, aged 75 years, and buried with her parents. She was still living unmarried with her parents in 1871 but not in 1881. After the death of her mother in 1906, Catherine Woodruff leased the family property until she sold it in 1911 to Thomas Reevely.^[409]
10. Emmeline/Emma Woodruff (called Emmaline in her youth), b. 15 or 16 Dec. 1859,^[410] on her parents’ homestead on Brock Road,^[411] d. 17 Oct. 1920, at her home on Elizabeth Street, Pickering,^[412] and buried two days later in the Old Methodist Cemetery, Elizabeth Street, Pickering. She was still living unmarried with her mother in 1881. She m. (as his second wife)^[413] 1 March 1894 in Pickering Tp.,^[414] William Green Allaway, b. 15 Sept. 1852 in Markham Tp., d. 6 Nov. 1924, and buried with his first wife, son of Alfred Alloway by his wife Elizabeth Wilkinson.^[415] d. 6 Nov. 1924, and buried with his two wives in Pickering Old Methodist Cemetery. Emma and her husband are found in the 1901 census of Pickering Tp., and her mother was living with them at the time.^[416] A death notice for Emma (Woodruff) Allaway reads:

    Her many friends will regret to hear of the death of Mrs. Wm. Allaway, which took place on Sunday morning at her home on Elizabeth Street. The deceased had been in failing health for several months, and for the last three weeks has been confined to her bed. Everything that medical skill and loving hands could do failed to bring relief from her sufferings. Her maiden name was Emma Woodruff, being the youngest daughter of the late Hawkins and Mrs. Woodruff. She was born in March, 1860, on the old homestead on the Brock road, just north of the C.N.R., the farm being now ownede by C. Simpson. She qualified for the teaching profession and taught school for three years. Twenty six years ago she married Mr. Allaway, who survives her. She had three of a family, Mrs. Smith, of Toronto, Marjorie, at home, and Clayton, who died when three years of age. She was a faithful member of the Methodist Church and was highly esteemed by all who knew her. Her funeral took place on Tuesday afternoon when internment took place in the Methodist cemetery. Mr. Allawy and daughter have the heartfelt sympathy of the community in their bereavement.

    Known issue:
    1. Mary Gladys Allaway, b. 21 Sept. 1895 in Ontario County,^[417] living 17 Oct. 1920. According to the 1941 Tool genealogy, she m. William Smith. She is described as “Mrs. Smith, of Toronto” in her mother’s death notice.
    2. Stillborn child, b. 8 March 1897.^[418]
    3. Catherine Marjory Allaway, b. 26 Jan. 1899 in Ontario County,^[419] living 17 Oct. 1920. She was still living unmarried with her parents at the time of her mother’s death in 1920. According to the 1941 Tool genealogy she afterward m. James Blakely.
    4. William Clayton Allaway, b. 27 Jan. 1901 in Ontario County,^[420] d. __ July 1904, and buried with his parents in Pickering Old Methodist Cemetery.
11. Emmet Emsley Woodruff, b. 1861-62 (aged 9 in 1871), living unmarried with his widowed mother in 1881, when he was a farmer. According to Jeff Fowler, he m. Polly Parrot, and had issue:
    1. Laura Woodruff.
    2. William Woodruff.
12. Selena Woodruff, b. 1866-67 (aged 4 in 1871), still living with her widowed mother in 1881, but probably d. young, as she is not mentioned by Wood or in the 1941 Tool genealogy.

Woodruff house, Pickering Township, built in the 1850s

11. John³ Tool,^[421] of Pickering Tp., Ontario Co., Ontario, son of John Tool and Catharine Wurts, was b. 8 May 1819 at Pine Orchard, Whitchurch Tp., d. 27 Dec. 1901, of old age, aged 82 years and 7 months,^[422] and was buried in Whitevale Cemetery, Pickering Tp., Ontario. He m. (1) by 1849, Harriet Woodruff, said to have been b. 30 Oct. 1819, d. 7 June 1875, aged 55 years, 7 months, and 8 days, and buried in Whitevale Cemetery.^[423] He m. (2) in 1875-81, Permelia ____, b. 1833-34 (aged 47 in 1881), who on chronological grounds, and considering the rarity of the name, was in our view almost certainly identical with Permelia J. (Hamilton) Turner, b. 1833-34 (aged 67 at death), d. 15 Nov. 1901 at Pickering, and buried in Green River Baptist Cemetery, widow of George W. Turner (1834-1874, who was almost certainly a brother of Gideon V. Turner, husband of John Tool’s half-aunt Clarissa Wurts, below), and daughter of James Hamilton and Bethena Marr (which Bethena was the said Clarissa Wurts’ uterine half-sister).^[424] If our supposition is correct, then her tombstone says nothing of her second marriage to John Tool, but this would not be at all uncharacteristic for the period. The matter should have been settled by her death record, but her death does not appear to have been properly recorded. Wood states that John Tool “settled on concession five [of Pickering Tp.] about 1830,” which is clearly too early given his birthdate. But he is listed in the 1881 census of Pickering Tp. as a farmer, and the religion of his family given as Canadian Methodist.^[425] In his death record he is called a farmer, of Whitchurch Tp., and his religion given as Methodist.
    Known issue, all by first wife (according to Wood, and the 1941 Tool genealogy):

1. George Tool, b. 26 April 1849 in Whitchurch Tp., d. 3 Dec. 1910 in Pickering Tp., and buried with his parents in the Union Cemetery, Whitevale. He m. 10 March 1874 in the parsonage, Stouffville, Markham Tp.,^[426] Jane Middleton, b. 11 Dec. 1849, d. 10 Feb 1920 in Pickering Tp., daughter of James and Jane (Harrison) Middleton.^[427] At the time of their marriage he was a farmer; the witnesses were Thomas Collins and Rachael Middleton, both of Pickering Tp. They are found in the 1901 census of Pickering Tp.^[428] George Tool was of the fifth concession of Pickering in 1911 (Wood). He is enumerated very close to this father in the 1881 census of Pickering Tp., in which he is called a farmer, and his family’s religion given as Canadian Methodist.^[429] A brief death notice of his wife reads, “This neighborhood was greatly shocked to hear of the death of a former resident, Mrs. George Tool, which took place on Tuesday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. [Elizabeth] Richardson, of Toronto.”^[430] Known issue, all born in Ontario:
   1. Mary Mabel Tool, b. 13 Aug. 1875, living unmarried with her brother Silas in 1901. According to the 1941 Tool genealogy, she remained unmarried.
   2. William J. Tool, b. 21 Jan. 1877 in Pickering Tp., d. (unmarried) 23 Feb. 1899, aged 22 years, and buried with his family in the Union Cemetery, Whitevale, he and his father sharing the same tombstone.
   3. Silas Tool, b. 9 Sept. 1878 at Whitevale, Pickering Tp., d. 1959, and buried with his wife and family in Whitevale Cemetery. In 1901 he was living unmarried with his sister Mabel in Pickering Tp., very close to their parents.^[431] He m. 30 Oct. 1901 at Claremont, Pickering Tp.,^[432] Elizabeth Gourlie, b. 1879 in Uxbridge Tp., d. 1954, daughter of James Gourlie, of Uxbridge Tp., by his wife Louisa Hockley.^[433] At the time of their marriage he was a farmer, living at Whitevale, and his wife was of Uxbridge; the witnesses were Leslie Hodgson, of Altona, Pickering Tp., and Edith Gourlie, of Claremont. He was of the fifth concession of Pickering Tp. by 1911 (Wood). He was probably the Silas Tool who co-authored the 1941 Tool genealogy. Issue:
      1. George Tool, b. 8 Sept. 1902 in Pickering Tp., d. shortly before 28 Nov. 1984, being described his death notice as a son of Silas and Elizabeth Tool.^[434]
      2. Edith Louise Tool, b. 11 April 1904 in Pickering Tp.; m. 18 Nov. 1936, Howard Beare, son of John Beare and Harriet Roach. As of late 1940 they had only an adopted child, Robert Beare, b. in May 1940.
      3. Mary Jane Tool, b. 18 Sept. 1906 in Pickering Tp., unmarried in 1940.
   4. Elizabeth (“Libbie”) Jane, b. 9 March 1880 in Pickering Tp., d. 22 or 27 March 1934, and buried with her parents in the Union Cemetery, Whitevale. She m. after early 1901 (when she was still living unmarried with her parents), William Alfred Richardson.^[435] Known issue:
      1. Elizabeth Jane Richardson, b. 18 Nov. 1909 at Toronto, unmarried in 1940.
      2. Harry Richardson, b. 20 Jan. 1912; m. 3 June 1938, Victoria Dudley, b. 29 May 1913, daughter of W.E.G. Dudley and May Huggins. As of late 1940 they had one child:
         1. Patricia Jane Richardson, b. 25 April 1940.
   5. Harriet Georgina Tool, b. 11 March 1891.
2. Susan Ann Tool, b. 15 Sept. 1850, d. 18 March 1903. She m. 3 Jan. 1877,^[436] Thomas P. Collin, b. 2 Sept. 1850 in England, son of John Collin and Ann Hodgson. At the time of their marriage both were of Pickering Tp., he was a farmer, and the witnesses were John Tool Jr. and Mary Collin, both of Pickering. Issue:
   1. John Franklin Collin, b. 6 March 1878.
   2. Ralph Garfield Collin, b. 19 Sept. 1880.
   3. Russel Collin, b. 18 Feb. 1882.
   4. Harriet Collin, b. 25 Feb. 1892 [?].
3. Mary Janet Tool, b. 10 July 1852 in Whitby Tp., d. 15 Jan. 1923 at Guelph, Ontario. She m. 25 Feb. 1873 in Pickering Tp.,^[437] Robert Place, b. 21 May 1850 in Pickering Tp. Issue:
   1. Cora Gertrude Place, b. 19 March 1874.
   2. Harriet May Place, b. 2 Oct. 1874 [recte 1875?].
   3. Ada Florence Place, b: 2 Dec. 1876.
   4. Nettie Place, b: 5 Dec. 1878.
   5. Wilmot John Place, b. 5 July 1882.
   6. Ernest Place, b. 30 June 1885.
   7. Wesley Jay Place, b. 2 Dec. 1886.
4. Harriet Tool (twin), b. 15 Dec. 1854 in Ontario Co., Ontario, living 1896. She m. 14 April 1879 in Lexington, Sanilac Co., Michigan, Isaac H. Madill, b. ca. 1854 in Pickering Tp., Ontario Co., Ontario. He was not related in any known way to Joshua B. Madill, below. Issue:^[438]
   1. Ford Madill, b. ca. 1879 in Canada, said to have d. in infancy.
   2. Percival H. Madill, b. 22 Jan 1879 at Port Huron, Michigan, d. 1 March 1966 at Tuolumne, California. He m. 1 March 1919 at Washington, Illinois, Gertrude Starkey, b. 29 Dec. 1897 at Chicago, Illinois, d. 14 Feb. 1974 at Tuolumne. Known issue:
      1. Lola Madill, b. 1919.
      2. Percival Harry Madill (twin), b. 29 March 1925.
      3. Gertrude Marguerite Madill (twin), b. 29 March 1925.
   3. Roy Kenneth Madill, b. 30 June 1886 at St. Louis, Missouri, d. 23 Oct. 1949 at Los Angeles, California. He m. 20 July 1911 at Boston, Massachusetts, Mary Harriet Fernald, b. 26 Oct. 1890 in New Hampshire, d. 31 Aug. 1966 at Los Angeles. Known issue:
      1. Amelia Madill, b. 15 June 1912 in New Hampshire.
      2. Ilona Madill, b. 1912 (if a twin to Amelia) or later.
   4. John Tool Madill, b. 23 June 1888 at St. Louis, Missouri, d. 18 April 1952 at Boston. He m. 19 Aug. 1914 at Boston, Ethel May Brough, b. 19 April 1895 at Boston, d. 1 June 1960 at Sommerville, Massachusetts. Known issue:
      1. June Marie Madill, b. ____.
      2. Ethel Sarah Madill, b. 1916 in Connecticut.
      3. Lylian Frances Madill, b. 26 June 1919 at Boston.
      4. Kenneth John Madill, b. 28 Dec. 1920 at Boston.
      5. Robert Edmond Madill, b. 30 March 1922 at Sommerville.
      6. Doris Magill, b. 1924.
      7. Marion Ruth Madill, b. 2 Sept. 1928 at Lynn, Massachusetts.
      8. Donald Eugene Madill, b. 13 Jan. 1935 at Somerville.
   5. Maude Madill, b. 11 Oct. 1892 at St. Louis, Missouri, d. 20 Feb. 1946 at Los Angeles. She m. in 1931 at Washington, Illinois, Robert H. King. We do not know whether they had issue.
   6. Lillian Madill, b. 12 Dec. 1896 at St. Louis, Missouri. She m. 5 May 1916 at St. Louis, Missouri, Albert F. Gartiser.
5. Henrietta Tool (twin), b. 15 or 19 Dec. 1854 in Pickering Tp., d. 8 May 1936 at Port Huron, Michigan. She m. 7 Jan. 1874 in Markham Tp.,^[439] Joshua B. Madill, b. 24 Nov. 1850, son of Henry W. Madill, of lot 20, concession 7 of Pickering Tp. (near the town of Claremont), by the latter’s wife Phoebe Sharrard, daughter of Sylvanus W. Sharrard and Ruth Wixon, daughter of the Joshua Wixon and Rachael Eggleston mentioned elsewhere in these notes.^[440] A sketch of her husband in a local history reads:

   Joshua B. Madill, proprietor and manager of the Ubly grist-mills [in Bingham Township, Huron County], was born Nov. 24, 1850, in Ontario Co., Can., and is the son of Henry W. and Phebe (Sharnard) Madill. His parents are members of the agricultural class, and were born in Toronto. They reside in Ontario County and are aged respectively 63 and 55 years.

   Mr. Madill acquired a fair education in his youth, and when he was 23 years of age was married to Henrietta Tool. The event occurred in Ontario County, Jan. 7, 1874. Mrs. Madill is the daughter of John and Harriet (Woodruff) Tool. Her parents are natives of Ontario, of Canadian origin, and are farmers by occupation. Her mother died when she was 25 years old, in 1875. Her father resides in Ontario. Mrs. Madill was born Dec. 19, 1854, in Ontario Co., Can. Four children have been born to her husband, in the following order : Lottie, Phebe, Hattie and Ross.

   After marriage they removed to the village of Brougham in Ontario County, where they pursued the vocation of farming two years, at the expiration of which time they left the Dominion of Canada and located at Lexington, Sanilac County, where Mr. Madill became interested in a carriage factory, and was also in charge of the affairs of the aged grandfather of his wife [i.e. John Tool]. He went thence to the township of Marion in the same county and settled on 160 acres of land which he had previously purchased. On this he pursued agricultural operations until the fall of 1881. At that date he set out with a portable saw-mill, which he operated in various parts of Sanilac and Huron counties until 1883, when he came to Ubly and erected a grist-mill. The establishment is devoted chiefly to local work, and is fitted with the machinery constructed by J.T. Noah, of Buffalo, N.Y., and has a producing capacity of 75 barrels daily.

   Mr. Madill is a Republican, and has held the local offices of his township and school district. He is present School Director. He and his wife are members of the Baptist Church, and Mr. Madill is Clerk of the society.^[441]

   In the 1929 death notice of her brother John, Henrietta is described as “Mrs. Madill, who resides with her daughter in Port Huron.” Known issue:
   1. Charlotte (“Lottie”) Madill, b. 30 April 1875.
   2. Phoebe Madill, b. 19 Oct. 1876 in Michigan. She m. 7 Nov. 1894 at Ubly, Huron Co.,^[442] William S. Philp, b. 1870-71 (aged 23 years in 1894) in Michigan, son of Thos. J. Philp and Hannah White.
   3. Harriet Madill, b. 12 March 1878.
   4. Ross R. Madill, b. 26 March 1882 in Sanilac Co. He m. 12 April 1905 at Croswell, St. Clair Co., Michigan,^[443] Nattie Mcgunus, b. 1880-81 (aged 24 years in 1905) at Croswell, daughter of Charles McGunus and ____ Reid.
   5. Ruth Madill, b. 15 Sept. 1890 at Ubly, a senior at Port Huron High School in 1907.^[444] She m. 5 Sept. 1916 at Port Huron, St. Clair Co., Michigan,^[445] Clinton C. Davis, b. 1883-84 (aged 32 years in 1916) in Michigan, son of Cyrus G. Davis and Eliza Gundry.
   6. Earl Madill, b. 4 April 1891 in Michigan. He m. 6 Sept. 1916 at Port Huron, St. Clair Co., Michigan,^[446] Mary M. Welsh, b. 1894-95 (aged 21 years in 1916) in Michigan, daughter of T.H. Welsh and Anna Brown.
6. John W. Toole, b. 19/20 July 1857 in Pickering Tp., d. 16 Oct. 1929 during a visit to Port Huron, Michigan, and buried 30 Oct. following in Woodlawn Cemetery. He was living unmarried with his father in 1881, when he is called a farmer. He (as John W. Toole) m. 27 Dec. 1882 in Guelph Tp., Wellington Co.,^[447] Sarah J. Britton, b. 25 July 1856. They are found in the 1901 census of Pickering Tp.^[448] According to Wood, he was of the fifth concession of Pickering in 1911. A death notice reads:

   Word was received in Guelph on Monday, Oct. 28th, of the sudden death of John W. Toole, formerly of the 5th conc. of Pickering, and father of the late Prof. Wade Toole. Mr. Toole left Guelph about a month ago to visit his sister, Mrs. [Henrietta] Madill, who resides with her daughter in Port Huron. He was planning to return to his home in Guelph, when he was overcome by a hear attack, from which he never rallied. The funeral took palce on Wednesday, Oct. 30th, from his late residence, 55 Kirkland Str., Guelph, to Woodlawn Cemetery.^[449]

   Issue:
   1. Mary Toole, b. 23 May 1884, d. 14 Sept. following, and buried with her paternal grandparents in Whitevale Cemetery.
   2. Wade Toole, B.S.A., M.S., b. 3 March 1886 in Pickering Tp., d. v.p. 12 Jan. 1928 in Guelph Township, of acute appendicitis, and buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, Guelph.^[450] He was still living with his parents in 1901. He received the B.S.A. (Bachelor of Agricultural Science) and M.S. degrees, and became a professor at the Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph. He was the author of The Book of Live Stock (Toronto, 1921), and (in collaboration with J.P. Sackville), of Sheep (Toronto, 1919). He also contributed at least one article on animal husbandry to a newspaper.^[451] He served as one of the two first co-Presidents of the Canadian Society of Animal Science, founded in 1926.^[452] A brief death notice reads: “It was with great regret and sorrow that the old-time friends of the Toole family heard of the death of Prof. Wade Toole, and the hearts of the people of Brougham are with the aged parents and family in the [sic] sorrow.”^[453] He m. Mabel ____, who survived him, her address being given in his death record as Ontario Agricultural College. They were probably the parents of:
      1. Grant Wade Toole, described in his marriage notice as “son of Wade Toole,” m. 3 Oct. 1942 at Guelph, Ontario,^[454] Mary Katherine Beatty, daughter of Milton James Beatty.

12. Jemima³ Wurts, daughter of Maurice Wurts and Phoebe Warner, was b. ca. 1824 in Peel Co., Ontario,^[455] d. 28 Dec. 1898, aged 74 years, following a three-year paralysis.^[456] She m. 6 May 1845, following publication of banns, by Methodist Episcopal rites,^[457] James Patterson Hutton, b. 17 May 1821 in the Niagara region, d. 20 March 1901,^[458] son of Alexander Hutton, Sr., of Huttonville, Chinguacousy Tp., Peel Co., by his wife Mary Young.^[459] Jemima was of Chinguacousy at the time of her marriage. In 1855 her husband purchased the sawmill at Wolf Den (later Huttonville) owned by a Mr. Brown, and “among other improvements put in a circular saw, a lath and shingle mill.”^[460] He and his family are found in the 1871 census of the township, in which James Hutton and his son Alexander are called lumber merchants, and his family’s religion is given as Episcopal Methodist; they had one servant.^[461] Similar information is given for his family in 1881.^[462] In between, he is listed as “James. P. Hutton, Esq., Mill owner, Postmaster,” of Huttonville, in a directory published in 1874.^[463] In 1901 he, then a widower, was living at Georgetown in the household of his daughter Augusta Phoebe (Hutton) Williams.^[464]

James P. Hutton & Jemima Wurts from Illustrated Atlas of the County of Peel (1877), p. 55

    A brief memoir of James P. Hutton published in 1877 states that he was an active Liberal. “He has been engaged in farming and lumbering most of his life, owning three hundred acres of land in a block, about a hundred of which are cleared. [He] was President and Director of the Peel Agricultural Society …; was appointed Magistrate in 1857; is captain of the militia; [and] has been a member of the Chinguacousy [Township] Council for about ten years, holding the position of Deputy Reeve all the time.”^[465] From another source we learn that his presidency of the Agricultural Society lasted for three terms, from 1870 to 1872.^[466]

The Hutton House and Farm from Illustrated Atlas of the County of Peel (1877), p. 55

    A description of his sawmill published in 1877 states, “The mill … has been cutting from ten to twenty thousand feet of lumber per day, giving employment to a large number of men. He [Hutton] has also in connection a planing mill for matching, planing, etc. The shingle mill last year made in the neighborhood of two million shingles, and the lath mill cut about 400,000 feet of lumber. The whole machine is driven by a Leffell wheel, with a power of 7½ feet head of water.”^[467] It is apparent from the appearance of the place that he was a very wealthy man.

The Eclectic Female Institute, Brampton, Ontario, of which James P. Hutton was a patron

    James P. Hutton is possibly the James Patterson Hutton of whom obituaries appeared in the Canadian Champion of 14 March 1901, p. 3, col. 1, and 28 March 1901, p. 2, col. 5, and in the Acton Free Press of 28 March 1901, p. 3, col. 3, but we have not had an opportunity to check the original records.
    James P. Hutton was probably a brother of Henry H. Hutton, Principal of the Eclectic Female Institute at Brampton, an exclusive girls’ academy, of which James was a “patron” and where his daughter, Mary J. Hutton, is recorded as a pupil in 1863.^[468]
    Known issue:

1. Augusta Phoebe Hutton, b. ca. 1845, probably d. young.
2. Mary Jane Hutton, b. ca. 1847, a pupil at the Eclectic Female Institute, Brampton, in 1863.
3. Catharine A. Hutton, b. ca. 1849.
4. 22 Alexander Clemens Hutton, b. ca. 1850.
5. 23Phoebe Augusta Hutton, b. ca. 1851.
6. Elizabeth Letitia Hutton, b. 26 Oct. 1853. She was living with her parents in 1881, and was living unmarried at Georgetown in the household of her sister Augusta Phoebe (Hutton) Williams in 1901.^[469]
7. Oscar John Hutton, b. 9 March 1856 (per 1901 census) at Huttonville, still living unmarried with his parents in 1881. He is somewhat indifferently called Oscar or John in various records. He is called John in the 1871 census but Oscar J. in the 1881 and 1901 censuses. He is probably in error called James [sic] Oscar Hutton at his marriage, 2 Jan. 1884 at Georgetown, to Agnes Franklin Barber, b. 13 Oct. 1858 (per 1901 census) at Georgetown, daughter of James Barber and Jessie Hope. At the time of the marriage, the record of names both sets of parents, he was a manufacturer, of Huttonville, and she was of Georgetown; the witnesses were William McLeod and Ellen J. Smith, both of Georgetown.^[470] He is called “J. Oscar Hutton” in a newspaper article which states of him that he “built a woollen mill and in 1885 an electric power plant to run it. The dam and hydro plant in Huttonville produced sufficient electricity that a line was erected that same year and power was supplied to Brampton until 1912.”^[471] Oscar Hutton and his family are enumerated in the 1901 census of the town of Brampton, in which he is called an insurance agent.^[472]
       A John Hutton, of Guelph, tax collector, received a death notice in the Georgetown Herald of 21 Oct. 1903, p. 2, mentioning a Mrs. D. Williams, of Georgetown (who would then have been his sister Phoebe); but we have not seen the original record and are unable to say whether it relates to the present man.
       Known issue:
   1. Borthwick (?) Hutton, b. 6 May 1887.
   2. Jessie Hutton, b. 12 June 1895.
8. James Hutton, Jr., b. ca. 1858, living with his parents in 1871 but not in 1881.
9. Lincoln Hutton, b. 26 May 1861 at Huttonville (per death record), d. 23 March 1927 at Bolton, Albion Tp., Peel Co., Ontario, aged 65 years, and buried two days later in Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bolton.^[473] He was living unmarried with his parents in 1881. A Lincoln Hutton is mentioned in the Georgetown Herald of 30 Oct. 1901, p. 2, but we have not seen the original item. As Lincoln Hutton, conveyancer, of Bolton, he m. 7 Jan 1903 at Bolton,^[474] Mary Allice Elliott, b. 1875-76 (aged 27 in 1903) at Bolton, living 1907, daughter of Robert Elliott and Elizabeth Monkman. At the time of their marriage the bride was residing at Toronto; the witnesses were Fordyce L. Thompson, of Bolton, and Mabel M. Millard, of Toronto. They were living at Bolton at the birth of their son William in 1907, in the record of which Lincoln Hutton is again called a conveyancer. He is called a postmaster in the 1909 birth record of his daughter Mary. In his death record, he is called a conveyancer and postmaster. Known issue:
   1. William Oscar Hutton, b. 17 April 1907 at Bolton, Albion Tp., Peel Co.^[475]
   2. Mary Gertrude Elizabeth Hutton, b. 2 Nov. 1909 at Bolton aforesaid.^[476]

13. Charity³ Wurts, daughter of Maurice Wurts and Phoebe Warner, was b. probably about 1826 (her age is stated as only 24 years in the 1852 census, but she was probably slightly older) in Canada, and was still alive in 1852. While we have found no direct evidence pertaining to her parentage, her early appearance in Chinguacousy Township suggests a connection with this branch of the family, and given that Charity was used as an English version of Gertrude, she may well have been named for the mother of Phoebe Warner. Furthermore, the fact that she had a grandson named Maurice would seem to substantiate the connection. She m. 12 March 1841, following publication of banns, by Presbyterian rites,^[477] Walter Burns, b. 1814-15 (aged 37 in 1852) in the U.S., still alive in 1852. In their marriage record, in which the groom’s residence is given as Toronto Tp. and the bride’s as Chinguacousy, his surname incorrectly appears as Barnes. But it is given as Burns in the 1852 census, in the marriage records of both of their daughters, and in the birth records of two of the children of their daughter Mary Jane. This couple is enumerated in the 1852 census of Delaware Tp., Middlesex Co., in which Walter is called a cabinet-maker, and the family’s religion is given as Methodist.^[478] Their two younger daughters were married in Peel County in 1863 and 1867, respectively, but we do not know if Charity and Walter Burns were still alive at the time, and we have not found them in any post-1852 census records. Known issue:

1. Malicia Burns, b. 1843-44 (aged 8 in 1852), living with her parents in 1852, but of whom we have found no further record.
2. Delilah Burns, b. about 1845 (aged 6 in 1852, 19 in 1863) in Canada, d. 22 Nov. 1869 in Ontario. She m. (as his first wife) 15 Sept. 1863 in Peel Co.,^[479] her second cousin (through the Warner family), John Wartz Whetham, b. apparently 1842-43 (aged 20 in 1863) in Canada, d. 15 April 1918 at New Rockford, Eddy Co., North Dakota, son of William Whetham and Rebecca Chrysler (daughter of Adam Chrysler and Elizabeth Warner, and granddaughter of Christian Warner and Gertrude Ecker above-mentioned).^[480] At the time of their marriage, the record of which supplies the names of both sets of parents without however giving the maiden surnames of the mothers, both parties were of Chinguacousy. The origin of her husband’s middle name of Wartz, Wertz, or Wortz (as it is variously recorded) is explained by a great-granddaughter Marilyn Siebering in a communication to us via Lesley Weaver. She informs us that John’s mother, Rebecca Chrysler, was sent to live with her Warner grandparents when very young, after her father, Adam Chrysler, was hanged at the end of the war of 1812-1814 for spying for the Americans, leaving his widow with ten children. This arrangement brought Rebecca into regular contact with her aunt Phoebe Warner, wife of Maurice Wurts. John’s successive marriages to two of Maurice Wurts’s granddaughters attest to the closeness of the family connection. He married secondly, Delilah’s first cousin, and his own second cousin, Mary Jane Copeland (see below), daughter of Joseph Copeland and Rebecca Ann Wartz, by whom he had further issue. Issue of Delilah Burns and John Wartz Whetham:^[481]
   1. William Bradford Whetham, b. 21 Aug. 1865 in Ontario, d. 1932 at Warwick, Benson Co., North Dakota. He m. by 1886, Mary Elizabeth Dicker, b. 1864, d. 1936. They were of New Rockford, Eddy Co., North Dakota.^[482] Issue:
      1. John Luxmore Whetham, b. 1886, d. 1932
      2. Maurice W. Whetham, b. 1888, d. 1899.
      3. Delilah Whetham, b. 1891, d. 1920.
      4. Christine Whetham, b. 1894, d. 1982.
      5. James Oscar Whetham, b. 1896, d. 1966.
   2. Maurice Wartz Whetham, b. 7 Oct 1867 near Braunston, in Saurin Tp., Simcoe Co., alive in 1911. He m. 21 Dec. 1887 at Craighurst, Simcoe Co.,^[483] Margaret Dickie, b. 1867-68 (aged 19 in 1887) at Hillsdale, Saurin Tp., Simcoe Co., alive in 1911, daughter of Robert and Margaret (____) Dickie. At the time of their marriage, the record of which supplies the names of their parents but not the maiden surnames of their mothers, he was a labourer; the witnesses were Ann Thornton and Birdie Thornton. Known issue:
      1. Delilah (“Lela”) Margaret Whetham, b. 12 March 1889 in Simcoe Co.
      2. Laurence Whetham, b. in April 1895.^[484]
3. Mary Jane Burns, b. about 1850 (aged 1 in 1852, 19 in 1867, 29 in 1881) in Canada, living 1881. She m. 12 July 1867,^[485] Thomas Corner, b. around 1836 (aged 27 in 1867, 48 in 1881) in Ireland, living 1881, son of John and Rachel (____) Corner. At the time of their marriage, the record of which supplies the names of both sets of parents without however giving the maiden surnames of the mothers, both parties were of Chinguacousy. The marriage record apparently gives the name as Canon, but this cannot be correct as this couple had two children registered under the surname of Corner, the family appears under that name in the 1881 census, and Mary Jane is so called at the time of her second marriage. Thomas is called a carpenter, of Eramosa Tp., in the birth record of their son, Thomas Jr. (1876), and a joiner, of no specified township, in that of their daughter Rachel (1879). They were enumerated in Eramosa Tp. in the 1881 census, in which Thomas is again called a carpenter.^[486] As Mary Jane Corner, widow, of Glen Williams, daughter of Walter Burns and Charity Wortz, she m. (2) 20 Oct. 1902 at Georgetown,^[487] Eli Board, b. 1856-57 (aged 45 in 1902) in England, son of Edward Board and Jane Ashford. At the time of their marriage, the record of which names both sets of parents, the groom was a quarryman, of Glen Williams; the witnesses were Leah Erwin and H. Wallace, both of Georgetown. Known issue (both by first husband):
   1. James W.A. Corner, b. 1873-74 (aged 7 in 1881) in Ontario, a student in 1881.
   2. Thomas Richard Spence Corner, Jr., b. 7 March 1876 in Wellington Co.,^[488] a student in 1881.
   3. Rachel Maria Corner, b. 12 June 1879 in Wellington Co.^[489]

14. Rebecca Ann³ Wortz, of Chinguacousy, daughter of Maurice Wurts and Phoebe Warner, was b. say 1828, and was still alive in 1852. She m. (as his first wife) 20 Sept. 1848 in the Home District, by licence,^[490] Joseph Copeland, also of Chinguacousy, b. ca. 1825, said to have d. in 1890, son of Jonathan Copeland and Elizabeth Wilkins.^[491] At the time of their marriage both parties were of Chinguacousy Tp.; the witnesses were Isaac Minor and John Minor. We have not found this couple in the LDS index to the 1881 census. He married secondly (we have not found a record of the event), Sarah ____, with whom he appears in Chinguacousy Tp. in the 1861 census, also with his two elder daughters by his first marriage, and with three children of the second.^[492] Issue:^[493]

1. Maria Jane Copeland, b. ca. 1848 (aged 11 in 1861). She m. (as his second wife) by 1870, her second cousin, John Wartz Whetham, b. apparently 1842-43 (aged 20 in 1863) in Canada, d. 15 April 1918 in North Dakota, widower of her cousin Delilah Burns, above, and son of William Whetham and Elizabeth Warner. Issue:
   1. Oscar Whetham, b. in July 1871 at Brampton. He m. (1) (as her second husband) 23 Sept. 1895 in York Co., Ontario, Elizabeth (____) Rice, who d. in childbirth, losing the child at the same time. He m. (2) 21 Feb. 1900 in Lincoln Co.,^[494] Minnie Rodwell, b. 1879-80 (aged 20 in 1900) at Stamford, Ontario, daughter of William Rodwell and Rachel Millward (daughter of Charles Millward and Martha Walters). At the time of their marriage, the record of which supplies the names of both sets of parents including the maiden surnames of the mothers, both parties were of St. Catharines, and the groom was a gardner. Issue:
      1. Isabella Leotta Whetham.
      2. Jane Whetham.
      3. Lila Mae Whetham.
      4. Doris Whetham.
      5. Rodwell Sylvester Whetham. He is married, and has three daughters.
      6. Mildred Whetham.
      7. Jacqueline Whetham; m. ____ Weaver, and is mother of Lesley Weaver, who has been of great assistance in disentangling this difficult branch of the family.
   2. John C. Whetham, b. in Sept. 1873.
2. Elizabeth Copeland, b. ca. 1850 (aged 9 in 1861, 19 in 1870) in Chinguacousy Tp. She m. 23 Nov. 1870 in Peel Co., by Methodist rites,^[495] Reuben Cardinell, b. 1844-45 (aged 25 in 1870) in Chinguacousy Tp., son of Francis and Hanna (____) Cardinell. At the time of their marriage, the record of which names both sets of parents without however supplying the maiden surnames of the mothers, both parties were residing in Chinguacousy Tp., and the groom was a labourer; the witnesses were Alex Hutton and ____ Miner (illegible). The first witness was presumably the bride’s first cousin, Alexander Clemens Hutton, son of James Patterson Hutton and Jemima Wurts (above). Known issue:
   1. Gertrude Josephine Cardinell, b. 22 Sept. 1871 in Peel Co.
   2. Edward Wesley Cardinell, b. 6 Nov. 1874 in Peel Co.
   3. Mary Ann Cardinell, b. 6 Nov. 1876 in Peel Co.
   4. Henry Austin Cardinell, b. 3 Jan. 1885 in Peel Co.
3. Charity Ann Copeland, b. ca. 1853, d. 1854.

15. Joel³ Wurts,^[496] primarily of Chinguacousy Tp., Peel Co., Ontario, son of Maurice Wurts and Phoebe Warner, was b. ca. 1833, and d. 31 Aug. 1904 at Brampton, Ontario (where he was buried), aged 71 years, of liver failure.^[497] He was living unmarried with his parents in early 1852, but m. probably later that same year, Lydia Monck Barton, b. 18 March 1836 in Michigan, d. 28 April 1914 at the home of her son-in-law, R.J. Boyd, at Stettler, Alberta, aged over 78 years, and buried 30 April following at Stettler.^[498] She was of Irish parentage, and her mother’s first name was Grace. Joel Wurts has not yet been located in the 1861 census of Chinquacousy Tp. On 24 Oct. 1862 he received an assignment from the Crown of lots 174 and 175, concession 3 R.G.E. of Artemesia Tp., Grey Co. (near Flesherton), and on 10 Nov. 1868 he was assigned the adjacent lots 176 and 177.^[499] An 1866 directory lists him as “Joel Wurts, carpenter,” and shows him as situated on lot 5, concession 5 [West of Hurontario Street], Chinguacousy Tp., near Brampton.^[500] The 1871 census calls him a carpenter and gives his religion as Episcopal Methodist.^[501] In the 1872 birth record of his son Ernest he is described as a mechanic, of the 5^th concession West, Chinguacousy. He was still of Chinguacousy Tp. in 1874, when he is listed as “Joel Wurts, carpenter,” of Huttonville, in a directory published in that year.^[502] However, he he subsequently took up residence on his 1862 land grant above-mentioned, before 9 May 1877, when he is called of “lot 174, 3^rd [concession] West” in the birth record of his son Frederick. He is also called of Artemisia at the birth of his daughter Grace in 1878, and is listed there in a farmer’s directory of 1880, which calls him a farmer and lists his principal address as lot 179 in the 3^rd concession.^[503] It is also in Artemesia Tp. that he appears in the censuses of 1881 and 1891, which call him a farmer; his widowed father was living with him in 1881, and their household at that time included a servant.^[504] The news from Proto Station in the Flesherton Advance of 17 April 1890 reports that “Mr. Joel Worts [sic] has recovered from his illness.”^[505] However, he was back in Chinguacousy at the taking of the 1901 census; living in their household was a boarder, Phoebe Williams, who was probably Joel’s niece, the daughter of Benajah and Catharine (Wurts) Williams, below.^[506] According to his great-grandson, Elwood Wurts, “he seems to have retired back to the Brampton by about 1900, and was appointed to the Chinguacousy Board of Health in Jan. 1902.” In his death record, his address is once again given as lot no. 5, concession 5 West [of Chinguacousy Township], and he is said to have been at his place of residence for five years prior to his death. His widow, in a death notice cited above, is described as “Lydia Barton Wurts, relict of Joel Wurst, formerly of Artemesia township and later of Huttonsville, near Brampton. Mrs. Wurst was in her 79th year and was a widow ten years. She leaves one son and two daughters — E.M. Wurts, Melville, Sask.; Mrs. George Vause, Arcola, Sask.; and Mrs. R.J. Boyd, Stettler, Alberta.”

1. Maria B. Wurts, b. ca. 1852; d. v.m. before 28 April 1914. She was living with her parents in 1871 but not in 1881.
2. John Wurts, b. ca. 27 Nov. 1860, d. v.p. (and presumably unmarried) 31 Aug. 1882, of scarlet fever,^[507] “aged 21 years, 9 months, 4 days” (according to his tombstone), and buried beside his paternal grandfather in the town cemetery, Flesherton, Ontario. He was living with his parents in 1881 but not in 1891. In his death record he is called a farmer, and a Methodist.
3. Harriet Augusta Wurts, b. 13 Aug. 1865 at Brampton, alive in 1943. She was still living with her parents in 1881. She m. 17 Oct. 1888 in Artemesia Tp.,^[508] Robert James Boyd, living 1897. The Flesherton Advance of 3 Nov. 1943 reported that “Mrs. Jas. Boyd, Regina, and [her sister-in-law] Mrs. M.E. Wurts of Duff, Sask., are visiting the latter’s sister, Mrs. Archie Stewart.”^[509] Only known child:
   1. George Franklin Boyd, b. 5 Nov. 1897 in Wellington Co.^[510]
4. 24Ernest Major Wurts, b. 11 Aug. 1872.^[511]
5. 25Frederick Alexander Wurts, b. 9 May 1877 at Brampton.^[512]
6. Effie Grace Wurts, b. 2 July 1878 at Brampton,^[513] alive at her mother’s death on 28 April 1914. She was still living unmarried with her parents in 1901. She m. by 1914, George Vause, and in her mother’s death notice they are described as of Arcola, Saskatchewan.

16. Catharine³ Wurts, daughter of Maurice Wurts and Phoebe Warner, was b. 25 April 1836 (according to her tombstone), d. 4 Feb. 1908,^[514] and was buried in Glen Williams Cemetery, Esquesing Tp., Halton Co. She m. 31 Dec. 1858 [in Chinguacousy Tp., Peel Co.], by the Rev. Thomas Johnson, of Chinguacousy, Presbyterian Minister,^[515] her probable kinsman through the Wurts family, Benajah Williams, b. 29 Dec. 1832 (according to his tombstone), d. 2 Oct. 1906,^[516] and buried in Glen Williams Cemetery, son of Joel Williams, of Esquesing Tp., by the latter’s wife Adeline Bedford.^[517] She was living unmarried with her parents in 1852. At the time of their marriage she was of Chinguacousy and her husband of Esquesing; the witnesses were James Quennell and Louisa Mino, both of Chinguacousy Tp. They were living in Esquesing in 1861,^[518] on lot 24, concession 5-West of Chinguacousy in 1870-71,^[519] and at lot 32, concession 7 of Erin Tp., Wellington Co., near the village of Ballinafad, in 1881.^[520] Her husband was a farmer, and their religion was Episcopal Methodist.
    Known issue:

1. “Lonzo” Williams, b. ca. 1860, d. 1861-71.
2. Delilah Theresa Williams, b. probably in 1863 (aged 27 in 1890) in Chinguacousy Tp., living unmarried with her parents in 1881. She m. 15 Jan. 1890 at Georgetown, Halton Co.,^[521] James Elijah Mitchell, b. 1865-66 (aged 24 in 1890) in Maryborough Tp., Wellington Co., Ontario, son of Isaac and Bessie (____) Mitchell. At the time of their marriage, the record of which supplies the full names of both sets of parents (but misses the maiden surname of the groom’s mother), the bride was of Glen Williams, and the groom was a liveryman, of Georgetown; the witnesses were Franklin Edge, of Georgetown, and Eliza Williams, of Glen Williams. Known issue:
   1. James Herbert Mitchell, b. 20 April 1891 in Halton Co.
   2. Harry Cecil Mitchell, b. 9 Sept. 1893 in Halton Co.
3. 26Joel Williams, b. 6/8 July 1864.
4. Maurice Williams, b. 4 July 1866, d. unmarried 4 June 1887, and buried with his parents.
5. Eliza Jane Williams, b. 22 April 1870 in Chinguacousy Tp.,^[522] living with her parents in 1881. She m. 30 Dec. 1890 at Georgetown, Halton Co.,^[523] John Franklin Edge, b. 25 Nov. 1860 (per 1901 census) in Nelson Tp., Halton Co., son of William Edge and Elmira Smith. At the time of their marriage, the record of which supplies the full names of both sets of parents, the bride was of Glen Williams, and the groom was a laborer, of Georgetown; the witnesses were William Edge, of ____ (illegible), and Phoebe Williams, of Glen Williams. They are enumerated in the 1901 census of Flamborough Tp. West, Wentworth Co.^[524] Known issue:
   1. Eva Pearl Edge, b. 29 Feb. 1892 in Halton Co.
   2. George Oscar Edge, b. 14 Oct. 1895 in Halton Co.
   3. Edgar Alfred Worth Edge (per birth registration; called Wertz M. Edge in the 1901 census), b. 25 April 1898 in Halton Co.
   4. Stanley Franklin Edge, b. 26 Feb. 1902 in Wentworth Co.
   5. Irene Edge [twin to Kathleen], b. 16 Dec. 1906 in Wentworth Co.
   6. Kathleen Edge [twin to Irene], b. 16 Dec. 1906 in Wentworth Co.
6. Lorenzo J. Williams, b. ca. 1872, living unmarried with his parents in 1891.
7. Phoebe C. Williams, b. ca. 1875, living with her parents in 1891. She is likely the Phoebe Williams, b. 4 June 1874 in Ontario, who is found as a boarder in the household of Joel Wurts (no. 13) in 1901.^[525]
8. Allen Cooper Williams, b. ca. 1876 in Halton Co., living with his parents in 1881 but not in 1891. He m. 22 Feb. 1913 in Wentworth Co.,^[526] Ada Mary Ann Martin, b. 1880-81 (aged 32 in 1913) at Hamilton, daughter of Archibald Martin and Sarah Foyster. At the time of their marriage, the record of which supplies the full names of both sets of parents, both parties were of the City of Hamilton, and the groom was a machinist; the witnesses were Ira E. Ross and Christine MacKenzie, both of Hamilton.
9. Eleanor Melissa Williams, b. 1878, d. 1933, and buried beside her paternal grandparents in Glen Williams Cemetery. She was living with her parents at the taking of the 1891 census, but m. later that year, Reuben O. Evans. No birth registrations of any children have been found.

17. Archibald³ Wurts, of Ohio and Michigan, son of Landon John Wurts and the latter’s first wife, Nancy Williams, was b. 20 Feb. 1823 in Canada (not in Ohio), and he d. by 1880, probably in Ranson Tp., Michigan. He m. before 1847, possibly in Ohio, Mary McGuire, b. ca. 1828-29 in Ireland (but of English parentage, according to the 1920 census entry for her son William), d. 24 Feb. 1883. If they were not already living in Ohio at the time of their marriage, they were certainly there by 1849, the latest possible birthdate for their second child. “Archibald Worts” is enumerated as a wagon-maker in the 1850 census of Montville Tp., Geauga Co., Ohio, which gives his birthplace as Canada.^[527] They subsequently went to Michigan by 1855, the latest possible birthdate of their son Archibald. Mary is found living next door to the family of her sister-in-law, Caroline (Wurts) Doolittle, in the 1870 census of Painesville, Lake Co., Ohio; she is not called a widow, but her husband is not present in the household and was probably deceased.^[528] In 1880 she was living with her son Archibald, Jr., and is distinctly called a widow in the census of that year. A biographical notice of their son William published in 1905 is informative respecting this couple, but contains several obvious errors:

He [William] is a native of Ohio … the son of Archibald and Mary (McGuire) Wurts, the former born in Ohio [incorrect] and the latter in Ireland. They remained in Ohio until 1858 [date probably wrong], then moved to Michigan, locating near Lansing. The father was a manufacturer of wagons and carriages, and did farming in connection with his industrial business. He was a man of great public spirit and enterprise and was successful in his undertakings. Deeply interested in the cause of education, he was one of the early promoters and aids of Hillsdale College in Michigan, and contributed essentially to the establishment of other institutions of value to the state. In his early manhood he was a Whig in political affiliation, but when the Republican party succeeded to the assets of his former party he promptly and fully espoused its cause, and he remained true to the organization to the day of his death. He and his wife were members of the Christian church, and died, he in 1854 [sic!] and she on February 24, 1883, leaving two of their four children to survive them, William and his brother Archibald, now living near Pueblo, Colorado, p. 544.^[529]

Archibald Wurts is thus made to die in 1854, then move to Michigan in 1858! Like most productions of its kind, this work shows little or no evidence of documentary research, and must be regarded as oral history, recorded a half-century after many of the events it describes.
    Known issue:

1. 27William Warren Wurts, b. 25 Dec. 1847 in Canada (or in Lake County, Ohio, according to the 1905 biographical sketch).
2. Emma A. Wurts, b. ca. 1848-49 in Ohio; living unmarried with her mother in 1870.
3. Lucas Archibald Wurts, b. in Nov. 1855 in Michigan,^[530] living 1900. He is somewhat indifferently called either Lucas or Archibald in the records. He was living in 1880 in South Park Tp., Park Co., Colorado, with his mother and his “cousin” Elias Doolittle (see no. 5-iii-c above), when he was a farmer; this record calls him Archibald Wurts.^[531] He m. in 1882-83,^[532] the considerably younger Louisa May Sleeper, b. in Oct. 1868, living 1885, daughter of Daniel Sleeper. As “Archie Wurts” he is enumerated in 1885 in Iowa state census of Colorado in Park Co., next door to his elder brother William.^[533] As “Lucas A. Wurts” he is found with his family in the 1900 census at Rifle Precinct, Garfield Co., Colorado, in which he is called a farmer; his widowed father-in-law, b. in 1835 in Ohio, was living with them at the time.^[534] Possibly Lucas Wurtz later separated from his wife, as at the taking of the 1920 census he was living in a rooming-house on Fifth Street East, Los Angeles, California, and is described as “single.”^[535] Known issue (all alive in 1900):
   1. Florence E. Wurts, b. in April 1885.
   2. Gertrude Wurts, b. in Feb. 1888
   3. Walter Levi Wurts, b. 10 March 1890 at Rifle, Garfield, Colorado, d. 2 Jan. 1918 at San Diego, California (IGI). He m. 24 Nov. 1910 at Los Angeles, California (IGI), Hulda Goos.
   4. Alva A. Wurts, b. in Nov. 1891.
   5. Viola M. Wurts, b. in May 1895.

18. Elias George³ Wurts, of Ohio, son of Landon John Wurts and the latter’s first wife, Nancy Williams, was b. ca. 1832 in Canada (aged 28 in 1860), and d. 27 May 1864 after being struck by lightening. “He was a mate on a lake vessel and had been wheelman, having followed the lakes from age 9 as a cabin boy.”^[536] He later enlisted in the U.S. Union Army on 23 Dec. 1863 at the age of 31 years, his service record stating the place of his birth as Canada. He m. (as her first husband) 16 July 1860 at Painesville, Lake Co., Ohio, Rosella Isabel Doolittle, b. 14 Jan. 1841 at Cowlesville, Wyoming Co., New York, d. ca. 1909 at Cowlesville, New York,^[537] sister of his sister Caroline’s husband Elias Doolittle, and daughter of Samuel Doolittle, of Buffalo, New York, by the latter’s wife Betsey E. Andrus.^[538] They are found in the 1860 census of Painesville, in which he is called a tailor.^[539] Rosella, who is said to have collected a widow’s pension by virtue of her husband’s civil war service, subsequently married secondly 12 Oct 1866 in Ashland Co., Ohio, Willie Wilson Whitcomb, by whom she had further issue.^[540] Rosella and her second husband appear in the 1870 census of Sullivan, Ashland Co., with her children Milton, John, and Alta “Werts,” and the first child of her second marriage.^[541] They also appear in the 1880 census of Sullivan, Ashland Co., with children of both of her marriages.^[542] Known issue:^[543]

1. Milton Elias Wurts, b. 14 April 1861 in New York State (per death record), d. 6 Dec. 1947 at Lodi, Medina Co., Ohio, aged 86 years, 7 months, and 23 days.^[544] The 1900 census gives the birthplace of his father as “At Sea Ger[many?]” (a very stange misconception) and that of his mother as New York State. He was living in 1870 with his mother and her second husband, and in 1880 at Sullivan with his uncle, Alonzo Doolittle, for whom he was doing farmwork.^[545] In the 1910 census his father and mother are stated to be of German and Scottish ancestry, respectively (the question was actually intended to elicit information on their places of birth, but was completed incorrectly). Although this fact led us to question his parentage in earlier versions of these notes, the discovery of him in his mother’s household in the 1870 census has now settled the matter. He is said by Kenneth Doolittle to have m. (1) before 1888, Belle Henry, who is named as mother of his eldest child, Opal. He m. (2?) before 1896, Marian P. ____, b. in Nov. 1869 in Ohio, of a German-born father and an Ohio-born mother, living 1910. He appears with his family in the 1900 census at Kent, Portage Co., Ohio, in which he is called a carpenter.^[546] He also appears in the 1910 census of Spencer Tp., Medina Co., Ohio, as a house painter and decorator, with his two youngest children.^[547] His death record names his wife, Marion Wurts, and his parents, Elias Wurts and Rozella Doolittle. Known issue:

   (by first [?] wife:)

   1. Opal Wurts, b. in May 1888 in Ohio, no longer living with her father in 1910. The 1900 census gives her mother’s birthplace as Ohio.

   (by second [?] wife:)

   1. Clare Wurts (male), b. in June 1896 in Ohio, probably d. young as he was no longer living with his parents in 1910.
   2. Russell C. Wurts, b. in May 1899 in Ohio, probably d. young as he was no longer living with his parents in 1910.
   3. Myrtle Wurts, b. 1900-01 (aged 9 in 1910) in Ohio.
   4. Iva Wurts, b. 1902-03 (aged 7 in 1910) in Ohio.
2. John Landon Wurts, b. about 19 Oct. 1862^[548] in New York State (per 1870, 1900, 1920, and 1930 censuses), d. 24 Nov. 1939 in Lakewood Tp., Cuyahoga Co., Ohio, aged 77 years, 1 month, and 5 days.^[549] He was still living unmarried with his mother in 1880. According to Kenneth Doolittle, he was a carpenter in 1890. He m. about 1889-90,^[550] 1930, Marguerite (”Getta”) T. Hartmann, b. 30 June 1865^[551] in Summit Co. Ohio, d. 3 Dec. 1844 at Cleveland, Cuyahoga Co., Ohio, of interstitial pneumonia, and buried 6 Dec. following in Spring Grove Cemetery,^[552] daughter of Jacob Hartmann and Hannah Everhard (who, according to Marguerite’s death record, were both born at Wadsworth, Medina Co., Ohio). In 1900 George and Judam Hartman, “brothers-in-law,” are found in the household of John L. Wurts, and as each was himself single, and like her born in Ohio, they were presumably brothers to John’s wife. In the 1900 census, in which he is called a carpenter, he and his wife, and their children “Addis” and Mildred, are enumerated in Ward 19 of Cleveland.^[553] In the 1920 census, in which he is called a house carpenter, he and his wife, and their son Aldis, are enumerated in Ward 3 of Lakewood, Rockport Tp., Cuyahoga Co., just west of Cleveland.^[554] In the 1930 census, in which he is called a builder, he and his wife are enumerated at Lakewood, just west of Cleveland, Ohio; no children were living with them at the time.^[555] He was still residing at Lakewood in 1938. Known issue:
   1. Aldis Hartman Wurts, b. 9 Aug. 1890 (per his military record; month and year in agrement with 1901 census),^[556] at Medina Co., Ohio, still alive on 12 June 1934, when he made a return trip to New York City from Vera Cruz, Mexico.^[557] He was still living unmarried with his parents in 1920. On 5 June 1917 (apparently, but the record is extremely illegible) he registered for military service.^[558] He m. about 1925-26,^[559] Margaret M. ____, b. 1893-94 (aged 36 in 1930) in Colorado, of a father born in Massachusetts and mother born in New York. They were enumerated in Ward 1 of Englewood, Bergen Co., New Jersey, in the 1930 census, in which he is called a corporate lawyer and his wife a doctor.^[560] Known issue:
      1. Allan Wurts, b. probably in 1927 (aged 3 years and 2 [?] months at the taking of the 1930 census), d. 3 Feb. 1999 at Houston, Texas, of a heart attack.^[561] We do not know whether he was married.
      2. Susan Wurts, b. about December 1929 (aged 4 months at the taking of the 1930 census).
   2. Mildred, b. in June 1892 (per 1901 census) in Ohio.
3. Alta Catilla Wurts, b. 16 Feb. 1864 at Darien Center, Genessee Co., New York, d. 1946 at Apple Creek, Ohio, in a home for the mentally disturbed, after suffering from post partum depresssion for 40 years, and buried in Spring Grove Cemetery, Medina, Ohio.^[562] She was living unmarried with her mother in 1880. She m. 2 Dec. 1883 at Chatham, Medina County, Ohio, Vernon Elsworth Thatcher, a farmer and letter-carrier, b. 1 Oct. 1861 at Chatham, alive in 1906, son of James Gilbert Thatcher, of Chatham, by the latter’s wife Eliza Whiting Nickerson.^[563] They settled in Chatham, Medina County, Ohio, in 1861, but three years later moved to Gibbon, Nebraska, where they resided from 1886 to 1894, and where her husband was a farmer. In 1894 they moved back to Chatham, where they resided until 1902, when they moved to Medina, Ohio. But the Thatcher genealogy states that she was “living 1906, at Massillon, Ohio,” and that he was “living 1906, at R.F.D. No. 4, Medina, Ohio.” Why this discrepancy? In the 1910 census, Alta Thatcher (aged 45 and born in New York) is found as an inmate of the Massillon State Hospital, a mental institution.^[564] Issue:
   1. Ruel Dwight Thatcher, b. 27 Oct. 1885 at Chatham, Ohio.
   2. May Eliza Thatcher, b. 27 Jan. 1887 at Gibbon, Nebraska.
   3. Irene Beth Thatcher, b. 1 Dec. 1891 at Gibbon, Nebraska, d. 6 Jan. 1903 at Medina, Ohio, and buried there in Spring Grove Cemetery.
   4. Alice Ada Thatcher, b. 18 Jan. 1898 at Chatham, Ohio.

19. John Burkholder³ Wurts, of Stouffville and Green River, son of Elias H. Wurts and Mary Burkholder,^[565] was b. 16 May 1846 at Stouffville,^[566] presumably in Markham Tp., d. 9 Jan. 1925 at Edward Street, Stouffville, aged over 78 years, of myocardial degeneration and influenza,^[567] and buried 11 Jan. following in Stouffville Cemetery.^[568] He m. (1) 5 June 1873 in Markham Tp.,^[569] Mary Bice,^[570] b. 17 Oct. 1847 in Pickering Tp.,^[571] d. 18 June 1904 at or near Stouffville, of pulmonary consumption,^[572] and buried beside her husband, daughter of Nelson and Eliza (____) Bice, of Pickering. He remained in Canada when his parents moved to Michigan, and lived at Stouffville, on the Whitchurch-Markham townline, York Co., where for some time he operated a bakery in partnership with several other men.^[573] At the time of their marriage he was of Stouffville, and was a cooper. The witnesses were Elias Bice and Arinda (?) Bice, both of Pickering. He is called John B. Wurts, of Stouffville, cooper, in the 1878 birth record of a stillborn son. John Wurts and his wife are enumerated in the 1881 census of Pickering Tp., Ontario Co., Ontario, in which he is again called a cooper, and their religion is given as Baptist.^[574] In the birth records of his sons Elias (1881) and Wilmot (1883) he is called John B. Wurts, of Green River [in Pickering Township, Ontario County], cooper. He is thus doubtless the J.B. Wurts of Green River who wrote a letter early in 1890 to the British Columbia Fruit Growers’ Association, “asking if it would pay him to come to British Columbia and begin a factory for the manufacture of fruit baskets.”^[575] But if so the proposed enterprise did not come to pass, for he appears in the Stouffville censuses of 1891^[576] and 1901.^[577] He was a member of an early Baptist congregation in the village.^[578] In his death record, it says he had resided at his place of death for 14 years.
    As John B. Wurts, baker, he m. (2) (as her second husband) 31 March 1906 at Stouffville,^[579] Mary (Reesor) Kelly, b. 1857 in Markham Tp., d. 18 July 1933 at Mimico, Ontario, aged 75 years^[580] widow of Thomas Kelly (by whom she had issue), and daughter of Benjamin Reesor and Sarah Ann Cook.^[581] At the time of this marriage, the record of which gives the names of the parents of both parties, the groom was a Baptist, residing at Stouffville, and the bride a Presbyterian, residing at Collingwood; the witnesses were Mrs. R.C. Blundell and Jennie E. Blundell, both of Stouffville. There was no issue of this marriage.
    Known issue, both by first wife:^[582]

1. Stillborn son, b. 20 Nov. 1878 at Stouffville.^[583]
2. Elias Nelson Wurts, b. 14 June 1881 in Pickering Tp.,^[584] at Green River, Ontario, d. 1942.^[585] He m. 25 Dec 1907 at Markham, Markham Tp., York Co., Florence Louise Augusta Melinda (“Louie”) Cole, b. 22 Oct. 1879 in the 9th concession of Markham Tp., d. 1953, and buried in Locust Hill Cemetery, Markham Tp., daughter of Amos Cole (1844-1925) and Anna Maria Tran (1849-1930), with whom she is buried. He was living unmarried with his parents in 1901. An Elias Wurts (no middle name given) is mentioned on the tombstone of his widow, F. Louise Cole (1879-1953), who is buried in Locust Hill United Church Cemetery; she was probably a daugher of Amos Cole and Annie M. Tran , with whom she is buried.
3. 28Wilmot Benton Wurts, b. 5 Nov. 1883 at Stouffville.^[586]

20. Anthony³ Forster, of Markham Tp., York Co., son of William Forster and Barbara Wurts, was b. 6 Nov. 1844 in Markham Tp.,^[587] d. 13 Aug. 1925 in Markham Tp., aged 80 years, 9 months, of heart disease, and was buried in Locust Hill Cemetery.^[588] In 1869 Anthony Forster served as a witness at the marriage of his younger brother, Byron. He himself m. 16 Jan. 1870 in York Co.,^[589] Alice Amelia Dack, b. 1 Jan. 1850 in Markham Tp.^[590] d. 15 March 1920 in Markham Tp., of arterio-sclerosis, aged 70 years, 2 months, and 15 days, and buried two days later in Locust Hill Cemetery,^[591] daughter of John W. Dack and Agnes McMorris, who were both born in Ireland. At the time of their marriage he was living in Markham Tp., and she in Whitchurch Tp.; the witnesses were “C. & C.E. Fish,” of Richmond Hill. In 1876 Anthony and Alice Forster, then “both [of] Markham Village,” served as witnesses at the marriage of her sister, Emily Agnes Dack, of Markham, to Charles Stewart Billing.^[592]
    A brief memoir of Anthony Forster published in 1885 states, “Anthony was educated in School Section No. 21, Markham Township, and subsequently at the High School, Markham Village. He has, since the completion of his education, been engaged in farming…. Mr. Forster has occupied several important offices in connection with municipal affairs. He has been Road Overseer, Assessor [from 1877], Councillor [1880-81], Deputy-Reeve [1882-88], Public and High School Trustee, and a member of the Local Board of Health. He also belongs to the Agricultural Society, and is a member of the Farmers’ Club…. He is a member of the Methodist body, and a Reformer in politics.”^[593]
    Anthony Forster was Assessor for the east half of Markham Tp., beginning in 1877, a member-at-large of the township councillor in 1880-81, 3rd Deputy Reeve in 1882-86, first Deputy Reeve in 1887-88, and Reeve in 1889-92. He was elected Warden of York County in 1892.^[594] He was on the rebuilding committee of Locust Hill Wesleyan Methodist Church in 1890,^[595] and was a Trustee of School Section no. 21, Locust Hill.^[596]
    Anthony Forster appears in the 1871 census of Markham Tp., in which he is called a farmer and his family’s religion given as Wesleyan Methodist.^[597] Similar information is given for him in 1881, when his maiden aunt, Rebecca Forster, aged 58, was living with him; their household included a servant.^[598] A photograph of him is reproduced in Historical Sketch of Markam Township, p. 85.
    Issue (all alive in 1885):

1. Tamsine Emilia Forster (called Thomasina Emily in her birth record; called Emily in 1881, and Emilie T. on her tombstone), b. 13 March 1871 in Markham Tp.,^[599] d. (unmarried) in 1941, and buried with her parents.
2. Nellie Amelia Forster, b. 22 May 1873 in Markham Tp.,^[600] d. in 1934, and buried with her parents. She m. ____ Ingraham, the surname given on her tombstone.
3. Laura Alice Forster, b. 13 July 1875 in Markham Tp.,^[601] d. 17 Sept. 1956, and buried in her family’s plot in Locust Hill United Church Cemetery, Markham Tp. She m. 6 Oct. 1897 in Markham Tp.,^[602] Frederick Ernest Nelson Reesor, b. 18 Feb. 1875, d. 19 Nov. 1957 and buried with his wife, son of Christian Reesor (Jr.), of Locust Hill, by his second wife Melissa Ann Cornell.^[603] Both are buried in Locust Hill Cemetery. There is a brief memoir of her husband in the Commemorative Biographical Record of the County of York (Toronto, 1907), p. 78, col. 2, which erroneously gives her surname as Foster. He inherited his father’s (and grandfather’s) land, lot 14 of the tenth concession, which had been purchased in 1805 from Isaac Westbrook. He sold it in 1905, and for the next 35 years owned and operated in partnership with his brother Albert the creamery at Locust Hill, which an account of 1907 calls “one of the largest creameries in the county.”^[604] He was very active in the activities of the Reesor Family Re-Union Committee, and was one of the three men who organized the erection of the impressive Reesor Cairn near Locust Hill (of which see a photograph in the Reesor genealogy, p. 4). The Reesor genealogy gives a record of their descendants (pp. 455-56) and a photograph of their family (p. 446).
4. Jessie Gertrude Forster, b. 7 Jan. 1877 in Markham Tp.,^[605] d. (unmarried) 1925, and buried with her parents, although the birthdate of 1873 given on her tombstone is erroneous.
5. William Dack Forster, b. 29 May 1880 in Markham Tp.^[606] He was living 13 Aug. 1925, when as William Forster, of Markham, he served as the informant of his father’s death.
6. Walter Ellis Forster (called Walter Elias Foster in his birth record), b. 9 Sept. 1883 in Markham Tp.^[607]

21. William Byron³ Forster, son of William Forster and Barbara Wurts, was b. about December 1846 near Locust Hill, d. 3 June 1924 at Stouffville, aged 77 years, 6 months, and was buried in the family plot in Locust Hill Cemetery, near Stouffville.^[608] Byron Forster was living with his parents in 1861. He m. 26 Sept 1869 at Oshawa, Ontario Co., Ontario,^[609] Susanna Reesor, b. 1850 (per her tombstone), d. 1918, and buried with her husband, daughter of John Grove Reesor, of Markham Tp., by his first wife, Catharine Brown.^[610] At the time of their marriage both were of Markham, and the witnesses were Antony [sic] Forster (his brother) and Sarah Reesor, also both of Markham. In 1871, when Byron Forster was living in a house of his own beside his parents’, the census gives his and his wife’s religion as Wesleyan Methodist.^[611] Similar information is given for them in 1881, when they were still in the Markham Tp.^[612] However, some time afterward — certainly by 1893, when his mother died there, apparently at his home — he removed to Colbourne Tp., Huron Co., where he was a farmer, and operated a sawmill on the Maitland River. He however returned to Stouffville before his death, in the record of which he is described as “retired” and “widowed,” and for which the informant was a son, “H.R. Forster, Stouffville R.R.,” who was presumably either the son Russell or the son Harold.
    Issue:

1. 29Herbert Russell Forster, b. 1873.
2. Oscar Reesor Forster, b. 22 Aug. 1876, d. (apparently without issue) 3 Oct. 1950. He m. Mary Edith Blake, b. 1880, d. 1946.
3. Harold Forster, b. 1894, d. 1932. He m. Bessie Lobbs. He was an electrician at Buffalo, N.Y.

Generation 4

22. Alexander Clemens⁴ Hutton,^[613] son of James Patterson Hutton and Jemima Wurts, was b. 20 Aug. 1849 (per the 1901 census), and d. in 1901-16. He m. by 1873, Mary Montgomery,^[614] b. 12 March 1850 (per the 1901 census) in Ontario, living 27 Nov. 1916 (when her son Clemens names her as his next-of-kin). Alexander Hutton is called a sawyer in the 1876 birth record of his son Baldwin. He is listed as Alexander C. Hutton, lumberman, Canadian Methodist, in the 1881 census of Matchedash & Orillia townships, Simcoe Co., which gives his wife’s religion as Church of England, different from the rest of the family’s.^[615] They had however removed to Manitoba by 1883, when their son Clemens was born; and they are found in the 2^nd Ward of the city of Winnipeg in the 1901 census, in which Alexander Hutton is called an agent.^[616] The fact that two of their sons, Baldwin and Clemens, each served for at least four years in the 90^th Rifles, Winnipeg, indicates that the family must still have been living in the city several years after the turn of the century, but they do not appear in any portion of the 1906 or 1911 censuses indexed to date. On 27 Nov. 1916 the widow Mary’s address is given as 110-14^th Avenue W., Calgary, Alberta, in the attestation paper of her son Clemens. Known issue, the first four born in Ontario:

1. Mabel L. Hutton, b. 14 July 1874, living unmarried with her parents in 1901.
2. Baldwin Patterson Hutton, b. 30 June 1876 at Streetsville, Ontario,^[617] living 29 June 1915. He was living with his parents in 1881 but not in 1901. He m. by 1914, Agnes May ____, who is listed as “Mrs. P. Baldwin Hutton” (sic) in the 1915 edition of the Calgary Social Register.^[618] On 29 June 1915 he enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Forces, giving his occupation as banker, his (and his wife’s) address as 2013 8^th Street W., Calgary, Alberta, and his religion as Church of England, and stating that he had served five years in the 90^th Rifles, Winnipeg, and presently belonged to the 103^rd Calgary Rifles.^[619]
3. Valdamir B. Hutton, b. 18 July 1878 in Ontario, living unmarried with his parents in 1901, when he was a grocer’s clerk.
4. Lincoln R.G. Hutton, b. 19 July 1880 in Ontario, living unmarried with his parents in 1901, when he was a florist’s clerk.
5. Clemens Percy Richmond Hutton, b. 21 April 1883 in the rural municipality of Woodlands, Manitoba,^[620] lost in action during the first World War, and mentioned on the Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres (now Ieper), West Flanders.^[621] He was living unmarried with his parents in 1901, when he was a clerk. On 27 Nov. 1916 he enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Forces, giving his occupation as clerk, his address as 110-14^th Avenue W., Calgary, Alberta (the same as his mother’s), stating that he had served four years in the 90^th Rifles, Winnipeg.^[622]

23. Phoebe Augusta⁴ Hutton,^[623] daughter of James Patterson Hutton and Jemima Wurts, was b. in 1851-52 (aged 29 in 1881, 65 in 1917),^[624] at Huttonville (per her death record), d. 8 March 1917 at Toronto, aged 65 years, of heart failure, and buried in Prospect Cemetery, Toronto.^[625] She was still living unmarried with her parents a the taking of the 1871 census, in which she is mistakenly called “A. Augusta Hutton.” She m. 8 Sept. 1873, her probable kinsman through the Wurts family, Darius Williams, b. 5 Oct. 1847 at Glen Williams, Esquesing Tp., Halton Co., Ontario,^[626] d. 20 Oct. 1931 at Toronto, of pyelonephritis, aged over 84 years.^[627] and buried with his wife, a first cousin of Benajah Williams, who married Phoebe’s aunt, Catharine Wurts, and a son of Charles and Mary Jane (Browne) Williams, of Glen Williams.^[628]
    Her future husband was living with his parents in 1861 and in 1871; and in the latter year he was a sawyer.^[629] It is possible that they became acquainted through her sister Mary and his brother Charles being pupils at Brampton’s exclusive Eclectic Female Institute at the same time.^[630] On 15 Jan. 1878 he purchased the east half of lot 25, conc. 4, of Esquesing.^[631] He appears as a farmer in the 1881 census of Esquesing, in which his religion is given as Episcopal Methodist.^[632] In 1891 he was living at Georgetown, the census calling him a woollen manufacturer and giving his family’s religion as Methodist.^[633] In the 1901 census of Georgetown he is called a traveller; her father, and her sister Letitia, were living with them at the time.^[634] At the time of Phoebe’s death in 1917 her address was no. 180 Concord Avenue, Toronto. At the time of Darius’s death, in the record of which he is called a gentleman, his address was no. 530 Palmerston Boulevard, Toronto (the home of his his son, J.B.F. William, who served as the informant of the death).
    Known issue (aside from two infants, Clarence and Florence, who are buried in Glen Williams Cemetery^[635]):

1. Violet Williams, b. 18 May 1875; m. after early 1901 (when she was still living unmarried with her parents), ____ Cumberland. She was living in Alberta in 1954.^[636]
2. James Patterson Franklin (“Frank”) Williams, M.D., b. 1877 at Glen Williams, d. 7 Feb. 1954.^[637] He was living with her parents in 1891. He graduated from the School of Medicine at the University of Toronto in 1900, and began practicing as a physician in Kent County.^[638] In 1919 they moved to the city of Toronto, and are listed as “Dr. and Mrs. J.P. Frank Williams, née Galbraith, [and son] Mr. Charles D. Galbraith Williams, 550 Palmerston Boulevard,” in a 1921 society directory.^[639] As J.B.F. Williams, of 550 Palmerston Boulevard, he served as the informant of his father’s death in 1931. He m. (1) 26 June 1901 at Dresden, Kent Co., Ontario, ^[640] Marie Belle Galbraith, b. 1875-76 (aged 25 in 1901) at Dresden, Ontario, alive in 1921, daughter of Daniel Galbraith and Lavina Decew. At the time of their marriage, the record of which supplies the full names of both sets of parents, both parties were of Dreden, Ontario; the witnesses were Harry Wallace, of Dresden, and Caroline Ryckman, of Hamilton. He m. (2) Ethel Eileen McClure, alive at her husband’s death in 1954. His death notice in the Toronto Globe and Mail reads, in part:

   Associate coroner for many years, Dr. J.P. Frank Williams, who had practiced medicine for more than 50 years, died yesterday from a heart attack at his home, 99 Brentwood Rd., N., Kingsway Park. For 32 years, Dr. Williams maintained an office at the corner of Bloor and Palmerston Ave., and moved to the Kingsway four years ago. A former chairman of the Board of Education, he was a member of the board for seven years. Prominent in the Progressive Conservative Association, Dr. Williams was a candidate for Bellwoods Riding in the provincial elections of 1943 and 1945. He was a graduate in medicine from the University of Toronto in 1900 and first established a practice in Dresden. In 1919 he came to Toronto. He was a member of the Kingsway Kiwanis Club, the Humber Valley Progressive Conservative Association … [and numerous fraternal organizations]. He was was twice married. His first wife was Marie Belle Galbraith. He leaves his wife, the former Ethel Eileen McClure, and one son, C.D. Galbraith Williams, by the first marriage.

   Only child:
   1. Charles Daniel Galbraith Williams, b. 21 May 1905 in Kent County,^[641] alive at his father’s death in 1954.
3. Charles Williams, b. 28 March 1882, living unmarried with his parents in 1901.

24. Ernest Major⁴ Wurts,^[642] son of Joel Wurts and Lydia Barton, was b. 11 Aug. 1872 in Chinguacousy Tp., Peel Co., Ontario,^[643] and d. 3 April 1944 at Duff, Saskatchewan, where he was buried. He was still living with his parents in 1891. He m. 7 June 1899 at the residence of the bride’s father in Artemesia Tp.,^[644] Jane Quigg, b. 10 Dec. 1870 (the 1901 census says 1871) in Grey County, Ontario, d. 16 May 1968 at Saskatoon, Saskatchewan and buried at Duff, Saskatchewan, daughter of Patrick Quigg and Mary Ann Stewart.^[645] At the time of their marriage he was called a farmer, of Brampton, Artemesia Tp., Peel Co., and the witnesses were Fred Wurts (his brother) and Emma Quigg, both of Artemesia. They were enumerated in Artemesia Tp. (by then in Grey Co.) in the 1901 census, at which time his younger brother Fred was a member of their household.^[646] The Flesherton Advance of 27 April 1911 reported that “Mr. E. Wurts and family moved to town last week and have taken up their residence in P. Norris’ residence.”^[647] E.M. Wurts and his family moved from Ontario to Saskatchewan in 1912, taking their livestock, etc., by rail to a farm just north of Regina. About two years later he moved from there to a farm about two miles east of Duff, Saskatchewan, where he farmed and lived for the rest of his life. This farm is currently (2000) occupied by a grandson, Milton Wurts, and his family. The Flesherton Advance of 8 Feb. 1928 reported that “Mrs. E.M. Wurts, of Duff, Sask., is on an extended visit with her sister Mrs. Mark Stewart and Archie Stewart.”^[648] The same newspaper reported on 3 Nov. 1943 that “Mrs. Jas. Boyd, Regina [sister of Ernest Major Wurts], and Mrs. M.E. Wurts of Duff, Sask., are visiting the latter’s sister, Mrs. Archie Stewart.”^[649] Three weeks later it added, “Mrs. Wurts has spent the last three weeks with Mrs. Stewart and is now visiting her sister, Mrs. Brooks, and her brother, Mr. Harry Quigg, on her return trip to the West.”^[650] Issue:

1. 30Cecil Ernest Wurts, b. 12 Jan. 1901 at Proton (near Flesherton), Ontario.^[651]
2. Alma Ruby Wurts, b. 27 Oct. 1902 at Proton,^[652] d. 6 March 2002 at Melville, and buried at Duff. She m. in 1926, Cecil Loveridge, b. 31 Aug. 1900, d. 25 May 1993, and buried at Duff, Saskatchewan.^[653] Issue:
   1. Leroy Cecil Ernest Loveridge, b. 16 April 1928. He is the father of Paul Loveridge.
   2. Eldon Stewart Loveridge, b. 10 May 1929, d. 20 June 1993.
   3. Joyce Helen Loveridge, b. 17 Sept. 1930.
   4. Bernice Alma Loveridge, b. 20 Nov. 1932.
   5. Robert George Loveridge, b. 4 Jan. 1935, d. 10 Sept. 2001 at Edmonton, in a street accident, and was buried at Duff, Saskatchewan.
   6. Ivan Gordon Thomas Loveridge, b. 24 Dec. 1936.
   7. David Nelson Loveridge, b. 14 Feb. 1939.
   8. John Howard Loveridge, b. 17 Sept. 1943.
3. Ivan John Wurts, b. 5 Oct. 1904 at Proton,^[654] d. 1 Jan. 1973 at Duff, Saskatchewan, and buried there. He m. 14 Feb. 1944, Eleanor Schick. Issue:
   1. Elizabeth Jane Wurts, b. 23 July 1944. She m. 1971, Dennis Howie, b. 5 Dec. 1943. They have two children.
   2. Milton John Wurts, married Donna Walkington, b. 23 Oct. 1949. They have four children.
4. Alexander Newton Wurts, b. 9 Aug. 1906 at Proton (near Flesherton) Ontario,^[655] d. 12 June 1987 in British Columbia. He m. 1967, and subsequently divorced, Lydia Poole (Kremble) Poole. No known issue.
5. Mildred Mary Wurts, b. 29 Dec. 1908 at Proton aforesaid, d. 26 Nov. 1999 at Saskatoon, Saskatchewan and was buried at Duff, Saskatchewan. She owned and operated an art shop in Saskatoon for many years.
6. Stewart Barton Wurts, b. 14 Nov. 1910 at Proton, d. 20 May 1973 at Duff, Saskatchewan, and buried at Duff. He m. 16 Nov. 1946, Janet Mary Dales, b. 1923, who re-married following his death. Issue:
   1. Robert Stewart Wurts, b. 14 Oct. 1947. He received a B.Commerce from the University of Saskatchewan, and is presently living at Edmonton, Alberta. He m. (1), but subsequently divorced, Rosemary Myron. He m. (2) in 1980, Carolle MacNutt. We do not believe he has issue.
   2. Janice Ann Wurts, m. (and subsquently divorced), David Yanko, and they have four children.
   3. Faith Lenore Wurts, b. 21 Sept. 1955. She married in 1974, Rae Frieson, and they have two children.
   4. Joy Leslie Wurts, b. 26 July 1959. She married in 1986, Lloyd Stilborn, and they have three children.
   5. Grant Lindsay Wurts, b. 5 July 1961, presently living at Yorkton, Saskatchewan, and working for the C.N. Railway. He m. in 1989, Melani Robertson, and they have three children.

25. Frederick Alexander⁴ Wurts, son of Joel Wurts and Lydia Barton, was b. 9 May 1877 at Brampton,^[656] and d. v.m. 21 Sept. 1910 at Huttonville.^[657] He was living with his parents in 1891, and in 1901 is recorded both as living with them and as living unmarried with his elder brother, Ernest, in Artemesia Tp., Grey Co.^[658] He is called a married man in his death record, but it is not clear whether his wife was then alive. He m. (as her first husband) by 1902, Margaret F. Armstrong, b. in May 1878 in Proton Tp., Gray Co., Ontario,^[659] living 1935, daughter of Henry Armstrong, a farmer and apparently the Postmaster of Proton Station, Proton Tp., and Margaret Boyd (who was living with her in 1911).^[660] He is called Fred Wurts, of Huttonville, Chinguacousy Tp., Peel Co., merchant, in the 1905 birth record of his daughter Edith. The widow Marguerite “Worts” appears with her family at lot 6, concession 5 of Chinguacousy Tp. in the 1911 census; at the time, her widowed mother was a member of the household.^[661] She married secondly 4 April 1913 at Brampton, William John Chesney, of Chinguacousy Tp.,^[662] who was previously unmarried, so that she was presumably the mother of his child or children. The Flesherton Advance of 25 Sept. 1935 reported that “Mrs. Chesney (nee Maggie Armstrong) and her two sons, Ted Wurts and Lawton Chesney, and Mrs. Wurts of Brampton, visited the Stevens and Gallagher families.”^[663]
    Known issue:

1. Edward (“Ted”) Barton Wurts (only son), b. 21 Sept. 1902 in Grey County,^[664] d. 1992. He m. 17 May 1924 at Huttonville,^[665] Emily Elizabeth McCarthy, b. 1904-05 (aged 19 in 1924) in England, d. 1997, daughter of James McCarthy (born in England) and Emily Elizabeth Sharp. At the time of their marriage, the record of which supplies the fullnames of both sets of parents, both parties were of Brampton, and the groom was a laborer; the witnesses were Edith Wurts, of Huttonville, and Georgie Stevens, of London, Ontario. Known issue:
   1. Norma Lila Wurts, b. 1926-27, d. 3 July 2006 at Brantford General Hospital, aged 79 years. She m. Ronald Sayle, d. 1971 (as mentioned in her death notice). Her death reads, in part:

      Peacefully, after a short battle with cancer at the Brantford General Hospital on Monday, July 3, 2006, age 79 years, Norma Sayle, mother of Ron Sayle, Fred and Faye Sayle; sister of Dorothy and John Elcomb; grandmother of Lori and Kevin Broomfield, Marty Sayle, Deanna Sayle and Derek Brown; great-grandmother to Shelby, Jeremy and Jessie. Aunt “Bump” to John and Donna Elcomb, Sue and Mike Guillemette, Greg and Cathy Elcomb, Marie and Rachelle Guillemette. Predeceased by her husband Ronald Sayle (1971) and her parents Edward (1992) and Emily Wurts (1997). Thanks to Pastor Lovell McGuire and Isla for their hugs and comforting words and to the nurses on the 7th Floor at the Brantford General Hospital. Norma lived for others; was a great cook and offered tremendous comfort. Our loss is unimaginable. Friends will be received at a memorial visitation at the McCLEISTER FUNERAL HOME, 495 Park Road North, Brantford on Friday 1:00 - 3:00 p.m. and 5:00 - 7 :00 p.m. Memorial Service in the Chapel on Friday at 7:00 p.m. Cremation has taken place. If wished, memorial donations to the Canadian Cancer Society or the HHT Foundation would be gratefully appreciated….^[666]

      Issue:
      1. Ron Sayle
      2. Fred Sayle, m. Faye ____.
   2. Dorothy Wurts, m. John Elcomb. From her sister’s death notice, it would appear that they had the following issue:
      1. John Elcomb, m. Donna ____.
      2. Sue Elcomb, m. Mike Guillemette.
      3. Greg Elcomb, m. Cathy ____.
2. Marguerite Lois Wurts, b. 14 Feb. 1904 in Proton Tp., Grey County.^[667]
3. Edith Vivian Wurts, b. 24 Oct. 1905.^[668]

26. Joel⁴ Williams,^[669] son of Benajah Williams and Catharine Wurts, was b. 6/8 July 1864 in Chinguacousy Tp., and d. 5 Dec. 1942. He m. 15 June 1890 at Georgetown,^[670] Sarah Jane North, b. 25 Oct. 1863 at Churchville, d. 9 Aug. 1935, daughter of Cunningham North, of Norval, by the latter’s wife Mary Ann ____.^[671] At the time of their marriage, the record of which supplies the full names of both sets of parents, the groom was a carpenter, of Glen Williams, and the bride was of Noval; the witnesses were James E. Mitchell and Delilah T. Mitchell, both of Georgetown. Joel Williams and his wife are buried with his parents in Glen Williams Cemetery.
    Issue:

1. Wilbur Percival Williams, b. 2 Nov. 1890 in York Co., d. s.p. 8 Aug. 1975. He m. Eva Lister, b. 3 Dec. 1888, d. 7 Aug. 1977.
2. Cecil Gordon Williams, b. 29 April 1892 at Mimico, York Co., d. 23 Feb. 1940. He m. 29 July 1916 in Perth County,^[672] Marjorie Mae Borman , b. in Aug. 1897 at Stratford, alive in 1993, daughter of Peter Borman and A. Baker. She moved to Gravenhurst, Ontario, after her husband’s death. Issue:
   1. Glen Gordon Williams, b. 10 May 1917 at St. Thomas, Ontario, living 1992. He served as Clerk of the Rural Municipality of Muskoka, Ontario, from 1970 to 1982. He m. 9 May 1942 at Toronto, Phyllis Ada Fullerton, b. 7 April 1916 at Toronto, living 1992, daughter of Joseph and Ada (____) Fullerton, of Windermere, Ontario. Their postal address (1992) is Box 101, Gravenhurst, Ontario P0C 1G0.^[673] Children:
      1. Lynda Williams, b. 8 Jan. 1945; m. Paul Miller. Three children.
      2. Phillip Williams, b. 21 Feb. 1948; m. Lynne Petsura. One child.
      3. Barbara Williams, b. 10 Feb. 1949; m. Tim Bromwich. Three children.
   2. Elva Mae Williams, b. 25 Oct. 1918; m. 31 May 1941, Charles Ira White, b. 20 July 1912, d. 10 Aug. 1985. They have two children.
3. Harold Wesley Williams, b. 25 Nov. 1895 at Mimico, York Co. (birth registered as Wesley Harold Williams), d. 4 May 1942. He m. 24 April 1918 at Toronto,^[674] Henrietta Maude Hiscock, b. 1896-97 (aged 21 in 1918) at Toronto, daughter of William Gardner Hiscock and Elizabeth Jane Stroud. At the time of their marriage, the record of which supplies the full names of both sets of parents, both parties were of Toronto, the groom being a salesman and the bride a typist. The witnesses were Stanley Waller, of 14 Wallace Avenue, Toronto, and Verdie McNeice, of 14 Emerson Avenue, Toronto. Only child:
   1. Quevna Yvonne Williams, m. Donald Parker, and has four children.

27. William Warren⁴ Wurts, son of Archibald and Mary (McGuire) Wurts, was b. 25 Dec. 1847 in Canada (according to the 1885 census) or, less likely, in Lake County, Ohio (according to a 1905 biographical sketch), d. 1920-30. He was no longer living with his mother in 1870. He m. (as her second husband) 24 May 1880, at Watseka, Mary M. (Mullen) Wells, b. in July 1859 (per 1900 census) in Iroquois Co., Illinois, living 1930, daughter of Daniel B. Mullen and Mary Mayett,^[675] and widow of Andrew Wells, by whom she had had issue.^[676] He and his wife were living in Park Co., Colorado, at the taking of the 1885 state census,^[677] in Rifle Precinct, Garfield Co., at the taking of the 1900 census, which calls him a farmer,^[678] and at North Rifle Precinct, Garfield Co., Colorado, at the taking of the 1910 census, which calls him a farmer, the owner of his own land, and gives his year of acquiring U.S. citizenship as 1849.^[679] They were still living at North Rifle in 1920, when the census records him as of no occupation, and gives the date of his citizenship as 1851.^[680] William W. Wurts d. by 1930, and his widow is found at the town of Rifle in the 1930 census.^[681] The 1905 biographical sketch of him, cited above under the account of his parents, reads (in part) as follows:

… William W. Wurts, of near Rifle, Garfield county, one of the Western slope’s most substantial, enterprising and successful ranch and cattlemen, has, during his long residence of more than thirty-five years in the farther West and intimate intercourse with its people, borne himself with commendable uprightness and loyalty to every duty, and has all the while been a potent force in pushing forward the progress and development of the section in which he happened to be living. He is a native of Ohio, born in Lake County on Christmas day, 1847, and the son of Archibald and Mary (McGuire) Wurts….
    After receiving a limited education at the public schools, William joined the Union army towards the close of the Civil war, while he was as yet but a youth, as a member of Company G, Second Ohio Calvary. He served to the close of the contest and was mustered out of the service at Camp Denison. Returning to his home, he took a contract for boring oil wells. He continued this line of activity until the spring of 1867, when he moved to Kansas City, Missouri, but after a short residence there he moved on to Omaha, crossing the plains with a large train. From Fort Larimer they had United States troops to escort them into Montana, and so avoided all trouble with the Indians, but were six months on the trip. After the supplies were unloaded Mr. Wurts returned to North Platte and a little later went to Cheyenne, Wyoming, where he wintered.
    In the spring he started for New Mexico, intending to do mining, but on arriving at Pueblo he learned that admission to the mines would be refused, and so he changed his termination to Denver. From there he went to Canon City and Mt. Granite, where he engaged in mining in the employ of the Cash Creek Mining Company, for a period of three years. He next took a position as contractor with the Boston & Colorado Smelting Company and remained in association with that corporation three years in that vicinity. Then he did contracting for the company at Alma until the spring of 1876, at which time he moved to the San Juan country with headquarters at Del Norte. Here he freighted about the country during the summer, and in the fall went to the Black Hills of South Dakota, where he sold his teams and turned his attention to mining, remaining two years and acquiring the ownership of a number of claims. He then moved to Leadville and again freighted until 1879, when he opened a meat market at Alma. This was a profitable enterprise, but in 1882 he sold it to purchase a squatter’s right to a ranch.
    He began cattle and ranching, and during the next four years gave his attention wholly to these pursuits. In 1886 he sold his ranch and took his cattle to Eagle county where he held them two winters until he could find a suitable location for a permanent residence. In 1888 he purchased another ranch, this one located on West Rifle creek, near Rifle, and this place he held until he sold it to his son Jesse in 1895. His final purchase was the ranch he now owns and occupies, two miles north of Rifle. It comprises one hundred and twenty acres, all tillable and well supplied with water. He also owns another ranch of the same size and in the same neighborhood. Hay and cattle are his principal products. The former is produced in large quantities and of the latter he runs about eight hundred head. Fraternally Mr. Wurts belongs to the Odd Fellows and the Grand Army of the Republic, and politically he supports the Republican party.
    On May 24, 1880, he was married to Miss Mary Mullen, who was born in Iroquois county, Illinois, at the town of Watseka, and is the daughter of Daniel B. and Mary (Mayett) Mullen, both natives of the province of Quebec. They [the Mullens] located in Illinois in early life and moved to Denver, Colorado, in 1873. One year later they moved to Alma and in 1885 to Rifle creek near Rifle. The father is a carpenter and builder he has erected many of the large buildings in Denver and elsewhere in this part of the country. He is an earnest Democrat in political activity and he and his wife are Methodists in church relations. Nine of their ten children are living: Mary (Mrs. Wurts); Delphine (Mrs. Joe Lovell), of Paris, California; Delia (Mrs. McDonald Oshier), of Como, Colorado; David, of Telluride; Charles and George, of Rifle; Jennie (Mrs. I.W. Graham), of Rifle; Frances (Mrs. Louis Plummer), of Rifle, and Katharine (Mrs. Joseph Slaughter) of Ridgeway, this state.
    In the Wurts family twelve children have been born, ten of whom are living: Jesse W., Alta (Mrs. John Manning), of Lawton, Oklahoma; Hattie, Warren, Aaron, William, Emma, Rachel, Milton, and Virgil. The parents are members of the Methodist church.^[682]

This work, of which we have not seen an original copy, includes portraits of Wurts and his wife, and a photograph of their ranch.
    Known issue (apart from two who died young):^[683]

1. Alta Wurts, b. 1880-81 (aged 4 in 1885) in Colorado, no longer living with her parents in 1900. She m. John Manning, of Lawton, Oklahoma.
2. Hattie Wurts, b. in July 1885 (per 1900 census) in Colorado, evidently unmarried in 1905.
3. Warren Elmer Wurts, b. 6 Feb. 1886 at Alma, Park Co., Colorado,^[684] d. in June 1976 at Rifle,^[685] and buried there. He m. (1) by 1910 (but he sued her for divorce by 1918),^[686] Anna L. ____, b. 1885-86 (aged 24 in 1910) in Colorado (her father having been born in Michigan and her mother in French Canada, i.e. Québec;). He m. (2) Bertha ____, the wife named in his draft registration card in 1918. He is enumerated only a few entries away from the household of his father in 1910, the census calling him a farmer, with one hired man.^[687] At the time of his drafting into the army in September 1918, he was living at Leadville, Colorado, where he was working for the York Mining and Milling Company. At the time of his death he was living at 81650 Rifle, Garfield Co.^[688]
4. 31Aaron Wurts, b. 1 May 1888 in Colorado.
5. William (“Willie”) Richard Wurts, b. 10 May 1890 in Colorado,^[689] d. there in Nov. 1963.^[690] He m. by 1910, He m. Myrtle A. White,^[691] b. 1890-91 (aged 18 in 1910) in Colorado. In 1910 they were enumerated at Cache Creek Precinct, Garfield Co., Colorado, near his parents and the next entry to that for his elder brother Aaron, the census calling him a farm laborer.^[692] At the time of his drafting into the army in June 1917, he was working as a miner.^[693] In 1920 they were enumerated at West Rifle, Garfield Co.^[694] He and his wife were the great-grandparents of Judy Crook.^[695] Known issue (apart from one child who died in infancy):
   1. Leah Wurts, b. 1910-11 (aged 9 in 1920) in Colorado.
   2. Zora Wurts, b. 1912-13 (aged 7 in 1920) in Colorado.
   3. Lila M. Wurts, b. 1914-15 (aged 5 in 1920) in Colorado. She was the grandmother of Judy Crook.
   4. Phyllis E. Wurts, b. about 1916 (aged 3½ in 1920) in Colorado.
   5. William Wurts.
   6. Rosemary Wurts.
   7. Leslie Wurts, alive in May 2005.
6. Emma Lucretia Wurts, b. 18 Dec. 1891 at Rifle, Colorado (IGI), still living unmarried with her parents at the taking of the 1910 census. She m. 14 Sept. 1910 at Rifle (IGI), Andrew Daniel Edwards, d. 10 April 1956 (IGI), son of Thomas Jefferson Edwards and Margaret Teller.
7. Rachel Wurts, b. in July 1893 (per 1900 census) in Colorado; living with her parents in 1910, but not in 1920.
8. Milton H. Wurts, b. in april 1896 (per 1900 census) in Colorado, living 1930. He was still living with his parents in 1910. He m. in 1910-20, Maude Kettle, b. 1899-1900 (aged 20 in 1920), living 1930, daughter of Robert and Etta Belle Kettle, of South Rifle Precinct, Garfield Co. In 1920 they were living with her parents, and he was a farmer,^[696] as also in 1930.^[697] Known issue:
   1. Elsie A. Wurts, b. about June 1917 (aged “2 8/12” in January 1920) in Colorado, living 1930.
   2. Edna Wurts, b. about Nov. 1919 (aged “2/12” in January 1920) in Colorado, living 1930.
9. Virgil S. Wurts, b. in Aug. 1899 (per 1900 census) in Colorado, living 1930. He was living unmarried with his parents in 1920, when the census gives his occupation, apparently, as drayman. He m. in 1920-27, Gladys ____, b. (aged 26 in 1930) in Colorado, of a father born in New York State and a mother born in Colorado. They were living with his widowed mother in 1930, when he was a laborer in a vanadium mill.^[698] Known issue:
   1. Arvin D. Wurts, b. 1927-28 (aged 2 in 1930) in Colorado.
   2. Arlene Wurts, b. 1928-29 (aged 1 in 1930) in Colorado.

28. Dr. Wilmot Benton⁴ Wurts, son of John Burkholder Wurts and Mary Bice, was b. 5 Nov. 1883 at Stouffville,^[699] and d. 2 Feb. 1956 in Toronto. He was a dentist, and by 1913 had offices at 585½ Bloor Street West,^[700] which is also given as his (business) address at the time of his father’s death in 1925, and where his grandson, Brian D. Wurts, informs us he conducted his practice until his retirement. At the death of his daughter Audrey in 1917 he was living at no. 17 Jerome Street, Toronto. He m. 8 June 1910 at Toronto, Hattie May Noble, b. 16 March 1893 in Dawn Tp., Ontario, d. 28 Aug. 1967 at Toronto. Issue:

1. Gordon W. Wurts, b. 11 July 1911 at Toronto, d. 25 Dec. 2005. He received a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Toronto in 1938. Following war service, he was an industrial engineer from 1945 to 1967, and a teacher at, then later principal of, Shawinigan High School, from 1967 to 1979. He m. 25 Dec. 1946, Jean Margaret McFarlane, who was a secretary prior to their marriage. His death notice reads:

   In hospital, on Christmas Day, Sunday, December 25, 2005, aged 94, after a short illness. Beloved husband of Jean Margaret for 59 years. Loved father to Stephen (Saint John, N.B.) and Brian (Toronto). Grandfather to Corey, Derek, Sara, Amanda and Katie. Also loved by daughters-in-law Velda, and Tamara. Gord Wurts lived a long and full life. He graduated with a Bachelor of Engineering from the University of Toronto in 1938 and served as a Lieutenant in the Navy during WWII. He had numerous positions as a professional engineer, moving to Shawinigan, Quebec in 1957, where he and his family lived for 22 years. At age 56, he obtained a teaching diploma, and began a new career as a teacher and subsequently as the principal at the Shawinigan High School, retiring and moving to Ottawa in 1979 at age 68. Apart from family, golf was his passion. He began to play at age 14 in 1925, and was a top amateur golfer, making 5 holes-in-one over his lifetime, and unbelievably, shot his age or better over 500 times. In his 80s and early 90s, he was a regular at the Champlain Golf Course playing and walking the course 3 times a week with friends Reg and Roy. He also was a regular member of a Seniors Snooker League each winter. Until the last hour of his life he was still joking with the nursing staff at the hospital. Friends may join us for a visitation at McEvoy-Shields Funeral Home, 235 Kent Street, on Wednesday, December 28, from 10 a.m. until noon, followed by a Celebration of Life in the Chapel.^[701]

   Issue:
   1. Steven D. Wurts, b. 18 Oct. 1948. He received a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Prince Edward island in 1972, and an M.A. from the University of West Georgia in 1976. He is employed with the National Department of Corrections, in New Brunswick. He m. 8 Aug. 1970, Velda Mary Livingstone, b. 18 July 1949 at Charlottetown, P.E.I., who received her B.A. in Secretarial Science from the University of P.E.I. in 1971. They were still of Saint John, New Brunswick in 2005. They have two children.
   2. Brian D. Wurts, b. 2 March 1952, who received a B.A. in Economics from the University of Alberta, and an M.A. from Carlton University. He was at one time employed with the Department of Finance, at Ottawa, but at the time of his father’s death in 2005 was of Toronto. He m. 11 Aug. 1973 at Edmonton, Alberta, Judy Lynne Seal, b. 11 March 1953 in Alberta. They have one daughter.
2. Audrey Irene Wurts, b. about March 1916, d. 5 May 1917 at Toronto, aged 13 months, 7 days, of pneumonia, and buried in Prospect Cemetery^[702]

29. Herbert Russell⁴ Forster,^[703] son of William Byron Forster and Susanna Reesor, was b. in 1873, d. in 1948, and is buried in the Forster family plot in Locust Hill United Church Cemetery, Markham Tp. He m. 28 Dec. 1904, Alma Yeo, b. in 1877, d. 21 Dec. 1953. He was a farmer, and served as Assessor for Markham Tp. He and his wife are buried in Locust Hill Cemetery. For a fuller listing of their descendants see the Reesor genealogy.
    Issue:

1. Aleta Viola Forster, b. 8 Aug. 1907 at Locust Hill. She m. 1931, Watson James Rennie, b. 27 Sept. 1902, d. 21 Dec. 1956, and buried in Stouffville Cemetery. They had one child.
2. Erma I. Forster, b. 29 April 1910 at Locust Hill, d. 1988, and buried in Locust Hill United Church Cemetery. She m. 23 Nov. 1935, her third cousin, fourth cousin, and fourth cousin once removed, Kenneth Hoover Reesor, of Pefferlaw, Ontario, a retired farmer and carpenter, b. 22 June 1909 at Cedar Grove, living 1999, son of Wilbur Saunders Reesor (1882-1977) and Eva Irene Hoover.^[704] Erma (Forster) Reesor was the owner of the old Wurts family bible. She and her husband had four children, of whom their son Larry is father of Tanya Elizabeth (Reesor) Blundell, who has inherited her grandmother’s papers; she is pursuing research on her branch of the family.

Fifth Generation 5

30. Cecil Ernest⁵ Wurts, son of Ernest Major Wurts and Jane Quigg, was b. 12 Jan. 1901 at Proton (near Flesherton), Ontario, d. 5 Sept. 1981 at Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, and was buried at Duff, Saskatchewan. He m. in 1933, near Duff, Myrtle Elizabeth Kirk, b. 17 Sept. 1904 at Duff, d. 27 Feb. 1969 at Regina, Saskatchewan, and buried at Duff, daughter of George Kirk and Elizabeth Matilda Gough Matthews. At the time of the birth of their son Elwood in January 1934, they were living in a log farmhouse on Section 10, Tp. 22, Range 8, West of the 2^nd Principal Meridian (2 miles east of Duff), Saskatchewan. They moved in the spring of that year to Duff. Cecil worked at farming, banking, carpentry, village dairy, and a variety of other employment, during the 1930s, mostly in the Duff district. He finally became manager of the Duff Co-op business in 1943, and worked in that capacity until his retirement in 1974. He was also Secretary of the Pheasant Hills Telephone Company for a number of years. After his retirement, and in deteriorating health, he moved to Saskatoon about 1980, and lived for a time with his daughter Beverley and her family. He spent some time in the University Hospital in Saskatoon and in a Community Care home, before succumbing to a heart attack in the month of his death. Issue:

1. Elwood (“Woody”) George Ernest Wurts, b. 19 Jan. 1934 near Duff, Saskatchewan. He received a B.E. in Civil Engineering from the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, in 1956, and did pilot training in the Royal Canadian Air Force, 1959-60, at Centralia, Ontario, at Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, and at Gimli, Manitoba. He worked for the Geodetic Survey of Canada, 1961-63, doing triangulation survey work in Western Canada in the summers of 1961-62, and winters in Ottawa. He joined Public Works Canada in 1964 in Fort William, Ontario, doing harbour design and construction and some building construction in the Lakehead harbour and North-Western Ontario until 1970. He transferred to Sault Ste. Marie in 1970, as Supervisor of Technical Services, N.W. Ontario District, doing design of harbour works and minor building works, until 1974. He transferred to Public Works Ontario Regional Office in Toronto in 1974, and worked as Project Manager on harbour projects and other civil engineering projects until 1987, and then as Manager of the Marine Division until his retirement in 1995. Woody m. 14 Jan. 1961 at Ottawa, Ontario, Elizabeth Louise Whitford, b. 15 June 1940 at Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, daughter of Andrew Whitford and Christina Graham. She worked for Central Mortgage & Housing in Calgary and Ottawa, 1959-1962, and for Ontario Water Resources in Sault Ste. Marie, 1970-1971. She worked part-time with York County Hospital Auxiliary, in Newmarket, managing the hospital television service from 1977 to 1996. An enthusiastic folk art painter, she has produced a considerable volume of art-work, for her own home and friends, as well as for sale through various art shops in the area. Woody and Elizabeth have lived at Newmarket since 1974, and have one daughter.
2. Beverley Jean Wurts, b. 19 April 1940 at Duff, Saskatchewan. She m. 5 Sept. 1960, David Drew Price, b. 4 Oct. 1938 in Herefordshire, England, and they have two children.

31. Aaron⁵ Wurts, son of William Warren Wurts and Mary M. Mullen, was b. 1 May 1888 in Colorado, d. in Aug. 1979 at Fort Collins, Larimer Co., Colorado,^[705] and is buried at New Castle, Garfield Co., Colorado. In 1910 he was enumerated at Cache Creek Precinct, Garfield Co., Colorado, near his parents and the next entry to that for his younger brother William, the census calling him a farm laborer.^[706] He m. (1) by late 1910 (but they were divorced some time between 1920 and 1930), Viola Pyle, b. 18 Dec 1891 in Colorado, d. in Jan. 1985 at Rifle, Garfield Co.,^[707] daughter of John and Jennie (____) Pyle, of East New Castle, Garfield Co. In 1920 they were enumerated with four children at Silt, Garfield Co.^[708] In 1930, however, the divorced Aaron Wurts, a farmer, is found with his son Lawrence and his “housekeeper” (and future wife) Violet LaBranch in the 1930 census of New Castle, Garfield County, Colorado.^[709] Meanwhile, the divorced Viola Wurts, a practical nurse, aged 38 years, is found in the household of her parents at East New Castle, Garfield Co., with her children Opal and Lewis.^[710] In the 1972 death notice of her son Laurence she is referred to as “Viola (Pyle) Wurts” and as “Mrs. Viola Wurts of Rifle.” Aaron Wurts m. (2) in 1931 at New Castle,^[711] the aforesaid Violet Mary (Sessions) LaBranch, b. 28 May 1888, at Vernal, Utah, d. 21 Feb. 1969 at New Castle, Garfield Co., divorced wife (with issue) of Joseph LaBranch,^[712] and daughter of the polygamous Solomon Sessions, of Vernal, by one his wives, Catherine Lettie Fuller, who later left him and took her children to Marvine Creek, Colorado.^[713] The death notice of her son Perry LaBranch (d. 1964-65) calls her “Mrs. Aaron Wurts of New Castle,” and combined with the information given in her own death notice, there seems to be no doubt that she was still married to Aaron Wurts at the time of her death, when her address is given as 81650 Rifle, Garfield Co. Her own death notice reads,

Violet Mary Wurts, 80, a resident of New Castle for 68 years, died at Valley View Hospital on February 21, 1969. Violet Mary Session was born May 28, 1888, at Vernal, Utah. She spent her childhood in Utah and Meeker, Colorado. In 1931, in New Castle she was married to Aaron Wurts, who survives. She was previously married to Joseph LaBranch who was killed in 1943 in a mine explosion in New Castle. She was a member of St. John’s Episcopal Church of New Castle. Other survivors include four sons, Lowell LaBranch of Moab, Utah; James Wurts of New Castle; Lawrence Wurts of New Castle; and Louis Wurts of Glenwood; two daughters, Mrs. Paul (Mary) Ganley of Buckeye, Arizona; and Opal Mattivi of New Castle; and 19 grandchildren and 22 great grandchildren. Funeral services were Monday, Feb. 24, 1969 at St. John’s Episcopal Church with Rev. W. R. Shannon officiating. Burial was in Highland Cemetery.”^[714]

It is a decided surprise to see Aaron Wurts’s second wife, Violet, credited with the issue of his first wife, especially as the latter had not only raised two of them to adulthood but was still alive at the time! That Violet (Sessions) (LaBranch) Wurts could have been the mother of Lawrence Wurts, of Louis Wurts, or of Opal (Wurts) Mattivi, is absolutely impossible. This notice is seriously misinformed concerning this family, and confuses the two similarly-named wives of Aaron Wurts.
    Known issue:

(by first wife:)

1. Opal Wurts, b. 8 Oct. 1910 at Rifle Creek, d. 2 Aug. 2000 at New Castle.^[715] She was living unmarried with her mother in 1930, when she is called an “operator” (i.e. a telephone operator?). She m. in 1931, Peter Mattivi, Jr., of New Castle, b. 8 Sept. 1905 at Crystal, Colorado, still alive at his hundredth birthday on 8 Sept. 2005, son of Peter Mattivi.^[716] She is mentioned as his wife in the 1972 death notice of her brother Laurence. Peter Mattivi was the owner of the Mattivi Motor Company, a service station at 298 West Main Street, New Castle, which is now the New Castle Café, run by his daughter Pamela. An informative article about the business reads, in part:

   This building was erected in 1937 by Pete and Matt Mattivi on the site of an early livery stable…. Pete Mattivi, a prominent citizen of New Castle who served as mayor, county commissioner, and school board member, was born in Crystal in 1905 and lived in Marble, Salida, and Glenwood Springs. He moved to New Castle in 1929 to help his brother Matt, in a two-stall service station. Mattivi recalled that the town was booming at that time and “there was a business on every block” and six service stations. In 1931, he married Opal [Wurts] Mattivi, who was born in Rifle Creek in 1910. She served as treasurer of the first library board in the 1930s and was one of the original Friends of Garfield County Library, started in 1985. For twenty-five years she was a 4-H leader. In 1937, the brothers established this service station and also sold Studebakers for nineteen years. Pete Mattivi owns the building today, although he retired from its operation in 1982. … Pete Mattivi … also served as mayor of New Castle [in 1954-1969 and 1974-1981], as well as county commissioner for twenty years [1957-1977] and school board member for ten years.^[717]

   A more recent article about Peter Mattivi reads, in part:

   … After celebrating a century of birthdays, Mattivi is happy to spend time practicing the art of good conversation that helped him stay in public office for decades. The youngest of five children whose father, Pete Sr., was an Austrian-born silver and marble miner, Mattivi is known in New Castle and Garfield County as a longtime downtown businessman and public servant. He served on the Town Council for two years before being elected town mayor in 1954, serving through 1969 and again from 1974 to 1981. His 24-year stint as mayor is the longest in New Castle history and is rivaled only by his record 20 years as a Garfield County Commissioner from 1957 to 1977.

   “For more than 70 years Pete has been a fixture in the town. He has touched and inspired all who have known him,” said Steve Rippy, New Castle town administrator. “Perhaps no other individual has given as much or has had such a positive influence in the shaping of our community.” Mattivi lists as his greatest accomplishments helping with the modernization of the town, such as the installation of the first television translator and the arrival of sewer and gas service in the early 1950s….

   As a county commissioner he was instrumental in the construction of a new library in 1967 in New Castle, convincing leaders in Rifle that their town should share, since they already had the county fairgrounds and airport.

   Mattivi co-owned and operated automotive businesses or service stations in downtown New Castle for some 56 years. In 2002 town officials dedicated Mattivi Plaza in front of the Mattivi Building on Main Street that served as Pete and his wife Opal’s Phillips 66 service station for decades. He said his key to success as a businessman and a statesman, “not a politician,” has always been talking things through. “I tried to reach out, and I think that’s what helped me,” Mattivi said. “When you are in there serving the people, you have to listen to what they have to say. I didn’t think of it as complaints, just the starting of a good conversation. I enjoyed every minute of it.”

   Pete and Opal … were married for 69 years. Their two daughters, current Town Councilor Pam Bunn and Denver resident Pat Werner, were born 22 years apart. Mattivi has five grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren…. Hundreds of people showed up for Mattivi’s 100th birthday party on Sept. 8, where he took a few turns on the dance floor and, of course, talked with many friends.^[718]

   Issue:
   1. Pamela Mattivi, alive in 2005; m. Robert Bunn. She served on the New Castle Town Council from 1994 to 2002,^[719] and was apparently was a council member again in 2005. In 2004 she was the proprietor of the New Castle Café above-mentioned.^[720]
   2. Patricia Mattivi, alive in 2005; m. ____ Werner, of Denver.
2. Victor Wurts, b. 1911-12 (aged 8 in 1920) in Colorado, d. before Feb. 1972, being mentioned as deceased in the death notice of his younger brother Laurence. He was not living with either of his parents in 1930, and we have not found him in ancestry.com’s index to the 1930 census.
3. Lawrence Wurts, b. 27 Dec. 1913 in Colorado, d. unmarried and v.p., shortly before 7 Feb. 1972 at Rifle.^[721] He was living with his father in 1930. A death notice reads: “Laurence R. Wurts of Rifle, [a] native who moved back to his hometown four years ago, died on Monday, Feb. 7 in the Grand Junction veteran Hospital. Funeral services have been scheduled for 2 PM on Friday, Feb. 11, at the Congregational Church in New Castle; Rev. Walter Klein will officiate. Burial will be in Highland Cemetery; Sower Funeral Home of Rifle is handling the arrangements. Wurts, was born in Rifle on Dec. 27, 1913, the son of Aaron and Viola (Pyle) Wurts. He attended school in New Castle and Rifle, graduated from Rifle High School, attended a college in Calif. and later taught school for a period of time. During World War II, Wurts served with the U.S. Naval air Force. He made his home in Los Angeles following the war, pursuing a career as a machinist with aircraft and aerospace companies. He was preceded in death by a brother, Victor; surviving are his mother, Mrs. Viola Wurts of Rifle, his father Aaron Wurts of New Castle, two brothers, Louis Wurts of Glenwood Spring and James Wurts of Denver; his sister, Mrs. Pete (Opal) Mattivi of New Castle; nieces, nephews, and other relatives.”^[722]
4. Louis Wurts, b. 1916-17 (aged 3 in 1920, 13 in 1930) in Colorado, still alive in Feb. 1972. He was living with his mother in 1930, and is stated to be of Glenwood Spring in the 1972 death notice of his brother Laurence.

(by second wife:)

5. James Wurts, b. after 1930, called of New Castle in the death notice of his mother in 1969, and of Denver in that of his brother Laurence in 1972. He is thus probably identical with the James L. Wurts who was b. 29 March 1935, and d. 4 May 1998 at Denver.^[723]

Unplaced persons probably or possibly of this family

On the evidence of naming patterns and geography, there can be little doubt that two of the women treated in this section belong to the present family, namely Charlotte and Susan Wurts, but no direct evidence has yet been found which would suggest either woman’s parentage.

A. John Worts, b. 1795-96 in the U.S., d. 25 Oct. 1881 in Artemesia Tp., Grey County, aged 85 years, of “old age.”^[724] His death record calls him a carpenter, and a Protestant.

B.   Barbara Wurts, b. 1801-02 (aged 68 in 1870) in Canada, appears as “Barbara Wurtz” in the 1870 of Norwich Tp., Huron Co., Ohio, the only other member of her household being a younger Barbara Wurtz who can be definitely identified as the daughter of Abraham Wurts (no. 2).^[725] The census-taker, in a grievous oversight, failed to ask for her marital status, so she may have been the widow of some man of the Wurts family. She is not found in the LDS index to the 1880 U.S. census.

C.   Charlotte Wurtz,^[726] b. 1815-16 (aged 65 in 1881) in Ontario, still alive in 1881. Despite the suggestion which has been made that this woman’s name was Caroline, it is well attested as Charlotte, being given as such in the 1871 and 1881 censuses, and in the marriage records of her children John, Mary, and James. The use of the uncommon name of Morris for one of her sons suggests that she was of this family, and her association with Chinguacousy Tp., Peel Co., tempts us to place her in the family of Morris Wurts and Phoebe Warner, although if her birthdate as suggested by the 1881 census is correct, she was some nine years older than the oldest of the children who can positively attributed to them, and they would have been extremely young when she was born. She does not appear in their household in the 1852 census, but may well have been already married at the time. Two additional hints that she may have been connected with their family are: (1) one of the witnesses at the 1858 marriage of Catherine Wurts, daughter of Maurice Wurts and Phoebe Warner, was Charlotte’ possible daughter, Louisa Mino; and (2) one of the witness at the 1887 marriage of her son James Oscar Mino was a Jemima Morrow, and Maurice Wurts and Phoebe Warner had a granddaughter of this name, b. about 1862, daughter of Mary Wurts and William J. Morrow.
   Charlotte Wurtz m. before 1854 (it is said in 1840),^[727] John Mino, b. 1812-13 (aged 68 in 1881 in Ontario, alive in 1881 but said to have d. 1887. The family name is also found as Minno. A local heritage website mentions, on Embleton Road, “an old store/house … built as a house by John Mino in 1855, when he moved here to work in Hutton’s sawmill, which was located on land behind his house.”^[728] John Mino and his wife appear in Chinguacousy Tp., Peel Co., in the 1871 census,^[729] and in the 1881 census, in which he and his three sons are called laborers, and the family’s religion is given as Episcopal Methodist.^[730] He, or perhaps his son of the same name, is possibly the ”John Mino, carpenter,” listed at Huttonville in a directory published in 1874.^[731] Also found in their household is a Mark Mino, aged 4, presumably a grandchild. Known issue:

1. (?) Louisa Mino, b. 1841-42, alive in 1881. She m. some time between 1858 and 1864, James Quennell, b. 1839-40 (aged 41 in 1881) in England. As Louisa Mino and James Quennell, both of Chinguacousy Tp., they served as witnesses to the marriage of Catharine Wurts (daughter of Maurice Wurts and Phoebe Warner) and Benajah Williams on 31 Dec. 1858 in Chinguacousy Tp., Peel Co.^[732] They are enumerated at Streetsville, Peel Co., in the 1881 census, in which James is called a lawyer, and the family’s religion is given as Canadian Methodist.^[733] Known issue:
   1. James Albert Quennell, b. about 1863 (aged 17 in 1881, 22 in 1884) in Chinguacousy Tp. (per marriage record), assisting on the family farm in 1881. He m. 17 Dec 1884 in Peel Co., by the rites of the Church of England,^[734] Grace Brookbank, b. 1862-63 (aged 21 in 1884) at Streetsville, daughter of Samuel and Grace Brookbank. At the time of their marriage, the record of which names both sets of parents without however supplying the maiden surnames of the mothers, the groom was a farmer, of Toronto Tp., and the bride was of Streetsville; the witnesses were James Mino, of Chinguacousy, and Fanny Brookbank, of Streetsville.
   2. Mary L. Quennell, b. 1864-65 (aged 16 in 1881, 18 in 1883) in Chinguacousy Tp. (per marriage record). She m. 6 March 1883 in Toronto Tp.,^[735] James Haines King, b. 1852-53 (aged 30 in 1883) in Toronto Tp., son of Thomas and Jannet (____) King. At the time of their marriage, the record of which names both sets of parents without however supplying the maiden surnames of the mothers, the bride was of Streetsville, and the groom, a hotel keeper, was of Cooksville; the witnesses were James Mino, of Chinguacousy, and Sarah Graydon, of Streetsville.
   3. William Walter Quennell, b. about 1867 (aged 14 in 1881, 40 in 1908) at Huttonville (per record of first marriage. He was living unmarried with his parents in 1881, when he was a sawmill hand. He m. (1) 30 April 1895 at Huttonville,^[736] Melissa D. Osbourne, b. 1872-73 (aged 22 in 1895) at Rockwood, d. by 1908, daughter of William and Mary (____) Osbourne. At the time of their marriage, the record of which names both sets of parents without however supplying the maiden surnames of the mothers, the groom was a carpenter, of Streetsville, and the bride was of Rockwood; the witnesses were Nellie Dixon, of Huttonville, and W.J. Allen, of Streetsville. As “William Walter Quennell, aged 40, widower, machinist,” he m. (2) 10 Nov. 1908,^[737] Jemima Jane McCarter, b. 1873-74 (aged 34 in 1908), daughter of Robert McCarter and Sarah Stanfield. At the time of their marriage, the record of which supplies the full names of both sets of parents, both parties were of West Toronto Tp.; the witnesses were Helen R. Stephen and Gladys Barbour, both of Toronto.
   4. Austen Quennell, b. 1873-74 (aged 7 in 1881).
   5. Ada Melinda Quennell, b. probably in 1876 (aged 4 in 1881, 19 in 1895) at Huttonville (per marriage record). She m. 23 Oct. 1895 at Brampton,^[738] John Piggott, b. 1873-74 (aged 21 in 1895) in Lincolnshire, England, son of John and Mary (____) Piggott. At the time of their marriage, the record of which names both sets of parents without however supplying the maiden surnames of the mothers, the bride was of Huttonville and the groom, a flower potter, was of West Carleton Tp.; the witnesses were Charles Piggott, of Carleton, and Emma Quennell, of Huttonville. A published transcription of the record gives the name of the bride’s parents as James and Louisa Minerva Quennell, but we have not seen the original record.
   6. Emma Quennell, b. 1878-79 (aged 2 in 1881). As Emily A. Quennell, aged 20, b. at Simcoe, daughter of Jas. Quennell and Louisa Mino, she m. 12 Dec. 1898 at Toronto Junction,^[739] George Alfred Davidge, b. 1875-76 (aged 22 in 1898) in Carlton Tp. West, Ontario, son of William Davidge and Eliza Blomfield; the witnesses were Wm. Davidge of “Town” (this seems to mean Toronto Junction) and Alice Graham of Huttonville.
2. John Mino, b. 1 Aug. 1853 in Chinguacousy Tp., living 1901. He was was living with his parents at the taking of the 1881 census. He m. (1) ____, who d. before 1881. As “John Minno, widower, yeoman, widower, aged 27” he m. (2) 11 Nov. 1881 at Brampton,^[740] Elizabeth Jane Brown, b. 4 Sept. 1862 in Chinguacousy Tp., same, d/o William and Margaret (____) Brown. At the time of their marriage, the record of which names both sets of parents without however supplying the maiden surnames of the mothers, both parties were residing in Chinguacousy Tp.; the witnesses were Abraham Scott and Ellen Lundy, both of Chinguacousy Tp.^[741] His address is given as lot 5, concession 5, of Chinguacousy in the birth record of their son Morris (1882), but he is called a laborer, of Huttonville, in that of his daughter Irene (1895). John Mino and his second wife were still living in the township in 1901, when he is called a laborer.^[742] Known issue:

   (by first wife:)

   1. (probably) Mark Mino, b. 1876-77 (aged 4 in 1881) in Ontario, living in his grandparents’ household in 1881, but not found with his ostensible father, John Mino, in 1901.

   (by second wife:)

   2. Morris Wilmer Mino, b. 7 Aug. 1882 at Huttonville,^[743] living unmarried with his parents in 1901, when he is called a knitter. As Maurice Wilmer Mino he m. 9 Dec. 1913 at Brampton, Peel Co., by Methodist rites,^[744] Anne May Smith, b. 1882-83 (aged 30 at their marriage) at Brampton, daughter of James Smith and Valice Reynolds. At the time of their marriage, the record of which names both sets of parents, both parties were of Brampton, and the groom was a painter; the witnesses were Herbert Smith and Priscilla Horsburgh, both of Brampton.
   3. Leonard S. Mino, b. 24 April 1886, alive in 1919, when he served as a witness at the wedding of his younger sister Irene.
   4. Irene Aldo Mino, b. 28 June 1895 in Chinguacousy Tp.^[745] She m. 22 Oct. 1919 at Brampton, by Methodist rites,^[746] George Smither, b. 1895-96 (aged 23 at their marriage) at Brampton, son of John R. Smither and Fanny E. Wood. At the time of their marriage, the record of which names both sets of parents, the groom was a laborer and the bride a housekeeper, and both parties were of Brampton; the witnesses were Leonard S. Mino and Ethel M. Ellis, both of Brampton.
3. Mary Catherine Mino, b. 1855 in Chinguacousy Tp., d. 1918; m. 5 Oct. 1880 in Peel Co.,^[747] Thomas John Denison, b. 25 Aug. 1855 in York Co., d. 1928, son of John Lawrence Denison, of Chinguacousy, by the latter’s wife Sarah Clark, his father being a nephew of the well-known Lt.-Col. George Taylor Denison.^[748] At the time of their marriage, the record of which gives the names of both sets of parents without however supplying the maiden surnames of the mothers, both parties were of Chinguacousy, the bride being an Episcopal Methodist and the groom a farmer and an Episcopalian; the witnesses were Jesse Simpson and Ida Simpson, both of Brampton.
4. Emeline Ann Mino, b. 1857-58 (aged 23 in 1881), d. (unmarried) 1 June 1894 in Chinguacousy Tp., of “peralisis of the brain,” being described in her death record as “an invalid from youth.”^[749] She was living with her parents in 1881.
5. James Oscar Mino, b. 19 Jan. 1858 (per 1901 census) at Huttonville, living unmarried with his parents in 1881. He m. 12 Jan. 1887 in Eramosa Tp., Wellington Co., by Methodist rites,^[750] Mary Margaret Etta Osburn, b. 10 Jan. 1858 (per 1901 census) in Eramosa Tp., daughter of Abram and Donabella (____) Osburn. At the time of their marriage, the record of which gives the names of both sets of parents without however supplying the maiden surnames of the mothers, the groom was an electric light manager, of Huttonville, and the bride was of Eramosa. The witnesses were Archy Murray and Jemima Morrow, both of Rockwood (see comment above). They are enumerated in the 1901 census of Chinguacousy Tp.^[751] Only known child:
   1. James Elmo Mino, b. 8 Feb. 1893 (per 1901 census) at Huttonville (per marriage record). He m. 22 Dec. 1923 in York Co., by Methodist rites,^[752] Helen Magaret Seater, b. 1899-1900 (aged 23 in 1923) at Priceville, Ontario, daughter of William Seater and Ellen Scott. At the time of their marriage, the record of which supplies the full names of both sets of parents, the groom was an electrician, of Brampton, and the bride was a stenographer, of the City of Toronto; the witnesses were Mary Jean Tuthill, of 240 Crawford Strett, and Ethel Bowles (?), of 238 Crawford Street.
6. Morris Mino, b. 1861-62 (aged 19 in 1881), living unmarried with his parents in 1881.

D.   Susan Wurts,^[753] b. probably 8 May 1819,^[754] in Ontario,^[755] d. 14 Feb. 1855, “a week after” the birth of her last child, and buried in Huckins Cemetery, Sanilac Co., Michigan.^[756] Susan Wurts’s family affiliations are somewhat of a mystery, as at the time of her marriage in Markham Tp. in 1840, there were no other families of the name anywhere nearby. However, the use of such names as Elias, Barbara, and Abraham for her children strongly suggest that she was a daughter or granddaughter of John Wurts (no. 1). Conversely, two of John Wurts’s children, Catharine and Elias, named daughters Susan or Susanna. Furthermore, as mentioned above, there was an indirect connection between Susan Wurts and the Marrs, for her husband was a first cousin of Eliezar (“Eli”) Macklem, who married Elizabeth Ann Wixon, daughter of Joel and Mary (Marr) Wixon. We would unhestitatingly identify her as a daughter of John Wurts and his second wife Barbara (Brook) Marr, were it not for the fact that she is not listed in the family bible. There is in fact a gap between Joel Wurts (October 1817) and Elias H. Wurts (April 1821) which would give ample room for her to have been born, but as John Wurts by then had adult sons, we cannot rule out the possibility that one of these was her father. The most plausible candidate among these is Abraham Wurts (no. 2), who was easily old enough and probably married early enough) to have been her father, but Morris Wurts (no. 4) is another possibility, as is Landon Wurts (no. 5), if just barely.
    Susan Wurts m. (as his first wife) 29 Oct. 1840, William Macklem, b. 15 April 1819, d. 29 Nov. 1900, having m. (2) Polly Graham, (3) Margaret ____, and (4) Harriet (Hadden) Fike, and had further issue. He was a son of John and Maria Magdalena (Weidman) Macklem, of Ringwood, Whitchurch Tp., York Co., Ontario.^[757]
    William Macklem is listed at lot 23, concession 6 of Whitchurch Tp. in Walton’s 1837 directory and in Brown’s 1846 directory. As previously mentioned, he was a first cousin of Eliezer (“Eli”) Macklem, who went to Lexington Tp., Sanilac Co. by 1855, and whose wife, Elizabeth Ann Wixon, was a daughter of Joel and Mary (Marr) Wixon, ostensibly a half-niece of Susan Wurts. (Eliezer’s parents, James and Ann Macklem, also went to Lexington Tp.).^[758] Susan and her husband moved by 1849 to Chippewa Tp., Wayne Co., Ohio, where four children were born between 1849 and 1852. They are enumerated there in the 1850 census, which gives his occupation as sawyer.^[759] Later, they went to Sanilac Co., Michigan, where she died. William Macklem appears with his second wife in the 1860 census of Worth Tp., Sanilac Co., which gives his occupation as farmer.^[760] He is said to have also lived at Flint for some time. Some time after his second wife’s death, and evidently in the mid-1860s, William Macklem returned with his younger children to York Co., where he is listed in the censuses of 1871 and 1881.^[761] The son Philip was raised by an uncle, Philip Macklem (1822-1888), of Markham Tp., York Co.^[762]
    Known issue:

1. Elizabeth Ann Macklem, b. 14 July 1841 in Canada, living unmarried with her father in 1860. She m. 19 June 1862, perhaps in Michigan, Joseph Boothley. She may have remained in Michigan when her father returned to Canada in the 1860s, but we have not found her husband in indexes to the 1870 state census, to the 1880 U.S. census, or to the 1881 census of Canada. The Macklem genealogy does not trace any descendants.
2. John Elias Macklem, b. 18 June 1843 in Canada. He evidently remained in Michigan when his father returned to Canada in the 1860s, but we have not located him in the 1870 state census,^[763] or in the 1881 census. He m. by 1886 in Michigan, his second cousin, Barbara French, b. 5 Aug. 1853, d. 27 Dec. 1895 in Macomb Co., Michigan, daughter of Jesse and Mary (Dougherty) French, of Sanilac Co., Michigan, and granddaughter of Charles and Jane (Macklem) French.^[764] Only known child:
   1. William J. Macklem, b. 1886, d. 20 June 1905 in Macomb Co.
3. Rachel Susan Macklem, b. 3 Dec. 1844 in Canada, returned to Canada with her father in the 1860s and m. 17 Feb. 1868, presumably in Ontario, George Dresser. We have not located them in the 1881 Canadian census, and it seems possible, despite a slight discrepancy of a few years in their ages, that she was the widowed Rachel Dresser, aged 34 years, born in Canada, who was enumerated with two sons, Robert V. (aged 11) and William G. (aged 9) in the 1880 census of Richmond Tp., Macomb Co., Michigan.^[765] If so, her two known daughters were not in the household, but it is possible they could have been raised by relatives if Rachel was indeed widowed. Known issue:
   1. Anna J. Dresser, b. 18__,^[766] d. 1933, and apparently buried in Aurora Cemetery, Whitchurch Tp. She may have m. a Thomas Hutchinson, but the Macklem genealogy is noncomital on this point. In the 1871 census she is found in the household of Andrew and Margaret (Macklem) Henderson, of Whitchurch Tp., this Margaret being a daughter of Thomas Adam and Catharine (Weidman) Macklem, and a double first cousin of the William Macklem, husband of Susan Wurts.^[767]
   2. Sarah Catherine Dresser; m. 7 Oct. 1891 in Markham Tp.,^[768] Peter Hoover Raymer, b. 1859, d. 7 Oct. 1891.^[769] We have not located them in the 1881 census.
4. Barbara Maria Macklem (called Barbara Ann in the 1860 census), b. 29 Aug. 1846 in Canada, d. 19 Nov. 1870, of consumption, aged 24 years, 2 months, and 21 days, and buried in Union Church Cemetery, Dixon Hill, near Ringwood, Markham Tp.^[770] She returned to Canada with her father in the 1860s, and m. (as his first wife) 15 Oct. 1867 at Richmond Hill, William Henry Burkholder, b. around 1843 at Woodbridge, Ontario, d. 28 Nov. 1931.^[771] Our treatment of him owes much to Ruth Burkholder, who has gathered considerable material but has not yet succeeded in determining his parentage. Although this man’s surname is a familiar one in Markham Tp., he has not been found in the 1851-52 census. However, he is found as a sixteen-year-old in the household of John and Sarah [Burkholder] Steckley at Bethesda, Whitchurch Tp., in 1861, and he reappears in their household in 1871 as “Henrey Burkholder,” aged 25, a widowed carpenter, and Primitive Methodist, alongside a David Burkholder, aged 26, labourer, Mennonite, born in Ontario.^[772] It seems practically certain, therefore, that he was a close relative — perhaps a nephew — of David Burkholder and of Sarah (Burkholder) Steckley, and Ruth Burkholder has determined that David Burkholder was a son of Henry Burkholder (1790-1860) and Catherine Troyer (1794-1886). William Henry Burkholder was remarried on 24 April 1871 to Mary Jane Logan, of Bethesda (d. 1929), by whom he would have five more children. He was in Whitchurch Tp. at the births of three of these children in 1876, 1877 and 1879, and at Bethesda in 1880 and 1881, being enumerated in the census of the latter year as William Burkholder, carpenter, aged 36, with no middle name specified, with wife Mary J. and five children.^[773] In 1883 he moved to Victoria, British Columbia. In 1897 he went to the Klondike and stayed in Dawson for three years, striking gold in his claim no. 14 on Walsh Creek in the Yukon. In 1914 he received building permit to erect an eight-room house on St. Patrick Street. Known issue:
   1. Sarah J. Burkholder, b. 8 Nov. 1868, d. (unmarried) 22 March 1887, aged 19 years, 4 months, and 14 days, and buried with her mother. After her mother’s death, she was adopted by her grand-uncle, Philip Macklem (1822-1888), of Markham Tp.^[774]
   2. William Henry Burkholder, b. in Sept. 1870. He has not been found in the 1871 or 1881 censuses, either in his father’s household or anywhere else.
5. William Henry Macklem (twin), b. 12 Jan. 1849 in Ohio, d. 4 March 1876. After his mother’s death, he returned to Canada with his father. He was raised by his paternal grandfather.^[775]
6. Abraham James Macklem (twin), b. 12 Jan. 1849 in Ohio, of whom nothing further is stated in the Macklem genealogy.
7. Philip Wurts Macklem, b. 30 June 1851 in Ohio or in Michigan (according to his marriage record), and d. 28 Sept. 1896 (?) in York Co., Ontario.^[776] After his mother’s death Philip returned to Canada with his father. He was sent to live with his uncle, Philip Macklem (1822-1888), of Markham Tp., in whose household he appears in the 1861 census. In 1871 he was living with his paternal grandfather. He m. 25 Dec. 1877 in Whitchurch Tp., York Co.,^[777] Sarah J. Dougherty, daughter of John and Ellen (Carleton) Dougherty, b. 1854 in Whitchurch Tp., daughter of John and Ellen (____) Dougherty. Their marriage record calls him a carpenter, of Whitchurch Tp., and her of the same place, and the witnesses were Andrew Macklem and Rachel Dougherty, both of Whitchurch. In 1881 he and his wife were living in Markham Tp., and his religion is given only as “Christian.”^[778] In 1891 they were living at Stouffville.^[779] For a fuller account of their descendants than what follows see the Macklem genealogy. Issue:
   1. William Henry Macklem, b. 1878 in York Co., d. ca. 1928.
   2. Ella Macklem, b. 1879 in York Co., d. 1918; m. George Alguire, and had three children.
   3. Lily Macklem, b. 1881 in York Co., d. s.p. 1967. She m. Samuel F. Daley, of Camrose, Alberta.
   4. Clifford Macklem, b. 1883 in York Co., d. 1958. He m. Pearl Fletcher, and had two children.
   5. Alfred Macklem, b. 1884 in York Co., d. 1957. He m. Lillian Goodman. They lived at Niagara Falls. They had eleven children.
   6. Philip Ross Macklem, b. 14 Aug. 1888 in York Co., d. (unmarried) 25 March 1959, and buried in Stouffville Cemetery.
   7. John Stuart Macklem, b. 5 Feb. 1889, d. 9 Dec. 1970. He m. 8 Feb. 1911 at Port Hope, Ontario, Hilda Viola Welch, b. 2 June 1891, d. 29 June 1974. They had eleven children, of whom a son Donnie died at the age of six months and a set of twins (probably unnamed) died at or shortly after birth.^[780]
   8. Laura Macklem, b. 1895 in York Co.; m. Harry Maudsley, d. 1939. They lived at Waubaushene, Ontario. No issue.
8. Uriah Isaac Macklem (inexplicably called Michael in the 1860 census), b. 26 Oct. 1853 in Ohio, said to have d. 15 Oct. 1892. We presume that he returned with his father to Canada in the 1860s, but he was not a member of the latter’s household in 1881 and indeed has not been found anywhere in the census of that year.
9. Andrew Alfred Macklem, b. 7 Feb. 1855 in Michigan, d. 11 Oct. 1888, and buried in Dixon Hill Cemetery, near Ringwood, Markham Tp. He returned with his father to Canada in the 1860s. In the 1871 census he is found in the household of Andrew and Margaret (Macklem) Henderson, this Margaret being a daughter of Thomas Adam and Catharine (Weidman) Macklem, and a double first cousin of Andrew Alfred Macklem’s father.^[781] He has not been found in the 1881 census.

E.   William Wurts, b. about 1821 (aged 49 in 1870, 58 in 1880) in Canada, living 1880. Apart from his Canadian birth, and the fact that he lived close to Morris Wurts (no. 2.iii), we have found no evidence to suggest that he was of the present Wurts family. He m. before 1857, perhaps in Ohio, Sarah Burgett,^[782] b. 1837-38 (aged 32 in 1870, 42 in 1880) in Ohio, living 1880. We have not found them in the 1860 census. They are enumerated with three children in the 1870 census of Copley, Summit Co., Ohio, in which he is called a farmer with land worth $2,500.^[783] They are also enumerated there in the 1880 census, in which he is again called a farmer.^[784] Known issue:

1. Silas A. Wurts, b. 1856-57 (aged 13 in 1870, 23 in 1880) in Ohio; still living unmarried with his parents in 1880, when he was a college student.
2. John Wilbur Wurts (called Wilbert in 1870, John W. in 1880, John Wilbur in his death certificate and in that of his wife), b. 23 Jan. 1860 at Canal Fulton, Ohio (per death record), d. 2 March 1935 at Elyria, Lorain Co., Ohio, and buried at Litchfield, Ohio.^[785] He is called a janitor, of 382 Furnace Street, in his death record. He m. by 1886, Rosa/Rose M. Minger, b. 10 Sept. 1860 (per death record) or Sept. 1861 (per census) at Canal Fulton, Ohio, d. 26 June 1948 at Lorain, Lorain Co., Ohio, aged 87 years, 9 months, and 16 days,^[786] daughter of William Minger and Mary Reinhardt. He and his wife were living with his parents in 1880, when he was a farmer. He is enumerated as Wilbert Wurts in the 1900 census of Elyria, Lorain Co., Ohio, in which he is called a “laborer in saddle manufactury” and his father’s birthplace is given as Canada.^[787] Known issue:
   1. Earl Wurts, b. in Nov. 1886 in Ohio.
   2. Harry Wurts, b. in Aug. 1888 in Ohio.
3. Edith Wurts, b. 1863-64 (aged 6 in 1870, 16 in 1880) in Ohio; living unmarried with her parents in 1880.
4. Ellis [= Elias?] E.U. Wurts, b. 1875-76 (aged 4 in 1880) in Ohio.

F.   Timothy Clark Wurts: Passed away on Wednesday, November 8, 2006. Mr. Tim Wurts of Simcoe in his 42nd year. Son of Thomas Wurts and the late Rejeanne Montreuil, he is survived by his loving children: Naomi Gee of New Brunswick, Jeremy McSheffrey, Thomas McSheffrey, Kirby Wurts, all of Vittoria, and Marcela Wurts of Port Dover. Cherished grandfather of Alisha and Griffin, dear brother of Lisa Paul and her husband Dana of Simcoe, Tammy Krukowski and her husband Jerry and Todd Wurts and his wife Shannon, all of Michigan, and grandson of Thomas J. Wurts of Michigan. Also surviving are numerous nieces and nephews. Funeral service was held on Saturday, November 11, 2006, at 10 a.m. from The Baldock Funeral Home, 96 Norfolk St. N., Simcoe. Pastor Marc Bertrand officiated, followed by cremation. — Death notice, Simcoe Reformer; 13 Nov. 2006, courtesy of Janet Jones.

Notes

              occupation     birthpl.    relig.   age next b'day
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Elias Wurts     yeoman       Canada      none     31
Mary Wurts                     "          "       25
Adeline Wurts                  "          "        8
John Wurts                     "          "        6
Benj. F. Wurts                 "          "        4
Eliz'th* A. Wurts              "          "        2
Gideon Turner   carpenter   New Brunswick "       28
Clarasy Turner              Canada        "       26
Isaac L. Turner                 "         "        4
John B. Turner                  "         "        2
John Wurts      ----        U.S.          "        87
Barbra                       "            "        70
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* Wheeler here incorrectly reads "Edith"

name         cond. gender age   birthplace
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William Palmer  mar. M     31   Ontario
Eliza      "    mar. F     27   Ontario
Rachael    "         F      4   Ontario
Edith      "         F      3   Ontario
Elizabeth  "         F      1   Ontario

name  relationship gender  born    age birthpl.father mother occupation
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Lawrence Linton head  M  April 1845 55 C.E.*    Eng. Eng.  day lab. farm
Cecelia     "   wife  F  May   1856 44 C.E.     N.Y. C.E.
Lulu        "   dau.  F  Aug.  1889 10 Michigan C.E. C.E.  at school
===
* CE = English Canada
Lawrence Linton immigrated 1881; his wife in 1876; married 14 years
Entire family could read and write

Isaac Palmer mar. M English 56 Ontario farmer
Catharine "  mar. F English 55 Ontario ----
John      "       M English 23 Ontario farmer
Jemima    "       F English 20 Ontario ----
Isaac     "       M English 17 Ontario farmer
Adelia    "       F English 14 Ontario ----
Sylvester "       M English 12 Ontario ----
Frances   "       M English  4 Ontario ----
Charles   "       M English  1 Ontario ----
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entire family’s religion is Disciple of Christ

William Leng     M head  mar. Feb.  1860     50 farmer
Adelia    "      F wife  mar. May   1869 [?] 45 ----
William A. Leng  M son   s.   Oct.  1887     23 farmer
Beatta ... Nixon F dau.  mar. April 1888     22 ----
Stella M. Leng   M dau.  s.   Dec.  1892     18 ----
===
All born in Ontario; all of English origin and Canadian nationality;
all Baptists

name       age  gender ocupation      birthplace
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Elias Wurtz    40  M   hotel-keeper   Canada
Adelain* Wurtz 15  F   servant          "
John Wurtz     14  M   ----             "
Frank Wurtz    12  M   ----             "
Alice Wurtz     5  F   ----             "
John Wurtz     61  M   laborer        N.J.
Persis Wurtz   58  F   house-keeper   Conn.
Eliza Pomeroy  24  F      "           Ohio
+ various servants
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* sic

name            relationship age  cond. b.p.      father    mother  occupation
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Laura J. Lonsbury*    head    61  Wid.  Canada    Canada    Pennsylvania  none
Beatrice M. Lonsbury  dau.    39  S     Michigan  Michigan  Canada        none
John E. Wismer*       brother 58  S     Canada    Canada    Pennsylvania  none
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* Both immigrated to U.S. in 1861 and naturalized in 1867.

              occupation     birthpl.    relig.   age next b'day
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Elias Wurts     yeoman       Canada      none     31
Mary Wurts                     "          "       25
Adeline Wurts                  "          "        8
John Wurts                     "          "        6
Benj. F. Wurts                 "          "        4
Eliz'th* A. Wurts              "          "        2
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* Wheeler here incorrectly reads "Edith"

name       age  gender ocupation      birthplace
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Elias Wurtz    40  M   hotel-keeper   Canada
Adelain Wurtz  15  F   servant          "
John Wurtz     14  M   ----             "
Frank Wurtz    12  M   ----             "
Alice Wurtz     5  F   ----             "
+ various servants

name     relationship age cond.  birthpl. father   mother
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Clifford Wurts  head  40  mar.   Michigan Michigan Michigan
  machinist, auto factory
Edith Wurts     wife  33  mar.   Michigan Michigan Ireland
Margaret Wurts  dau.  10  single Michigan Michigan Michigan

              occupation     birthpl.    relig.   age next b'day
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Gideon Turner   carpenter   New Brunswick none    28
Clarasy Turner              Canada        "       26
Isaac L. Turner                 "         "        4
John B. Turner                  "         "        2

name               age  origin  occupation
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Hawkins Woodruff    60  Irish   farmer
Mary Woodruff       54  Irish*
Elizabeth Woodruff  33  Irish
Maria Woodruff      19   "
Catherine Woodruff  17   "
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Emeline Woodruff    12   "
Emmett Woodruff      9   "
Helena Woodruff      4   "
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Entire family born in Ontario, and Quaker in religion
* written over "U. States"

name          age gender cond. b.p.    religion    occupation
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Burns, Walter   37   M   M    U.S.     Methodist   cabinet maker
Burns, Charity  24   F   M    Canada   Methodist
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Burns, Malicia   8   F   S    Canada   W. Methodist
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Burns, Delilah   6   F   S    Canada   E. Methodist
Burns, Mary      1   F   S    Canada   E. Methodist

name          cond. gender origin age birthpl. occ.    religion 
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Thomas Corner     M   M  Irish  48  Ireland  carpenter  C. of E.
Mary Jane Corner  M   F  Dutch  29  Ontario  glover     E. Meth.
James W.A. Corner     M  Irish   7  Ontario  student    E. Meth.
Thomas R. Corner      M  Irish   5  Ontario  student    E. Meth.
Rachel M. Corner      F  Irish   2  Ontario             E. Meth.