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F Sarah Loop

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Individual Note

History of the Wigle Family and Their Descendants, The Wigle Family, Kingsville, Ontario, 1931.

The Marriage Registers of Upper Canada/Canada West, Volume 14, Western District 1786-1856, Compiled by Dan Walker & Fawne Stratford-Devai, Global Heritage Press, Milton:
Marriages by Rev'd Richard Herrington, Baptist Minister, Gosfield (p. 99 & 100):
Theodore Scratch, to Sarah Loop, both of Gosfield. 29 Apr. 1845, Gosfield, by banns. Rev. Herrington. Wit. S. P. Girty and Solomn Wigle.

Commemorative Biographical Record of the County of Essex, J. H. Beers, Toronto, 1905, p. 33-36:
Scratch. The ancestor of all of this name in the County of Essex was Leonard Scratch, or Kratz, as it was originally spelled...
     Leonard Scratch passed away Aug. 12, 1829, and his widow survived until 1840. The were the parents of eleven children... John, born July 24, 1795, is mentioned below...
     Judson Scratch, a successful farmer of the township of Gosfield South, is a son of Theodore Scratch and a grandson of John Scratch, and a great-grandson of Leonard and Mary (Munger) Scratch. John Scratch was born July 24, 1795, in the township of Gosfield, where he grew to manhood. He was reared to agricultural pursuits, and in time inherited the old homestead. He was quite a prominent man in his day, and served as magistrate from 1834 until the time of his death. In November, 1818, he married Sarah Malott, who was born May 10, 1799, and died Feb. 21, 1849. To this union came children as follows: ... Theodore, born June 20, 1822, became the father of Judson Scratch...
     Theodore Scratch was born on the homestead June 20, 1822, and when twenty-two years old came into possession of 100 acres of that place, lying in Lot 2, east division. Later he sold that place to Daniel Wigle and bought a farm west of Ruthven, but after a few years he bought a fifty-acre tract in Lot L, 2d Concession, to which he removed. That land is now almost within the village of Kingsville, but when he first moved to it it was swampy and heavily timbered, and he built his house on the highest spot. There his family was reared, and there Mr. Scratch passed the remainder of his days, reaching the advanced age of eighty-two years, and living to see the place all cleared and highly improved. Mr. Scratch was prominent in the various interests of his community, for forty years serving as deacon of the Baptist Church, in which he held membership most of his life. He also took an active part in municipal affairs, as a stanch member of the Reform party, and was tax collector for several years when Gosfield North and South were one. Theodore Scratch was but sixteen years of age when he served in the rebellion and he received the distinction of appointment as orderly for Col. Prince.
     On April 29, 1844, Theodore Scratch was married to Sarah Loop, by whom he had three children: Alfred, now a prosperous business man of Fitzgerald, Georgia; Sydney, who died of fever while serving in the American rebellion, in 1863, at the age of seventeen years, and was buried in Virginia; and Josiah, who died when four years old. For his second wife Theodore Scratch married Elizabeth Tofflemire...