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The Commemorative Biographical Record of the County of Kent, J. H. Beers & Co., Toronto, 1904, p. 862-863:
William Alexander Everett (deceased). Few citizens of the County of Kent were better known or more thoroughly respected than was the late William Alexander Everett, whose death on Feb. 20, 1889, removed one of the early residents of Chatham township. His birth took place Aug. 13, 1815, in Chatham township, nineteen years after the settlement of his family in that location.
     The Everett family is of Welsh extraction. The grandfather of the above, also William Alexander Everett, was born in Pennsylvania about 1740, and married Nancy Jackman, also a native of that State. In 1796 they settled on the 1st Concession, river front, in Chatham township, near Louisville, and there engaged in farming until they died, the grandfather passing away in 1821 and his widow a few years later. The children born to these worthy people were: (1) Adam, the father of our subject, is mentioned below. (2) William, born in 1783, in Pennsylvania, came to the County of Kent in 1796, married Hannah Fleming, an aunt of Dr. D. G. Fleming, of Chatham, and had fourteen children, thirteen of whom grew to maturity: James, William Alexander, John T, David H., Nancy, who died in infancy; Barbara, who died in 1900, Rebecca, Dorothy Ann, Mary [born in Chatham township May 20, 1825, a resident of County Kent for more than three quarters of a century], Elizabeth [twin of Mary],[Hannah], Emeline [Mrs. R. E. Cornwall of Walla Walla, State of Washington], Melissa and Amelia [of Hillsboro, Oregon], the survivors being Mary, of Oregon, Emeline, Mrs. R. E. Cornwall of the State of Washington, and Miss Amelia, of Oregon...