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Arthur
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History of the Wigle Family and Their Descendants, The Wigle Family, Kingsville, Ontario, 1931.
Commemorative Biographical Record of the County of Essex, J. H. Beers & Co., Toronto, 1905, p. 495-496:
Thompson Martin (deceased) was during his lifetime one of the popular farmers of Anderdon, ...
Thompson Martin grew up on his father's farm and received a fair education in the district schools. On December 30, 1874, he married Miss Alice Fox, who was born in Colchester in January, 1850, daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth (Lypps) Fox, a member of one of the old families of County Essex...
Jacob Fox, father of Mrs. Martin, was born in Gosfield township, County Essex, March 11, 1806, and settled in Colchester, where he died Nov. 21, 1893. His wife, born in February, 1813, lives in Harrow, aged over eighty years. They had eight children, one of whom (Arthur) is dead. (1) John, of Colchester, married Miss Delia Papst, and has seven children, Nelson (who married Miss Jane Martin), Ellis, Ernest, Lillian, Louis, Roy and Allan. (2) Lucinda became the wife of Nelson Papst, of Anderdon, and died leaving six children, Walter (who married Miss Carrie Gibb, of Anderdon), Ada (married to Colin Botsford, and now living in Gosfield), Albert, Bessie, Frank and Alvin. (3) Alice is Mrs. Martin. (4) Albert, born in Colchester, residing on the 3rd Concession in Anderdon, married Miss Melinda Bondy, of Colchester, and has five children, Lena, Nina, Edna, Stella and Stanley. (5) Louisa, the wife of Alfred Jariett, of Malden, has three children, Della (Mrs. William Pigeon, Colchester), Arthur and Grace. (6) Asa, born in Colchester, married Miss Arizona Lipps, and is settled on the old homestead with his five children, Vera, Earl, Clare, Mabel and Hazen. (7) Herman, unmarried, lives in Harrow, Colchester, with his mother.
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