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

1861 personal census, Gosfield Twp, Essex Co., ON, 1-1:
Fox Jacob, M, Married, 71, born U.C., C E;
Elizabeth, F, Married, 53, born U.C., Baptist;
Elizabeth, F, Widowed, 76, born U.S., Baptist;
Abigail, F, Single, 15, born U.C., Baptist.

Commemorative Biographical Record of the County of Essex, J. H. Beers & Co., Toronto, 1905, p. 528-529:
Fox. The people of the Fox family form an important part of the early history of this neighbourhood, and begin with the founder, a sturdy, upright German, who brought with him the thrifty habits and sterling character which have ever characterized natives of the Fatherland.
     In 1772 Philip Fox came to America from his birthplace, Baden, Germany, where he had married Catherine Lamer. They settled in the same year at Baltimore, Maryland, remaining for several years, and then moved to Pennsylvania, during their residence in which State several children were born. A number of neighbours then banded together to locate farther north, and in the company were John Wendel Wigle and Philip Fox, with their families. Their first objective point was Detroit, and they moved in a leisurely manner, carrying their belongings on pack horses, and driving their cattle before them. At one time they all lived on Grosse Ile. In 1791 Philip Fox removed to a farm six miles below Windsor, near Petit Cote, but in 1794 he was fortunate enough to draw Lot 10, on the lake shore in Gosfield, and removed thither. There both he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives, and their remains rest on the Wesley Wigle farm, in a private burying-ground. They had eight sons and two daughters born to them, as follows: Jonas, who settled on Lot 9; Philip, who settled on Lot 2, 5th Concession, Mersea, and married Miss Snyder; Margaret; Judith; Michael, who settled on Lot 250, Talbot Road West; George, who settled on Lot 22, Concession 4; Henry, father of Adam Fox, who settled on Lot 21, Concession 4; Adam, who settled on Lot 22, Concession 5; Jacob, father of William C. Fox, and grandfather of our subject (he settled on Lot 22, Concession 6); and John, who settled on Lot 20, Concession 5.
     Jacob Fox, the grandfather of Gordon P. Fox of Gosfield, was born Jan. 22, 1788, in Pennsylvania, and was but a lad when the family became permanently settled in Gosfield. He began farming for himself on Concession 6, where he did the first clearing, but later removed to Lot 24, on the lake, building about 1826 a log house near the shore. This house is still in use, and is the oldest in the county to be occupied. He continued to add to his land here until he had several hundred acres, and, for his day, was regarded as a man with large capital. He took part in the Rebellion, and was present at Amherstburg and Pelee Island. His death took pace at his home July 19, 1868, at the age of eighty years, five months, twenty-seven days.
     Jacob Fox was twice married, first to Madeline Wigle, and they had children: Julianna, born Oct. 30, 1812, married John Snider, of Colchester; John I., born March 22, 1814, married Elizabeth Godwin; Jacob, born March 11, 1816, married Elizabeth Lypps; Susannah, born March 16, 1818, is the widow of George McLean, of Colchester; Sarah, born Nov. 14, 1820, married John Arner; Anna, born Sept. 11, 1824, married George Noble, of Ruthven; William C. was born July 24, 1827. Jacob Fox married (second) Elizabeth McLean, born May 13, 1788, and three children were born to this union: George J., Peter and Abigail. Of these (1) George J. Fox, born July 4, 1829, married Sarah Jane Thompson, and settled on a part of the homestead farm. They have reared eight children, namely: Ida Louisa, born May 17, 1853, married Jason D. Malott, a butcher at Ruthven, and they have eleven children; Margaret Emma, born Aug. 10, 1855, married (first) Cebrue Beaman, and (second) Jonas Wigle, of Kingsville; Mary Elizabeth, born July 12, 1857, married Albert Malott, and they have two daughters; Martha Jane, born Aug. 15, 1859, died April 29, 1892; Julia Amanda, born June 1, 1862, married William Stockford, and they have two daughters and one son; Edwin J., born April 16, 1865, lives at Windsor; Stanley Thompson, born Sept. 2, 1867, died Dec. 10, 1888; George Eli, born Dec. 8, 1875, married Ethel Baltzer, and they have one child, Oscar, born April 3, 1902; (2) Peter Fox, born March 23, 1833, married Jane Stockwell, and lives at Leamington. (3) Abigail Fox, born Sept. 7, 1845, married Timothy Ackles, and they moved to North Star, Michigan.

Commemorative Biographical Record of the County of Essex, J. H. Beers, 1905,p. 61-64:
Wigle. The prominent and numerous family of this name in the County of Essex, Ont., is descended from John Wendel Wigle, who was born in Germany in the year 1763...
At the age of twenty-one years John Wendel Wigle made his home at York, Pennsylvania, where in 1776 he was married to Julianna Rommer... about 1792, when government grants were thrown open to settlers, John W. Wigle and his family settled in Gosfield township, County of Essex, on Lot 6, Eastern Division...
     We have the following record of the eleven children born to this pioneer couple: ... Maudlin married Jacob Fox, and had seven children...

Biographical memoirs of Gratiot County, Michigan : compendium of biography of celebrated Americans, J.H. Beers, Chicago, 1906, p. 100-103:
TIMOTHY D. ACKLES (deceased), one of the highly respected pioneers of North Star township, Gratiot county, was born in Onondaga county, New York, August 13, 1835, son of Terttules and Charlotte (Doolittle) Ackles, natives of the same State... Toward the latter period of the Civil war Mr. Ackles was engaged in Canada in buying horses for the United States government and while thus employed in County Essex, Ontario, met his future wife. On August 20, 1865, he married the lady-Miss Abigail Fox-born in the county named, September 7, 1845, the youngest of the three children born to Jacob and Elizabeth (McLean) Fox. Her brothers, George and Peter, are both farmers of County Essex. Her family is of Dutch and Irish extraction, and both parents were members of the Church of England. They were married in County Essex, where Jacob Fox prospered as a farmer for many years, dying on July 19, 1869, at the age of seventy-nine. His wife, the mother of Mrs. Ackles, lived to the advanced age of ninety years, the date of her death being June 9, 1895. Jacob Fox had been twice married, his first wife, a Miss Wigle, of County Essex, dying in 1825, at the age of thirty-five, mother of the following: Julia Ann, deceased, Mrs. John Snyder; John I. and Jacob (deceased), residents of County Essex; Susan, Mrs. George McLean, of the county named; Sarah, Mrs. John Arner, living in the same county; Ann, deceased, Mrs. George Noble; and William, also a resident of County Essex. That the father attained to an unusual degree of prosperity may be safely inferred in that he reared all the children spared to him to maturity, and that to all of his sons and one daughter, Ann, he presented farms of one hundred acres each, still retaining at the time of his death a fine homestead of 360 acres. Mr. and Mrs. Ackles were the parents of four children: Terttules J., who died when eight years old; George Timothy, deceased at the age of three months and six days; Floyd J., who died when three years and eleven months old; and Charlotte, who married Charles Moon, a promising citizen of the township, now operating the family farm; they have one son, William Timothy, born November 15, 1905-the only grandchild of Mr. and Mrs. Timothy D. Ackles...

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Philip Fox †   Catherine Lamar †
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Jacob Fox 1788-1868